The Awakening by Amanda Stevens Series: The Graveyard Queen, #6 PNR Suspense/Mystery March, 20167 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Shush...lest she awaken..." Amelia Grey, a professional cemetery restorer know as The Graveyard Queen, has been awarded the bid to restore the Woodbine Cemetery. Woodbine has long been considered the final resting place for the mistakes and indiscretions of the elite and wealthy Charleston families. When Amelia encounters an elaborate child’s Continue Reading
Review: Stalked by Elizabeth Heiter
Stalked by Elizabeth Heiter Series: The Profiler, #4 Mystery/Thriller December 27, 2016 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: If you're reading this, I'm already dead… Stalked is book four in Elizabeth Heiter’s suspense filled FBI Profiler series. Easily read as a stand alone, this police procedural fueled thriller offers a convoluted mystery and low key romance elements. Based on special agent Evelyn Baine, Heiter leads our heroine back into the fray when she is tasked with helping Continue Reading
Review: The Sinner by Amanda Stevens
The Sinner by Amanda Stevens Series: The Graveyard Queen, #5 PNR Suspense/Mystery September 27, 2016 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Tread carefully...trust no one.” Amanda Stevens’s Graveyard Queen series is a dark paranormal mystery suspense series that is drenched in southern style gothic horror. Even five stories in, Stevens’s powerful voice continues to wrap her readers in a chilling embrace as she gently guilds them through her world of spirits, superstition, and death Continue Reading
Review: The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz
The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz Women's Fiction/Historical/Mystery/Interracial June 28, 2016 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “We tell ourselves lies to survive when we know the truth will kill us.” A mysterious woman attempts to steal a piece of her past only to be detained by its current owner. When she makes him an offer he can’t refuse, the unknown story of how one of the richest and most distinguished bourbon empires, Red Thread, rose and fell, in return for the very Continue Reading
Review: The Visitor by Amanda Stevens
The Visitor by Amanda Stevens Series: Graveyard Queen, #4 Gothic Horror/Fantasy/Romance March 29, 2016 Mira Joint Review Tori and Pam Favorite Quote: “Take nothing, leave nothing behind.” My name is Amelia Gray. I'm the Graveyard Queen. Restoring lost and abandoned cemeteries is my profession, but I'm starting to believe that my true calling is deciphering the riddles of the dead. Legend has it that Kroll Cemetery is a puzzle no one has ever been able to solve. For over half a Continue Reading
Review: Hold Me Close by Megan Hart
Hold Me Close by Megan Hart Released: November 24, 2015 Dark Erotic Mira Reviewed by Mandi This book hurt. I mean, it was amazing and I loved it, but it made my insides hurt. It made me feel all the things, as only Megan Hart can do. A big thank you to Pamela, who texted me and said - omg read this book - and at that time I didn't even know there was a new Megan Hart book out. She warned me it was a tough read. I needed someone to hold me close as I read it. This book tells the story Continue Reading
Review: The Ones We Trust by Kimberly Belle
The Ones We Trust by Kimberly Belle Romantic Suspense/Thriller E book July 28, 2015 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “The truth always come out eventually.” One man will do anything to discover the truth behind his brother’s death. One man will do anything to keep it buried. The answer lies in the hands of one woman who will be forced to choose which is more important...loyalty or truth. Abigail Wolff, an investigative journalist, turned in her press pass and Continue Reading
Review: The Secret Sister by Brenda Novak
The Secret Sister by Brenda Novak Series: Fairham Island, #1 Mystery/Suspense July 28, 2015 Mira Reviewed by Tori A family, their secrets, and the consequences of those secrets sets the stage for Novak's newest mystery suspense by introducing the main players and explaining the complicated facets that make up their relationships. A somber tone punctuated with bits of quiet humor and a lightweight romance permeates the story as Novak takes great pains to make us understand the volatile Continue Reading
Review: The Tempting Of Thomas Carrick by Stephanie Laurens
The Tempting of Thomas Carrick (Cynsters, #22) by Stephanie Laurens Historical Romance Paperback February 24, 2015 Mira Reviewed by Tori Thomas Carrick is determined to make his own life in the bustling port city of Glasgow, far from the demands of the Carrick clan, eventually with an appropriate wife on his arm. But disturbing events on his family's estate force Thomas to return to the Scottish countryside—where he is forced to ask for help from the last woman he wants to face. Thomas Continue Reading
Review: Vanished by Elizabeth Heiter
Vanished (The Profiler, #2) by Elizabeth Heiter Mystery Suspense Paperback, 400 pages December 30, 2014 Mira Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: She had found the truth she had been searching for [...] now she just had to find a way to live with it. Evelyn Blaine lost her best friend, Cassie, eighteen years ago when she was abducted out of her backyard and never seen again. The only clue was a message left in the form of a nursery rhyme. The message also hinted at Evelyn’s possible Continue Reading