Do you relish the opportunity to solve mysteries? I certainly do. While I’m not a detective, and probably never will be, I am a reader. I love novel that makes me think, untangle clues, and leads me down paths that may or may not point to the solution. But, for me, there’s another element I need to make a story great. I want to know the people involved, peer into their lives, and feel what they feel as the case unfolds. This is why I choose to write novels that weave together mystery or suspense with a contemporary women’s fiction storyline. It gives me the freedom to take my readers deeper into the character’s experience, both internal and external. My next release, WHAT HAPPENS NEXT, drops us into the worlds of a popular podcaster and a mother whose daughter has long ago disappeared. While most of the story takes place in a small, present-day Oregon town, we are also swept back to 1987, where we follow three kids with endless possibilities for their futures, until reality steals the easiness of childhood. Readers will take the journey alongside the characters, searching for the truth of what happened to Heather at the…

  Night of the Nymph Book 2 Brotherhood of Blood – Wildwood by Bianca D’Arc Tempting the Billionaire by Blair Babylon Method Actor Murder Book 25 Merry Wrath Mysteries by Leslie Langtry Cruel Mate Book 18 The Alpha Shifter Collection by Sam Crescent My Two Daddies Book 29 Daddy Series by Lila Fox Punished: Brides of the Kindred Book 27 The Brides of the Kindred by Evangeline Anderson Chosen Ascendancy by Richard Turner The Men of Whiskey Mountain Books 1-4 by Frankie Love Game Face 3: When Goddesses Surrender Book 3 Game Face Series by Korben Hunter Dark River Rising Book 13 Winston Radhauser Mysteries by Susan Clayton-Goldner   Each Monday the Smashwords store lists the top ten most highly anticipated indie fiction ebooks based on the previous week’s preorder accumulations. Each title on the list is scheduled to release within the next week. To help the talented authors on this list accumulate even more preorders, click the title of the book. The hyperlink will bring you to a Books2Read page where you can order from your preferred ebook retailer. If the preorder is part of a series, click the hyperlinked series title to learn about the other books in…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors as a reader you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Paige Tyler!   Writes: THE WOLF IS MINE: The hunky werewolves of the Dallas Special Wolf Alpha Team finally learn what’s going on with that cat who’s been hanging around the SWAT compound the past year or so! Connor Malone is a police officer working for the Dallas SWAT team. He also happens to be a werewolf, but that’s no big deal since the entire team is composed of werewolves. While searching for a missing teammate, Connor finds himself in serious trouble, but things take a turn into the strange and bizarre (which is saying something when you’re part of a pack of werewolves) when a beautiful witch, Kat Davenport, shows up to help. A witch who smells really familiar…kind of like the cat he’s been taking care for almost a year. Kat Davenport is a witch in trouble. A wicked warlock cursed her four years ago, trying to turn her into his familiar and hoping to use her as a source of greater power. She got…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Colleen Coble!   Writes: I adore writing stories that involve past secrets that suddenly erupt in my characters’ lives! Law Enforcement Ranger Annie is struggling to find peace with widowhood when old flame Jon Dunstan returns to the small town of Rock Harbor in Michigan’s UP. When a woman claiming to be her sister, abducted at age 5, shows up, the danger spills over to envelope her own daughter as well. The layers keep getting deeper in this story!   About: I’ve lived in a small town in Indiana all my life but love travel, especially to locales where my books are set. I never know what I’m going to discover while researching a new book. Like how roosters crow all night in Kauai or how some crazy people surf Lake Superior in the winter. Brr! When I’m not writing, I’m playing Pokemon Go! with the family or searching out new coffee shops to feed my habit. My favorite way to research a locale…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Terri Brisbin!   Writes: Sexy, emotionally compelling stories about brawny warriors, intelligent/elegant and sometimes dangerous lords and the strong brave women who love them (sometimes despite themselves!). Set in the wild and magical Scottish Highlands and islands or castles in England or the ballrooms of Regency London or Edinburgh, the stories are always filled with history and dancing and intrigue and adventure.  THE LADY TAKES IT ALL has all this and more – Regency Edinburgh, an adventurer hero, hidden secrets, a quest for vengeance and. . . unexpected love.   About: I love exploring old places – libraries, museums, London, the Isle of Skye and the Orkney islands, Regency Edinburgh – and love to read (and write) books about them. I’m a sucker for emotional romcoms, historical dramas, science fiction movies and Gerard Butler, Tom Hiddleston and Tom Hardy. My tastes in music are eclectic and I can listen to anything from classical music to Celtic/Irish songs, to rock and roll favorites and almost…

1–What is the title of your latest release? MIDNIGHT DUET 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Midnight Duet Is my modern romantic comedy retelling of Phantom of the Opera, featuring a disgraced Broadway diva, Erika Greene, as the Phantom, and a German hair metal rock star as Christof Daae, the vocalist with whom she falls in love when she agrees to let his band, Nachtmusik, rent her dilapidated opera house to record their first English-language album. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? I wanted this book to pay tribute to the over-the-top glamour and melodrama of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, and there’s only one place in our modern world that truly fits the bill: Las Vegas. Or in this case, “Paris,” a fictional French-inspired tourist trap an hour outside of Vegas. 4–Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life? Erika Greene would never be caught dead in such pedestrian company. But I think I’d get along with some of the supporting cast–especially Sibylle, Nachtmusik’s macabre-obsessed bassist, who was inspired by one of my best friends in real life. Sibylle loves a ghostly murder mystery, and she spends most of…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present Paige Crutcher!   My ideal reader match for my latest book, THE LOST WITCH, must love… Irish mythology found family a cast of quirky but lovable characters complicated but swoony love and a dashing antagonist monsters and magic sisterhood and strong, empowered heroines witches, witches, witches   What to expect if we’re compatible: a love story between a mother and daughter a battle between covens and monsters born from mythology a sexy romance that outlasts time sisterhood that will do anything for one another, including save the world a lot of moody atmospheric settings THE LOST WITCH by Paige Crutcher In Paige Cruther’s The Lost Witch, a witch discovers that finding your way home is sometimes the most perilous journey of all. 1922. Brigid Heron is a powerful witch and healer in the seemingly lost, but charming small town of Evermore on a forgotten isle in Ireland. However, there is one thing that she longs for above all else: a child of her own. She is even…

Hi, I’m Lana Harper, author of the Witches of Thistle Grove series! In BACK IN A SPELL, Nina Blackmoore—one of the most powerful witches in town, as well as a successful lawyer by day—becomes entangled with normie Morty Gutierrez, the sexy, offbeat owner of the quirky Shamrock Cauldron bar. When Nina experiences a tremendous surge of her powers, and Morty suddenly begins developing magic himself, she’ll have to discover what mysterious force is binding them together—and what she’s willing to sacrifice to keep him in her life. This witchy pansexual romcom comes out on 1/3/2023, but you can read a little more about it below!    B—B is for Blackmoore, the most powerful, entitled, and ruthless witch family in Thistle Grove—and the family Nina has felt stifled and damaged by her entire life. A—A is for adrift, which is how Nina still feels a year after having been all but ditched at the altar by her fiancée, Sydney. C—C is for Christmas (or Yule for witches) because this story is the Thistle Grove spin on a Christmas romance! K—K is for kryptonite… which is what Mortimer Gutierrez feels like for Nina, once she starts falling for him.   I—I is…

Instead of trying to find your perfect match in a dating app, we bring you the “Author-Reader Match” where we introduce you to authors you may fall in love with. It’s our great pleasure to present S.L. Choi!   Writes: Urban fantasy featuring high-octane action scenes, steamy romance, and loads of humor served up by a kick butt female lead who can match any alpha energy, such as Malaney “Lane” Callaghan, the FMC of the Blood Fae Druid series. She has fangs and talons, but the girl loves her blades, and she knows how to use them.   About: S.L. Choi is an urban fantasy author with a deep love for humor, fast-paced action, and hit-you-in-the-heart feels. She grew up imagining goblins living in the rocks outside her bedroom window, while fairies flew through the flowers. Now she puts those stories to paper. When not writing, she is either photographing the beautiful New England area, hiking, gaming with her equally nerdy husband, or attending to the small furry overlords who rule them both.   The reader who will swipe right on the second book in the Blood Fae Druid series, BAD GIRLS BITE, will love… fae like you’ve never seen…

1–What is the title of your latest release? Two novellas in one book: A Chance Inheritance plus The Third Wish 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? A Chance Inheritance: What happens when three cousins are thrown together to run a beer, bait and bologna shop because of a chance inheritance in Catfish, Texas. The Third Wish: Jessica made three wishes when she was eight years’ old. Meeting her father was the third one, but twenty years later it came with some extra baggage in the form of Rocky Rycroft. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? A Chance Inheritance: Catfish, Texas is a fictional town, but it’s right on the Red River, and being from that area, I know the place very well. The Third Wish: Set in east Texas and Panama City Beach, Florida. Both are places that I love and have visited several times. 4–Would you hang out with your heroine in real life? Oh, yes. It was very hard to leave my characters behind when I had to finish the novellas. 5–What are three words that describe your hero? A Chance Inheritance: Chris Adams, patient, romantic, sexy. The Third Wish:…