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I’m here to help with the cover reveal for The Killer on My Doorstep by T.J. Brearton! – before we get to that but though, let me tell you a little about the book and the author!

About the book!

Synopsis: There’s a package on the porch,’ my husband calls as he leaves for work. I rip open the
brown paper and find three books inside. I didn’t order them.

A week ago, my new neighbor was murdered in exactly the way described in the first book.

Her name was Naomi Sheller. I’ll never forget the first time I saw her — frozen in the middle
of the grocery store, eyes wide with terror.

Days later, she’s found dead in the woods. Her husband, Eric, is led away in handcuffs.

The second book has another murder in it. And the victim sounds exactly like me.

We moved here from New York City to raise our daughters somewhere safe. But now I think
I made a terrible mistake.

The police don’t believe me. My husband thinks I’m paranoid.

But I’m not.

Because whoever sent these books . . . knows exactly where I live.

About the author:

T.J. Brearton is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the novels Gone and
Dead Gone, both of which have ranked among Amazon Kindle’s top 100. His Titan trilogy has
been an international best-seller. With Ted Magee, Brearton wrote Bare Knuckle, a martial arts
film, and wrote and directed Breathe, about amateur MMA fighter Lane Buzzell on an
undefeated streak.

He has written more than a dozen novels, mostly crime thrillers, including one paranormal
mystery, and published short fiction in numerous literary journals. He lives in the Adirondack
Mountains of New York with his wife and three children where he writes full time, takes out
the trash, and competes with his kids for his wife’s attention

Are you ready for the cover?!

It just draws you in straight away!! – I can’t wait to read this one.

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Today I am part of the blogathon for Night by Night by Jack Jordan, thank you to Tracy at Compulsive Readers Blog Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 448

Synopsis:

If you’re reading this, I’m dead . . . A heart-stopping thriller from the master of the moral dilemma and Sunday Times bestselling author.

Rejected by her family and plagued by insomnia, Rose Shaw is unravelling day by day.

Her life is a blur of exhaustion, until one evening a man running through the streets collides with her before quickly vanishing, dropping a journal at her feet.

Inside are Finn Matthews’ frantic, desperate words. He was convinced he was being hunted. Now he’s missing, and nobody is looking for him.

Rose decides to dedicate her sleepless nights to obsessively search for answers about what happened to Finn. Why did he think someone wanted to kill him? And why, in the midst of a string of murders, won’t the police investigate his disappearance?

The deeper Rose digs, the more determined she becomes to uncover the truth. But she has no idea what it will cost her…

My Thoughts: Jack has done it yet again, created a thriller that literally had me sat with my heart in my throat the whole time!

Right from the beginning I felt sorry for Rose, I wanted her to do better, to be better for her girls but at the same time just wanted to wrap her up in a hug & send her to bed 🫣

I thought I knew what I was getting from this book but then quite early on your hit with an event that I did not expect, but was so cleverly written.. I was almost tempted to put the book down, I’m absolutely terrified of roads that go over water so wanted to shut my eyes and pretend it wasn’t happening, but all props to Jack because that scene left me feeling like I couldn’t catch my breath!

Rose is now drowning in grief, she turns her back on the family she has left, shuts herself in her study and paints, until one day she goes out, gets run into by a man who drops a journal.. a journal that although nothing to do with her will thrown into the dark depths of her past and make her want to right some wrongs.

Can she get to the bottom of what’s written whilst also saving herself and her family too?

If you want some advice, do not start this book unless you have the time to dedicate to it because I promise you you won’t want to put it down.

This is fairly long for a thriller but is filled with so many different elements that it doesn’t feel too overwhelming, it literally had me in a chokehold and I read the entire book in one day!

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Today I am on the tour for Life Begins At The Cornish Cottage by Kim Nash, Thank you to all of the tour companies involved for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 290

Synopsis:

When life gives you heartbreak 💔, sometimes it also gives you a second chance… 💕

When Tom Sullivan returns to the quiet village of Sandpiper Shore, Emma can hardly believe her eyes. She hasn’t seen him since they played Romeo and Juliet in their school play – a lifetime ago, before real heartbreak, and long before she ever imagined life as a widow.

The last thing she wants is to relive the past, especially with someone who once made her teenage heart flutter. But when Emma agrees to put on a charity pantomime to raise money for the air ambulance service that helped her late husband, she’s thrown firmly back into Tom’s path.

As rehearsals begin and the local community rallies around her, Emma finds unexpected joyin bringing people together – and a surprising connection with Tom that feels far too real to ignore. Maybe it’s time for Emma to become the leading lady in her own life, not just for the show, but for herself.

Full of warmth, humour and heart, this is a story about letting go and discovering that it’s never too late to take a chance on love.

While this novel is set in the same village as the other books in the Sandpiper Shore series, it can be read as a STANDALONE

My Thoughts: Oh this book was so lovely, it was nice to be back in the world of sandpiper shores and to get Emma’s story!

Still grieving the loss of her husband Emma is still feeling a little lost, so throws herself into organising a charity pantomime to raise money for the Air Ambulance charity,

Along with her best friends Jo and Michelle, they run a local group for everyone to meet friends and do things together so that everyone feels just a little less lonely.

Emma is hit with a blast from the past when her first love Tom turns up hoping to play the male lead, thinking she can deal with it because he is perfect for the part, she rants to her friends and starts fine tuning the smaller details but finds herself jealous when the 2 leads start getting closer.

I have never read a book by Kim Nash before I started the Sandpiper Shores series and I think I may have found a new author for my go to easy going romance reads that are easy to get lost in set in a beautiful place.

A story of friendship, community and finding yourself again.

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Today I am on the tour for The Thread Ruby by V K Leon, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy. 

Pages: 499

Synopsis: When nineteen-year-old Ellie Ioannides crosses paths with her enigmatic tutor, Alex Rodocanachi, she feels an attraction she cannot explain. Magnetic and terrifying. Alex is rational, disciplined, and the heir to a powerful Greek shipping dynasty. He is not the person she would expect to fall for. Yet, every glance they share feels deeply like fate. Every touch sparks something deep within her.

Alex feels it too, but he’s convinced their worlds can never truly meet. Ellie tries to dismiss the recurring dreams that feel far too real. Yet a part of him lingers with her — waiting at the edges of her life like a promise left unsaid until fate brings them together on her university graduation..

At the start of a deeply passionate and electrifying love affair, Ellie begins to uncover the truth. Some desires are not new but remembered. Some bonds are not chosen but returned. Alex holds secrets that go beyond one lifetime. Those secrets could take her heart, her destiny, and everything she thought she knew about herself.

From modern London to 19th-century Thessaly in Greece, beneath the shadows of Mount Olympus, The Thread Trilogy is a story of obsession, fate, and unapologetic passion where love is never truly lost; it is only waiting to be found again.

Lyrical, romantic, and unforgettable, this story will obsess you and remain with you long after you turn the last page.

My Thoughts: this book was beautiful, to start with we have Ellie & Alex, Alex is her tutor but for some reason she feels a pull towards him, one that she doesn’t understand but can’t seem to ignore, quite early on we get the feeling that there’s more to it & that it’s something that Alex is aware of but stays quiet to begin with.. 

Then we’re transported to the 19th century where we meet Orpheus & Sophia, the change confused me at first I won’t lie but I fell even more in love with their relationship than I thought I would, I kind of got swept away with it all, Orpheus loved Sophia so hard and so strongly, it felt a little like obsession but softer like he had her back no matter what, against everyone including her parents he trusted her judgement no questions asked. 

It’s romance, but feels like more than that, I can’t explain why but it felt so real, so genuine. 

Such a delicately woven story that seems to span a large amount of time & I can’t wait to read the second instalment, I need to know what happens next. 

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Today I am here to celebrate the cover reveal and the fact that Selecting The Wrong Love by E. Masson and Julie G Henry!

Before I give away the beautiful cover and the preorder link let me tell you about the book.. I am so excited for this one!

Synopsis: Three men fighting for the love of one unforgettable woman.
A breathtaking love story .
A MUST READ TODAY FOR BOOK LOVERS!!

Three men. One future. A choice that will change everything.

She chose the wrong man. Now she’s paying the price…

Amber’s life was perfectly planned until one man destroyed everything she thought she knew about love.
Medical school dropout. Failed marriage. Shattered dreams.

This wasn’t supposed to be Amber’s story.

She was the girl with the plan. Top grades, medical school acceptance, a future that would finally repay her mother’s sacrifices. Nothing could derail her…

Then James crashed into her life with his gentle hands and devastating smile. He became her anchor in the chaos of university life, the friend who never asked for more even though his eyes burned with want every time he looked at her.

But Amber didn’t want safe. She wanted spectacular.

Levi was spectacular. Confident, brilliant, already making waves in their medical program. When he pursued her, Amber felt chosen. Special. Like she’d finally found her equal.

However, fate had other plans…

One positive pregnancy test later, her carefully constructed future collapsed.

Amber chose love over dreams. And she chose wrong.

Now her marriage is a beautiful lie falling apart at the seams. Her dreams are buried under years of playing the perfect wife to an imperfect husband.

And James, sweet devoted James, has built the life she always admired while she wasn’t looking. He’s still single. Still successful. Still quietly loving the woman who shattered his heart for someone else.

So what if someone else is dreaming of the same fairytale ending?

Perhaps Amber needs to sacrifice a bit more to secure her happiness with Levi. Or maybe—just maybe—she placed her bet on the wrong prince…

But second chances are fragile things. And Amber’s about to discover that some windows close forever.

Will she fight for the love she threw away, or lose everything that truly matters?

Isn’t that cover beautiful 😍😍

I am so intrigued by this book, if you also like the sound of this it can be preordered here!!

It will be available on the 20th February 2026 & will also be available on Kindle Unlimited.

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Today I am on the tour for Shallow Graves by Iain Maitland, thank you to Hannah at Hygge Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 346

Synopsis: He’s back, Carrie. The Scribbler is back.’

DI Roger Gayther and DC Georgia Carrie head up a new taskforce re-investigating cold case murders across East Anglia, England.

Within days, there is a sudden death featuring the tell-tale signs of the region’s most notorious serial killer.

The Scribbler. They thought his reign of terror ended years ago.

Roger Gayther was part of the team that failed to catch him and remembers every brutal murder.

Can the veteran detective and his rookie colleague hunt down The Scribbler before the slaughter begins again?

My Thoughts: I’ve read books by Iain before so I thought I knew what I was in for, but this one read different.. I was hooked pretty early on, the idea of old cases being given another look really appealed to me!

We as readers now that digging up the past always has repercussions in the present & that’s exactly what happened, now DC Carrie and DI Gayther are left trying to work out wether what they have is a copycat or if it’s the same person murdering again!

This is so creepy that it had me hiding behind my hands whilst turning the pages as if that was going to protect me from the words in the page.

I love a book that makes me feel uncomfortable whilst reading but also has me so engrossed that I need to carry on reading anyway!

A fantastic start to a promising new series and I can’t wait for book 2.

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Today I am on the tour for Living Life With Death by Sarah Jones, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 82

Synopsis: Monday mornings for most folks involve meetings and paperwork, but for Sarah Jones it involved the worst day of someone else’s life. From stillborn babies to one-hundred-year-old grandmas, a peaceful passing to a horrific homicide and a lot in between. What is it like to be alive while constantly dealing with death? Jones’ collection of essays and poems reveal the lessons she learned about being alive from those who are not and how working in the death industry shaped her everyday life. Written with deep introspection and a surprising amount of humor, Living Life with Death offers a unique perspective and a lesson for all readers.

My Thoughts: now this is going to be a really hard one to review, I’ll be honest I didn’t finish it. I lasted 12% before I was crying so much that I just knew that I wasn’t emotionally able to handle the book. I knew it would be a rough read, but I thought 3 and a half years after losing my dad would be enough time to handle it, apparently not 😂

But what a skill Sarah has to be able to elicit those kind of emotions from me in so few pages, the bits I read were good, so raw and real, you could tell that she was speaking from experience and that she genuinely cared about the people she dealt with that had passed and the families too.

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Today I am on the tour for Six Victims by Mark Simmons, thank you to Hannah at Hygge Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the publisher and the author for my copy.

Pages: 279

Synopsis: In this gripping second instalment of the DI Bambridge series, Detective Inspector Bambridge and Detective Constable Lawrence face a chilling new case: six innocent lives snuffed out in a brutal cold-blooded murdering spree. Who were these victims? Why were they targeted? And who is the elusive killer behind it all?
Haunted by a past case, Bambridge is driven by a need for redemption, determined to capture the one criminal who slipped through his fingers. Meanwhile, Lawrence battles her own demons, returning from desk duty with the scars of trauma threatening to unravel her. As personal struggles collide with professional duty, the duo must navigate their own flaws and a relentless killer to uncover the truth.
Dark, addictive, and brimming with psychological depth, Six Victims pulls readers into a twisted web of crime, motive, and justice. Will Bambridge and Lawrence rise above their pasts to bring a murderer to justice—or become the next victims of their own failures?

My Thoughts: I have been looking forward to the second instalment for this series since reading the first one and let me tell you it did not disappoint.

We’re following DI Bambridge and and DC Lawrence again, this time they’re called to a crime scene with 6 dead bodies and no obvious signs of breaking and entering, all that they know for certain is that they have been shot, now it’s up to them to work out who by and the reasoning behind it.

Not an easy feat when they are both still dealing with unresolved trauma from the previous case although neither of them are really honest with the other about their struggles which wound me up to a point because how are they supposed to work together effectively when they’re keeping secrets?!

This second book has just as much gore as the first just dine in a slightly different way.. clues are being left behind and things are pointing in more than one direction, it’s like a cleverly even tale that you have to unpick slowly.

Marks writing honestly reads like a film, the writing is so vivid that I can see it all unfolding before my eyes, an incredible skill to have as an author, I am still undecided as to wether it’s a good thing for me as the reader 😂

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Today I am on the tour for Lethal Storm by Pauline Rowson, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 286

Synopsis: A missing comrade. A cryptic note. A conspiracy that will test Art Marvik to the limit.

Meet Art Marvik. A battle-hardened commando with the scars to prove it. He’s used to high-stakes operations. But nothing has prepared him for what awaits in the coastal town of Ballycotton, Ireland . . .

Marvik receives a disturbing call from the Garda. His friend and former comrade, Shaun Strathen, is missing. His yacht’s been found drifting in Ballyandreen Bay. But there’s no sign of Strathen.

A cryptic note is discovered onboard: Art, sorry it’s come to this. Look after things for me. Per Mare, Per Terram.

Marvik wastes no time. He heads straight for Ireland, determined to find his friend. His search leads him to a cottage by the sea. A decomposing body is discovered inside.

It’s not Strathen.

If the body isn’t his comrade’s, then who is it? And where the hell is Strathen?

As Marvik digs deeper, the truth begins to unravel, but so do the dangers.

Can Marvik survive this lethal storm long enough to expose a network of criminal masterminds, and save his friend?

My Thoughts: what can I say? in typical me fashion this is the first book by Pauline that I have picked up, of course it’s the middle of a series, but this just makes me eager to go back to book 1 and start again..

In this one we get all the action and twists without any of the back story that can sometimes take away from that in a first book in the series.

Art is a determined man, he’s like a dog with a bone, once he gets an inkling that something isn’t quite as it seems he refuses to let it drop until he gets to the bottom of it, so when he gets a phonecall to tell him one of his friends is missing he knows there’s more to it.

I really enjoyed this, the writing was brilliant, fast paced but the attention to detail was incredible, the descriptions of things from sights to sounds and even smells were so accurate that I found myself recoiling from my kindle at times..

The clues were left open ended until the mystery was solved to allow us as the reader to come up with our own conclusions and then have them blown out of the water… obviously.

Highly recommend if you enjoy having a book that really makes you think.

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Today I am on the tour for Not Her Daughter by Robin Mahle, thank you to Zoé at Zooloos Book Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 301

Synopsis: Another woman stole my husband. So I took her baby.

Everyone thinks I’m just a single mom, trying to rebuild my life. They don’t know the truth I buried, along with my past.

My name is Evelyn Moore. I used to be a respected lawyer, a devoted wife, mother-of-one. Then came my husband’s affair. The scandal. The panic.

Now I’m a mother of two. At least that’s what I tell everyone.

We’ve come to the small Pennsylvania town of Asheboro for a fresh start. Five-year-old Ben, baby Nicky, and me.

Then I get home to find a folded piece of paper on the kitchen table. Did you really think you could keep her?

My Thoughts: as always with Robins books this is fast paced, utterly chilling & impossible to put down!

We find out very early on that Evelyn isn’t Nicky’s biological mum, we know there’s more to it & that Ben is telling everyone that Nicky isn’t his sister but we don’t yet know how much truth is in that & if it is true then who is the mum and what happened?!

People are turning up dead and others are working their way into Evelyn’s life under false pretences.

She thought she had everything but as her world slowly falls apart can she survive with both of her children?

This book had me holding my breath in parts & my heart beating so fast in others..

Very excited to see what she comes up with next, because her books always keep me guessing until the very last page!

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