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Today I’m on the blog tour for The Trapped Wife by Samantha Hayes, Thank you to Sarah at Bookouture for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages : 354

Synopsis:I thought I had it all. The perfect job. The perfect house. The perfect family. But everything changed the night my husband disappeared…

I can’t remember what happened that night in the hotel, and now you’re here and I can’t escape.

If I don’t smile, pour your drinks, laugh at your jokes, pretend you’re the only man in our lives, you say you will tell everyone the truth about what happened the night before my husband disappeared; that you will destroy my family.

So I play my part, dance to your tune, bide my time as I quietly put together the pieces of what really happened that night.

Because just when you think you are safe, that you have got everything you ever wanted from me and my precious family, you will finally see.

I am so much more than the perfect wife I seem…

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: as far as thrillers go this one kept me guessing all the way through, I didn’t see the conclusion coming at all!

we’re following Jen, who is a grieving widow raising a teenage son, right away I got the feeling there was more to her husbands death than the story that had been out there, where was the body?

Jen soon found herself in a predicament, that was not planned and started causing flashbacks to a conference she attended with work shortly before her husbands death, could there be more to it than what she remembered?!

There were a lot of unsettling scenes in the story towards the end which made me feel uncomfortable but in the best way possible, this book is definitely not for the fainthearted.

A whole bunch of characters, some that are unsettling and others that are not afraid to make themselves heard!

A brilliant psychological thriller that was quite difficult to put down!

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Today I’m on the book tour for The Unknown Man by Natalie Hanson, thank you to Kelly at Love Books TOurs for organising and inviting me to take part.

I have a spotlight for you today where I tell you a little about the book and the author! – but first can we just appreciate the beauty of this cover!

Synopsis: The imbalance between matter and antimatter allowed the big bang to produce the entire universe. Born with a physical abnormality, imbalance is something Zalla Bennbett understands. Her ability to sense out lies gives her an advantage on FBI investigations, but her jaded spirit puts her at odds with most everyone she encounters. The agent’s marriage and career are on the rocks.

Zalla is assigned to work the kidnapping of an FBI informant’s young twins. With no evidence or leads, her suspect is deemed ‘The Unknown Man’. What she discovers makes her question her purpose in the universe. She’ll have to fight against her instincts to find the girls before the kidnapping turns into murder.

About the Author: Natalie Hanson is an author and screenplay writer born and raised in Seattle, WA.

‘The Unknown Man’ is the first of five novels chronicling the hunt for serial killers and criminals by FBI agent Zalla Bennbett. This dark series examines the worst criminals humanity has to offer through the eyes of a jaded agent, struggling to keep optimism alive and fight for the voiceless.

Book two in the series, ‘The Butcher’, is an upcoming release.

Her novel ‘Every Moment and Not a Second More’ was published on Amazon in 2018.

Currently she is also working on a horror genre comic series based on her screenplay “Dociles.” It tells the story of a teen runaway, kidnapped by a medical examiner who turns the dead into zombies. It’s a fight to not end up as one of the herd!

If the wound or this book intrigues you as much as it does me it can be bought here.

https://amzn.to/3dodT7V

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Today I’m on the book tour for Hope in Liverpool by T N Traynor, thank you to Kelly at Love Books Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy

Pages: 260

Synopsis: A gritty romantic novella ~ where life isn’t always a bed of roses.
Can an alliance of convenience heal two broken hearts?
Liverpool, 1958. Hope Bennett longs to feel safe and wanted. Loyal to an alcoholic mother who gambles away all her hard-earned wages, she’s devastated by the announcement her family is moving and she’s not to follow. But her despondent plan to fling herself off the ferry and succumb to the freezing River Mersey is interrupted by a handsome older man.

John Walker expects to live out the rest of his days drowning in grief, isolated and lonely after the loss of his childhood sweetheart. When he spots a young woman in distress he is immediately drawn to help her.

Can the fragile dream of a better life out of the slums provide the security and companionship they both crave?

Hope in Liverpool is a deeply emotional foray into historical women’s fiction. If you like compellingly complex characters, light humor woven through heart-wrenching drama, and gripping romantic overtones, then you’ll adore T N Traynor’s poignant story.

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: This wasn’t a book full of romance and flowers, for quite a short book it was quite a difficult read in places!

Hope is the second youngest child of 4, she had an older brother, an older sister and a younger sister, but with an alcoholic mother who isn’t always around she may as well be the parent of the youngest! – life isn’t easy, but they make it work, she goes to work hut then most of her wages get taken by her mum to fund the lifestyle she’s used to!

Things happen which leave hope on her own and contemplating suicide, along comes John and gets her off the edge and offers her an arrangement that she can’t refuse!

Will it be what they expect? or will one or both of them be left wanting more?

This was such a story, one that was so easy to get lost in, I devoured it in one sitting and it’s left me what if to pickup the rest of the women of courage series!

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Today I’m on the book tour for discerning Grace by Emma Lombard! – thank you to Kelly at Love Books Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part! I have a spotlight for you today where I tell you all about the book and the author and leave links for you so you can go out and buy it!

Synopsis: As the first full-length novel in The White Sails Series, DISCERNING GRACE captures the spirit of an independent woman whose feminine lens blows the ordered patriarchal decks of a 19th century tall ship to smithereens.

Wilful Grace Baxter, will not marry old Lord Silverton with his salivary incontinence and dead-mouse stink. Discovering she is a pawn in an arrangement between slobbery Silverton and her calculating father, Grace is devastated when Silverton reveals his true callous nature.
Refusing this fate, Grace resolves to stow away. Heading to the docks, disguised as a lad to ease her escape, she encounters smooth-talking naval recruiter, Gilly, who lures her aboard HMS Discerning with promises of freedom and exploration in South America.

When Grace’s big mouth lands her bare-bottomed over a cannon for insubordination, her identity is exposed. The captain wants her back in London but his orders, to chart the icy archipelago of Tierra del Fuego, forbid it. Lieutenant Seamus Fitzwilliam gallantly offers to take Grace off the fretting captain’s hands by placing her under his protection.

Grace must now win over the crew she betrayed with her secret, while managing her feelings towards her taciturn protector, whose obstinate chivalry stifles her new-found independence. But when Grace disregards Lieutenant Fitzwilliam’s warnings about the dangers of the unexplored archipelago, it costs a friend his life and she realises she is not as free as she believes.
DISCERNING GRACE is historical women’s fiction that will appeal to fans of Claire Fraser from Outlander and Demelza Poldark from Poldark—in other words, fans of feisty historical

About the author: Emma Lombard was born in Pontefract in the UK. She grew up in Africa—calling Zimbabwe and South Africa home for a few years—before finally settling in Brisbane Australia, and raising four boys. Before she started writing historical fiction, she was a freelance editor in the corporate world, which was definitely not half as exciting as writing rollicking romantic adventures. Her characters are fearless seafarers, even though in real life Emma gets disastrously sea sick. DISCERNING GRACE, is the first book in The White Sails Series.

If you like the sound of the book you can buy it here: https://books2read.com/discerning-grace – simply choose your store and you’re good to go!

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Today is my stop on the Book Tour for Familiar by T.J. Blake, thank you to Kelly at Love Books Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you the author and the publisher for my copy.

Synopsis:

For as long as she can remember, Arabella has communicated with those who exist only in memory.

Being the centre of attention growing up was uncomfortable, and now, as a renowned psychic medium, it is becoming more of a struggle. Arabella’s ability and reputation always made it impossible to hold onto lasting relationships, but with those who no longer walk this earth, that’s not the case.

Arabella returns to where it all began fifteen-years before – on the very same stage. After an evening reconnecting loved ones and exposing untold stories, Arabella can’t help but wonder about the one unclaimed ‘friend’, and their cryptic message.

In an unexpected turn of events, Arabella finds herself the subject of morning headlines and at the centre of Detective Barnes’ investigation.

Can Arabella use her ability to prove her innocence and uncover the truth about the past?

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: I love a good audiobook and this one did not disappoint

It’s starts of as a slow burn, Arabella is talking to a friend of her, what we don’t know at the time is that this friend of hers is dead, and that Arabella is a medium!

She gets approached by the dead on a regular basis with unfinished business and trying to make things right with the living. Unfortunately with no physical proof of her abilities, she soon finds herself in the middle of a police investigation and with no one else to look at it seems she is the prime suspect!

Arabella has built her career on her abilities and it’s all hanging in the balance so it’s important that she gets to the bottom of it and clears her name, the only problem is that it all seems to point to her!

The further she gets into discovering the truth she realised that it’s taking her on a trip down memory Lane and may have to confront a traumatic event from her early teenage years, something she’s tone do well to forget and leave behind!

I definitely did not see the ending coming and would highly recommend this read!

The audiobook added a whole different feeling to it, but I’m sure it would be just as enjoyable no matter how you read it!

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Today I’m on the blog tour for The Olive Grove by Eva Glyn, and I’m delighted to be closing it! Thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 400

Synopsis: A woman searching for a different future

A man desperate to escape his past

Can these two find what they are looking for on the beautiful Croatian island of Korčula?

Antonia Butler is on the brink of a life-changing decision and a job advert looking for a multilingual housekeeper at a beautifully renovated Croatian farmhouse, Vila Maslina, is one she can’t ignore.

Arriving on the tiny picturesque island of Korčula, Antonia feels a spark of hope for the first time in a long time. This is a chance to leave the past behind.

But this island, and its inhabitants, have secrets of their own and a not-too-distant past steeped in tragedy and war. None more so than Vila Maslina’s enigmatic owner Damir Maric. A young man with nothing to lose but everything to gain

My rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: this book was not at all what I expected, I was thinking a woman escaping to a secluded spot and finding the romance she least expected whilst there. And whilst that was part of it, the biggest part was a man discovering the truth about his life and his family!

Antonia is having an affair with her boss, she’s been holding out hope that he would leave his wife but a tear down the line they’re still together and she’s decided she needs a clean break, so when adding a new listing to their holiday home company she discovers that they’re looking for a new housekeeper, so she takes a chance and applies anonymously!

When Damir rings to let her know that she has been successful her whole life changes, mostly for the better but it does mean she has to leave her 22 year old daughter behind.

When she arrives in Croatia she soon learns that her new place of work is full of hidden secrets and so it seems is her new boss, or at least she feels like he’s hiding how he really is.

Can she get to the bottom of it, whilst holding down a full time job and helping her daughter fix her relationship whilst she’s at it?

Although this story wasn’t what I expected as I said at the beginning it was so so good and full of so many layers!

I did find Damir a little whiny and annoying at times, but the further you got into the story the more you understand why and I actually felt myself feeling for him.

This was an absolutely delightful read which made me feel all warm and fuzzy by the end!

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Today I’m on the tour for Blavk Reed Bay by Rod Reynolds, thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part, thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 300

Synopsis: Don’t trust ANYONE…

When a young woman makes a distressing middle-of-the-night call to 911, apparently running for her life in a quiet, exclusive beachside neighbourhood, miles from her home, everything suggests a domestic incident.

Except no one has seen her since, and something doesn’t sit right with the officers at Hampstead County PD. With multiple suspects and witnesses throwing up startling inconsistencies, and interference from the top threatening the integrity of the investigation, lead detective Casey Wray is thrust into an increasingly puzzling case that looks like it’s going to have only one ending…

And then the first body appears…

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: Welll.. this book is a rollercoaster ride and a half.

Casey Wray, is funny, smart and one hell of a person to contend with, I loved her so much and had all the faith that no matter what the mystery was she would get to the bottom of it! – one other thing I knew for sure because of read a book of Rods before was that I knew the getting to the conclusion wouldn’t be easy or straightforward, but it would be tense, gripping and exciting as well as maybe a little confusing!

I was not disappointed on any of those points!

The book was a bit of a slow burner and took a while for me to get into and become totally invested, but once it had me in its grip it just refused to let me go!

Casey is trying to get to the bottom of the disappearance of a local girl, she’s convinced there is more to it than what is on the surface and is trying to convince everyone else that they need to dig deeper, but no one is prepared for the discovery of more bodies! All young girls.

There’s anonymous tip offs, secrets and lies everywhere.

Will Casey figure out what happened to Tina before things get out of hand?

I am SO excited to hear that this is the start of a new series, I personally cannot wait to see which direction it goes in next!

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Today I’m on the blog tour for Targets of Treachery by Griff Hosker, thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part.

I’m here to tell you all about this book! – it sounds great!

Synopsis:

Captain Gerald has proven himself an unrivalled archer, but now he is married, he longs to enjoy life’s simpler pursuits, raising a family and tending his land.

But life on the borderlands brings complications, and King Edward has different ideas for Gerald. Prince Llywelyn of Wales will not toe the line, and once more, Gerald is chosen as royal envoy. He must cross the treacherous Welsh Marches to make strategic allegiances and request Llywelyn bend the knee to the English crown.

When those allegiances fail to protect England from Welsh rebellion, King Edward abandons diplomacy and seizes Welsh land to erect and capture castles, imbuing the landscape with intimidation.

As Gerald assists in this military tug-of-war, his thoughts are back home with his family, where personal vendettas threaten his own fortifications. Can he help wrest power back into English hands before the Welsh mob descends on all he holds dear?

If you like the sound of this, the first book in the series can be bought here! – it’s also on Kindle Unlimited!

About the Author: Griff Hosker was born in 1950 in Lancashire and attended a boy’s grammar school. After qualifying as an English and Drama teacher in 1972, he worked in the North East of England for the next 35 years. During that time he did write, mainly plays, pantos and musicals for the students at the three schools in which I worked. When he stopped teaching he set up his own consultancy firm and worked as an adviser in schools and colleges in the North East of England. The new Conservative Government ended that avenue of work and in 2010 he found that he had time on his hands; having started work at the age of 15 he found the lack of work not to my liking and used the time to research the Roman invasion of Britain and begin to create a novel. The result was The Sword of Cartimandua.

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Today I’m on the blog tour for Lies Like Wildfire by Jennifer Lynn Alvarez, thank you to Dave at The Write Reads for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 384

Synopsis: The monsters have known each other their whole lives. This is their final summer before college – time to hang out, fall in love and dream about the future.

Until they accidentally start a forest fire which destroys their hometown and leaves death in its wake.

Desperate for the truth to remain hidden, the group make a pact of silence.

But the twisted secret begins to spin out of control and when one of the friends disappears they all become suspects.

We know how it starts but where does it end?

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: CAN WE JUST APPRECIATE HOW STUNNJNG THIS COVER IS?! 😍🔥

The “monsters” are a group of friends who have grown up together, this is their final summer before college and quite possibly their final summer together so they’ve filled it with loads of fun things to do together.

Unfortunately that doesn’t at all go to plan when in their first trip out together they get drunk & accidentally start a forest fire which very quickly engulfed the whole area and people had to be evacuated!

What follows is a story full of secrets, lies and the fracture of friendships!

This was so hard to put down and was just absolutely incredible. If you love a mystery thriller with about a million layers then this is definitely the one for you!

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Today is my stop on the blog tour for Tinker, Tailor, Schoolmum, Spy by Faye Brann. Thank you to Anne at Random Things Tours for organising it and inviting me to take part and thank you to the author and the publisher for my copy.

Pages: 368

Synopsis: Vicky Turnbull has never regretted giving up her career for family life in the suburbs. And apart from being outstandingly good at paintball, no one would ever know that in a past life she was an undercover spy and has been trained to kill a man with her bare hands. Not even her husband, and certainly not the other mums at the school gate.
But beneath the school runs and bake sales, Vicky had never quite said goodbye to the past. So, when a newcomer on the PTA sets alarms bells ringing and MI5 comes calling, she’s determined to prove that despite her expanding waistline and love of pink gin, she’s still every bit the cold-eyed special operative.
When the assignment gets uncomfortably close to home, Vicky must decide if she has got what the job takes after all, and if home is really where her heart is…

My Rating: 🐧🐧🐧🐧

My Thoughts: this was a really fun read, although not what I expected at all, for some reason I expected this to be a comedy & it wasn’t, now that’s not a bad thing at all I thoroughly enjoyed this the way it was!

It did make me wonder if any of the unsuspecting ladies is there 40’s that I see in my job as a checkout girl could be hiding similar secrets, because if there’s anything I learnt from this book it’s that it really is the ones you’d least expect 😂

Vicky comes out of the toilet to an envelope containing a piece of paper telling her to “WAKE UP!” and she knows then that someone from her past is back, will she take the job that’s been offered and if she does, will she be able to leave again for her family?

I loved the fact that the main character was not only a woman, but a busy mum, but also a total badass when the situation requires, the only problem is that she’s determined to go further than she was asked, will she be able to get out unscathed & keep everyone safe?

I loved this so much that I really wish it was the start of a new series, pick this up and give it a go. I promise you’ll love it.

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