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About the book 

Gemma Bennett is the leading lady of her own life, and her true love is writing

screenplays. With her trusty pink notebook in hand, she signs up for the Citizen’s Safety Academy to research her newest blockbuster hope, a rom-com with a police officer as the hero. And the fact that the handsome and heroic Lieutenant Karson

Zellner is the one leading the training? Well, who can blame her for wanting to spend evenings with the man she swooned over months ago when he responded to a call at her apartment?

The first line . . . 

Karson Zellner is my hero.

On or around page 56 . . .  

"Fine" I huff.  "Besides the no-filming rule, I have one other rule for the demonstration.  If you have any food in your purse or pockets, make sure you leave that inside. 

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Hero Debut by Angela Ruth Strong Book Spotlight My Review

 

About the book 

Gemma Bennett is the leading lady of her own life, and her true love is writing

screenplays. With her trusty pink notebook in hand, she signs up for the Citizen’s Safety Academy to research her newest blockbuster hope, a rom-com with a police officer as the hero. And the fact that the handsome and heroic Lieutenant Karson

Zellner is the one leading the training? Well, who can blame her for wanting to spend evenings with the man she swooned over months ago when he responded to a call at her apartment?

Karson already has his fair share of problems before Gemma shows up, and he's not exactly a fan of the ditzy blonde who can’t seem to stay out of trouble. The last thing he needs is a damsel in distress to rescue; there are plenty of people in real need of his help. The fact that she seems to think his job makes him a superhero is just one more strike against her. This isn't a movie, and he feels like the furthest thing from a leading man.

Gemma can't seem to stop doing the worst, most embarrassing things at just the

wrong time. And as time goes on, Gemma begins to realize that the scripts for a perfect screenplay and a real-life happily-ever-after are two very different things. Can she step out of her own way to find the hero her story needs?

And others are saying 

Another sparkling feel-good romance, brimming with perfect doses of heart and heat!"-- Bethany Turner, award-winning author of The Do-Over 

A fun inspirational RomCom!

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023

HERO DEBUT is a fun inspirational romantic comedy about a girl with dreams and the cop she has a crush on. It's about baggage, vulnerability and being willing to change so that you can be open to love.  

Vibrant Rom Com

Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2023

A vibrant rom-com, full of witty dialogue, faith, friendship, with a sunshine-grumpy romance! 

And I thought . . . 

So easy to turn the pages. 

My thanks to author Angela Ruth Strong for allowing me to be one of the first to read Hero Debut. 

For this reader it was so easy to like love the quirky Gemma.  A smart and savvy writer who figures out a way to meet hunky Police Officer Karson Zellner Lieutenant Karson Zellner who just happens to be teaching a Citizen’s Safety Academy class. 

What better way to innocently get to know the hunky cop?   

Gemma has her plans while Mr. Cop has his own which don't include getting mixed up with a female least if all Gemma. 

But with any good Romance.  

Thier fates are fixed and planned. 

Hero Debut is as charming and witty as Gemma.  

Author Angela Ruth Strong gives the read a chuckle awhile tackling a few hard subjects.  All the while balancing Faith, Romance and Humor. 

It is nice to read a book that has 'Heart'. 

It is also nice to have no misgivings at awarding 5 stars. 

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There I Find Peace By Jessie Gussman Blog Parties

 

What I am currently

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He's steady and serious, the head of his family. She's a struggling single mom who just left her husband and is trying to make a life for her two daughters. Will love find them in Strawberry Sands?

The first line . . . 

Jubilee's car sputtered. 

You have got to be kidding me. 

On or around page 56 . . . 

Chapter 4

"Do you think she'd like a job here" Lana settled on his porch swing that evening. 

Matt had gone after Jubilee's car with his brother Luke. 

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My Sisters Book Store Book Store Spotlight

 Many thanks to author Jackie Layton for sharing this gem!

This past weekend was a great celebration for National Dog Day on Saturday . . . 

13057 Ocean Hwy # C 

 Pawleys Island, SC 29585 

Jackie was available and ready to sign ger books. 

My Sisters books was also celebrating 20 years of business. 

Congratulations! 

I can see why.  Lets go inside . . .

Row after row after row of Books . . . 

Cozy places to sit and read a few pages. 

If I make it to South Carolina I'll be visiting My Sisters Books!

Book Spotlight There I Find Peace by Jessie Gussman

 

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He's steady and serious, the head of his family. She's a struggling single mom who just left her husband and is trying to make a life for her two daughters. Will love find them in Strawberry Sands?

When Matt Landry sees a woman with two little girls and a broken down car, of course he stops to help. When he finds out she needs a job and a place to stay, he hires her because he knows his mother will take her under her wing. What he doesn't expect is to start falling for her himself.

Reeling from her divorce and the death of her mother, Jubilee Jones is trying to hold herself together and make a life for her girls. With no other options, she seeks refuge and a fresh start in the nostalgic embrace of Strawberry Sands.

When her car breaks down, it feels like she's hit rock bottom, but the boy who'd been her crush that one beautiful summer doesn't just rescue her, he offers her a job on his beachside ranch. She has no other options, so she gratefully accepts, never intending to be more than friends with him.

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Cozy New Releases

 

Tragedy in Tahoe 

 by Rachele Baker 

Thirty-two-year-old veterinarian Rylie Sunderland is in trouble. After the veterinary hospital where she worked burns to the ground, Rylie takes a summer job as a part-time caretaker at an old Tahoe estate turned B & B called Whitaker Cottages while she tries to figure out what to do next with her life.    

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Clutter Free

 by Jackie Layton 

Returning to Fox Island where she grew up, Emma Sloan begins her career as a professional organizer. When a woman accuses Emma’s police chief brother of having an affair, Emma’s priority shifts from organizing to proving her brother’s innocence. Emma visits the woman, hoping for a confession. The woman won’t admit she lied, and to make the situation worse, the accuser is found dead the next day by Emma and her business partner.   

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The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp 

by Leonie Swann 

It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a house share for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had some issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, decreasing mobility, and gluttonous grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. A body has been discovered next door. Everyone puts on a long face for show, but they are secretly relieved the body in question is not the one they’re currently hiding in the shed (sorry, Lillith).   

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Put Pen to Perpetrator 

by Jasmine Webb 

When a plane crash-lands in Crissy Field, Poppy and Ophelia are called in to help. The case initially seems to be fairly innocuous, until they discover one of the victims was dead before the plane hit the ground.    

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The Legend of Acorn Hollow

 by Maureen Klovers

As the Hudson Valley’s best garden-to-table home cook, fiercest Italian matriarch, and most dogged reporter, Rita Calabrese has many reasons to look forward to fall. Her garden is bursting with the ingredients for chicken cacciatore, apple crisp, and pumpkin cheesecake. Her son is starring in the local community theater production. And Acorn Hollow is at its most festive as it celebrates “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which the townspeople insist was inspired by their own bucolic hamlet.   

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A Statue To Die For

 by Jennifer S. Alderson 

Carmen De Luca is having the time of her life recovering stolen artwork from nefarious European collectors for her employer, the Rosewood Agency…until her partner, Baroness Sophie Rutherford, is injured during a mission gone wrong. 

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Open For Witchness

 by Ada Bell 

With two solved murders under her belt, Emma agrees to tackle a mystery that’s been haunting the residents of neighboring Shady Grove for years: what supernatural presence keeps the only bar in town from operating? Emma’s been in haunted places before, and no one else ever noticed. The ghosts she’s encountered may not have all been warm and fuzzy, but they were peaceful. Intrigued, she and her friend Ben head to the bar he hopes to take over. The last thing she expects is to find a ghostly sentry at the door, preventing anyone from going in. Since ghosts don’t wear clothes, Emma’s thread magic is of little use. Still, she made a promise, so she’ll do her best to find out who died and what they need to be at peace. 

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Arrest the Alibi 

by Anne R. Tan

My name is Cedar Woods, and I am a recovering ostrich. I have the unfortunate habit of burying my head in the sand. Newly divorced and penniless, I am cleaning my friends’ fancy McMansions to make ends meet while lawyering up for a financial audit on my ex-husband’s tech company. 

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Her Own Revolution Great Escapes Book Tour my Review

 

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A Woman Forges a Treacherous Path to Save Hundreds from the Guillotine

If Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville had the same rights as a man, she wouldn’t have to dress like one, which she does to attend University—forbidden to women. By swearing her commitment to the revolution, she succeeds in convincing her father, the Public Prosecutor who condemns thousands to the guillotine, to hire her as a court clerk. But she intends to earn passage to join her lover, Henri, in America.

Tasked with copying lists of names scheduled for execution, she reads Louis LaGarde, a fallen noble whom she despises for having exposed her as a woman when they both attended University. Believing him innocent, she replaces his name with one already dead, saving his life. But she realizes that unless she forges a treacherous path, hundreds more will perish at her father’s hands.

When a Revolutionary hunts her down, she must accept LaGarde’s help, yet she denies her attraction to him out of loyalty to Henri. She fights for her life and the lives of those she’s come to love, but she must face the truth of her own heart.

And others are saying 

Debra Borcherts’s Her Own Revolution is the gripping story of a young woman who risks everything, a fast-paced story that draws the reader in with its tremendous world-building as you traverse the streets of Paris with Genevieve to encounter both loathsome and endearing characters.

~Novels Alive

And I thought 

Not my normal read. 

But I was intrigued. 

The cover kinda 'got me'. 

I was not disappointed.  

Her Own Revolution drew me in and kept me turning the pages.  

Although I liked the story line as a new reader to the genre and series I felt like I would have benefitted from reading book 1. 

If I get the chance I will definitely read it.  

Genevieve is a strong and independent character with situations and challenging circumstances that caused her to risk her very life.  And makes her question her hopes of love. 

The author developed not only the story but takes the reader on a journey and almost makes you feel like you Are in  Paris and a Loire Valley vineyard during the French Revolution.   

My thanks to the author and Great Escapes Tour for the introduction.  

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HoneyBook Spotlight Drop Dead by Laura Child Great Escapes Book Tour

 August 21 – My Reading Journeys – SPOTLIGHT  

About the book 

The murder of a political bigwig at a Honey Bee Tea sends Theodosia Browning buzzing for answers in this latest installment

of the New York Times bestselling series.

Theodosia’s Honey Bee Tea was an elegant affair set in Charleston’s new Petigru Park amid newly planted native grasses and a community beekeeping project. But when a phony beekeeper shows up and sprays toxic smoke at the guests, the party erupts in chaos. Worse yet, a shot rings out and Osgood Claxton III, candidate for state legislature, falls to the ground—dead.

Holly Burns, the gallery owner who asked Theodosia to cater the tea, is understandably heartbroken. A man is dead, her guests are angry and injured, and the paintings that were on display are left in tatters. When the police don’t seem to have a clue, when old-line politicos don’t want questions asked, Holly begs Theodosia to run a shadow investigation and help restore her gallery’s good name.

Between hosting a Wind in the Willows Tea and a Glam Girl Tea, Theodosia questions everyone that had a bone to pick with Claxton. This includes Booker, an angry outsider artist; Lamar Lucket, Claxton’s political opponent; and Mignon Merriweather, the dead man’s soon-to-be ex-wife. But the investigation becomes a political hot potato following a second murder, the revelation of a messy affair, a chase through a swamp, and a vandalized shop.

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Murder ALa Mode by Lena Gregory Book spotlight Great Escaoes Book Tour

 August 21 – My Reading Journeys – SPOTLIGHT

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From author Lena Gregory comes a delicious new series that will warm your heart and leave you guessing until the very end…

When twenty-five-year-old Danika Delaney, black sheep of the Delaney clan, returns home to Long Island to take over Jimmie’s, her eccentric uncle’s old fashioned malt shop on eastern Long Island, she’s not exactly thrilled. But things start to look up when her uncle tells her she can do whatever she’d like with the shop, and it seems she might realize her dream of a small trendy café. That is, until she discovers the body of her ex-boyfriend’s estranged wife in a melted puddle of rocky road in the malt shop basement. With her two sidekicks, her sister and a good childhood friend, in tow, Dani searches for–or stumbles upon—one clue after another. But as she narrows down the suspect list, she realizes if she’s not careful she may end up in a puddle of her own… 

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Cozy New Releases

 

Catch Me If You Candy

 by Ellie Alexander 

Jules Capshaw and her team have been baking up autumn delights and trick-or-Torte bags filled with sugar cookie cutouts, spiced cider, and mummy munch. It’s the end of the season at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, which means that the costumes for the parade are going to be out of this world. The elaborate guises even extend to pets. The grand marshal of this year’s parade is no other than a regal pug aptly named King George. Jules is delighted to get to share the experience with Carlos and Ramiro, but things take a dark turn when she discovers a dragon slumped in front of the bakeshop. 

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Mugshots Of Manhattan

 by Christin Brecher 

Liv Spyers hits the big time when she lands a photography assignment with Grammy Award-winning pop star, the one and only Bisa. A huge fan, Liv is extra thrilled that her new boyfriend, Harry, will escort her to the glamorous premiere of Bisa’s debut movie. But when Bisa’s estranged sister, Courtney, threatens to turn the photo-op into a PR disaster, Liv goes after her—only to turn to camera lens on herself when Courtney winds up dead. With all eyes on Liv, her star-studded career is suddenly on the verge of being cancelled.

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Board to Death

 by C.J. Connor 

Back in his hometown of Sugar House, running his family’s board game shop and café, Ben Rosencrantz just can’t seem to get his life to pass go, much less collect $200. Once he was a happily married English professor in Seattle. Now he’s a divorced caregiver, looking after his ill father and a Chihuahua named Beans while still figuring out the rules of retail management. At least the town has become more LGBTQ+ friendly than when Ben was a teenager—and that flower shop owner, Ezra McCaslin, enjoys flirting with him. 

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Nine Lives and Alibis

 by Cate Conte

It’s October in Daybreak Harbor, which means everything Halloween. The town is going all out for the holiday, hoping to one-up the festivities in neighboring Salem, Massachusetts, and Maddie James is delighted to be part of the planning for the annual happenings. 

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Murder at a Cape Bookstore

 by Maddie Day 

Everyone loves a festival, though Mac has a few concerns about the Spring equinox event organized by the new Chamber of Commerce director, Wagner Lavoie. After all, March weather is unpredictable. Still, there’s plenty to enjoy, between flower-shaped candies at Salty Taffy’s, spring rolls at the Rusty Anchor, and a parade of decorated bicycles. But the festivities soon take a stormy turn. 

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Death of a Halloween Party Monster 

by Lee Hollis 

Everyone attending Island Times Food and Cocktail columnist Hayley Powell’s Halloween bash is dressed as their favorite movie monster from the Bride of Frankenstein and Jaws to Chucky and Pennywise the clown. But when partygoers stumble upon Boris Candy’s bludgeoned costumed corpse, it falls to Hayley to discover who among her guests wanted to stop the man from clowning around permanently. 

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Wedding Bride & Doom

 by Mary Karnes 

California wedding planner, Kate Ludlow, moves back home to New England after her marriage implodes. In tow is her teen daughter Ellis, unhappy and nervous about the move. Suddenly, Kate’s responsible for turning her part-time wedding planner gig into a full-time business. Kate’s off to a good start, too, when she books the society wedding of the year. The prosperity of her business is dependent on the success of Marcy Simpson’s wedding.   

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Halloween Cupcake Murder

 by Carlene O’Connor; Liz Ireland; Carol J. Perry 

From Galway, Ireland to Salem, Massachusetts, all the way up to the North Pole, a trio of Halloween mysteries from USA Today bestselling author Carlene O’Connor, Liz Ireland, and Carol J. Perry prove that the spookiest season knows no international borders–and neither do cupcakes!  

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Scared Off 

by Barbara Ross 

Three teenage girls having a sleepover on Halloween night get spooked when high schoolers crash the house for a party. But no one expected to find a crasher like Mrs. Zelisko, the elderly third floor tenant, dead in the backyard—dressed in a sheet like a ghost. With her niece traumatized, Julia Snowden must uncover who among the uninvited guests was responsible for devising such a murderous trick    

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The Body in the Back Garden

 by Mark Waddell 

Crescent Cove, a small hamlet on Vancouver Island, is the last place out-of-work investigative journalist Luke Tremblay ever wanted to see again. He used to spend summers here, until his family learned that he was gay and rejected him. Now, following his aunt’s sudden death, he’s inherited her entire estate, including her seaside cottage and the antiques shop she ran for forty years in Crescent Cove. Luke plans to sell everything and head back to Toronto as soon as he can…but Crescent Cove isn’t done with him just yet.   

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Mrs. Morris And The Wolfman

 by Traci Wilton 

Saturday night at the movies has some added flair now that Darren and Elise Shultz are reopening one of Salem’s classic theaters. Charlene is delighted to help the couple with their venture, and Darren has lined up a cult classic double-header featuring Lon Chaney in The Wolfman. But things get hairier than expected when Elise starts to choke on her popcorn mid-movie—and once the lights go up, she’s dead . . .  

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Copycat 

by Amanda Feyerbend 

Liz’s latest case is confounding from the start. Not a trace of evidence is found on the victim, who has been immaculately cleaned. The use of strange props and the lack of connection between the victim and the dumping ground have the department scratching its head. But, when Liz manages to wade her way through the sea of random clues, the truth of the killing leaves everyone in shock.   

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