Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

Featured Interview: A Few Words with Mystery Author T.C. Wescott @mousetrapbooks #mystery #interview

“Something moves among the birds, along the snowy lanes, skirting the light in favor of shadow. In Christmas Village, this night, a creature is stirring.” –From Slay Bells by T.C. Wescott T.C. Wescott was born in Missouri but has lived in Oklahoma most of his life. Like pretty much every author who has ever breathed, he is an avid reader. His favorites are classic mysteries from the Golden Age, as well as just before or just after that period (which is widely considered the period between the two World Wars). His first mystery novel, Running from Scissors, was published in July 2018 and will be the first of at
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Fatal Agreements Virtual Book Publicity Tour @AshleyFontainne #mystery #suspense #thriller #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Fontainne’s FATAL AGREEMENTS Virtual Book Tour November 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: FATAL AGREEMENTS Author: Ashley Fontainne Publisher: RMSW Press Pages: 449 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Whispered rumors tickled the ears of the residents of an entire town for decades about the disturbing secrets of the old Halstead House, dating all the way back to the early 1920s. Most people didn’t believe them. Several people will soon discover they should have listened. Three years after struggling to cope with the death of her beloved father and escaping an abusive relationship, Samantha Chapman decides it’s time to return
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Darkest Before the Dawn Virtual Book Publicity Tour @Mike54Martin #Mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Virtual Book Tour October 1 – 31 2018! Inside the Book Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: TBA Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There are signs of trouble that may disturb his pleasant life, including a series of unsolved break-ins and the lack of supports for young people in the most trying time of their lives.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Cozy Corgi Mysteries Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MACozyMystery #CozyMystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mildred Abbott’s THE COZY CORGI MYSTERIES Virtual Book Tour October 1 – November 30 2018! Inside the Books Title: CRUEL CANDY (Book 1) Author: Mildred Abbott Publisher: Wings of Ink Publications LLC Pages: 282 Genre: Cozy Mystery BLURB: Estes Park, Colorado: picturesque mountains, charming shops, delightful bakeries, a cozy bookstore… and murder. Winifred Page and her corgi, Watson, move to Estes Park to hit the Reset button on life. Fred is about to open her dream bookshop, and the only challenges she anticipates are adjusting to small-town life, tourists, and living close to her loveable mother, Phyllis, and hippy stepfather,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Darkest Before the Dawn Pre-Pub Blitz @Mike54Martin #mystery #VBT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Pre-Pub Blitz September 3 – 28! Inside the Book Title: DARKEST BEFORE THE DAWN Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 280 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Darkest Before the Dawn is the latest adventure of Sgt. Winston Windflower, a Mountie who finds himself surrounded by a new family and a new life in tiny Grand Bank, Newfoundland. There are signs of trouble that may disturb his pleasant life, including a series of unsolved break-ins and the lack of supports for young people in the most trying time of their lives. But there
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Brimstone Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #fiction #womensleuths #mystery #thriller #suspense

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you John Allen’s BRIMSTONE Virtual Book Tour July 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BRIMSTONE Author: John Allen Publisher: Allen & Allen Semiotics Inc. Pages: 224 Genre: Historical Fiction/Women Sleuths/Mystery/Suspense/Thriller BOOK BLURB: Author John Allen has a theory about the creator of Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not create Holmes. It was Doyle’s wife, Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, who gave birth to the beloved sleuth. Allen has put his beliefs to the test, writing and publishing the first of a projected 12-novel series of Holmes mysteries titled BRIMSTONE. His detective is Louise Hawkins Conan Doyle, and Allen names
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Last Puffs Virtual Book Publicity Tour @fSWiver

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Harley Mazuk’s LAST PUFFS Blog Tour March 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: LAST PUFFS Author: Harley Mazuk Publisher: New Pulp Press Pages: 293 Genre: Mystery/Crime/Private Eye BOOK BLURB: Frank Swiver and his college pal, Max Rabinowitz, both fall in love with Amanda Zingaro, courageous Republican guerilla, in the Spanish civil war. But the local fascists murder her and her father. Eleven years later in San Francisco in 1949, Frank, traumatized by the violence in Spain, has become a pacifist and makes a marginal living as a private eye. Max who lost an eye in Spain but owes his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Body of the Crime Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s BODY OF THE CRIME Virtual Book Tour March 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: BODY OF THE CRIME Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: JEC Press Pages: 397 Genre: Mystery Suspense BOOK BLURB: Three grisly murders linked to five old cold cases, dubbed the Flower Girl Murders, pushes detectives to their limit to find a clever and extremely brutal serial killer, leaving a California town demanding justice. The District Attorney’s Serial Special Task Force retains the help of the reclusive Dr. Chip Palmer, a forensic expert and criminal profiler, to steer them in the right direction. Palmer is known
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Tulip Shirt Murders Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Heather Weidner’s THE TULIP SHIRT MURDERS Virtual Book Tour January 8 – 12! Inside the Book Title: THE TULIP SHIRT MURDERS Author: Heather Weidner Publisher: Sandpiper Productions Pages: 264 Genre: Mystery – Female Sleuth BOOK BLURB: Private investigator Delanie Fitzgerald, and her computer hacker partner, Duncan Reynolds, are back for more sleuthing in The Tulip Shirt Murders. When a local music producer hires the duo to find out who is bootlegging his artists’ CDs, Delanie uncovers more than just copyright thieves. And if chasing bootleggers isn’t bad enough, local strip club owner and resident sleaze, Chaz Smith, pops back into
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Take Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Abby Bardi’s DOUBLE TAKE Virtual Book Tour January 2 – 31! Inside the Book Title: Double Take Author: Abby Bardi Publisher: Harper Collins Impulse Pages: 186 Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction Set in Chicago, 1975, Double Take is the story of artsy Rachel Cochrane, who returns from college with no job and confronts the recent death of Bando, one of her best friends. When she runs into Joey, a mutual friend, their conversations take them back into their shared past and to the revelation that Bando may have been murdered. To find out who murdered him, Rachel is forced to revisit her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Circumvent Cover Reveal Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you S.K. Derban’s CIRCUMVENT Cover Reveal November 9! Inside the Book Title: CIRCUMVENT Author: S.K. Derban Publisher: Touchpoint Press Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Imagine living in a quaint, beach front cottage on the Hawaiian island of Maui. You have an amazing job, combined with the pleasure of working from home. Lunch breaks become a daily picnic on the sand. Dessert is always included because of your marriage to a famous pastry chef. Life could not be any better. Or so it seems… When French born, Nikki Sabine Moueix travels to Hawaii for a special work assignment, her job of writing an
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Abuse of Discretion Virtual Book Publicity Tour @authorPSY

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Pamela Samuels Young’s ABUSE OF DISCRETION Virtual Book Tour December 4 – February 28! Inside the Book Title: ABUSE OF DISCRETION Author: Pamela Samuels Young Publisher: Goldman House Publishing Pages: 352 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: A Kid’s Curiosity … A Parent’s Nightmare The award-winning author of “Anybody’s Daughter” is back with an addictive courtroom drama that gives readers a shocking look inside the juvenile criminal justice system. Graylin Alexander is a model fourteen-year-old. When his adolescent curiosity gets the best of him, Graylin finds himself embroiled in a sexting scandal that threatens to ruin his life. Jenny Ungerman, the attorney
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Amendment Killer Book Trailer Blast!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ronald S. Barak’s THE AMENDMENT KILLER Book Trailer Blitz November 1! Inside the Book Title: THE AMENDMENT KILLER Author: Ronald S. Barak Publisher: Gander House Publishers Pages: 320 Genre: Thriller/Mystery & Suspense/Political Thriller BOOK BLURB: “WE HAVE YOUR GRANDDAUGHTER. HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.” That’s the text message Supreme Court Justice Arnold Hirschfeld receives as hearings commence in the U.S. Supreme Court to determine the fate of the 28th Amendment – enacted to criminalize abuse of power on the part of our political representatives. In court to defend the amendment, retired U.S. District Court Judge Cyrus Brooks observes his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Solicitor Virtual Book Publicity Tour

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sean Keefer’s THE SOLICITOR Virtual Book Tour December 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE SOLICITOR Author: Sean Keefer Publisher: Four Hounds Creative Pages: 386 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: When you make your living fighting for justice, the last place you expect to wake up is behind bars. Attorney Noah Parks has spent his life keeping people out of jail.  When he’s charged with the murder of a candidate for Charleston County Solicitor he finds himself on the wrong side of the law for a crime he says he didn’t commit. No longer fighting for others and now
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Tangled Web Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A TANGLED WEB Blog Tour November 1 – 30!   Inside the Book Title: A TANGLED WEB Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Booklocker Pages: 338 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Life is good for Sgt. Wind­flower in Grand Bank, Newfoundland. But something’s missing from the Mountie’s life. Actually, a lot of things go missing, including a little girl and supplies from the new factory. It’s Windflower’s job to unravel the tangled web of murder, deceit and an accidental kidnapping that threatens to engulf this sleepy little town and destroy those closest to him. But there’s always good food, good friends
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Long Ways From Home Book Blast!

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A LONG WAYS HOME Book Blast September 11! Inside the Book Title: A LONG WAYS FROM HOME Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Friesen Press Pages: 364 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: A weekend visit to picturesque Newfoundland by a large crew of outlaw bikers leaves behind another mess for Sgt. Windflower to clean up. This time he’s facing violence, murder, mystery and intrigue. This adventure has Windflower questioning everything he thought he knew. There are troubles on the home front, cutbacks in the policing budget, old friends leaving and new ones not quite here yet. Windflower is seeking to
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First Chapter: San Francisco Nights by Greg Messel & Giveaway!

Title: SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 232 Genre: Mystery / Suspense The wife of a wealthy San Francisco shipping magnate leads a secret life but someone is threatening to expose her.  Private eye Sam Slater and his wife and partner, Amelia, meet a mysterious woman in a large red hat during a train trip. The woman approaches him pleading for help because she‘s receiving anonymous notes quoting Bible verses which are becoming more and more ominous with each passing day. Her secrets have been discovered but by whom? What really happens behind closed doors in Room 505 in a swanky downtown hotel? Sam is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents San Francisco Nights Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway!

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Greg Messel’s SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Blog Tour August 1 – September 29! Inside the Book Title: SAN FRANCISCO NIGHTS Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 232 Genre: Mystery / Suspense The wife of a wealthy San Francisco shipping magnate leads a secret life but someone is threatening to expose her.  Private eye Sam Slater and his wife and partner, Amelia, meet a mysterious woman in a large red hat during a train trip. The woman approaches him pleading for help because she‘s receiving anonymous notes quoting Bible verses which are becoming more and more ominous with each passing
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Mentor Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE MENTOR Blog Tour July 3 – August 31! Inside the Book Title: THE MENTOR Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books / St. Martin’s Press Pages: 336 Genre: Thriller / Suspense / Mystery Kyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house. When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Sisters: A Mystery of Good and Evil, Horror and Suspense Book Trailer Blast & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Don Sloan’s THE SISTERS Book Trailer Blast April 24! Inside the Book Title: THE SISTERS: A MYSTERY OF GOOD AND EVIL, HORROR AND SUSPENSE Author: Don Sloan Publisher: Independent Pages: 239 Genre: Supernatural/Mystery/Horror/Thriller In this book, written in the style of Stephen King, two young people on vacation in a small New England seacoast town battle unspeakable horror and solve a hundred-year-old mystery. Fourteen Victorian mansions whisper dark secrets among themselves, and a dangerous shadow roams up and down the wide, wintry boulevard in search of new prey. The Sisters: A Mystery of Good and Evil, Horror and Suspense is
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Double Take Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Abby Bardi’s DOUBLE TAKE virtual book tour January 3 – 27! Inside the Book Title: Double Take Author: Abby Bardi Publisher: Harper Collins Impulse Pages: 186 Genre: Mystery/Women’s Fiction Set in Chicago, 1975, Double Take is the story of artsy Rachel Cochrane, who returns from college with no job and confronts the recent death of Bando, one of her best friends. When she runs into Joey, a mutual friend, their conversations take them back into their shared past and to the revelation that Bando may have been murdered. To find out who murdered him, Rachel is forced to revisit her
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Paradise Series Book Blast!

We invite you to Deborah Brown’s PARADISE SERIES Book Blast on December 15! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Paradise Series Author: Deborah Brown Publisher: Paradise Books Pages: 628 (total in series) Genre: Mystery/Humor Crazy in Paradise: Dying in the middle of the summer in the Florida Keys is sweaty business. Welcome to Tarpon Cove. Madison Westin has inherited her aunt’s beachfront motel in the Florida Keys. Trouble is she’s also inherited a slew of colorful tenant’s – drunks, ex-cons, and fugitives. Only one problem: First, she has to wrestle control from a conniving lawyer
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Pump Up Your Book Presents A Poisonous Journey Book Blast!

We invite you to Malia Zaidi’s A POISONOUS JOURNEY Book Blast November 1-30! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: A Poisonous Journey Author: Malia Zaidi Publisher: Bookbaby Pages: 385 The year is 1925, a time that hovers between two catastrophic wars, a time of jazz and sparkle, and a time of peace and reflection. For Lady Evelyn, struggling to outrun the ghosts of her tragic past, it is a time of transformation. Left orphaned after a fire when she was only four, Lady Evelyn Carlisle was raised in London by her stern aunt and uncle.
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Scarecrow on the Marsh Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Don Weeks’ SCARECROW ON THE MARSH virtual book tour November 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: Scarecrow on the Marsh: A Cape Cod Thriller Author: Don Weeks Publisher: All Things That Matter Pages: 192 Genre: Mystery/Thriller When the mutilated body of renowned cosmetic surgeon Randall Landry turns up at a secluded bayside marsh in the town of Sandwich, Police Chief Thom Burrough’s life is turned upside down. While investigating the murder, he and BarnstableCounty coroner Abby Rhodes will uncover a plot more sinister than anything they could have imagined. On the outskirts of Chatham, a group of terrorists has
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Pump Up Your Book Presents TRANSGRESSION Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jannette Fuller’s TRANSGRESSION virtual book tour October 21 – 28! Inside the Book Title: Transgression (Book One of Ambrosial Acres Series) Author: Jannette Fuller Publisher: Solstice Publishing Pages: 186 Genre: YA/Mystery/Suspense Agent Yagil faces the fight of his calling as a Guardian Angel. His newest assignment is going to take every bit of perseverance and patience he has. Seventeen year old Amber Reynolds is looking for some freedom and independence from her rigid lifestyle. Going behind her parents’ back, she takes a part-time job at the renowned inn located within Ambrosial Acres. As Agent Yagil watches over Amber, he discovers
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Suppose Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you D.J. Adamson’s SUPPOSE virtual book tour July 5 – 29! Inside the Book Title: SUPPOSE Author: D.J. Adamson Publisher: Horatio Press Pages: 334 Genre: Mystery/Suspense “What did he want to know about me?” “If you were still alive.” Connivers, murder, and the international shipment of drugs unites the local PDs and the Federal Government, and drags Lillian into a hailstorm of manipulation and danger, whereby she is given two choices: Join? Or die trying? For More Information SUPPOSE is available at Amazon. Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads. Meet the Author Award Winner at the Midwest
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{Mystery/Suspense} SUPPOSE Blog Tour Sign Up

D.J. Adamson will be touring July 5 – 29 with her mystery/suspense, SUPPOSE. We are looking for reviews (paperback U.S./PDF), interviews, guest posts and book spotlight/promos. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: SUPPOSE Author: D.J. Adamson Publisher: Horatio Press Pages: 334 Genre: Mystery/Suspense “What did he want to know about me?” “If you were still alive.” Connivers, murder, and the international shipment of drugs unites the local PDs and the Federal Government, and drags Lillian into a hailstorm of manipulation and danger, whereby she is given two choices: Join? Or die trying? For More Information SUPPOSE is available at Amazon. Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at
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{Mystery/Romance} Cable Car Mystery Blog Tour Sign Up

Greg Messel will be touring May 2 – June 30 with his mystery/romance, CABLE CAR MYSTERY. We are looking for reviews (Paperback & PDF), interviews, guest posts and book spotlights/promo (HTML included) Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: Cable Car Mystery Author: Greg Messel Publisher: Sunbreaks Publishing Pages: 180 Genre: Mystery/Romance On the hottest day of the year in San Francisco in 1959, Private Detectives Sam and Amelia Slater are contemplating fleeing the city for their Stinson Beach house. However, when Sam decides to take a cable car ride to run some errands on the lazy summer day, he’s suddenly thrust into the spotlight when he rescues a woman
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  • March 14, 2016
  • Book Blasts
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Braking for Bodies Book Blast – Win Cinch Tote & Notepad!

We invite you to Duffy Brown’s BRAKING FOR BODIES Book Blast April 3. Duffy is giving away 20 BRAKING FOR BODIES Cinch Totes & Notepads to be given away at 12 midnight! Inside the Book: Title: BREAKING FOR BODIES (Book 2 Cycle Path Mystery Series) Author: Duffy Brown Publisher: Penguin Berkley Prime Crime Pages: Genre: Cozy Mystery Meet the Author   While others girls dreamed of dating Brad Pitt, Duffy Brown longed to take Sherlock Holmes to the prom. Today she is a National Bestselling author and conjures up who-done-it stories for Berkley Prime Crime. She has two series, the Consignment Shop mysteries set in Savannah and the Cycle
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  • December 31, 2015
  • Authors on Tour, Featured
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Uneven Exchange Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you S.K. Derban’s UNEVEN EXCHANGE virtual book tour January 4-29! Inside the Book Title: Uneven Exchange Author: S.K. Derban Publisher: Limitless Publishing Pages: 344 Genre: Mystery/Romance Like fire and ice, Alexandra Callet’s life runs hot and cold. At the age of thirty-three, Alexandra owns a stunning home and a successful interior design company. But she is in love with her business partner, Jake Taylor, and he doesn’t even seem to realize she’s a woman. She should be on top of the world, but instead she feels dragged down by the void in her heart. Hoping for answers, she decides a trip
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