Posts Tagged ‘suspense’

📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Promise of the Heart Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Romance

· ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan Berry’s PROMISE OF THE HEART  Virtual Book Tour June 1 – July 29. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Inside the Book Title: PROMISE OF THE HEART Author: Susan Berry Publisher: Independent Pages: 203 Genre: Clean Romance Book Blurb: After a distasteful first meeting, and a rocky start to their romance, Maggie Kinsley has been happily married to Desmond for the last eleven months. And although she was often alone when he traveled for business, she rather enjoyed how he passionately greeted her when returning
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Half Moon Lake Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Suspense #Conspiracy

· ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Steve Brock’s HALF MOON LAKE Virtual Book Tour June 1 – August 31. · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · ꕥ · ┈┈┈┈┈┈ · Inside the Book Title: HALF MOON LAKE Author: Steve Brock Publisher: Steve Brock Pages: 187 Genre: Suspense / Conspiracy BOOK BLURB: Crease Williams lived a charmed life with a bright future. Only in his junior year at Texas Christian University, his skills as a wide receiver had already captured the attention of NFL scouts. Then a tragedy cost him his family and his desire to play football.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Suspense #Noir-Inspired

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lorenzo Petruzziello’s A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Virtual Book Tour October 11 – November 5. Inside the Book Title: A MISTAKE INCOMPLETE Author: Lorenzo Petruzziello Publisher: Magnusmade Pages: 344 Genre: Suspense/Noir-Inspired BOOK BLURB:   An incompetent thief, a hopeless bartender, a dead stranger, and a lonely tourist. A NOIR-INSPIRED CAPER SET IN MODERN-DAY MILAN. An incompetent thief makes another attempt at burglary. A hopeless bartender struggles to manage her last patron. The pair reluctantly work together to figure out why a man they presumed dead may have returned, while a lonely tourist inadvertently gets in the way. PRAISE: “A sharp, edgy
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  • August 18, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: WORDS KILL by David Myles Robinson

WORDS KILL By David Myles Robinson BOOK BLURB: Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would haunt me for the rest of my life. The sentence was, “Someone should kill that motherfucker.” As Cody delves into the memoir, a window opens into a tragic past and thrusts the still-burning embers of another time’s radical violence into the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WORDS KILL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Suspense

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you David Myles Robinson’s WORDS KILL Virtual Book Tour August 16 – September 17. Inside the Book Title: WORDS KILL Author: David Myles Robinson Publisher: Terra Nova Books Pages: 250 Genre: Thriller / Suspense BOOK BLURB: Famed reporter Russell Blaze is dead. It appears to be an accident, but after Russ’s funeral, his son, Cody, finds a letter in which his father explains that the death may have been murder. It directs Cody to Russ’s unfinished memoir for clues as to what may have happened. The opening words are: On the night of October 16, 1968, I uttered a sentence that would
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents OPERATION: JADE HELMET Virtual Book Tour #ChristianFiction #Suspense #Futuristic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Ashley Fontainne’s OPERATION: JADE HELMET Virtual Book Tour April 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: OPERATION: JADE HELMET Author: Ashley Fontainne Publisher: RMSW PRESS Pages: #314 Genre: Christian Fiction/Suspense/Futuristic BOOK BLURB: Eager fans around the world played Operation Red Helmet for years, making it the highest-grossing virtual reality game ever sold, and the designers, The Talladav Group, are the richest company on earth. After an oppressive, unrelenting worldwide heatwave hits, daily life grinds to a halt around the globe. People retreat to their homes, afraid to go out as violence and chaos erupt in the streets. The game temporarily shuts down
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #Suspense #Thriller #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victor Acquista’s SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Tour November 18 – December 18! Inside the Book Title: SERPENT RISING Author: Victor Acquista Publisher: BHC Press Pages: 304 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Serena Mendez is haunted and she is hunted… … Haunted by trauma—terrified and scarred as a young child, when a secret initiation into an ancient order of Lightbringers went horribly wrong. Unaware of the power latent in her blood, she is haunted by a life out of sync with her true identity. At twenty-one, she is abrasive, jobless, in debt, and addicted to sedatives. Haunted by her past, she
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📢 {Suspense Thriller} New Book Review Campaign! THE SOCIETY by CG Abbot

we are taking review requests for CG Abbot’s new suspense thriller, The Society! this is a review campaign and not a blog tour. we ask you to post your review at amazon no later than January 23, please. when you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you to the book’s amazon page. review copies will be sent via pdf. please note when signing up, if you have never reviewed for us before, you must add a link to the form below directing us to one of your latest reviews. no books will be sent to new reviewers without that link. thank you!
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Old Man’s Request Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historical #suspense #VBT

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joab Stieglitz’s THE OLD MAN’S REQUEST: BOOK ONE OF THE UTGARDA TRILOGY Virtual Book Tour March 4 – 29! Inside the Book Title: THE OLD MAN’S REQUEST Author: Joab Stieglitz Publisher: Rantings of a Wandering Mind Pages: 117 Genre: Historical Suspense BOOK BLURB: An Innocent Favor for a Dying Old Friend… Fifty years ago, a group of college friends dabbled in the occult and released a malign presence on the world. Now, on his deathbed, the last of the students, now a trustee of Reister University enlists the aid of three newcomers to banish the thing they summoned. Russian
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Desire Card Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Crime #Suspense #VBT @LeeMatthewG

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE DESIRE CARD Virtual Book Tour March 4 – August 30! Inside the Book Title: THE DESIRE CARD Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: Fahrenheit Press Pages: TBA Genre: Crime/Suspense BOOK BLURB: Any wish fulfilled for the right price. That’s the promise the Desire Card gives to its elite clients. But if the Card doesn’t feel like they’ve been justly compensated, the “price” will be more menacing than the clients could ever imagine. Harrison Stockton learns this lesson all too well. Harrison has lived an adult life of privilege and excess: a high-powered job on Wall Street
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Featured Interview: A Few Words with Psychological Thriller Author Rob Kaufman #interview @RobKaufmanCT

“Horror seized Jesse by the throat and he gasped as he slammed on the brakes. The car went into an immediate spin, flying directly at Danny whose eyes went wide in the headlights. Jesse felt a thud against the back panel of the car. He screamed, the view from every window only blurred streaks of light. He tried to focus, to spot Danny somewhere in the whirl of his surroundings. But the boy was gone. He screamed again, his cry now muffled by the airbag exploding against his face. He squeezed his eyes shut, feeling the BMW skid off the side of the road and nose-dive into a shallow
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A Broken Reality Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller #Suspense #VBT @RobKaufmanCT

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rob Kaufman’s A BROKEN REALITY Virtual Book Tour December 3 – January 31! Inside the Book Title: A BROKEN REALITY Author: Rob Kaufman Publisher: Independent Pages: 320 Genre: Thriller/Suspense/Psychological Thriller BOOK BLURB: On a fateful night in the dead of winter, an unimaginable tragedy changes the lives of two families forever. How will they manage to deal with reality while stopping the sociopath who is pushing them toward the edge of sanity? Ten-year-old, Danny Madsen, has been missing for four days when Jesse Carlton begins his own search for his godson on a frigid, snowy night. Driving along a deserted
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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 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 Breathe In Virtual Book Publicity Tour @MichelleBellon

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michelle Bellon’s BREATHE IN Virtual Book Tour May 1 – 31! Inside the Book Title: BREATHE IN Author: Michelle Bellon Publisher: Limitless Publishing Pages: 272 Genre: Thriller/Suspense BOOK BLURB: Breathe in. Breathe out. This mantra gets Tessa Benson through the day. The man she loves walks all over her, and she just wants to get by without her heart shattering to pieces. If she could find her voice, she’d scream. Everything changes in one night, when she’s snatched from the streets and tied to a bed, a camera set up to capture her dying moment. And the person who paid
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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 Long Lost Virtual Book Publicity Tour @tnixon16

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tom Nixon’s THE LONG LOST Virtual Book Tour February 5 – 28! Inside the Book Title: THE LONG LOST Author: Tom Nixon Publisher: CreateSpace Pages: 418 Genre: Suspense BOOK BLURB: The sudden and strange disappearance of Joel Thomas brings together his ex-wife and best friend in a search for answers. As Mary and Jason seek out the truth, their quest consistently turns up more questions than clues. In another time, the story of a long-time group of college friends plays out across 30 years of history, revealing the highs and lows of a group that vowed to maintain their
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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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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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📢 {Mystery/Suspense} Blood Loss Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Ashley Fontainne and Lillian Hansen’s BLOOD LOSS. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than September 20, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF / mobi / ePub. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: BLOOD LOSS Author: Ashley Fontainne & Lillian Hansen Publisher: RMSW Press Pages: 261 Genre: Mystery / Suspense Karina and LiAnn worked hard to put the awful memories behind
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📢 {Regency Romance Suspense} The Duke Needs a Wife Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Katy Walters’ THE DUKE NEEDS A WIFE. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than August 3, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book Title: THE DUKE NEEDS A WIFE Author: Katy Walters Publisher: Independent Pages: 190 Genre: Regency Romance Suspense On the untimely demise of her parents, Miss Cassandra Whitney endures abject poverty raising her siblings.
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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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First Chapter: Sealed Up by Steve Dunn Hanson

Title: Sealed Up Author: Steve Dunn Hanson Publisher: Independent Pages: 402 Genre: Action/Adventure/Suspense The Da Vinci Code unsettles. SEALED UP shakes to the core! UCLA anthropologist Nathan Hill, in a funk since his young wife’s death, learns of staggering millennia-old chronicles sealed up somewhere in a Mesoamerica cliff. This bombshell rocks him out of his gloom, and he leads a clandestine expedition to uncover them. What are they? Who put them there? No one knows. But, self-absorbed televangelist Brother Luke, who funds the expedition, thinks he does. If he’s right, his power-hunger will have off-the-charts gratification. Striking Audra Chang joins Nathan in his pursuit and brings her own shocking secret. As they
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Cat O’ Nine Tales Virtual Book Publicity Tour

We invite you to Krystal Lawrence’s CAT O’ NINE TALES Virtual Book Tour January 3 – 27! Leave a comment on each of her tour stops to let her know you stopped by! Inside the Book: Title: Cat O’ Nine Tales Author: Krystal Lawrence Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 284 Genre: Horror/Suspense What evil dwells within the pretty lady next door or the ordinary house cat? What happens when you pursue your dreams into the desert after dark? Beware the man borne of your imagination. He could seek vengeance on the one who created him. Visit a bookstore offering a most alluring and sinister service. Journey to the dark side
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{Horror/Suspense} Cat O’ Nine Tales Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Krystal Lawrence’s CAT O’ NINE TALES. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than February 22, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: Cat O’Nine Tales Author: Krystal Lawrence Publisher: Telemachus Press Pages: 284 Genre: Horror/Suspense A collection of 9 short stories (and one bonus tale!) Journey to the dark side with this collection of 10
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{Erotic Romance/Suspense} Exposure Review Campaign Sign Up

We are taking review requests for Kelly Moran’s EXPOSURE. This is a review campaign and not a blog tour. If requesting review copies, we ask that you post your review at Amazon no later than February 12, please. When you are ready to submit your review, come back and click below to take you directly to the book’s Amazon link. Review copies will be sent via PDF and Mobi. Thank you! Inside the Book: Title: EXPOSURE Author: Kelly Moran Publisher: Independent Pages: 272 Genre: Erotic Romance/Suspense Elements His best friend…His muse…His fantasy… Noah Caldwell has spent ten years biding his time for the chance to tell his best friend
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Toxicity Book Blast – Win a $25 Gift Card!

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Denis O’Rourke’s TOXICITY Book Blast November 14 – 25! Inside the Book: Title: Toxicity Author: Denis O’Rourke Publisher: AuthorHouse Pages: 326 Genre: Suspense Format: Ebook Toxicity In this exciting prequel to O’Rourke’s thrilling debut novel, Proposition, Napa Valley attorney, Riley Scofield is up to her pretty neck in another toxic mess. And this time it’s not just environmental. Riley’s trying to mend a long-standing feud between the Scofield and Royster families when she’s asked to represent the sale of a client’s condemned toxic property. When Riley discovers the contamination reports have been falsified, the client’s property value goes up—way up. The client tells
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Pump Up Your Book Presents The To-Do List Virtual Book Publicity Tour

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Sharon Struth’s THE TO-DO LIST virtual book tour November 7 – 11! Inside the Book Title: The To-Do List Author: Sharon Struth Publisher: Solsbury Hill Press Pages: 240 Genre: Romantic Comedy/Suspense Relax, she’s got this… Maggie Harris has her ultra-organized life well in hand, until she finds her neighbor and husband together, in her bed, and the tight hold she keeps on her world unravels, leaving her grasping for an escape. So how can she refuse when she’s handed the dream job of running her aunt’s bookstore and a chance for a fresh start? Even though the bookstore is in
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Pump Up Your Book Presents Perfect Prey Virtual Book Tour!

     Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Laura Salters’ PERFECT PREY virtual book tour October 10 – November 4! Inside the Book:   Title: Perfect Prey Author: Laura Salters Release Date: October 18, 2016 Publisher: Witness Impulse Genre: Thriller/Suspense Format: Ebook   “Laura Salters is a vibrant new voice.” –C L Taylor, Internationally bestselling author of THE LIE When best friends Carina Corbett and Erin Baxter are assigned to cover a Serbian music festival for their magazine, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. And it is, until Erin vanishes into thin air on their last night in the country. Terrified, Carina launches a desperate search, discovering that
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