Future Tour: A Good Kind of Knowing by Kathy Lynn …
Kathy will be on tour April 8-22 with her women’s fiction novel A Good Kind of Knowing Sera Taylor’s store is the one place in…
Blog Tour Sign Up: Aggravated Circumstances by Michele Shriver
A family can be torn apart in an instant. Putting it back together is a harder task.
A relapsed addict opens the door to find a cop with a search warrant, setting off a chain of events that will cause four lives to intersect.
Devin Lenox has already lost one child to the system and this time she vows it will be different. If she’s going to make it, though, she’ll need something she’s never had before- someone on her side.
Her battle with depression behind her, Elisa Cahill looks forward to resuming her legal career. Devin’s case seems like the perfect opportunity to do that, and bury her own past demons in the process, at least if old grudges don’t prove to be her undoing.
Child protection worker Taylor Ross struggles to balance a social life with her demanding job and has little sympathy for people like Devin, at least at first. When Taylor starts to see Devin in a new light, she finds herself at odds with her superiors. Will she be willing to go to bat for Devin, and what price will she pay if she does?
Sarah Canfield is a compassionate judge who is not afraid to make difficult decisions, but will her past link to Devin undermine her objectivity and cause her to put her own family at risk?
A look inside the child welfare system, the people who work in it and the lives it impacts, Aggravated Circumstances is a story of despair, hope and recovery.
CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Work For Hire by Margo …
Margo Karasek is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Work For Hire. This novel is full of hard questions, tough conundrums, and I often thought to myself what would I do? Our heroine is Tekla, a law student who is getting top grades and is on the right track to having much success upon graduation. But when she needs more money to keep her up with her rent, a job offer poses a threat to her carefully-planned out life. She gets a job as a tutor for two young children of extremely wealthy – and absent – parents. But tutor is stretching it, and soon Tekla finds herself running into the ground trying to please not only the kids, but the parents as well. While her grades and perfect attendance starts to suffer, Tekla has moral dilemmas about her job – and begins to question herself.
I really enjoyed Work For Hire, and the main message is actually pretty similar to my second novel, so that probably helped me connect with the plot. Tekla has a great high-paying job, but at what cost? The situations that happen throughout the novel will frustrate you, anger you, and make you sad. Karasek did a great job building up her supporting cast, and it was easy for me to become immersed in the story. The ending left me with a bit of a question mark, which I found to be the only downside of the whole book. I was highly entertained throughout, and it was tough to put down. One I recommend!
4.5 stars
Author Profile: Debbie Dyke
Author Name: Debbie Dyke
Website: http://www.debbiedyke.com/
Bio: Debbie Dyke is a novelist and businesswoman from Alexandria, Virginia, and has a background in military intelligence, the stock market, executive recruiting and writing. An Army brat, she’s lived in Turkey, France, Germany, Italy, Albania and Holland. She graduated from the American High School in Naples, Italy then attending University of Maryland, Munich Campus. She graduated from Georgetown University and holds a Bachelors of Science and Masters degree in National Security. Debbie has two grown children, Lisa and Jordan and has been married to Michael for over thirty wonderful years. Debbie has written 5 screenplays, one Wall Street calendar and two novels.
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My author website is: www.debbiedyke.com
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Future Tour: Transplanting Holly Oakwood by Di Jones
Di will be on tour April 15-May 6 with her chick lit novel Transplanting Holly Oakwood Finding her lover in bed with her best friend…
On Tour: Fashion Victim by GT Herren
GT Herren will be on tour March 4-11 with Fashion Victim To hear her buddy Chanse McLeod tell it, Paige Tourneur is rotund, cute as…
Blog Tour Sign Up: Where’s the Groom? by Sophie …
Ashley, just turning thirty, is srtuck with a string of bad dates that keep getting worse. The last of her group of friends to be single, she’s quickly becoming hopeless about finding The One.
When a friend convinces her to attend a new-age workshop on making your dreams come true, she gets onto a roller coaster she can’t get off of. The poignant and hilarious comedy of errors begins. The workshop sweeps through her life like a tornado and turns her reality upside down. She is told: visualize it, and he will come. But Ashley takes it seriously, and before she knows it, she’s planning a wedding. There’s only one problem: there’s no groom.
Things quickly spiral out of control as one misunderstanding after another occurs, and Ashley’s friends and family find out a wedding is happening, and want to know who the groom is. Backed into a corner, she finds herself having to lie, and to make her wedding planning more and more a reality. Things intensify as Ashley chooses her bridesmaids and is caught in a whirlwind of looking for dresses, choosing a venue, finding a band, and everything else. Soon a date is set, invitations are sent out, and there is no backing out!
In the meantime, Ashley is desperately dating, hoping for The One to show up in time! In a shocking ending with a twist, Ashley draws true love into her life in the most unexpected way.
Future Tour: Reckless Abandon by Jenn Flynn-Shon
Jenn will be on tour April 15-29 with her romantic suspense novella Reckless Abandon How far would you go for love? Young Adult fiction Author,…
CLP Blog Tours Book Review: Torn Together by Emlyn Chand
Emlyn Chand is now on tour with CLP Blog Tours and Torn Together. This novel is a beautiful story about Daly English, a woman who doesn’t quite know her way yet. She has a difficult relationship with her mother, she still mourns the loss of her father, and she struggles with her art. Daly meets two people that have a profound effect on her life. First there is Meghann, a pregnant teenager who Daly is wary of at first. Daly is jealous of the relationship between her mom and Meghann, but quickly gets a new outlook on life from their friendship – and perhaps a second chance with her mom. She also befriends Kashi, a believer in fate who hails from India. A love affair between the two commences quickly, and Daly takes a life-changing trip to India to meet Kashi’s family for approval. Daly finally feels her life has a purpose, a direction, and she feels happier than she can remember. But is it too good to be true?
Torn Together is a heart-wrenching story that will take readers on an emotional roller-coaster of emotions. Daly is a sweet girl that can never seem to find her way, and I loved when the pieces of her puzzle started clicking into place. Without giving away too much, there is a big shakeup just past the halfway point that made me cry and wonder why life can be so unfair. I had a hard time putting down this book, and I find myself still thinking about Daly and how her story might have continued after finishing the book. I really enjoyed reading about Meghann and her situation, and thought the rest of the supporting cast was very intriguing. Daly’s trip to India and meeting with Kashi’s family is interesting, entertaining, and also educational. I’m actually a big fan of reading about Indian culture and I was entranced by the descriptions and learning about the customs. One for your to-read list!
4.5 stars
