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Review: The Silver Witch by Paula Brackston

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On the banks of an ancient lake, Tilda Fordwells, moves into the cottage hoping to move on with her life.

Her husband, Mat, was killed suddenly in a car accident and Tilda vows to live in the home that they had bought just before his death.

It’s been a year since Mat dies, and Tilda is still struggling to move past it but hopes that moving into the house by the lake will be just what she needs.

Well things aren’t quite going as planned. Being at the lake seems to have awakened something in Tilda, animals seems to be flocking to her, the lights in her house go out, and she’s been having ‘visions’ from the past.

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Review: Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs #2) by Jacqueline Winspear

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Having read the first Maisie Dobbs book a couple of years ago, I wasn’t terribly intrigued and dying to read the next book.

I was a little underwhelmed with the first book, it was ok but Maisie wasn’t the same as some of my other favorite female detectives.

Well I didn’t want to write the series off all together so back then I bought the second book in the series and then just kept it in my TBR queue for a rainy day.

A 18 hour plane ride seemed like as good as any time to read the next book so I decided to pick it up.

It’s the spring of 1930 and Maisie is still struggling to ‘move on’ from her post-war depression and continue to grow her detective agency. Her side kick Billy, is continuing to struggle with post war life and Maisie herself cannot move on from the love of her life returning from war beyond damaged. The only thing that Maisie has is her work.

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Review: Scent of Triumph by Jan Moran

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I love war time romances…like with a passion! It has been a long time since I’ve read a book in one sitting…..like a LONG TIME.

This book took me by complete surprise at how compelling it was.

I was addicted from the very beginning and literally could not put it down until I finished it.

I don’t know what it is about forbidden romances that just gets me but there just is!

I was immediately struck by the raw attraction between Danielle and Jon. Danielle and her husband Max are on their way back to Poland to be united with their son and family.

Their are on board a passenger ship crewed by Jonathan Newell-Grey, on the eve of WWII when a German U-boat fires on them….sinking the ship.

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Book Blast/Spotlight: MK McClintock’s British Agent Series

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Please follow M.K. McClintock’s Book Blast for her British Agent Series, from April 13-17, and enter to win a $25 Amazon Gift Card!

Book One: Alaina Claiborne

01_Alaina ClaibornePublication Date: January 8th, 2013
Trappers Peak Publishing
ISBN: 978-0615742502

Series: British Agent Novels, Book One
Genre: Historical Romantic Mystery

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?How far would you go to avenge your family and save the one you love?

In nineteenth-century England, Alaina Claiborne had a loving family, a cherished friend, and devoted servants. She spent her days riding across the grassy hills of the English countryside, joyful and at peace.

Then tragedy strikes and her world is forever changed. Searching for those responsible is her only focus . . . until she meets Tristan.

?Tristan Sheffield, a man of many talents, searches out those who don’t want to be found. His past is filled with secrets and deeds he would rather leave deeply buried. However, when his life unexpectedly entwines with Alaina’s, he soon discovers they share more than a mutual desire to catch a murderer.

On their hunt for a man driven by greed, Tristan and Alaina find that love is the greatest weapon against evil, and they’ll stop at nothing to survive.

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Review: Reluctantly Charmed by Ellie O’Neill

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Ireland has got to be the absolute perfect setting for this book! I can’t think of a better location for a book about fairies and magic, not to mention I literally want to runaway to Ireland now and live there forever!

Kate McDaid has made a New Year’s resolution….she plans on revitalizing her career and love life. Kate’s life is pretty normal….she lives in Dublin and works as a copywriter at an advertising agency and rides her bike to work…..all pretty normal, until one day her life is about to change in a big way!

On her 26th birthday, she is summonsed to a lawyers office where a solicitor informs her that she is the recipient of an inheritance, left to her by a relative who died 130 years ago. All she has to do is post some letters once a week for seven weeks.

No problem right? Wrong. Kate is dying to know what these letters say….so she agrees to the pact and opens one. In  that first letter she finds that it’s a passionate plea to reconnect with the long-forgotten fairies of Irish folklore.

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