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VBT# The Other Daughter - Heidi Field

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VBT# The Other Daughter - Book #4 The Peasdale Woods Killer Series - Heidi Field - October 2026 There are some books you settle into like a favourite armchair, and then there are books that quietly pull the chair out from under you. The Other Daughter is firmly the second kind, and I loved every unsettling minute of it. This is the final instalment in Heidi Field’s Peasedale Woods Killers series, and what a way to close it. By now, readers will feel they know Shiv. She has spent years trying to put Peasedale behind her, and as the story opens, things finally seem to be softening. Mason Tucker is out of prison, her son Pip is growing into a happy, giggly little boy, and for once the future looks bright. I found myself exhaling alongside her, which of course is exactly what Heidi Field wants, because the moment you relax, Hunter Piper walks in. The Piper name has always meant tragedy and violence in these parts, and Hunter arrives to claim what he believes is his. He brings with him a ...
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Book Blitz - Finding Zaide by Kim Deister

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Finding Zaide Kim Deister Publication date: October 19th 2026 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Life had gotten comfortable for Amara Addison, maybe too comfortable. Fabulous job, great friends, even an amazing ex-boyfriend who was her ride or die for life. Then Zaide Rossi sauntered into her life and suddenly everything changed. But no matter how crazy life became, finding Zaide made every last moment of chaos worth it. ___ This book, from concept to edit to design, was created without the use of generative AI. Goodreads / Amazon — EXCERPT: I found the new photographer wandering around the top floor, occasionally lifting her hands and moving them around in what looked like a rather lame fight with a ghost. My own skills in photography started and ended with my phone’s camera, but I’d been doing this job long enough to know exactly what she was doing and that I shouldn’t interrupt. She was framing shots in her mind’s eye to find interesting plays of light, ...
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Review - A Summer of Stars by Liana Cincotti

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          Review: A Summer of Stars - Liana Cincotti - August 2026   Luna Aldridge is a tennis superstar whose messy breakup has turned the whole world against her. Her reputation is in tatters and her career is hanging by a thread. Enter Kieran Alexander, Hollywood’s golden boy, who has a big-screen love story to lead and a dating history that might sink it. The solution? A fake relationship, with terms agreed and hearts strictly off the table. There’s just one little snag: they absolutely cannot stand each other. Oh, how I adored this setup! There’s something so comforting about an enemies-to-lovers romance, like a well-worn blanket you keep reaching for. Luna and Kieran bicker, glare and roll their eyes their way across red carpets and around the globe on the tennis circuit, and all the while the cameras are watching. Cincotti has such a gift for those moments when the pretending starts to slip and something real peeks through. I may have sighed out lou...
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Review: The Bridge - Rebecca Rogers Maher

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Review: The Bridge - Rebecca Rogers Maher - September 2013 I was scrolling through my Kindle one evening, looking for something to read, when this cover caught my eye. I'll be honest, I couldn't have told you much about it at the time of buying. The blurb must have done its job, though, because once I started reading, I realised it was right up my alley. The Bridge is an edgy YA/NA read that opens in the middle of the night, with two strangers meeting on top of the Brooklyn Bridge, both ready to jump. Christa has already had a mastectomy and has just learned there is now a tumour in her other breast. Henry lives with chronic depression. Neither of them expected company that night, but once they start talking, they make a pact. They'll spend 24 hours together, doing the things they both love, each trying to convince the other to stay. When the time is up, they'll go their separate ways, and if either still wants to go through with it, that will be their decision. At the...
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Review: Tradwife - Michelle Brandon

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Review: TradWife - Michelle Brandon - August 2026 Could you ever be a tradwife? I’ll be honest, from the outside it all looks so cosy and homely, with the baking, the tidy kitchen and the table full of family. But I can’t help feeling there’s pressure bubbling away underneath. Cooking, cleaning and serving my family around the clock simply isn’t for me. I’m definitely not the homemaker type, and I’ve got far too much ambition for other things, like a potential career. So I was really excited to dive into this paperback ARC, especially after hearing such good things. Tradwife peels back the curtain on the hidden lives behind the perfectly polished aprons, and it’s another story fuelled by revenge. Back in high school, where most of our characters were classmates, one student was bullied and presumed drowned. That night, the group made a pact: never speak of it, and if they absolutely had to, they’d all stick to the same story. Years later, a few of them still carry the memory, and it ...
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Book Blitz - If You Were Mine - A.S Kelly

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If You Were Mine A.S. Kelly Publication date: October 14th 2026 Genres: Adult, Contemporary, LGBTQ+, Romance Levi Anderson has never felt more alone. Since saying goodbye to his husband, he has drifted between long shifts at the hospital and quiet, empty hours in his apartment, surrounded by boxes he can’t bring himself to unpack. He refuses to face the pain or imagine a life without him. Shay Miller has never been more furious. In one devastating moment, he lost the man he loved, his job, and the home they shared. He’s barely holding himself together. He’s tried to start over, but deep down, he knows he can’t move on until he lets go of the past and stops hurting himself. When fate brings Levi and Shay together, they immediately see how different they are and can’t imagine ever being drawn to one another. Levi is still learning how to live again, while Shay is learning how to forgive. Yet, with this stranger who’s appeared out of nowhere, Levi slowly begins to open up and ...
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Review: Nightshade - Autumn Woods

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Review: Nightshade - Book #1 Sorrowsong University - Autumn Woods - January 2025 Nightshade opens with a heartbreak that settled right into my chest. Ophelia Winters is the daughter of two hardworking parents: her dad a chef, her mum a gardener, both employed at Sorrowsong, the wealthy elite university on the hill. They always warned her to keep away from the place, never wanting her stuck in a world of ungrateful adults. Then one night, while Ophelia waits at home for them to return, their helicopter crashes in a fiery wreck and she loses them both. The whole thing is swiftly covered up, and nobody will answer her questions. So when a scholarship to Sorrowsong lands in her lap, Ophelia doesn’t hesitate. She wants the truth, and she wants revenge on the people who took everything she loved. I adored her. She’s spunky, stubborn and fiercely loyal to her parents’ memory, and I was rooting for her from the first chapter. Then there’s Alex. He’s already at Sorrowsong, and he simply canno...
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