The Phantom Paragrapher

Title: Bride by Initiation Series: The Underworld #1 Author: Maggie Cole Genre: Dark Romance Tropes: Secret Society/Mafia Romance Friends to Lovers/Forbidden/Marriage Pact Release Date: February 26, 2025 BLURB From International bestselling author Maggie Cole comes her highly anticipated secret society, deliciously dark, next-generation Mafia series about two lifelong friends. Sean O’Malley Jr. and Zara Marino have a similar obsession with their fathers’ secrets, but discovering the truth requires them to surrender to each other and the unknown of their Underworld vows. If secrets and lies, desires and denials, bonds and betrayal didn’t exist, Sean O’Malley would stay my friend forever. That’s not the case. There are two things we’ve always wanted but were off the table. First: The truth about our fathers. Second: Each other. So when a mysterious man shows up with a branded skull on his hand, speaking in riddles about an Underworld he claims we’re meant to reign in, it’s too t...

    Review: This Book Kills - Ravena Guron - January 2023 Ever tried to start a book and then you find you couldn't get into it at the time and it ended up being a DNF? Then maybe months later or often in my case, it can be a year or more later. You pick up that book again and decide to give it another go, sometimes I have found that even if I give it a second chance - it still ends up being a DNF. However, sometimes it works the other way and I end up enjoying the book and finishing it. This is what happened with Ravena Guron's book "This Book Kills". I recently got a new Kindle and I have been busy downloading all my books back onto it and I saw this one, the cover, and title grabbed me. As I started reading it, it felt familiar and I checked Goodreads and I had tried to read it back in September 2023. This time around though, It had kept my attention and as someone who loves writing and mysteries, I loved the premise of this book. A short story that Jess used for...