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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees

THE WILLING By Lindsay Lees Title: THE WILLING Author: Lindsay Lees Publisher: Indpendent Pages: 299 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a sign of suspect subversion. After all, if a woman just plays along, she’ll also do her job and have children, with the reward of a fine home in the “Communities,” where she and the other “Mamas” live together in harmony with everything
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mythology #Religion

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Edward Dodge’s A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS Virtual Book Tour September 13 – October 13. Inside the Book Title: A HISTORY OF THE GODDESS: FROM THE ICE AGE TO THE BIBLE Author: Edward Dodge Publisher: Trine Day Books Pages: 472 Genre: Mythology / Religion BOOK BLURB This book explores the Goddess worshipping traditions that were always a part of human spirituality but were eliminated in the Bible on the path to monotheism. There is an unexplored narrative in the Bible, the early Israelites were pagan and God had a wife, her name is Asherah and she appears many times
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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 HONEYMOON ROULETTE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #DarkHumor

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Irene Woodbury’s HONEYMOON ROULETTE Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30. Inside the Book Title: HONEYMOON ROULETTE Author: Irene Woodbury Publisher: Independent Pages: 180 Genre: Women’s Fiction / Dark Humor BOOK BLURB To marry or not to marry Connor J. Barrington? That is the question Roxy Drake faces one hour before her wedding, when she discovers her handsome fiance may have murdered his first two wives. Did Connor kill Annie and Charlotte, or simply let them die? Does Roxy become wife number three, or the runaway bride from hell? Find out in the darkly funny Honeymoon Roulette. PRAISE “Honeymoon
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeThriller

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 29 2021. ________________ Inside the Book ________________ Title: PRETTY BROKEN DOLLS: DETECTIVE KATIE SCOTT SERIES #6 Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 302 Genre: Crime Thriller ________________ BOOK BLURB ________________ In the thin light of the moon, the woman’s limp body hangs from the iron fence amongst the redwoods. Looped over the railings is the little gold locket her mother gave her when she turned sixteen. The picture of the girl inside smiles out at a future she’ll never see… As day breaks over the fairground, Detective
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WILLING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Dystopian

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lindsay Lees’ THE WILLING Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 29 2021. Inside the Book Title: THE WILLING Author: Lindsay Lees Publisher: Independent Pages: 299 Genre: Dystopian BOOK BLURB: In less than a year, fifteen-year-old Gypsy Capone will be considered a woman in Ovoidia, a “utopian” city-state where every woman can be approached for immediate sex by any man, where curving architecture adds weird whimsy, sporks are the only cutlery, and true intimacy between the genders is a sign of suspect subversion. After all, if a woman just plays along, she’ll also do her job and have children,
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  • August 4, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello

SONS OF THE SPHINX By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: A grandmother’s gift usually bring happiness. Rosa’s gift: a very different story. Hearing the dead alienated her from classmates. Not good for a 15-year-old. Many times very insistent, the dead cared little for her surroundings. They even bothered her in class. Dates? Forget that. Then one day, he shows up in her room. An old dead guy. A really old famous dead guy. In living human form! Thrilling story of battling good and evil in an ancient world. CHAPTER ONE I don’t see dead people. I hear them. I talk to them. Boy, you should try that. Talk about people looking at
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents GROUP Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #CrimeThriller

  Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lynne Turner’s GROUP Virtual Book Tour August 16 – September 16. Inside the Book Title: GROUP Author: Lynne Turner Publisher: FriesenPress Pages: 102 Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Dr. William Osgood, a Beverly Hills psychologist, must make a quick decision. Seventeen-year-old Loretta, his most troubled patient, has just fainted on his couch, and his Thursday night group is about to arrive. Knowing that allowing Loretta to stay is ethically murky and potentially perilous to the group’s dynamic, Dr. Osgood begins to consider what might happen once Loretta opens her eyes. He feels that Loretta will be safe
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello

TUTANKHAMEN SPEAKS By Cheryl Carpinello BOOK BLURB: From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back to an Ancient Egypt filled with mystery, magic, and danger! CHAPTER ONE Dear _________,           Long ago the old texts of ancient Egypt alluded to a scroll in which King Tut spoke to the people from beyond the tomb. Many archeologists put this down
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Julie Hengst’s VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30. Inside the Book Title: VENUS UNDERWATER: SONGS FROM MERMAIDIA Author: Julie Hengst Publisher: Mind Trip Productions Pages: 36 Genre: Children BOOK BLURB: The first book of a new series, this humorous, whimsical collection of poems and songs reveals how baby mermaids are made, what mermaid families are like, and how mermaids study magic at School of the Fish to become Sea Witches (not Sand Witches). PRAISE An inspiring read in so many ways – each of the works has a special feeling. It made me smile,
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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 ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Teen #YA #AncientEgypt #HistFic

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cheryl Carpinello’s ANCIENT TALES AND LEGENDS SERIES Virtual Book Tour August 2 – October 29. Inside the Books Title: Tutankhamen Speaks Author: Cheryl Carpinello Publisher: Beyond Today Educator Pages: 81 Genre: Teen / YA / Ancient Egypt Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB From over 3000 years ago comes the voice of the Boy King. Scrolls found buried in the basement of the Egyptian Museum. Transcribed in an ancient hand. Record the words of King Tut for all to read. Tutankhamen answers all of the lingering questions, including the big one. Discover the real story behind this famous pharaoh. Transport yourself back
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents AWAKENED BY GRACE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristianFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Darlene West’s AWAKENED BY GRACE Virtual Book Tour August 2 – 27. Inside the Book Title: AWAKENED BY GRACE Author: Darlene West Publisher: Resource Publications Pages: 252 Genre: Christian Fiction BOOK BLURB: After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Professor Franklin Franklyn blames himself. Filled with anguish, he walks away from his family and removes himself from all social interactions, which augments his suffering. But soon after the second anniversary of his wife’s death, his self-imposed reclusive lifestyle is interrupted by an unplanned visit from his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maggie. From that point on, Maggie’s faith-filled answered prayers manifest before
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BLIND PONY Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Biography #Autobiography #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Samantha Hart’s BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Virtual Book Tour July 19 – August 19. Inside the Book Title: BLIND PONY: AS TRUE A STORY AS I CAN TELL Author: Samantha Hart Publisher: Wild Bill Publishing Pages: 359 Genre: Biography/Autobiography/Memoir BOOK BLURB: In her debut memoir, entrepreneur and Hollywood executive Samantha Hart reveals the abuses and traumas that she overcame to build a creative, successful, and love-filled life. BLIND PONY As True A Story As I Can Tell (Wild Bill Publishing) was released on March 15, 2021, and is a 2021 Los Angeles Book Festival
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: BANDITS OF BASSWOOD By E.P. Bellows

BANDITS OF BASSWOOD: JOHN WILLIAM DRAKE PART 1 By E.P. Bellows BOOK BLURB: John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his twelfth birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down… follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being captured by bandits and taken to a ship riddled with river rats was part of his fate. Not just any bandits – the Bandits of Basswood; known to be
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  • July 3, 2021
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📚First Chapter Reveal: TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis

TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN By Kelly Lewis BOOK BLURB: Who says you can’t? Tell Her She Can’t is the manifesto for every woman who has been told she isn’t strong enough, smart enough, or capable enough to excel-and the motivational anthem for those who have succeeded despite doubt. Entrepreneur Kelly Lewis shares the true stories of 35 inspirational women who overcame the naysayers to achieve “impossible” dreams. Tell Her She Can’t is packed with motivational stories of adventurers, changemakers, and prevailers who have taken on the world to become pioneers in their fields or challenged gender stereotypes to build million-dollar businesses. These inspiring women transformed adversity into
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Book Giveaway! #EpicThriller #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you J.W. Baccaro’s PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Virtual Book Tour July 19 – August 19. Inside the Book Title: PROPHECY OF THE GUARDIAN Author: J.W. Baccaro Publisher: JW Baccaro Publishing Pages: 481 Genre: Epic Fantasy BOOK BLURB: “Not darkness, not light, perhaps something in between, and is claimed by the darkness…as theirs. Though being saved by the light, that which is saved must in turn save the world…” Darshun Luthais has never experienced the Nasharin Frenzy—the unbending will to challenge a stronger opponent, no matter the cost. He doesn’t know what he will transform into, has never bonded with an elemental
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Audiobook Tour #YA #Historical

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Susan C. Riford’s BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Audiobook Virtual Tour July 12 – August 13. Inside the Book Title: BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS Author: Susan C. Riford Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Genre: YA / Historical BOOK BLURB: The journey of a lifetime told in the audiobook BLACK ROCKS AND RAINBOWS begins with a ship: “An enormous canoe, with great white wings like a magnificent bird.” This is the merchant schooner Triumph from New England, anchored offshore by what is now known as the Big Island of Hawaii, and in 1807, the sight of it captivates a young Hawaiian boy’s imagination and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents COMPULSION Book Blast #CrimeThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s COMPULSION Book Blast July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: COMPULSION: EMILY STONE THRILLER SERIES BOOK ONE Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: JEC Press Pages: 235 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Emily Stone doesn’t have a badge. But that hasn’t stopped her from tracking down some of the West’s most dangerous child-killers. Armed with a digital camera, laptop computer and her trusty Beretta, Stone uses her innate gift for detective work to identify the perps — and then anonymously e-mail the evidence to the cops. Now, the hunt for two brazen serial killers on the loose right in
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents TELL HER SHE CAN’T Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #Inspirational

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kelly Lewis’ TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN Virtual Book Tour July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: TELL HER SHE CAN’T: INSPIRING STORIES OF UNSTOPPABLE WOMEN Author: Kelly Lewis Publisher: Go Girl Publishing Pages: 210 Genre: Nonfiction / Inspirational BOOK BLURB: Who says you can’t? Tell Her She Can’t is the manifesto for every woman who has been told she isn’t strong enough, smart enough, or capable enough to excel-and the motivational anthem for those who have succeeded despite doubt. Entrepreneur Kelly Lewis shares the true stories of 35 inspirational women who overcame the naysayers to
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📚First Chapter Reveal: MY FEATS IN THESE SHOES: A SOLELY ORIGINAL MEMOIR by Ronda Beaman

MY FEATS IN THESE SHOES: A SOLEY ORIGINAL MEMOIR By Ronda Beaman BOOK BLURB: If memoirs, done right, tap the right sort of personal journey to ignite fresh insight and inspiration into the human journey, then what better way to humorously and poignantly illuminate the sequential steps and stages of life than with shoes? “My Feats in These Shoes” is an exuberantly spunky woman’s spirited and irrepressible romp—slips, missteps, leaps, scuffs, and twirls—toward becoming something bigger, something better, something more. Far from serving up trauma porn (or emotional bunions), this memoir is an upbeat, humorous, affectionate and affecting coming of age memoir that ends each chapter with a ‘Put Yourself
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📚First Chapter Reveal: ASCENSION (THE DEMON HUNTERS SERIES BOOK ONE) by A.S. Fenichel

ASCENSION (THE DEMON HUNTERS BOOK ONE) By A.S. Fenichel BOOK BLURB: When demon hunters threaten London, even ladies must answer the call… Lord Gabriel Thurston returns home from war to find his fiancée much changed. She’s grown from a sweet girl into a mysterious woman who guards her dark secrets well. When he sees her sneaking away from a ball, he’s convinced it’s for a lover’s rendezvous. Following her to London’s slums, Gabriel watches in horror as his fiancée ruthlessly slays a man. Lady Belinda Clayton’s only concern was her dress for the next ball—until demons nearly killed her, and a group of Demon Hunters saved her life. Now, a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SONG OF ALL SONGS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ScienceFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Donna Dechen Birdwell’s SONG OF ALL SONGS: EARTHCYCLES BOOK ONE Virtual Book Tour July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: SONG OF ALL SONGS: EARTHCYCLES BOOK ONE Author: Donna Dechen Birdwell Publisher: Wide World Home Pages: 375 Genre: Science Fiction BOOK BLURB: Long after the apocalypse, Earth has repeopled itself. Twice. Despised by her mother’s people and demeaned by her absent father’s legacy, Meridia has one friend—Damon, an eccentric photologist. When Damon shows Meridia a stone he discovered in an old photo bag purchased from a vagrant peddler, she is transfixed. There’s a woman, she says, a dancing woman.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LAUREL’S MARVELOUS KINGDOM Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Children

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Monique Roy’s LAUREL’S MARVELOUS KINGDOM Virtual Book Tour July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: LAUREL’S MARVELOUS KINGDOM Author: Monique Roy Publisher: Writer’s Republic Pages: 36 Genre: Children BOOK BLURB: When the wicked witch of the land snatches up Princess Astrid, her sister, Princess Laurel, realizes it will take more than her plant-growing superpowers to rescue her. With the help of a handsome prince, Laurel rides deep into the dark forest in search of the witch’s den. To her horror, Laurel discovers that Astrid is jealous of her superpowers, and has teamed up with the witch to weaken Laurel’s
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents REFLECTIONS OF AN ANXIOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN DAD Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eric L. Heard’s REFLECTIONS OF AN AN ANXIOUS AFRICAN AMERICAN DAD Virtual Book Tour July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: REFLECTIONS OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN DAD Author: Eric L. Heard Publisher: IUniverse Pages: 93 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: The purpose of this book is an awkward discussion of Eric Heard’s life to his son. He talks about his life in a candid way that tries to explain his anxiety as an African American dad. It is an open and honest account of his life through the life of a child that has been through a lot in his
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📚First Chapter Reveal: SAFE HARBOUR By Mike Martin

Title: SAFE HARBOUR Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 264 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Sgt. Windflower is on a special assignment in St. John’s and adjusting to life in the big city. He is navigating traffic, a difficult boss at work and what seems like an epidemic of missing girls. He becomes more interested when he discovers that one of the girls is from Grand Bank. Then a girl approaches his RCMP van one night and he is pulled into the underlife of the capital city. But he still manages to enjoy all of the good things in life. His family, old and new friends, and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BANDITS OF BASSWOOD Virtual Book Publicity Tour & Giveaway #Children #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.P. Bellow’s BANDITS OF BASSWOOD Virtual Book Tour July 5 – September 30. Inside the Book Title: BANDITS OF BASSWOOD Author: E.P. Bellows Publisher: Independent Pages: 195 Genre: Children’s Fantasy BOOK BLURB: John William Drake was born an explorer; just like many, many Drakes before him. His adventure really began with the discovery of a book hidden in the ceiling, followed by the mysterious disappearance of his father. He lived every day in misery until his twelfth birthday. A new friend gave him an invitation he could not turn down… follow me and change your destiny. He never imagined being
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents The Lord Blackwood Regency Romance Series Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Regency #Romance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Arabella Sheraton’s THE LORD BLACKWOOD REGENCY ROMANCE SERIES Virtual Book Tour July 5 – August 27. Inside the Books Title: LORD BLACKWOOD’S VALENTINE BALL (Book 1) Author: Arabella Sheraton Publisher: Bublish Pages: 90 (novella) Genre: Regency Romance BOOK BLURB: In this romantic traditional Regency novella, Patience Cherwell is resigned to a life of spinsterhood. Therefore, when her young friend, the lovely Lorna Hartley, comes to stay for a London season, she decides the eligible, charming Lord Blackwood is the perfect match for Lorna. Granted, Lord Blackwood, at forty, is much older than the vivacious 20-year-old Lorna, but Patience is determined
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LYSSA STRATA: A COMEDY FOR THE FRUSTRATED Virtual Book Publicity Tour #WomensFiction #Humor

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Martti Nelson’s LYSSA STRATA: A COMEDY FOR THE FRUSTRATED Virtual Book Tour July 5 – 30. Inside the Book Title: LYSSA STRATA: A COMEDY FOR THE FRUSTRATED Author: Martti Nelson Publisher: Humorist Books Pages: 205 Genre: Women’s Fiction / Commercial Fiction / Humorous Fiction BOOK BLURB: She’s mad as hell, and she’s not gonna give it up anymore. Librarian Lyssa Strata has long begged the Town Council of Athena, Massachusetts, to repeal its disgusting old misogynist and racist laws. But the Council, an all-male entity for 400 years, has blown her off as a redheaded spinster—who, according to a 1673
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📚First Chapter Reveal: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MASK by W.L. Brooks

Title: THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MASK Author: W.L. Brooks Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Pages: 302 Genre: Romantic Suspense BOOK BLURB: Is Alexandra McKay the reason her sister Fletcher left town? Yes. Does that mean Alex wants to put her life on hold to bring the little beast back? No! But when she discovers her sister’s been abducted, Alex will do whatever it takes to rescue her. Giving up his PI gig was tough, but Jake Keller would rather do that any day than partner up with Alexandra McKay. Unfortunately, if he wants to find his friend Fletcher, he has to work with Her Royal Pain-in-the-Behind-ness. Hot or not,
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