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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Evy Journey’s THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – December 31! Inside the Book Title: THE SHADE UNDER THE MANGO TREE  Author: Evy Journey Publisher: Sojourner Books Pages: 330 Genre: Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for. Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger’s journal at a café.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents LAST GIRLS ALIVE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #CrimeThriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jennifer Chase’s LAST GIRLS ALIVE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – December 31! Inside the Book Author: Jennifer Chase Publisher: Bookouture Pages: 364 Genre: Crime Thriller BOOK BLURB: Half-buried in the muddy earth and surrounded by puddles of water lies the naked body of a beautiful young girl. Her pale skin looks like porcelain in the early morning light. Her fragile arms bent and crooked like a broken doll. When Detective Katie Scott is called to the discovery of a young girl buried on the grounds of a former children’s home in Pine Valley, California, she’s hopeful it’s the end
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ZRADA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lance Charnes’ ZRADA Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: ZRADA Author: Lance Charnes Publisher: Wombat Group Media Pages: 335 Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller BOOK BLURB: Two priceless paintings. Two million euros. A civil war. What could go wrong? The DeWitt Agency assigned disgraced ex-cop Carson a simple job: carry two briefcases of cash to swap for two artworks stolen from a German museum. Except nothing’s simple in the Donbass, the breakaway Ukrainian region overrun by militias, warlords, and bandits. After a brutal zrada – betrayal – Carson finds herself alone and hunted forty
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THEY CALL ME GOMER… Virtual Book Publicity Tour #NewAdult #Urban

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you JC Miller’s THEY CALL ME GOMER… Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: THEY CALL ME GOMER… Author: JC Miller Publisher: Jess, Mo’ Books LLC Pages: 268 Genre: New Adult  Urban Inspirational / Christian Fiction BOOK BLURB: “Dear Diary, On September 3, 1982, two things happened that I’ll never forget: I acquired an older sister, and I fell in real love. But tell me, what does an eight-year-old know about love?” For nearly a decade, Hosea Felix and Gomer Williams were inseparable. She loved him from the moment she laid eyes on him. Their friendship was
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HistoricalFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Neil Patterson’s BECOMING ALFIE Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: BECOMING ALFIE Author: Neil Patterson Publisher: Greenhill Pages: 279 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Alfie Norrington was born into poverty in London’s East End in the first minute of the twentieth century. His life was a battle. From the Brick Lane markets where young Alfie pilfered and pickpocketed, to the trenches of Flanders, Alfie fought every step of the way. Almost killed by a trench bomb he battled to recover and while in a military hospital Alfie made a promise that dramatically change’s his life.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Political

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Larry Alex Taunton’s AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Virtual Book Tour November 2 – 27! Inside the Book Title: AROUND THE WORLD IN (MORE THAN) 80 DAYS Author: Larry Alex Taunton Publisher: Fidelis Books Pages: 250 Genre: Political BOOK BLURB: The belief in “American Exceptionalism” is under attack, declares Larry Alex Taunton, an award-winning author, columnist, and cultural commentator. “A battle rages for the heart and soul of America.” For Taunton, the question comes down to: Is there a better place to live than America? To explore the idea of “national greatness,” Taunton went on a global
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast #BookBlast #HistFic #ComingofAge

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Justine Carver’s THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Book Blast October 19 – November 19! Inside the Book Title: THE WALTZ OF DEVIL’S CREEK Author: Justine Carver Publisher: Independent Pages: 496 Genre: Historical Fiction BOOK BLURB: Judith Campbell is dying, and she cannot take the painful truth about where her son came from to the grave with her. While on her deathbed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1994, Judith tells him the tragic story of his conception, and which of two men his birth father could be: the young man who professed his love to her, or the pastor who assaulted her.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #HolidayRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda West’s A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 13! Inside the Book Title: A REAL ROYAL CHRISTMESS Author: Linda West Publisher: Morningmayan Publishing Pages: Appr. 300 Genre: Holiday Romance BOOK BLURB: A runaway Prince leaves his Kingdom to complete his father’s dying wish. A broken-hearted girl concocts a plan to win her ex back no matter the cost. When these two opposites are thrown together by fate and end up in the same adorable ski lodge, to their dismay and surprise, their lives will be changed forever-after. A fast-paced funny and enchanting holiday romance you
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Pump Up Your Book Feature Interview: James S. Kelly, Author of I Didn’t Forget

“The clock struck twelve. Lucille and three of the other laundry workers took off the scarves protecting their hair, looked in the mirror, applied some lipstick, walked down a long corridor and up two flights of stairs to the main cafeteria. It was Tuesday and meatloaf was the special today. To Lucille, it brought back memories of family meals with mashed potatoes, kernel corn and buttermilk biscuits. Most of her family had passed away; she wondered why time had passed so fast.” — From I DIDN’T FORGET by James S. Kelly James S. (Jim) Kelly is a retired United States Air Force Colonel with over 100 combat missions in
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz #YA

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Kimberley B. Jones’ OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Virtual Book Trailer Blitz October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: OUR FRIENDSHIP MATTERS Author: Kimberley B. Jones Publisher: Rhetoric Askew Publishing, LLC Pages: 224 Genre: YA BOOK BLURB: Two teenage friends, Sasha and Leah, live a comfortable life in the affluent St. Louis suburbs. They attend a well-established private Christian academy and the only thing on their mind as they enter their senior year is graduation and their senior prom. When tragedy strikes, however, the best friends are torn apart because of social tensions, ignorance, miscommunications, and fear. Our Friendship Matters reveals
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery #Suspense #Thriller #ContemporaryFiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Victor Acquista’s SERPENT RISING Virtual Book Tour November 18 – December 18! Inside the Book Title: SERPENT RISING Author: Victor Acquista Publisher: BHC Press Pages: 304 Genre: Mystery/Suspense/Thriller/Contemporary Fiction BOOK BLURB: Serena Mendez is haunted and she is hunted… … Haunted by trauma—terrified and scarred as a young child, when a secret initiation into an ancient order of Lightbringers went horribly wrong. Unaware of the power latent in her blood, she is haunted by a life out of sync with her true identity. At twenty-one, she is abrasive, jobless, in debt, and addicted to sedatives. Haunted by her past, she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents A PERFECT STORM Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Mike Martin’s A PERFECT STORM Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: A PERFECT STORM Author: Mike Martin Publisher: Ottawa Press and Publishing Pages: 264 Genre: Mystery BOOK BLURB: Sgt. Windflower is back, untangling another swirling mystery, this one bringing the meth crisis and biker gangs to the quiet Newfoundland town of Grand Bank, feeling the sting of their deadly tentacles reaching all the way from Las Vegas.  He’s working with his familiar crew of RCMP characters – but wait, are some of the faces changing? New challenges for Jones, an unknown side of Smithson reveals
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents CALL FROM HOME Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joni Parker’s CALL FROM HOME Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: CALL FROM HOME Author: Joni Parker Publisher: Village Green Press LLC Pages: 444 Genre: Fantasy BOOK BLURB: If home is where the heart is, the warrior Lady Alexin is very far from home, indeed. Banished from her home in the Elven realm of Eledon to the mortal world of near future London, and robbed of her magic, she has no choice but to try and find a place in a world where she doesn’t fit in. Yet for all their peculiarities, the mortals have
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SELLING CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #ChristmasRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Angelina Goode’s SELLING CHRISTMAS Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 13! Inside the Book Title: SELLING CHRISTMAS Author: Angelina Goode Publisher: Beach Blanket Publishing Pages: App. 300 Genre: Christmas Romance BOOK BLURB: Helping people find their dream house has always come natural to Caroline. She’s able to set the stage perfectly so her clients can imagine spending the holidays in their new home, even though she doesn’t decorate her own. When her boss assigns her to oversee the company’s first Christmas Tour of Homes, Caroline thinks she may be in over her head. Luke has always made sure his
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Book Blast & Win $25 Amazon Gift Card #RomanticSuspense #Thriller

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you McKenna Grey’s THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Book Blast October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE WICKED CRIES WOLF Author: McKenna Grey Publisher: Cambron Press Pages: 289 Genre: Romantic Suspense / Thriller BOOK BLURB: In the shadow of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, a darkness lurks and threatens a quiet coastal village in The Wicked Cries Wolf, the third book in the Kyndall Family Thriller series. A woman desperate for solitude. A man with an enemy he can’t see. A dangerous game neither wants to play. International bestselling author Meaghan Ryers has gained wealth, success, and fame . . . and all she
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BECOMING AMERICAN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Memoir

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Cary D. Lowe’s BECOMING AMERICAN: A POLITICAL MEMOIR Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: BECOMING AMERICAN Author: Cary D. Lowe Publisher: Black Rose Pages: 285 Genre: Memoir BOOK BLURB: Becoming American is the inspiring story of the author’s transformation from a child of Holocaust survivors in post-war Europe to an American lawyer, academic, and activist associated with such famed political leaders as Robert Kennedy, George McGovern, Jerry Brown, and Tom Hayden. Searching for his great-grandparents’ graves in a hidden cemetery outside Prague makes him recall his experiences of becoming American: listening to Army Counterintelligence agents
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MY LIONS’ DEN Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Nonfiction #Autobiographical #Christian

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you E.M. Power’s MY LIONS’ DEN Virtual Book Tour October 5 – 30! Inside the Book Title: MY LIONS’ DEN Author: E.M. Power Publisher: Spotlight on Souls Publishing Group Pages: 95 Genre: Nonfiction Autobiographical / Religious BOOK BLURB: This is my personal story of my trial with Domestic Abuse.  This book was not intended to sensationalize Domestic Abuse.  It is not to portray my abuser in a bad light or as an enemy.  Abuse has no prejudices.  Abuse may occur no matter a person’s religion, non-religion, race, economic income level, profession, culture, gender, or age.  Abuse may happen at any time
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents BABY BEAR’S SPAGHETTI MISADVENTURES Virtual Book Publicity Tour #childrenspicturebook

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Linda Karimo’s BABY BEAR’S SPAGHETTI MISADVENTURES Virtual Book Tour October 19 – November 19! Inside the Book Title: Baby Bear’s Spaghetti Misadventures Author: Linda Karimo Publisher: Independent Pages: 42 Genre: Children’s Picture Book BOOK BLURB: Meet Mama Bear and her sweet little bear child, Baby Bear. Sometimes he doesn’t do what Mama Bear says, sound familiar? This one particular day when Mama Bear was cooking spaghetti and meatballs, Baby Bear bounced his ball against the cave wall. Baby Bear knew it was on the forbidden list. He did it anyway. Mama Bear gave him the look. He did it again.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE SEX DARE & THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH GIRL Virtual Book Publicity Tour #Christian #Nonfiction

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Tenisha Collins’ THE SEX DARE & Mavis McKnight’s THE MIS-EDUCATION OF THE CHURCH GIRL Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: THE SEX DARE: A MARRIED COUPLES’ 21 DAY GUIDE TO GREAT SEX Author: Tenisha Collins Publisher: Independent Pages: 82 Genre: Christian Nonfiction BOOK BLURB:   Sex is great and feels real, real good! Societal trends advocate doing whatever feels good, including having sexual intercourse with someone you are not married to. The limelight shining on sex isn’t a good one. It’s almost impossible to find positive models of sex while married, in any medium, today.
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Joni Ankerson’s TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: TO KILL OR BE KILLED: A TRUE CRIME MEMOIR FROM PRISON Author: Joni Ankerson Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 212 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: Obviously, I knew better than to take a life — but that was before. Before him. The day we met in October of 1997, I was working at the District Court in Traverse City, Michigan as a Deputy Clerk. It was like most other days with arraignments, sentencings, civil case hearings and
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents ‘TIL DEATH DO US..’ Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Patrick Gallagher’s ‘TIL DEATH DO US…’ Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: ‘TIL DEATH DO US…’ Author: Patrick Gallagher Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 242 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D. Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years earlier.  After many passionate letter exchanges and several sexually-charged meetings, they were married in Reno, Nevada on May 20, 1946.  After a passion-filled three-day weekend together, the doctor returned to his home in Idaho, and Gladys returned to Sacramento … and to her
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Virtual Book Publicity Tour #truecrime

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Alice Kay Hill’s UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: UNDER A FULL MOON: THE LAST LYNCHING IN KANSAS Author: Alice Kay Hill Publisher: WildBlue Press Pages: 356 Genre: True Crime BOOK BLURB: UNDER A FULL MOON: The Last Lynching in Kansas tells of the tragic abduction and death of an eight-year-old girl at the hands of a repeat offender in 1932. This crime stands apart as the last mob lynching in Kansas. Based on true events, this account takes a deep dive into the psycho-social complexities
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents THE ANCESTOR Virtual Book Publicity Tour #thriller #mystery

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Lee Matthew Goldberg’s THE ANCESTOR Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: THE ANCESTOR Author: Lee Matthew Goldberg Publisher: All Due Respect Pages: 329 Genre: Thriller / Mystery BOOK BLURB: A man wakes up in present-day Alaskan wilderness with no idea who he is, nothing on him save an empty journal with the date 1898 and a mirror. He sees another man hunting nearby, astounded that they look exactly alike. After following this other man home, he witnesses a wife and child that brings forth a rush of memories of his own wife and child,
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Virtual Book Publicity Tour #biography

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Anthony Drago and Douglas Wellman’s SURVIVING HIROSHIMA: A YOUNG WOMAN’S STORY Virtual Book Tour September 1 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: SURVIVING HIROSHIMA Author: Anthony Drago & Douglas Wellman Publisher: Boutique of Quality Books Publishing Company Pages: 282 Genre: Biography BOOK BLURB: From Russian nobility, the Palchikoffs barely escaped death at the hands of Bolshevik revolutionaries until Kaleria’s father, a White Russian officer, hijacked a ship to take them to safety in Hiroshima. Safety was short lived. Her father, a talented musician, established a new life for the family, but the outbreak of World War II created a
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents SEED OF TAMARIS Book Blast & Book Giveaway #fantasy

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Penni Louise’s SEED OF TAMARIS: Book One of the Archipelago Series Book Blast September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: SEED OF TAMARIS Author: Penni Louise Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 314 Genre: Fantasy Fiction BOOK BLURB: In a treacherous world, is it safe to be powerful? A Brother with a tainted past. A Lord seeking a legacy for his daughters. A Queen in exhile from her ancestral home. For decades, the Lords and Ladies in the land of Tamaris have known peace among their Houses, unlike the Outlanders who face death everyday outside the kingdom’s borders. But when the
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents MISLEADING A DUKE Virtual Book Publicity Tour #historicalromance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you A.S. Fenichel’s MISLEADING A DUKE Virtual Book Tour September 29 – October 30! Inside the Book Title: MISLEADING A DUKE Author: A.S. Fenichel Publisher: Kensington/Lyrical Press Pages: 304 Genre: Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: Finishing school failed to turn them into proper society ladies. Now these four friends vow to remain single until they find suitors worthy of their love and devotion… Betrothed to a man she has barely met, Lady Faith Landon calls upon her three best friends—the self-proclaimed Wallflowers of West Lane—to help uncover the secrets of her mysterious fiancé. Her suspicions are aroused when she learns that he
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents WEEKS Book One Virtual Book Publicity Tour 2 #scifi #apocalyptic #zombie

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Jasyn Turley’s WEEKS Virtual Book Tour 2 September 1 – 30! Inside the Book Title: WEEKS (Book One) Author: Jasyn T. Turley Publisher: Independent Pages: 400 Genre: Science Fiction (post-apocalyptic-zombie) Phil, Tim, and Dakota are three survivors taking refuge in Atlanta, Georgia. The year is 2027, ten years after a nuclear fallout decimated the known world and left it in shambles. With hordes of the undead flooding their once safe home and a city now depleted of all resources and supplies the three must make a daring gamble. To trek across the States and Canada, looking for a new place
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Lord Shallow Virtual Book Tour #HistoricalRomance #RegencyRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Eileen Putman’s LORD SHALLOW Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: LORD SHALLOW (Maitland’s Rogues Book 2) Author: Eileen Putman Publisher: Anglesey Press Pages: 364 Genre: Regency Historical Romance BOOK BLURB: To all of London, Sebastian Traherne is a pretentious fop who prizes his tailor over his dukedom. In truth, he’s an obsessively rational fellow protecting a secret marriage. When a prickly Welsh miss arrives at his crumbling castle one gloomy night, she upends his world—and every principle he holds dear. Worse, she believes in a silly fairy tale known as True Love. Gwynna Owen might
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First Chapter: MAGNOLIA by James S. Kelly

Title: MAGNOLIA Author: James S. Kelly Publisher: Outskirts Press Pages: 432 Genre: Historical Fiction/Civil War Love Story BOOK BLURB: Two young men grow up in the south, become great friends and love the same woman. One moves north as the civil war nears and becomes Administrative Asst to Abraham Lincoln The one who remained in the south vacates his office of US Senator to become the south’s chief spy. Both men are pitted against each other during the war. As the war ends, they try to renew their friendship but will the presence of the one they both love be an impediment.   CHAPTER 1             The Bureau of
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📚 Pump Up Your Book Presents Reckless in Red Virtual Book Tour #RegencyRomance

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Rachael Miles’ RECKLESS IN RED Virtual Book Tour September 1 – 30! Inside the book Title: RECKLESS IN RED Author: Rachael Miles Publisher: Kensington Zebra Pages: 360 Genre: Regency Romance BOOK BLURB: Lena Frost is a force to be reckoned with. A woman who has made her way in society without family or fortune, she’s about to realize her first big success as an artist. . . . Until her business partner makes off with her money, leaving her with little more than her hopes—and a dead body in her studio. Now Lena is at the mercy of a strikingly
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