Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours Presents: Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club ) by Elizabeth Pantley

 

Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club )
by Elizabeth Pantley

About Puzzles and Premieres


Puzzles and Premieres: Magical Mystery Book Club
Paranormal Cozy Mystery
10th in Series
Setting – In a ski town at a film festival
Better Beginnings, Inc. (July 15, 2025)
Number of Pages: 290
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DZFCSX39
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When this club selects a book, magic happens!

This book club does more than read their books – they are absorbed right into the story to become the amateur sleuths! To exit the book and get back home, they need to solve the mystery and reach The End.

In this journey, they travel to a mountaintop ski town to experience the enchanting setting of a famous film festival. They’ll meet movie stars, producers, and directors. They’ll watch a film premiere, go skiing, and eat at fancy restaurants. It’s all very glamorous and exciting – until a famous actress disappears.

The book club is on the case! They discover clues in the most unusual way – by putting together enchanted jigsaw puzzles.

As usual, the club finds plenty of time to enjoy the unique setting of their journey, as they put together the mystery – one puzzle piece at a time.

About Elizabeth Pantley

Elizabeth writes well-loved cozy mysteries in two series: The Destiny Falls Mystery & Magic book series and the Magical Mystery Book Club series.

Elizabeth lives in the Pacific Northwest and Arizona, two very different places. Both are rich, gorgeous, natural places, and inspire the settings in many of her books.

Author Links

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/DestinyFallsMysteryandMagic

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/destinyfallsmystery/

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/series/345907-magical-mystery-book-club

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/elizabeth-pantley

Purchase Link: Amazon

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July 15 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

July 16 – Salty Inspirations – AUTHOR GUEST POST

July 16 – Baroness’ Book Trove – CHARACTER INTERVIEW  

July 17 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW

July 17 – Frugal Freelancer – AUTHOR INTERVIEW

July 18 – Angel’s Book Nook – SPOTLIGHT

July 19 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST

July 20 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

July 21 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

July 22 – StoreyBook Reviews – REVIEW

July 23 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

July 24 – Socrates Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

July 25 – Ascroft, eh? – CHARACTER GUEST POST

July 26 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – AUTHOR GUEST POST

July 27 – Cozy Up With Kathy  – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST

July 28 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Maranatha: The Victory Battle (The Victory Series, #3) by Blossom Turner


 What if the greatest battle you’ll ever fight is the one you cannot see?
Mara has faced the unthinkable—abuse, betrayal, and loss—but nothing can prepare her for the final battle ahead. As demons scheme in the shadows and angels stand guard, she must confront her deepest fears. With her marriage hanging by a thread, an abandoned child thrust into her arms, and a relentless enemy determined to destroy all she holds dear, Mara must decide: will she trust in God’s sovereignty, or will fear consume her?
As darkness closes in, her faith is tested like never before. The forces of evil will stop at nothing to break her spirit. But Mara clings to one truth—God’s love is greater, His power stronger, and prayer can change everything. Yet, in her final days, with her life at risk, will she find the courage to stand victorious?
A breathtaking conclusion to
The Victory Series, Maranatha: The Victory Battle is a heart-pounding Christian suspense novel that will challenge, inspire, and awaken you to the unseen war raging around us all. Your prayer life will never be the same.

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About The Author


 

Blossom Turner is an award-winning novelist who loves to jump out of planes, garden, and sing… all for fun.

She is published in Chicken Soup and Kernels of Hope anthologies, a former newspaper columnist on health and fitness and personal trainer. She writes a monthly inspirational newsletter and blog.

As a later-in-life career she is pursuing her dream to write and is gifted in bringing to life thought-provoking stories of love and relationship sprinkled with God’s hope. Check out the award-winning Shenandoah Bride Series about five sisters and their love stories all with an inspirational twist.

She and her husband, David, have two grown children and live in beautiful British Columbia, Canada, with their Shepherd/Bernese dog named Lacey.

 

My Review


 

This is the final book in the Victory Series, and it is such a great read. I do recommend all the previous books, as they build on Mara's life.
As with the other books, we are in the midst of spiritual warfare, they are fighting hard for this woman who loves the Lord. I also see many instances of the power of prayer in this read, a good lesson for all, we need to pray!
This is a page turner for sure, this is a real fight for the saving of your children, but also for others. As with the other books, we deal with some very tough subjects, and prayer is the answers to all, good can come for evil!
I will miss this series, and the characters that I came to love, but looking for more by this author.
I received this book from the author, and was not required to give a positive review.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Celebrate Lit Presents: Cruise to Death Author: Sara L. Jameson Epic Book Launch

 


 

 

Book: Cruise to Death

Author: Sara L. Jameson

Genre: Romantic Suspense

Release Date: June 1, 2021

When opera singer Riley Williams agrees to sub as a musical-theater performer on a luxury Rhine/Moselle riverboat cruise, she gets more than she bargained for. Not only must she come up with 250 Broadway songs, she is required to dance with the male passengers. Dance—the subject she nearly failed in her Conservatory courses, and the cause of her recent flop in a European Opera House. To make matters worse, she overhears two terrorists at a café in Antwerp, Belgium, discussing the transfer of deadly agent X to the highest bioterrorist bidders.

Interpol agent Jacob Coulter, an anti-terrorism desk analyst in Brussels, Belgium, insists on serving as an undercover agent after his best friend Noel is murdered by terrorists from the Brussels cell he infiltrates. Shortly before Noel dies, he manages to tell Jacob snippets of the terrorists’ plans. Plans that seem to involve the same riverboat cruise Riley is on. When Interpol learns of Riley’s encounter with terrorists, Jacob’s supervisor insists he work with her to identify the terrorists and retrieve agent X. But their relationship is fraught with distrust because of Riley’s suspicious past and a romantic attraction neither of them wants.

Book Excerpt

The clerk glanced up, then muttered something and flicked his head toward the rear of the store. The young man grabbed the computer and fled through the black curtains behind the counter.

Jacob rammed his fists in his pockets. Another missed op. First thing in the morning, he’d make certain HQ put this place on its radar. He stepped outside the shop. Focus. Focus. He was here to find Noel.

As he sidestepped the clothing racks blocking the narrow sidewalk and strolled toward a group of women shrouded from head to toe in black hijabs, they averted their gaze. Whisked their baby strollers between the clothing stands, mother hens shielding their chicks from the big, bad American trespassing Muslim territory.

Without missing a beat, the bearded shopkeeper of the dress shop planted himself in the doorway. He folded his arms, his glower razoring him like jambiya daggers.

Jacob hesitated. Some Muslim neighborhoods banned the entrance of any non-Muslim. Everyone knew Brussels’ police officers often refused to enter certain districts without a vanload of back-up assistance. Vans that might not show up.

 

 

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Excerpt One:https://www.artistwriterandstudentohmy.com/posts/cruise-to-death-book-spotlight/
Excerpt Two:https://www.guildmaster97.com/posts/cruise-to-death-epic-book-launch-excerpt/
Excerpt Three:https://lightsinadarkworld.wordpress.com/2025/07/06/cruise-to-death-by-sara-jameson-epic-book-launch/
Excerpt Four:https://www.simpleharvestreads.com/posts/cruise-to-death-book-spotlight/
Excerpt Six:https://booksyoucanfeelgoodabout.blogspot.com/2025/07/cruise-to-death.html
Excerpt Seven:https://storiesbygina.com/2025/07/17/cruise-to-death-epic-book-launch-with-celebrate-lit-publicity/

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About the Author

Sara L. Jameson won Scrivenings Press’s grand prize publishing contract in January 2021. They released her debut romantic suspense novel, Cruise to Death, in June 2021. Death in High Places, (Book 2 in the Troubled Waters series), released February 2023, followed by Vengeance in Vienna, July 2024.

In real life, Sara is a multi-published, former university professor who writes non-fiction under her real name and edits book manuscripts for other authors. She also pens WWII historical novels. When not at her computer, she enjoys reading, swimming, cooking, dog-sitting, and spending time with friends.


Saturday, July 19, 2025

Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours Presents: A Wicket of Lies: A British Cozy Murder Mystery (A Cotswold Antique Mystery) by Victoria Tait


A Wicket of Lies: A British Cozy Murder Mystery
(A Cotswold Antique Mystery)
by Victoria Tait

About A Wicket of Lies


A Wicket of Lies: A British Cozy Murder Mystery (A Cotswold Antique Mystery)
Cozy Mystery
2nd in the Series
Setting – Cotswold, England
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kanga Press
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2025
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DNKN1W7P
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1917168328
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Summer is in full swing in the Cotswolds… but not everyone is playing fair.
Dotty Sayers, antiques expert and amateur sleuth, is looking forward to an idyllic afternoon of sunshine, cream teas, and village rivalry at the final of a local ladies’ cricket festival.

Keya Varma, café owner and part-time crime scene expert, is delighted to be on the pitch with family and friends. The stakes are high but it’s all in good spirit… until a teammate is found dead.

At first, the death seems like a tragic accident, but when Keya is appointed crime scene manager and evidence starts turning up outside the boundary, suspicion begins to spread.

With lies spinning like a tricky googly and secrets lurking in the outfield, Dotty and Keya must team up with the local police to cut through a pitch of grudges, hidden motives, and long-buried betrayals.

Off the pitch, Dotty is facing doubts of her own. Can she let go of her fears and commit to a future with Zach?

With a murder to solve and the game underway, can Dotty, Keya, and their unlikely team of village cricketers spot the real villain before someone else gets bowled out?

A Wicket of Lies is the second book in Victoria Tait’s Cotswold Antique Mystery series, a feel-good whodunnit brimming with village life, vintage treasures, and cricketing rivalries. With determined sleuths, loyal friendships, and a community bound by justice, it’s a wonderfully English mystery with heart.

Keep your eye on the ball and uncover the truth in A Wicket of Lies today!

About Victoria Tait

Victoria Tait was born and raised in Yorkshire, England, where she developed a lifelong love of tea and British traditions. Inspired by the works of Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Murder, She Wrote, she writes cozy mysteries infused with her signature British charm.

Her determined and hard-working female sleuths are joined by colourful but realistic teams of helpers, and her settings are vivid and evocative. With intrigue, surprises, and gentle humour, Victoria’s page-turning stories are the perfect blend of mystery and charm, best enjoyed with a cup of tea and a slice of cake.

Victoria has recently been exploring the world, drawing inspiration for her books from remarkable places including the Azores, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Morocco, and Malta.

You can find Victoria at VictoriaTait.com

Author Links

Website: https://victoriatait.com/

BookBub: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/victoria-tait

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/victoriataitauthor/

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/VictoriaTaitAuthor/

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20373879.Victoria_Tait

Purchase Links. Books2ReadAmazon 

TOUR PARTICIPANTS

July 19 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

July 19 – Storybook Lady – REVIEW

July 20 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

July 21 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

July 22 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT

July 23 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST  

July 23 – FUONLYKNEW – RECIPE 

July 24 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST

July 25 – View from the Birdhouse – REVIEW

July 26 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT

July 26 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

July 27 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT

July 28 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – REVIEW

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Great Escapes Virtual Book Tours Presents: Exposing Lethal Secrets by Deena Alexander

 


Exposing Lethal Secrets
by Deena Alexander

About Exposing Lethal Secrets


Exposing Lethal Secrets
Inspirational Romantic Suspense
3rd in Series
Setting – California desert and Florida forest
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Love Inspired Suspense
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025
Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1335980687
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1335980687
Digital ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0DFQCVR9L
Audiobook ASIN B0DK44F6MS
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This bodyguard and his K-9
will do anything to uncover the truth.

Stumbling upon a burning car and rescuing an injured woman wasn’t on bodyguard Caleb Miller’s vacation itinerary—nor were the gunmen who open fire on them. But Olivia Delaney has no memory of who she is or how she got there, only that she is under threat. Vowing to protect the woman in danger, Caleb and his K-9 go on the run with Olivia. As they work to stay a step ahead of her pursuers, they must untangle her past together…before her family’s deadly schemes bury them both.

From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.

About Deena Alexander

Deena grew up in a small town on the south shore of eastern Long Island, where she met and married her high school sweetheart. She recently relocated to Florida with her husband, three kids, son-in-law, and four dogs. Now she enjoys long walks in nature all year long, despite the occasional alligator or snake she sometimes encounters. Deena’s love for writing developed when her youngest son was born and didn’t sleep through the night, and she now works full time as a writer and a freelance editor.

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TOUR PARTICIPANTS

July 1 – Frugal Freelancer – CHARACTER INTERVIEW

July 2 – Jody’s Bookish Haven – SPOTLIGHT

July 3 – Reading Is My SuperPower – REVIEW

July 4 – OFF

July 5 – Christa Reads and Writes – REVIEW

July 5 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT

July 6 – Boys’ Mom Reads! – SPOTLIGHT

July 7 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – REVIEW, AUTHOR GUEST POST, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

July 8 – Salty Inspirations – CHARACTER GUEST POST

July 9 – The Avid Reader – REVIEW

July 9 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT

July 10 – Escape With Dollycas Into A Good Book – REVIEW

July 11 – Ruff Drafts – AUTHOR GUEST POST

July 12 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – REVIEW

July 13 – Carla Loves To Read – REVIEW, CHARACTER GUEST POST, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

July 14 – Reading, Writing & Stitch-Metic – REVIEW, INDIVIDUAL GIVEAWAY

July 15 – Baroness’ Book Trove – REVIEW

July 15 – Maureen’s Musings – SPOTLIGHT

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These Blue Mountains: A Southern Fiction Novel with a Pianist Heroine for Book Clubs set between WWI and WWII in 1930s Appalachia and Germany by Sarah Loudin Thomas

 

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda is stunned to see Fritz's name in a photograph of an American memorial for German seamen who died near Asheville, North Carolina. Determined to reclaim his body and bring closure to his ailing mother, Hedda travels to the US. Her quest takes a shocking turn when, rather than Fritz's body, his casket contains the remains of a woman who died under mysterious circumstances.

Local deputy Garland Jones thought he'd left that dark chapter behind when he helped bury Fritz Meyer's coffin. The unexpected arrival of Hedda, a long-suffering yet captivating woman, forces him to confront how much of the truth he really knows. As they work together to uncover the identity of the woman in the casket and to unravel Fritz's fate, Hedda and Garland grow closer. But with Hedda in the US on borrowed time while Hitler rises to power in Germany, she fears she'll be forced to return home before she can put the ghosts of her past to rest.

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About The Author


 

Sarah Loudin Thomas grew up on a 100-acre farm in French Creek, WV, the seventh generation to live there. Her historical fiction is often set in West Virginia and celebrates the people, the land, and the heritage of Appalachia.

Sarah is the director of Jan Karon’s Mitford Museum in Hudson, NC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Coastal Carolina University and is the author of the acclaimed novels The Right Kind of Fool–winner of the 2021 Selah Book of the Year–and Miracle in a Dry Season–winner of the 2015 Inspy Award. Sarah has also been a finalist for the Christy Award, ACFW Carol Award and the Christian Book of the Year Award. She and her husband live in western North Carolina.

Learn more at www.SarahLoudinThomas.com

 

My Review


 What a great job the author does putting faces of those touched by war, wars that began with Germany. A young woman pledges to marry a navy man, he goes off to fight, then isn't heard from. I can't imagine, a mom, a fiancé, in Germany waiting for fifteen years, with no word.
We travel from Europe to America, and back. We are given the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, as Hedda travels to bring home a body. Closure at last?
The lost is found, we have deportation, and secrets revealed, and all the while I was page turning for answers.
This is a love story, but I was wondering to the end if the right people would find each other? Then there are those in Germany, will they get out before its to late?
This is a read that kept giving, and I didn't know about the internment camp in NC, and I loved the epilogue!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Thomas Nelson, and was not required to give a positive review.

The Collector of Burned Books by Roseanna M. White

 

In this gripping World War II historical about the power of words, two people form an unlikely friendship amid the Nazi occupation in Paris and fight to preserve the truth that enemies of freedom long to destroy.

Paris, 1940. Ever since the Nazi Party began burning books, German writers exiled for their opinions or heritage have been taking up residence in Paris. There they opened a library meant to celebrate the freedom of ideas and gathered every book on the banned list . . . and even incognito versions of the forbidden books that were smuggled back into Germany.

For the last six years, Corinne Bastien has been reading those books and making that library a second home. But when the German army takes possession of Paris, she loses access to the library and all the secrets she’d hidden there. Secrets the Allies will need if they have any hope of liberating the city she calls home.

Christian Bauer may be German, but he never wanted anything to do with the Nazi Party―he is a professor, one who’s done his best to protect his family as well as the books that were a threat to Nazi ideals. But when Goebbels sends him to Paris to handle the “relocation” of France’s libraries, he’s forced into an army uniform and given a rank he doesn’t want. In Paris, he tries to protect whoever and whatever he can from the madness of the Party and preserve the ideas that Germans will need again when that madness is over, and maybe find a lost piece of his heart.

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About The Author


 Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary. You can learn more about her and her stories at www.RoseannaMWhite.com.

 

My Review


 This was such a great read, and brought to light what was happening in France, and Europe in 1940.
The story comes alive over books, yes, we take a lot for granted, but, at this horrible time in history, people were deciding just what you could read. Easier to control people if you own all their media.
The author does a great job highlighting what was happening to people whom they considered weren't perfect, wrong religion, or were what they didn't like.
This is a sweet romance story, but so much more! There is a delightful child, that yes, should not be alive, and I love some of the solutions to make it so he could enjoy life a bit more.
Danger is everywhere, and whom can you trust? There are a few that are willing to give the ultimate, and some are here in this read.
I did enjoy the epilogue, and in the end wanted to continue on in their lives! This is a must read!
I received this book through Net Galley and the Publisher Tyndale House and was not required to give a positive review.

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