Blaze and Brooke, sisters of the Masters brothers, return home for a double wedding. Before they settle in, Brooke receives a call threatening her fiance and Blaze receives a call from someone else doing the same. Scared but determined not to lean on their brothers, they secretly prepare for a battle while finishing last minute wedding details. Things go from bad to worse, but Blaze and Brooke have learned from the Masters, literally. They’re not going down without a fight.
If you love Christmas, snow, romance, and a little suspense Mastering the Brides is the book for you.
BOOK REVIEW: A shiveringly atmospheric little romance with a couple of dimensions to the chill. The setting is icy, so too the suspenseful undercurrent, making the contrasting warmth and happiness of marriage and family feel tenuous. The blend of these opposites is a strength of this author, and we’re served a tasty sample in this novella. Standalone, I’m giving this one 4 stars, but if you know the characters and read this as the conclusion to a powerful romantic suspense series, it’s 5 star all the way.
Do you want to work from home and leave the rat race? Do you dream of earning money online doing the things you love? Do you want to own your time and work at your own pace? Are you a freelancer but your gigs are not taking off?
This 2nd book of the Now What? Series is the author’s way of paying it forward, and all the information in its pages are based on her successful freelancing career. It will help you discover which of your skills are marketable, which are in demand, and how to entice and keep clients. She will share with you the mindset of successful freelancers, and what other freelancers are doing to make money.
After reading this book, you will have a clear path to a career that will allow you to work from anywhere you want, stay close to your loved ones and work at your own pace. At best, you might even get to quit your day job.
BOOK REVIEW: No BS. Straight shooting! Anyone able to match the clarity and concision of this guide in an approach to online freelancing would be well on their way to success. I read this with an open mind, thirsty for an understanding of what opportunities might exist in the field for me in semi-retirement. What I took from the book was a YES, but that there are no shortcuts. This step-by-step instruction manual identifies the pathway to establishing a potentially successful online freelancing business, detailing what you’re going to need in terms of attitude, approach and skill. It gave me the sense that the author has already pioneered the pathway and is shining a light to follow – that whilst there are no shortcuts, there are long, unnecessary and costly detours to be avoided. Every word is entirely believable and starkly logical. There’s a hell of a lot here that makes me want to know and learn more.
His last wish: deliver the urn to Rocky Mountain National Park and release his ashes into Lake Nanita. To find closure, she’ll hike the same route they completed after her latest involuntary stay at the hospital.
But not alone, as she’d hoped. Her cousin Dalton surprises her at the trailhead and insists on tagging along. Soon, his eerie stares and half-volume mutterings set her on edge. As they trudge further into the mountains, dodging moose and lightning strikes, she catches him rifling through her backpack multiple times. She confronts him but he shrugs it off. His claims that he came along for support wear thin, but she’s too deep into the park simply to turn around.
When Reagan discovers a hidden compartment in the lid of the urn, a tiny silver key tumbles onto the floor of her tent. But there’s no telling what lock the key might open. More unsettling, however, is that her lithium has gone missing. With only a meager Swiss Army knife for protection, she’ll have to fend off her cousin, resist the creeping mania, and escape the forest to find the lock. If the man Dalton works for locates it first, he’ll reduce Reagan to the same pile of dust and ash.
Filled with intimate and visceral details about hiking and backpacking in national parks, Reagan’s ashes mixes the genres of amateur sleuth mystery, psychological suspense, thrilling wilderness survival, and action adventure, with a touch of romance. Plenty of twists and turns will keep you turning the pages to find out what happens.
Book review: This smart, edgy thriller begins in the middle. When we walk into the forest with Reagan and her creepy cousin we’re already in the midst of the action. There are several preceding strands to the mystery that are carefully revealed to us as our heroine treks toward we-don’t-know-what. These factors culminate and propel us forward into the depth of a thriller with a surprising climax that has a few twists… The story is crisp and fast moving with the various viewpoints and time-frames quite seamlessly melded together. The trek is an interesting visit to the Rocky Mountains – the descriptions transporting. There’s a tinge of humour with a play on accents that is well done. There’s an interesting delve into the mind of our emotionally unstable heroine… This book has a lot going for it.
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