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Hi everyone My name is Victoria Zumbrum, 40 years old, married 14 years with 1 son. This is my very first blog. So bear with me. I have always wanted to have my own blog. I have always loved to read. I enjoy getting lost in a good book.
I love becoming part of the story and characters. I am hoping to bring my love of books to my readers.

I love reading different genres such as paranormal, young adult, romance, romantic suspense, mystery, Christian fiction, some horror, etc. The list goes on. I started reviewing books a couple of years ago and have done reviews for different blogs and even some authors. I really have enjoyed reviewing books and I will continue to do so. If anyone is interested in me reviewing a book for them, please contact me. I still have a lot to learn regarding my own blog so bear with me. I welcome and appreciate all followers.

Monday, May 31, 2021

Dancing in the Dark by Lilly Wilde

Lilly Wilde's latest release is a heart-wrenching journey that reignites your love for the genre!

** This book is a standalone with a HEA
** This is a spin-off of The Untouched Series.
Although the stories/characters are interconnected, the spin-off CAN be read as a standalone.

To ALLISON RAINE, becoming a prima ballerina was nothing more than an illusion. But when the opportunity to realize her dream presents itself, she shuns the love and security of her billionaire family to obtain the one thing that fills her with purpose.

To her boyfriend WILLIAM HOLT, success and prestige are everything—more than family, more than friends, more than the misdeeds of a past he’s buried. But when it all comes back to haunt him, he finds himself scrambling to secure a life that’s become a tornado of lies, danger, and heartache.

To her colleague MAXIMUS HOLT, life is unfolding as he’d planned. He has everything he could ever hope for… except the girl he can’t get out of his head. Captivated by Allison’s talent and beauty, he’s determined to claim her as more than just a dance partner. But his pursuit comes to a screeching halt when she’s captured by a fate she hoped to escape.

Seized by a verdict she can’t accept, Allison withdraws from everything that once gave her life meaning and succumbs to a darkness that consumes her whole. As she spirals deeper into the abyss, who will be there to guide her back to the light?






Dancing In The Dark by Lilly Wilde

"Another addicting page-turner from Lilly Wilde!"
Sharing My Book Boyfriends Blog

"Another stunning read! This eagerly anticipated spinoff to the Untouched series has left me spellbound and totally in awe. It is a story that will leave your heart pumping and your limbs tingling. Full of love, lust, devotion, deceit, betrayal, shock, and twists. It is a read that will have you captivated until the end. This is a highly charged emotional read. Heart-wrenching and sometimes brutal on your soul but there is always room for a book that leaves its mark."
You Can't Resista Dirty Book Blog

"OMG!! Lilly has done it again!! Make sure you don't miss this emotional, loving, and heart-wrenching story. You won't be disappointed. This story will have you captivated from cover to cover and still wanting more."
Crystal George - Goodreads Reviewer

"My heart was in a constant state of emotions, shattered, mended, and then overflowing with love. Overall a very powerful story from start to finish that will touch a part of your soul and stay with you forever. If I could give this book more than 5 stars I would. Any story that is a spin-off from the Untouched Series will always be at the top of my must-read list!!!!! You are so very gifted Lilly Wilde. I want more and more of your stories!!!!"
Alicia H - Amazon Reviewer

"Well, it definitely did not disappoint! From the first page to the last page, this book held on to me. This story is an emotional ride full of emotion -- happiness, sadness, heat, angst, mystery, fear, hurt, excitement, heartbreak. It has it all. I felt like I was in the story feeling all of these emotions right along with them."
Heather Swan - Amazon Reviewer

"I am in absolute awe of this book. Once again Lilly Wilde had me completely emerged and captivated in the lives of the Raine family, but this time it's my girl, Allison!! From the turn of the first page, I was instantly craving for more. Allison's story will have you feeling every emotion possible. I felt as if I were there in the story right beside them all, like a movie playing out in my head. I cried, laughed, screamed with anger, and fell in love all over again."
Lisa Upshaw - Amazon Reviewer

"Written in multi-pov, a novel that draws you in, turning the pages in anticipation of what will happen next until the very end leaving you craving more. The writing style is captivating and not a cliché. So many innervations as this story is brimming with angst, danger, heartache, fearful moments, mystery, sensual moments, and so much more. Definitely highly recommend reading this phenomenal romance novel."
Sophie Koufes - Goodreads Reviewer

"It’s so refreshing to read a book that doesn’t adhere itself to the typical “formula” of romance. I wasn’t able to predict the storyline from the very outset, and I loved every single minute of it!"
Cassandra - Goodreads Reviewer



Lilly Wilde pens steamy contemporary romance with unapologetic alphas and feisty heroines. Their raw, addictive storylines are full of heat, emotion, twists, and turns that leave her readers breathless and her characters floundering as they struggle to achieve that happily ever after!

Lilly is a dreamer, author, poet, and Army veteran who thrives on tea, chocolate, and movies. She currently resides in North Carolina with hopes of one day living abroad.



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Training Trace Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Training Tracey
by L.M. Mountford
Genre: Erotic Romance


I know it’s wrong to want my best friend’s dad… but what about when his wife offers to share?

Tracey has known the Burtons practically all her life.
They’re her best friend’s parents.
When she was a little girl they took her on days out to the beach. But she’s a woman now, and they have some very important lessons to teach her…

** Training Tracey is A wicked and uber-hot coming-of-age menage, filled with MF, FF & MFF scenes from the Lord of Lust’s Dark and Dirty alter ego. There is NO cheating, NO cliffhanger and a guaranteed HEA with plenty of steam.**

WARNING 18+: This book is erotic and contains material that includes graphic language and adult situations.




A self-confessed tiger fanatic, L.M. Mountford was born and raised in England, first in the town of Bridgwater, Somerset, before later moving to the city of Gloucester where he currently resides. A fully qualified and experienced scuba diver, he has travelled across Europe and Africa diving wrecks and seeing the wonders of the world.





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False Start Book Tour and Giveaway

 


False Start
Second Down Book 1
by Sasha Marshall
Genre: Sports Romance


Football, a kitten, and 14 dates.

Zhanna Hale

THEN

My father is a legend. Some call me football royalty, and in my hometown of Louisiana, I suppose I am. His legacy didn’t prepare me for Bryant Hudson. The quarterback. I swore I’d never date football players. Permanently. Yet Bryant had other plans.
Three dates and a handful of conversations, I handed him my heart without realizing it. But, Bryant shatters my soul. I’m left picking up the pieces. If only erasing him from my heart was as easy.


Bryant Hudson

NOW

I lost at the only game that matters. And it wasn’t even a game. It was and is my forever with Zhanna. I am the best quarterback out there. That should be enough, right? Achieving my dreams. But none of that matters without my woman beside me. When she left, she took my heart with her.
Now I’m back. To remind her of what we had. To see me—the man whose heart she owns, not the quarterback.
Our love is fate. Our lives are forever intertwined. I refuse to let a false start signal our end. I’m ready to repeat the play and show Zhanna she is my everything.





Award-winning author Sasha Marshall, a concert photographer, toured with legendary bands such as The Allman Brothers Band. A self-proclaimed free spirit, she’s most often found outdoors, or painting a canvas, capturing a photograph, people watching, reading a book, or writing a new book. Sasha makes her home in the beautiful state of Georgia and loves to hear from readers.





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Sunday, May 30, 2021

Drifting by Steven M. Cross Book Blast



This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Steven M. Cross will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Drifting brings light into the dark corners of mental health, bullying, and sexual assault.

Dean Knight has struggled against his personal demons for as long as he can remember. He thought he lost that struggle when he felt their knowing grip pull him deeper in the river, but he was saved. Saved for what? His memories are trapped within his mental illness. He hears his sister and father’s voices. The problem is, they’re dead, both killed in the same river that tried to claim Dean. As he struggles to remember, he discovers their voices aren’t pushing him to harm himself, but to discover the truth surrounding both their deaths. One person, Ella, has all the answers, but Dean can’t remember if she loved him or tried to kill him.

Roxanne “Rocky” Rivers struggles against her own demons, not voices, but a past trauma she can’t fully remember. She only knows everyone at school thinks she’s a slut and a head-case. A razor her only release for the pain. Rocky knows no one will believe a crazy girl who tries to kill herself.

Dean and Rocky find a connection. Can they find the strength and trust to help each other when neither can survive alone?


Read an Excerpt

We have walked into another large cave. In one wall, a small chamber is cut.

“I bet there’s treasure in there. Arrgh,” like a pirate, then laughing hysterically, cackling, and releasing my hand. I kneel and see a pocket watch lying at the chamber’s entrance.

A hand, half bone, half decayed skin, creeps from the chamber, grabs my wrist. My heart catches. My eyes bulge. A scream rises in my throat.

Then, I see a bashed in skull emerge from the opening, its jaw set in a gaping grin and then another hand. Behind it on the floor, I see part of a skull, blood, a tooth, and hair. The skeleton crawls out of the chamber. I hear the girl’s crazed laughter. Bones skitter over the ground, click like castanets.

“Dean.” Its voice is thick like it’s filled with sand. I, we, feel like our head is going to explode into pieces of blood and brain and bone.

When I close my eyes, it grabs me and lifts me up, flopping me over its shoulder like an old rug. I can’t move, can’t talk, can’t breathe. The dry, brittle bones click against my skin.

It takes me to another part of the cave on the edge of a high cliff, lifts me off its shoulder, grabs my shirt, dangles me over the edge of the cliff, lets go.

I kick and scream as I fall through the air. I look up, see the face of a beautiful girl, then disappear into a pool of hot, frothy water. As I peer through the churning water, the skeleton’s hand grabs my hair.

I scream, choke on water, but then I’m gulping fresh air and staring into the Rose’s face.

“What the hell?”

“I’m naked,” I say aloud, though I’m only thinking it in my head.

“Next time, I’ll let your skinny ass drown.” She turns, leaves the bathroom.

About the Author:
Steve Cross is an educator/freelance writer who lives in Poplar Bluff, MO. His credits include four young adult novels, two fantasy novels, and seven plays. He has optioned one script and sold another one. Plus, he's finished as a quarterfinalist in Bluecat and in Fresh Voices screenwriting competition. He and his wife have one daughter and two grandchildren with whom they spend a lot of time. Cross loves Cardinals baseball, classic rock music, and character-driven movies. His favorite films are Dead Poets Society and Field of Dreams. Cross also likes to read, everything from Young Adult contemporary novels to screenplays, to horror and fantasy. At 62 and a cancer survivor, he believes his writing career is just now getting into full swing. His favorite type of screenplay to write is a psychological drama.

https://www.facebook.com/steven.cross.56/
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https://twitter.com/stevecrosswords
https://twitter.com/stevecrosswords
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/987662.Steven_Cross

Amazon Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Drifting-Steven-M-Cross-ebook/dp/B093WRF6FC/ref=sr_1_1

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Friday, May 28, 2021

Drifting by Steven M. Cross Book Blast



This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. Steven M. Cross will be awarding a $25 Amazon or B/N GC to a randomly drawn winner via rafflecopter during the tour. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Drifting brings light into the dark corners of mental health, bullying, and sexual assault.

Dean Knight has struggled against his personal demons for as long as he can remember. He thought he lost that struggle when he felt their knowing grip pull him deeper in the river, but he was saved. Saved for what? His memories are trapped within his mental illness. He hears his sister and father’s voices. The problem is, they’re dead, both killed in the same river that tried to claim Dean. As he struggles to remember, he discovers their voices aren’t pushing him to harm himself, but to discover the truth surrounding both their deaths. One person, Ella, has all the answers, but Dean can’t remember if she loved him or tried to kill him.

Roxanne “Rocky” Rivers struggles against her own demons, not voices, but a past trauma she can’t fully remember. She only knows everyone at school thinks she’s a slut and a head-case. A razor her only release for the pain. Rocky knows no one will believe a crazy girl who tries to kill herself.

Dean and Rocky find a connection. Can they find the strength and trust to help each other when neither can survive alone?


Read an Excerpt

We have walked into another large cave. In one wall, a small chamber is cut.

“I bet there’s treasure in there. Arrgh,” like a pirate, then laughing hysterically, cackling, and releasing my hand. I kneel and see a pocket watch lying at the chamber’s entrance.

A hand, half bone, half decayed skin, creeps from the chamber, grabs my wrist. My heart catches. My eyes bulge. A scream rises in my throat.

Then, I see a bashed in skull emerge from the opening, its jaw set in a gaping grin and then another hand. Behind it on the floor, I see part of a skull, blood, a tooth, and hair. The skeleton crawls out of the chamber. I hear the girl’s crazed laughter. Bones skitter over the ground, click like castanets.

“Dean.” Its voice is thick like it’s filled with sand. I, we, feel like our head is going to explode into pieces of blood and brain and bone.

When I close my eyes, it grabs me and lifts me up, flopping me over its shoulder like an old rug. I can’t move, can’t talk, can’t breathe. The dry, brittle bones click against my skin.

It takes me to another part of the cave on the edge of a high cliff, lifts me off its shoulder, grabs my shirt, dangles me over the edge of the cliff, lets go.

I kick and scream as I fall through the air. I look up, see the face of a beautiful girl, then disappear into a pool of hot, frothy water. As I peer through the churning water, the skeleton’s hand grabs my hair.

I scream, choke on water, but then I’m gulping fresh air and staring into the Rose’s face.

“What the hell?”

“I’m naked,” I say aloud, though I’m only thinking it in my head.

“Next time, I’ll let your skinny ass drown.” She turns, leaves the bathroom.

About the Author:
Steve Cross is an educator/freelance writer who lives in Poplar Bluff, MO. His credits include four young adult novels, two fantasy novels, and seven plays. He has optioned one script and sold another one. Plus, he's finished as a quarterfinalist in Bluecat and in Fresh Voices screenwriting competition. He and his wife have one daughter and two grandchildren with whom they spend a lot of time. Cross loves Cardinals baseball, classic rock music, and character-driven movies. His favorite films are Dead Poets Society and Field of Dreams. Cross also likes to read, everything from Young Adult contemporary novels to screenplays, to horror and fantasy. At 62 and a cancer survivor, he believes his writing career is just now getting into full swing. His favorite type of screenplay to write is a psychological drama.

https://www.facebook.com/steven.cross.56/
https://www.facebook.com/stevecrosswordswrites
https://twitter.com/stevecrosswords
https://twitter.com/stevecrosswords
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/987662.Steven_Cross

Amazon Buy Link: https://www.amazon.com/Drifting-Steven-M-Cross-ebook/dp/B093WRF6FC/ref=sr_1_1

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Everything to Lose Book Tour and Giveaway

 

Everything to Lose
Mountain Resort Mystery Series Book 2
by Shannon Work
Genre: Mystery, Suspense



When the truth could cost you everything... Sometimes murder is the only way out.
 
When her husband is found dead in their Vail, Colorado mansion, Victoria Banks is accused of murder. Determined to prove her innocence, she hires famed detective Jack Martin to help find the real killer.

But when the two uncover a sinister plot some would kill to keep secret, could it cost both of them their lives?

With a growing list of suspects, can Jack find the killer in time to prove Victoria's innocence? Or will he discover his beautiful client is actually guilty of murder?

From the mountain luxury of Vail, Colorado, to the oilfields outside Denver, Everything To Lose is a page-turning story of murder and greed.


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Now I See You
Mountain Resort Mystery Series Book 1



Two murders. A terrified mountain resort. Can a daring reporter help stop an avalanche of dead bodies?


Celebrity TV anchor Georgia Glass wants out of Denver and far away from her obsessed fan. Set to host her own investigative crime show in LA, she’s surprised to inherit a Victorian house in Aspen from a mysterious uncle she never knew. But while exploring the gothic property, she discovers the frozen corpse of a missing heiress.
Georgia’s journalist instincts kick in and she is determined to help police track down the killer. But by investigating the murder, has she made herself the killer’s next target?
Can Georgia help solve the case before she becomes the next victim? Or will the stalker that followed her to Aspen get her first?


Now I See You is a fast-paced whodunit set amidst the spectacular scenery of Aspen, Colorado, and the first book in the suspenseful Mountain Resort Mystery series.


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Shannon Work grew up in Del Rio, a border town in the dusty wilds of West Texas. When she graduated from high school, she moved east to College Station and graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in Journalism and a master's degree in Land Economics and Real Estate.
Most of her working life has been spent developing real estate, earning a national Best in America Living Award for one of her developments. After two failed starts at writing a novel while raising three kids and working, she retired to pursue her dream of writing mystery novels full time.
Shannon and her husband are recent empty nesters and split their time between Houston, Texas and Telluride, Colorado. Always with their laptops and dogs in tow.


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Unclean Hands Release Blast

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Unclean Hands by James Rosenberg

 

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Blurb:

A contentious trial is imminent:

 

Rick Waterston’s legal practice is suffering. Although he’s stopped drinking, he can’t turn his life around. The ex is hounding him for past child support. His biggest client makes passes at him and there’s not a lot of money to spread around. 

 

Emily Hawkins’ husband was killed while shopping at the local B & D warehouse store, accused of shoplifting and suffocated while being detained waiting for the police to arrive. To figure out the true story of what happened to her husband she hires Rick to sue the store.

 

Without any settlement offer, they are forced to take the case to trial where Rick has to handle the overbearing lawyers representing the store—the same people who fired him from his first job and sent him on his downward spiral.

 

No trial is predictable, but Rick must question his tactics when witnesses fall apart on the stand and crumble under intense cross-examination. The only hope of convincing the jury that shoplifters have rights is Emily who must stand her ground when confronted with her husbands’ dirty secrets.

 

Where to find James: 

Facebook -https://www.facebook.com/RosenbergWrites

Website- https://jamesrosenbergauthor.com/  

 

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Beautifully Broken Book Tour and Giveaway

 


Beautifully Broken
The Infinite Love Series, Book 4
by Kira Adams
Genre: Contemporary Romance


Jacqueline

I’m messed up. I could say it was a result of my childhood, but honestly I blame myself. The medicine made me feel numb; the blood made me feel high. He wasn’t supposed to be mine, but although he was scared in the beginning, he didn’t run from my demons. He found beauty in my flaws, beauty in the cracks that barely held me together.

Lee
I had it good—various girls of the week, my dream job, stability—and even then, I knew deep down something was missing. Madalynne opened a door for me; Jacqueline lit the flame. She wasn’t perfect—far from it—but underneath the pain and the scars, I saw her. Sometimes the ones worth fighting for don’t know their worth. Sometimes being broken is beautiful.

Beautifully Broken is the fourth book in the Infinite Love series.


**Only .99 cents!!**



***Don't miss the other books in the series! ***


Learning to Live
The Infinite Love Series Book 1

Life After
The Infinite Love Series Book 2

My Forever
The Infinite Love Series Book 3


Krista Pakseresht has always been a dreamer, from the first time she opened her eyes, and creating worlds through words is one thing she is truly talented at. She specializes in young adult/new adult romance, horror, action, fantasy, and non-fiction under the pen name Kira Adams. She is the author of the Infinite Love series, the Foundation series, the Darkness Falls series, A Date with the Devil, The Life I Never Asked For, Never Trust a Bad Boy and Ultimate Game Changer.
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