
So You Want to Fly Private? The Rules: A Comedic tell all book showcasing true accounts of what its like to work as a CFA in Private Aviation by Shannon McDermott (175 pages)
Ever had a sh***y job with problematic co-workers and even worse customers? If you just said “YES” out loud in the bookstore, and people are now staring at you, this book is most definitely for you! Inspired by the Great Resignation, So You Want To Fly Private? THE RULES, is a collection of true, darkly comedic stories as told by CFAs (Corporate Flight Attendants) in the private aviation industry.
Jenny Jetway, your favorite renegade CFA, walks you through true accounts of what it’s like to work as a CFA in private aviation, an industry that hasn’t progressed much since the 1970s. From Sugar Babies and wild Karens to toxic, misogynist bosses who don’t understand the meaning of consent, So You Want To Fly Private: THE RULES paints a messy picture of a famously secretive industry using the same uncensored rhetoric found in venting sessions with co-workers over happy hour drinks at the bar.
Through a a set of 10 rules, curated in mind for the curious travel enthusiast, So You Want To Fly Private? THE RULES is guaranteed to be a hilarious, thrilling, yet quick read that can be accomplished over the course of a flight or an airport layover.
Genre: Non Fiction /comedy/travel
Format: Epub
Hear Of Fire by Raina Nightingale (168 pages ARC now for April publication)
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A SLAVE DETERMINED TO RIDE A DRAGON. A CHILD CHOSEN TO RIDE THE OBSIDIAN GUARDIAN.
Camilla has always been told that humans are inferior. They cannot use magic. If they bond to dragons, they will doom the creatures to extinction. She has never believed a word of it. She has always known that she can use magic, and she suspects it is the elves who harm the dragons by keeping them to themselves. Now, she is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime: a dragon’s clutch is hatching and while she will earn the wrath of her captors if she is caught, she has the chance to see a dragon hatch and perhaps even to Recognize.
Kario’s people have feared dragons since time immemorial. When an unrealistically huge black dragon flies in while she is hunting, she is certain she will die. Instead, her life is changed when Nelexi, Obsidian Guardian of Areaer, chooses her as her final rider. Kario takes the name Flameheart, but she is soon homesick and afraid that she is insufficient to be the partner of a god.
Genre: Ya epic fantasy
Format: epub
Death By Pins And Needles by Susie Black (249 pages)
The last thing Mermaid Swimwear sales exec Holly Schlivnik expected to find when she opened the closet door was nasty competitor Lissa Charney’s battered corpse nailed to the wall. When Holly’s colleague is wrongly arrested for Lissa’s murder, the wise-cracking, irreverent amateur sleuth sticks her nose everywhere it doesn’t belong to sniff out the real killer. Nothing turns out the way she thinks it will as Holly matches wits with a heartless killer hellbent on revenge.
Genre: Cosy mystery
Format: epub
Grave-Reaping Hermit by Evelyn C Thompson (300 pages)
When self-professed hermit Theodora Edwards is attacked by a dark fae and infected with his magic, she finds herself thrust into the supernatural spotlight as the first possible changeling in centuries. As if surviving the transition isn’t hard enough, Theo has to deal with an attempted abduction by her newly turned vampire ex-husband, unwanted courting offers from salacious fae suitors, and her growing attraction to the guardian of the gate to Fairie. Caught in a cruel tug of war between the queen of the fae and a surly law-enforcement agent, Theo must find a way to free herself before she loses her hard-earned independence for good.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Format: Epub
The Anshar Gambit by Ian G. McDowell (331 pages)
The sky is falling, and it’s Alice’s fault.
Alice runs a private space program, and today is the proudest day of her life. Then a meteor strike obliterates London. Someone has turned her great achievement into a city-killing weapon, and only she knows how to stop it.
Locked out and on the run, it’s up to Alice to hack her way back in and regain control. She’s almost out of time before the weapon fires again. And the next target… is her.
The Anshar Gambit is a riveting near-future technothriller packed with high-stakes action.
Genre: Techno thriller
Format: Epub
A Mother’s Lament by Nikki Rodwell (51 pages)
They say the pain of childbirth is made more bearable by the fact it is ‘pain with a purpose’. Sometimes the pain that mother’s experience later is equally, if not more, painful. Through her poems Nikki gives purpose to that pain and hopes that mothers who have grieved in any way or struggled with their relationships, will relate to her words.
Making sense of pain is a complex and personal journey. In this collection of poems, Nikki bears her soul and reveals that the deeper the grief, the deeper the love. Although it’s easy to feel disempowered and lost within pain, she demonstrates how, by stepping into it, we can give ourselves permission to heal.
Genre: Poetry
Format: Epub
The Broken Darkness by Theresa Braun (268 pages) ARC
In her debut collection, Theresa Braun explores the inner workings of the human heart and what it is we most desire—forgiveness, acceptance, love, fame, or merely to escape who we really are. Whether we are battling ghosts, demons, mythical monsters, the past, or other dimensions, we are really facing the deepest parts of ourselves. These thirteen tales of horror and dark fantasy may appear to be a matter of good versus evil, but they are all a reflection of the hidden corners of the soul that are often shades of broken darkness. The characters in these stories must face their inner and outer terrors, or else suffer the consequences.
Genre: Horror short stories
Format: Epub
Unnatural Mayhem by Sue Coletta (347 pages) – Book #5 (earlier books in the series also available to request)
With the fate of the Natural World at stake, can Shawnee and Mayhem stop trophy hunters before it’s too late?
Explosive news of a crow hunt rings out in the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire, and one hundred crows gather to put an end to it. With so many lives at stake—including Poe’s—Shawnee and Mayhem must work together to stop the trophy hunters before they obliterate the local murder.
Taking on twenty-five experienced hunters armed with shotguns is no small feat. If they fail, Poe may lead his brethren to their death.
No matter what it takes, this group must be stopped.
But what if Shawnee and Mayhem aren’t seeing the full picture? What if these men have secrets worth killing over?
Genre: Thriller
Format: Epub
El Norte by Harald Johnson (322 pages)
A thrilling, on-the-run, survival adventure across four countries.
Jager Flores is an introverted Texas high-school graduate on a family trip to Roatán, Honduras, to celebrate.
But when Jager’s careful world is blown apart, the panicked boy goes into hiding and then creates a bond with an unlikely ally to stay one step ahead of his violent pursuers.
Now, traveling with a team of immigrants and with corrupt DEA agents after him as he heads back to El Norte (the U.S.), Jager must find the strength in himself to survive and to get justice for his family.
Genre: Thriller
Format: Epub
Bethulia by Thorne Moore (270 pages)
Alison, Danny, Jude. Three girls bound closer than sisters. Nothing can divide them.
Until Alison falls for Simon Delaney. Handsome, successful and ambitious, what woman wouldn’t want him? He’s surely her perfect husband. So why does she commit suicide?
If it is suicide. The police say yes, except for the driven DC Rosanna Quillan. She says no, but she can only watch as Jude and Danny fight for the prize – the widower. How far would either of them go to have him?
Genre: Thriller
Format: Epub
The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me by Robert W Norris (490 pages)
The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me traces the trials, tribulations, and unbreakable bond of two Pacific Northwest characters. Kay Schlinkman grows up on the banks of the Columbia River in the 1930s and 1940s. She overcomes a small logging town’s ostracism in the late 1950s for her divorce, excommunication by the Catholic Church for remarrying, severe criticism and rejection for defending her son’s refusal to go to war, and the burden of paying off her second husband’s gambling debts. In her forties, she becomes a licensed pilot and flies two summers as a forest fire spotter. After a second divorce in her fifties, she takes night classes to become qualified as a legal secretary and continues to work until she’s seventy-eight.
After an idyllic childhood in the redwoods and a rebellious adolescence following his parents’ divorce, Robert Norris enters the Air Force, becomes a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, is court-martialed and goes to military prison, embraces the counterculture upon release, wanders the world in search of his identity, and eventually lands in Japan, where he finds his niche as a university professor, spends two years as the dean of students, and retires as a professor emeritus.
Despite their separation by the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, Robert and Kay maintain a lifelong commitment of love, respect, and support that enriches both their lives. Kay visits Japan eight times. Robert, his wife, and Kay journey to Ireland to trace her father’s roots. The Good Lord Willing provides a heart-warming example of how far a mother and son can go in maintaining their bond against great odds. A must read for all mothers and sons, and for those who’ve wondered what the road less traveled would’ve been like, had they taken that first step.
Genre: Memoir
Format: Epub

When Edward Farrell, a nomadic American journalist from her past, returns unexpectedly, she is swept by the irresistible desire to fulfil her dreams of working as an artist, like her famous father before her. After being caught in a storm on the Cote d’Azur, she vows to change her life.
What she does not foresee is the struggle involved, the ultimate price she will pay, and the powerful force of enduring love that changes everything.


19th century England. Changelings live amongst humans, blending into the shadows of society. They hunger for the flesh and humanity of man. A child suffers a gruesome fate at the hand of these beasts…
But a beaked stranger emerges to avenge him.
In a 19th century English town, Michael Reeves is believed to be devoured by shapeshifting beasts known as Changelings. But over a decade later, he emerges from the wilderness as a masked stranger by a new name: Isaac Wadsager. Nobody knows where Isaac came from, but he is certain of what he wants: the love of an amazing circus tightropist, and every last Changeling dead.
The woman of his dreams, Ancora, is just as beautiful as Isaac has always heard, but he discovers that she’s just as hard to impress when it comes to the tightrope, her domain in show business. To make things more difficult, her manager Natalie seems to be just as obsessed with his idol and refuses to let anyone come between them.
Against all odds, Isaac joins the circus with Ancora to woo her during the day, but during the night, he hunts after the vicious Changeling beasts to enact revenge on the childhood they stole from him. He attempts to separate his two lives, but when things don’t go his way, he starts to lose himself and hurt the few friends he has.
Genre: Fantasy thriller
Format: Epub or Free Amazon download until Jan 3rd

But it’s not the one you know.
The Slipper and the Tree is a novella, and part of the Retold of Old Series by G. Lawrence.

Buckle up for a bumpy fun filled ride of what if’s and second chances. Longlisted for the Page Turner awards 2022, Future Proof is a romantic comedy filled with love, tears and laughter with an original musical soundtrack.

Santa Paws Delivery
Blaze delivers Christmas cheer to a care home.
Christmas Wish – Part One
During the office Christmas party Cassie is forced to re-evaluate her life priorities.
For the Holidays
A stepdaughter’s not just for Christmas.
Chance Encounters
Two brothers must unite to do the right thing when faced with a life-threatening choice.
Christmas Wish – Part Two
As Lynn contemplates another lonely Christmas, can Harry provide a welcome distraction?
The Icing on the Cake
Preparing for a big family Christmas, will the day go as Jess plans?
Not Just For Christmas (extended version)
The Shelton family welcome a new addition to the family, but could it spell disaster for Christmas?
One Good Deed
Struggling with life after University, Sam is stuck in a rut until he meets a homeless man with an unexpected gift.


This book is about the first 100 days of fascist Russia’s perfidious and unfounded invasion of Ukraine. But it is not an account of the war and its battlefield engagements. It’s about people. About their feelings and emotions, their experiences, fears and pain, their suffering, hope and love.
I started writing this book one sleepless night in Kyiv when I had been kept awake all night by the roar of our aerial defense system and explosions nearby, listening out for approaching rockets and bombs and wondering whether I should take my wife and young son and run for the air-raid shelter. That night, I realized that I had a duty as a writer to act as a voice for those whose stories desperately needed to be told to other people in the world.
I wrote about what I saw and felt. About the stories, my relatives and friends shared with me. It became a chronicle, memoir, diary and confession. I set down our stories so that the whole world might know and understand what we have been through. So that the whole world might share our experiences of this war alongside us – in our trembling buildings, in our freezing cold basements, underground parking lots, bomb shelters and metro stations and in the ruins of our burning cities. So that the world might be given a glimpse into our hearts through the lacerated wounds that have been inflicted on them by this cruel and barbaric war.
Genre: Memoir
Format: Epub

a Catholic in anti-Catholic England
Scotland, 1716 –
Traveling alone through a frightful snowstorm, Bethan Glentaggart is desperate to get to London where her husband languishes in the Tower of London. As the date of Gavin’s beheading rapidly approaches, Bethan has only her wits and her women friends to support her against King George. Will she be able to free Gavin? Will she even be allowed to see him?

Is this the new list Rosie, or is this one outdated?
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Hi Susan, this is for anyone who wants to join the new Book review team launched on the back of the book review challenge.
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Rosie, I am currently reading “Twilight’s Indian Princess” and “BioKill.” I will have one (maybe both) ready to send you by this coming Sunday. 😉
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Excellent, Thank you Susan.
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Happy to review Cleaver Square if I could figure out how to get it. Is it on Amazon? As you know, Mobi is beyond me.
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I would love to review Bells On Her Toes by Diana J. Febry. Thanks so very much.
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How do I offer a book for review? On December 5th I published my third novel Border Line, Hilary Custance Green.
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Thanks Hilary, please check out the Your Book Reviewed tab, we are taking books for the review team currently, although we are closing for a Christmas break tomorrow, until the 5th January.
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Hi Rosie,
I have spotted 2 books that I could review within a week, if you want me to join your team. I filled in a form to apply, an hour ago.
Titles in mobi or pdf I would be interested in.
The Last Deception by DV Berkom
Savage Isle by Beverley Scherberger
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Hi Rosie, please I would like to read and review “The bird that sang in colour”
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