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A Dream Within A Dream (Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci) – Review

Trudi Coffey only realizes that she hasn’t seen Samuel Hill in weeks when the FBI shows up asking questions about him. After a strange encounter with an armed man demanding her help and an attack by a member of the Boston mob looking for someone named Dream, Trudi manages to find Samuel–or rather, he finds her. He’s made some pretty powerful enemies, but right now his full attention is on protecting Dream from the mob. Because Dream has something they want–the map to the location of artwork stolen from the Gardener Museum during the infamous 1990 heist.

With danger closing in from all sides, Trudi and Samuel will have to call on all of their allies to keep Dream safe and discover the identity of the people who have been hunting down Samuel. The real questions are whom can they trust? And who will make it out of this thing alive?

13 July 2020

First Line Friday – A Dream Within a Dream (Mike Nappa & Melissa Kosci)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s a suspense read for me this week, with the third book in Mike Nappa’s Coffey & Hill series: A Dream Within a Dream. I enjoyed the previous two books in this series, Annabel Lee and The Raven (if you’re sensing an Edgar Allen Poe theme here, pat yourself on the back), so I’m not expecting anything less with this one. And that first line is about as punchy as it gets!

3 July 2020

Cover Reveal: Deadly Connection (Jennifer Pierce)

A complete stranger is the only one who can help determine the connection between her past and her present.

Private Investigator, Reid Lucas, and his mentor, Joe Lockhart, haven’t spoken in years, but when Joe wants to meet in a small-town diner, Reid’s interest is piqued. Without explanation, Joe calls and tells Reid he has five minutes to get waitress, Quinn Matthews, and her son out of the diner before they’re kidnapped by the group of thugs about to walk through the diner’s front door.

Quinn Matthews’ life is simple and safe, exactly how she likes it—until Reid Lucas walks into the diner. Now, she and her son are running for their lives, and she has no idea why. But when the father of her son shows up and dies saving them, she realizes they all have one deadly connection: Joe Lockhart.

25 June 2020

The Heart of a Hero (Susan May Warren) – Review

Jake Silver may not be able to put the memories of his time as a sniper and Navy SEAL behind him, but at least he can put his skills to use as a part of the Jones Inc. rescue team. Saving the life of pediatric heart surgeon Dr. Aria Sinclair on Denali helped too. Now he can’t get her out of his head, and when he hears she is in the path of a hurricane down in Key West he can’t help but jump on a plane to rescue her.

Aria has dedicated her life to helping children born with defective hearts. After all, she was one of those children. Now driven to succeed, she lives a lonely, stressful life. One she would have lost on Denali if it hadn’t been for Jake. Jake is exciting and handsome, but he’s also dangerous, and she’s already lost one person she loves. She can’t bear it again.

8 June 2020

The Gryphon Heist (James R. Hannibal) – Review

Talia Inger is a rookie CIA case officer assigned not to the Moscow desk as she had hoped but to the forgotten backwaters of Eastern Europe–a department only known as “Other.” When she is tasked with helping a young, charming Moldovan executive secure his designs for a revolutionary defense technology, she figures she’ll be back in DC within a few days. But that’s before she knows where the designs are stored–and who’s after them. With her shady civilian partner, Adam Tyler, Talia takes a deep dive into a world where only criminal minds and unlikely strategies will keep the Gryphon, a high-altitude data vault, hovering in the mesosphere.

Even Tyler is more than he seems, and Talia begins to wonder: Is he helping her? Or using her access to CIA resources to pull off an epic heist for his own dark purposes?

21 April 2020

Seconds to Live (Susan Sleeman) – Review

When cybercriminals hack into the US Marshals’ Witness Protection database and auction off witnesses’ personal details to the highest bidders, the RED Team led by FBI Agent Sean Nichols begins a high-stakes chase to find the hacker. But before he can even get started, the first witness is targeted and barely escapes with her life. Sean believes Phantom, an obsessed hacker who previously outwitted the top minds in the field, is behind the attack, and Sean needs this witness’s help, as she’s the person who has come closest to discovering Phantom’s identity.

Trouble is, she’s a witness under the care of US Marshal Taylor Mills, and Sean is reluctant to work with the captivating marshal who knows his deepest secrets.

19 April 2020

First Line Friday – The Gryphon Heist (James R. Hannibal)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. My first line Friday selection for this week also happens to be my book club selection. (Yes, I’m racing to finish before we meet tonight via Zoom 😂). Anyone else in a book club that’s had to switch to online meet ups?

Anyway, we’re currently reading The Gryphon Heist by James R. Hannibal, and I have to say I’m really enjoying it, particularly the extremely dry humour that’s laced through what is otherwise a pretty intense read. Perfect balance for me! Have you read The Gryphon Heist? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

17 April 2020

First Line Friday – Kings Falling (Ronie Kendig)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. Guys! I’m finally getting to read one of my most anticipated reads for 2020! Kings Falling by Ronie Kendig is the second in her Book of the Wars series and releases on 31 March. If you enjoy thrillers you NEED to read this series. Start with Storm Rising (there’s still time before Kings Falling releases) and hold on for the thrilling ride!

20 March 2020

The power of fiction, the beauty of words, and the God who made us to wield them for His glory.