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First Line Friday – Echoes Among the Stones

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. It’s one week until moving day here in the Donovan house, so reading time has become pretty scarce of late, but I have managed to delve into Jaime Jo Wright’s new release, Echoes Among the Stones. I love the Gothic atmosphere she creates in these time-slip mysteries!

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The Painted Castle (Kristy Cambron) – Review

A lost painting of Queen Victoria.

A library bricked off from the world.

And three women, separated by time, whose lives are irrevocably changed.

When art historian Keira Foley is hired to authenticate a painting at a centuries-old East Suffolk manor, she hopes this is just the thing to get her career and life back on track. But from the time she arrives at Parham Hill Estate and begins working alongside rumored art thief Emory Scott…

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First Line Friday – Then Sings My Soul (Amy K. Sorrells)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I finished reading Courtney Walsh’s latest release Just One Kiss recently, a great choice for contemporary romance lovers! Look for my review coming soon, but in the meantime, here’s the first line…

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Discover a New Author: Sarah Monzon

Welcome to the weekend, book lovers! Are you ready to discover a new author with me?

This week I’m featuring an author who wears a few different genre hats. Her Carrington Family novels are time-slip stories (a contemporary and a historical plot that are linked), her stand-alone romance novels are contemporary retellings of a biblical story, and her Book Nerds and Boyfriends novellas are fun romcoms. But despite these differences…

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Whose Waves These Are (Amanda Dykes) – Review

In the wake of WWII, a grieving fisherman submits a poem to a local newspaper: a rallying cry for hope, purpose . . . and rocks. Send me a rock for the person you lost, and I will build something life-giving. When the poem spreads farther than he ever intended, Robert Bliss’s humble words change the tide of a nation. Boxes of rocks…

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First Line Friday – Whose Waves These Are (Amanda Dykes)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. This week I’ve finally been able to pick up a book I’ve heard early readers raving about for a few weeks: Whose Waves These Are by Amanda Dykes. So far the story is definitely living up to the hype.

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Discover a New Author: Amanda Dykes

Hello, reader friends, and welcome to the weekend! Since it’s Saturday, it’s time to introduce you to another author.

I first discovered Amanda Dykes when I read her novella in The Message in a Bottle Romance Collection, which released in 2017. Anyone who writes a novella that includes the first performance of Handel’s Water Music is going to get my attention! And now…

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Discover a New Author: Heidi Chiavaroli

Hi there, book lovers, and welcome to the weekend. Last Saturday I shared my first Discover a New Author post with you—a post that will be a regular feature here at Fiction Aficionado. Each Saturday, I’ll be introducing you to an author you can try out for free either by…

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