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Before Time Runs Out (Amy Matayo) – Review

Graduate student Bree Sanders is failing the one class she needs to get her degree. So when her professor gives her an ultimatum—ace her thesis or risk having to repeat her final semester—she knows she has to pull out all the stops. After scrambling for an idea, she decides to create her own Ghost Club, a club that blames ghosts for unsolved crimes, the same type of club originally founded two centuries ago by Charles Dickens.

What she doesn’t expect is to find an original copy of one of Dickens’ early works, or to be transplanted into Dickens’s actual ghost club meeting, circa 1870, the instant she picks it up.

When Bree shows up in nineteenth-century England wearing cut-offs and an old t-shirt, her only option is to hide. The London of 1870 won’t look kindly on a woman dressed like her. So, when Theodore Keyes finds her tucked behind a bookcase at the King’s College library and immediately demands to know where she came from, she knows he doesn’t belong here either. Turns out she’s right; the same book caused him to time-travel from 1947 almost three months ago and he’s been stuck in England since…

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First Line Friday – Before Time Runs Out (Amy Matayo)

Happy Friday and welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m a fairly eclectic reader, but time travel is one genre I don’t usually pick up. But right now, I’m in the middle of my SECOND time travel novel of 2021. The first book in Amy Matayo’s Charles & Company Romance series released this week: Before Time Runs Out, and I’m loving it so far. There’s a lot of fun to be had with a character from the 1940s and a character from the twenty-first century meeting up in the 1870s!

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Cover Reveal! Before Time Runs Out (Amy Matayo)

Welcome to the cover reveal for Before Time Runs Out by Amy Matayo.

Graduate student Bree Sanders is failing the one class she needs to get her degree. So when her professor gives her an ultimatum—ace her dissertation or risk having to repeat her final semester—she knows she has to pull out all the stops. After scrambling for an idea, she decides to create her own Ghost Club, a club that blames ghosts for unsolved crimes, the same type of club originally founded two centuries ago by Charles Dickens. 

What she doesn’t expect is to find an original copy of one of Dickens’ early works, or to be transplanted into Dickens’ actual ghost club meeting, circa 1870, the instant she picks it up.

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The Reunion (Amy Matayo) – Review

It’s been quite the year for the Hayes/Gamble family, but now things are looking up. When you’ve survived a tornado, a concert shooting, and being stranded on a deserted island, what else can possibly go wrong? After all, isn’t that the rule—three strikes, and you’re out?

That should totally be the rule.

Dillon Hayes has dreamed of her wedding day since childhood. Now, after months of planning, the chapel is booked, the invitations are sent, and the dress is ready and waiting. In only a few days’ time, Dillon will become Mrs. Liam Gamble in front of God, Tennessee, and everyone she loves.

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The Last Shot (Amy Matayo) – Review

It’s the same routine every night, and country music superstar Teddy Hayes wouldn’t have it any other way.

7:00 pm: Arena doors open and fans fill the stands.
7:45 pm: Lights go out and spotlights come on.
7:46 pm: Energy from concert-goers reaches an ear-spitting crescendo.
7:47 pm: Teddy takes the stage and begins to sing.

But tonight, something is off.

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Cover Reveal! The Last Shot (Amy Matayo)

It’s the same routine every night, and country music superstar Teddy Hayes wouldn’t have it any other way. 

7:00 pm:  Arena doors open, and fans fill the stands.
7:45 pm:  Lights go out, and spotlights come on.
7:46 pm:  Energy from concert-goers reaches an ear-splitting crescendo. 
7:47 pm:  Teddy takes the stage and begins to sing.

But tonight, something is off. 

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The Aftermath (Amy Matayo) – Review

According to Riley Mae Floss, life is a ten-page menu of possibilities. As the owner of a cupcake shop in small-town Missouri, she thrives on candies and rainbows and spreading joy every chance she gets. Even her hair is the color of bubble gum. Life is just the way she likes it, so why would she want anything to change now?

But when a tornado rips into Riley Mae’s southern town and destroys nearly everything in its path…

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First Line Friday – The Aftermath (Amy Matayo)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’m itching to get started on my first line choice for this week, which only released yesterday: The Aftermath by Amy Matayo. And I’m still besotted with that cover. 😍

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