I’d like to start posting prompts for Top Five Wednesday, but I’m unsure how to post in the group or if anyone would be interested in participating. For the time being, I will share the series I hope to get to soon-ish. The issue I have is that I have over 80 books on my TBR, and not all of them will fit the prompts I choose for the Tarot-a-thon cards. However, I’m taking the books as they come this month, pun intended.
Goodreads Blurb:
An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . .
A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It’s brutal and bloody but she isn’t the first victim and she won’t be the last. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next.
With the nation in a state of panic, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw – the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground. Can Poe and Tilly stop an unstoppable assassin, who never misses his mark and never makes a mistake? Or will he find them before they find him…
The Final Vow by M.W. Craven is the 7th book in the Washington Poe series and one of my favourite thriller series. Luckily, I don’t have to worry about this one yet since it comes out on August 14th.
Goodreads Blurb:
Locky Sorenson would bake every day if he could. There was just something magical about it. In the sight of the tidy copper measuring spoons. In the soft swish of flour through a silver sieve. In the alluring scent of freshly whipped buttercream or gooey chocolate chip cookies.
Of course, he’d never be a real baker. That was just a dream. And 30-something accountants didn’t get to live their dreams. Or so he thought.
When Locky unexpectedly loses his job, he decides to put his whole redundancy payout towards a wild business a night-time bakery. A decadent midnight escape for those who like their cakes thick and their buns sticky.
To help him succeed, he hires the supportive but scatter-brained project manager, Benedict Harris. While it all starts professionally, they quickly discover that cupcakes aren’t the only thing rising in their kitchen. And that the metal bench-top makes an excellent surface to really pound out the dough.
Now they have to decide just how deep they want to go together. Will they biscuit all for love? Or will they decide the whisk is just too great?
I buddy-read Cubs & Campfires by Dylan Drakes from the Sweet & Stocky series; the others enjoyed it more than I did, but Bears & Bakeries was already on my TBR.
Goodreads Blurb:
She didn’t ask to be the face of Pride. But sometimes finding your voice starts with being heard.
Avery James never wanted to be a symbol. She only wanted to make it through high school unnoticed. But when a quiet act of defiance draws the attention of her school’s struggling Pride Alliance, Avery suddenly finds herself at the center of something much bigger than she ever imagined.
With a sharp tongue, a scared heart, and a rainbow flag she’s not sure how to carry, Avery must navigate the pressure of visibility, the complexity of identity, and the tangled path of first love.
Then she meets Cassidy—a bold, unapologetic classmate with her own battles to fight. As their connection deepens, Avery begins to believe that she might be more than just the quiet girl in the back row. But when a personal crisis threatens to undo everything she’s worked toward, Avery has to will she stay silent, or speak out louder than ever?
Yesterday, I finished Out Loud 2 by Thomas Baker. I found both books for free on Amazon, and the two novels connect to each other.
Goodreads Blurb:
Castor Quasar is a junker— a bounty hunter making a living off of collecting and selling valuable scrap. They live a quiet life, bouncing from job to job and not worrying about the brewing galactic rebellion.
Except, when they get a job offer for an irresistible amount of money, they find themself embroiled much deeper than expected. Their task? To smuggle transgender activist Juno Marcus across the galaxy under the watchful eye of the Intergalactic Police Force and a propaganda-informed galaxy.
It’s too dangerous to accept, but too valuable to refuse, and it doesn’t help that Juno herself is charming and beautiful. Agreeing drags Cas into a whirlwind race against those who want Juno dead to make it across the galaxy to safety, risking it all for a cause they can’t– or won’t– believe in.
I have been wanting to read Junker Seven by Olive J. Kelley, the first book in the Twin Suns series, but it wasn’t available to me. Now it is, and I love the author’s writing.
Goodreads Blurb:
Get ready to immerse yourself in “Wilderness Rescue Unthaw My Heart,” a thrilling transgender Christmas romance adventure. Amidst a Christmas Eve blizzard, Dr. Makayla and Army mechanic Pauline find themselves trapped in a cozy cabin, near death, while a blizzard rages outside.
Experience their winter journey of survival, second chances, and true love as they navigate through icy car crashes, broken vows, and coming out to friends in this fast-paced tale set in the remote Caribou Hills cabin.
Join Dr. Makayla and Pauline as they unthaw their hearts and embrace true love in this captivating Christmas romance.
I have read three out of seven books in the Wilderness Rescue series and will slowly work my way through the rest.
Alex
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