Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Down, Boy (Iron Creek K9 Book 2) by Annie Carlisle


 


 

Blurb:

Cash Mercer speaks maybe nine words a day and considers most of them optional. Georgia arrived at Iron Creek with something to prove, a past she doesn’t discuss, and a talent for making the quietest Mercer spend his entire word budget arguing with her.

He’s her instructor. She’s his best trainee. The county opened a betting line by week two.

But somebody is tampering with Iron Creek’s contracts from the inside, Georgia’s history is the kind that follows a woman, and the dog who won’t perform his best trick is grieving a name nobody says out loud. Falling for each other is easy. Saying it — in a family where feelings are conducted via casserole — is war.

Opposites attract, forced proximity, a hero whose silence is a whole language, and a heroine who becomes the county’s first female field operative. Laugh-out-loud, cry-into-the-dog scenes, scorching heat, complete HEA. Reads as a standalone; hits harder in order.

 

My review:

Cash and Georgia will make you laugh and swoon. Cash is man of few words but he is always there for you when you need. Georgia has more than enough words for them both. And Havoc retired working dog has enough feelings to bring them both to the table. A fun addition to the series. Bring on Grady’s story.

 

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Monday, October 19, 2026

Paranormal Crimes Unit by Joe Gillis


 


 

Blurb:

In a world where vampires are real, the deadliest monsters wear lab coats.

Detective Sam Kane has spent six years successfully avoiding supernatural cases in a world where vampires work the night shift and werewolves join the K-9 unit. He investigates embezzlement, not monsters. Numbers don't bite, and spreadsheets don't require silver-lined evidence bags.

But when his star witness is found dead with two tiny marks on his neck—and a trail leading to a discount vampire transformation ring preying on the terminally ill—Kane's forced into the one division he's avoided: the Paranormal Crimes Unit.

Now partnered with a vampire detective and a werewolf with a forensics degree, Kane discovers a conspiracy that's been killing desperate people since supernatural integration began. Someone's been selling death at bargain prices, and the body count is rising.

As Kane navigates a bureaucratic nightmare of supernatural evidence protocols, species-specific Miranda rights, and a forty-hour sensitivity training he's desperately trying to avoid, he uncovers a truth more terrifying than any vampire: Sometimes the real monsters are the ones selling hope to the hopeless.

The investigation will cost him everything. His witness is already dead. And murder has never been more profitable.

Series Note: Paranormal Crimes Unit is a darkly funny supernatural police procedural that asks: What if the biggest challenge in solving supernatural crimes isn't the monsters—it's the bureaucracy?

My review:

No matter how weird the world gets it’s the paperwork that will bury you. For six years (since the paranormal creatures came out) Detective Sam Kane has avoided dealing with the Paranormal Crimes Unit. Now his star witness has been killed by what appears to be a botched vampire transition. So much for sitting safely in the Financial Crimes Unit. This case will take us into the Paranormal Crimes Unit with its quirky characters, stupid rules and endless paperwork that seems to change on the daily. Through grit and determination Sam and his new partners take a huge bite out of a frightening paranormal crime ring but there is still more out there and I look forward to seeing how Sam integrates into the Paranormal Crimes Unit.

 

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Friday, October 16, 2026

Begonias and Blood (The Botanicum Book 2) by Evangeline Hunter


 


 

Blurb:

Four deadly trials. One forced marriage. No way out.

My name is Anastasia Ashwood. I run The Botanicum, a magical flower shop in New York City, and I am also a dryad, a retired assassin, and a fugitive from Sentinel Security Group.

When my floral designer, Sophie Hartwell, is kidnapped by the powerful witch coven she fled, I follow her to Pittsburgh and discover that her uncle intends to force her through four deadly elemental trials before marrying her and taking control of her family’s bloodline.

If we fail, we die. If we succeed, Sophie will be forced to marry her uncle and bear the child he intends to use to secure his rule.

Now I have to keep Sophie alive, rescue my judgmental telepathic cat, and find a way to escape before victory becomes a fate worse than death.

 

My review:

Begonias and Blood begins where Roses and Ruin left off. Sophie is under attack.  Her past has come to reclaim her and she doesn’t want to go. When she is taken against her will Anastasia and Mochi are determined to get her back. This is a fast-paced magic filled adventure that will keep you on your toes and holding your breath. Can’t wait for the next installment.

 

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Thursday, October 15, 2026

A Visitor’s Guide to Guarded Vampires (Ravenslight Creek #1) by Rebecca Arden

 

A Visitor’s Guide to Guarded Vampires (Ravenslight Creek #1) by Rebecca Arden

 

Blurb:

Ellery runs to Alaska to figure out what she wants. Too bad nobody mentioned her new boss is grumpy, gorgeous, and technically dead.

Twenty-four years of being the perfect daughter ends with one explosive fight, three thousand miles, and a taxi driver named Gary who drops her in the entirely wrong town. Stranded, with a broken suitcase and seven dollars, she takes the first job she’s ever chosen for herself. Falling for the locals is not on the itinerary.

Nick would like it noted, for the record, that he did not sign up for any of this. He didn't ask to be a vampire. He didn't ask to inherit his dead father's tour company, or the interspecies pact that chains him to Ravenslight Creek for the rest of his long life. And he definitely didn't ask to hire some city girl in an impractical coat (that part was his meddling mother).

But stuck together, night after night under the northern lights, something shifts. For the first time in her life, Ellery feels seen. And Nick, who gave up on wanting anything, starts to want her. Badly.

When something with teeth comes hunting too close to town, too close to Ellery, Nick is forced to show her exactly what he is, and pray she doesn't run screaming back to New York.

But Ellery doesn’t run, she’s got questions. Lots of them. Which is a problem – because Ravenslight Creek has a way of dealing with outsiders who learn too much.

He can't leave.

She was never supposed to stay.

Neither of them counted on the town having a say.

A slow-burn, cozy paranormal romance under the Alaskan northern lights.

 

My review:

My kind of romance. Ellery is smart but entrapped by familial expectations. She runs to Alaska to escape. Nick too is entrapped but he can’t leave and he is resigned to that fact but it doesn’t make him the happiest of tour guides. With a little matchmaking on his mother’s part these two eventually figure it out. This is a slow burn, entertaining vampire romance that will leave you smiling and with a couple of questions I need answered. Maybe in the next book.

 

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Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Bite Me (Demon Underground #1) by Parker Blue

 


Blurb:

Part human, part succubus, and one hundred percent done taking crap from anyone.

Eighteen-year-old Val Shapiro has problems most teenagers don’t. Her dad was an incubus, her human mom can’t stand her demon side, and her only real friend is a snarky telepathic hellhound named Fang. (No, really. A hellhound. He sheds.) When she gets kicked out of the family and thrown into San Antonio’s supernatural underworld, Val does the only thing that makes sense: she becomes a vampire slayer.

But keeping her succubus under control while hunting things that go bump in the night is harder than it sounds—especially when every fight risks letting the demon out for good. And in a world that already sees her as a monster, losing that battle might just prove everyone right.

 

My review:

Bite Me is the first in a new to me Urban Fantasy. Val is a sharp character, Fang will make you laugh and Dan will make you swoon. I really enjoyed this one and am starting the next installment now.

 

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Tuesday, October 13, 2026

Kid Gloves by Annie Carlisle


 

Blurb:

Wade Mercer gave up his career to save the family ranch, and he runs it like control is a love language. The last thing he needs is the new neighbor — a whip-smart auditor with an underwater mortgage, a herd of opinionated goats, and a habit of being right — turning his operation, and his blood pressure, upside down.

Then the fire marshal says arson. And the whole county starts whispering her name.

Wade knows exactly one thing for certain: Delaney didn’t do it. Proving it means staking the ranch’s biggest contract — and his own carefully fenced heart — on the woman who has been dismantling both since the day she moved in.

 

My review:

Hilarious start to a new series. Each can be read stand alone. This is a terrific story about a by the book contractor and an smart, opinionated, tough as nails subcontractor. They’ve both got issues but proximity and a cast of quirky characters will make them see they’re perfect for each other while keeping you snickering out loud.

 

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Monday, October 12, 2026

Golem for Broke (Mad Queens Inc. Book 1) by Deborah Wilde


 

Golem for Broke (Mad Queens Inc. Book 1) by Deborah Wilde

 

Blurb:

Surviving your forties requires coffee, good friends, and a morally flexible relationship with illegal magic.

Tovah Silver runs Mad Queens Inc., an unlicensed magical problem-solving agency with her three best friends. They've built their reputation on grit, loopholes, and unrepentant competence, ignoring those who think their perimenopausal magic tops out at party tricks.

They’re wrong but correcting them would be a felony. Every one of the Queens has a forbidden second magic buried deep—until an assassin golem forces Tovah to unleash hers.

She thinks she got away with it. Then Nikolai Azarov shows up.

Vancouver’s only golem maker would call her story creative if he wasn’t too busy calling BS. Worse, once he figures out what she actually did to that golem, he doesn’t turn her in. He names his price.

Now Tovah must honor a dangerous bargain with a man who’s already insufferable without leverage, outmaneuver the magic cops circling her agency, and hunt down whoever left a hand-delivered clay effigy on her bed.

Middle age isn't a crisis. It's a weapon.

Perfect for fans of paranormal women’s fiction, slow-burn romance with banter, and found family who’d help you hide a body.

 

My review:

Fun, fascinating, full bodied characters will keep you laughing and gasping in this first in an exciting new series by Deborah Wilde. Filled with the authors offbeat sense of humor and featuring a healthy friendship between four women this tale will take you into a world of magic and intrigue. I LOVED IT. I look forward to the next installment with a lust usually reserved for chocolate oranges.

 

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