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Finding Forever by Cindy Houghton, ARC Team!
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Looking for Readers for Ivy Whitaker's series finale, Dead End!
Let’s help this series go out with a bang!
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Dead End by Ivy Whitaker, ARC Team!
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Looking for Tour Hosts for Sue Ward Drake's, Igniting the Fire!
Looking for tour hosts, readers and hype squad members for Sue Ward Drake’s book, Igniting the Fire!
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Last Call Weeklong Blast!
Help us spread the word about Cindy Houghton’s third installment of the Men of Mehama series! Weeklong blast!
October 16th- 20th
Weeklong Blast
September 22nd- 26th
Weeklong Blast
Finding Forever
Men of Mehama, Book 3
by Cindy Houghton
Chase Garett moved to Mehama for a fresh start. After a decade as a Smoke Jumper, he’s looking to stay in one spot. Especially after being dumped by his girlfriend and being named the guardian to his kid brother. He doesn’t have time for anything, especially the woman he can’t stop thinking about.
April Lockwood loves small-town life. Raising her daughter alone hasn’t been easy, but she wouldn’t change anything. Except maybe the dating pool, which seems to have dried up. Until a stranger comes to her rescue claiming to be her fiancé.
When being fake finances works in their favor, Chase and April, have to negative raising kids, small town gossip, and a jealous rooster. But it’s the rising heat between them that can’t be put out.
Tropes
Age gap
Found Family
Single Parent/Guardian
Fake Engagement
Firefighter
Small-town
No Third Act Breakup
Dual POV
Content Warning: Many of these happen off page and are referenced as part of a characters back story.
Death of parents
Child abuse or neglect
Injury and loss of life on the job
Reference to abortion
Substance and alcohol abuse
Adult sexual themes
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Dead End
Dark Paths, Book 5
by Ivy Whitaker
The final battle has come—and this time, there’s no running.
Shea Tobin has carried the Bearers’ curse in her blood, but now she stands as their last hope. A new evil is bleeding Verbank dry—twisting the town into a crucible of nightmares and hunting the people she’s sworn to protect.
With every step closer to the end, the line between realms frays, dragging Shea deeper into a destiny she never chose. Her ancestors whisper. Her blood burns. And the shadows demand her surrender.
But Shea has learned one truth: love—fragile, steady, defiant—may be the only light strong enough to cut through the dark.
Now she must risk everything—her heart, her soul, her very life—to unify Verbank and save the one she loves.
Because if she falters, Verbank falls.
And if Verbank falls… she loses everything.
Tropes
Paranormal Romance
Badass Witch Heroine
Vampires, Werewolves, Witches
Cursed Bloodline
Small Town with Secrets
Visions & Prophecy
Found Family
Unexpected Pregnancy
Love as Salvation
Race Against Time
Sacrifice for Love
Unchosen Destiny
Dark & Gothic Undertones
Emotional Gut Punch Moments
Hope in the Darkness
Hard-Earned HEA
Content Warning: Violence, gore, body horror
Captivity, imprisonment, torture
Medical experimentation, bloodletting
Addiction/drug use (vampire blood)
Pregnancy storyline, no pregnancy loss
Trauma, dissociation, grief
Death, euthanasia of victims
Implied fertility rituals / explicit sexual themes
