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A Suspicious Murder in Ancient Egypt - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "A Taste of Evil"
BOOK EXCERPT “Let’s get back to the dispensary and organize ourselves. Then we can return to the vizier’s house when we have specific things to ask. Besides, Grandfather was going to wait there for us, remember? He must think we’ve fallen down a well.” As they approached the gate of the little property, they could hear the wild whoops of the orphans playing in the garden. “You know,” said Neferet to Bener-ib, “Qen and Shu-roy are getting old enough to be apprenticed. We need
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Murder and Intrigue in San Francisco - a Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Twisted Road"
BOOK EXCERPT Chapter One “ Bloody Tuesday” Nineteen years old, with the long, skinny limbs of a colt, Jimmy Walsh crouched behind a lamppost and shivered in the early morning fog. He dropped the brick he’d been clutching and hesitated before picking it up again. "This ain't right," he said, just loud enough for his nearest comrade in arms to hear. "It's like waitin' for Beelzebub to unleash his hounds of hell." Several yards away, the wooden barn that housed the city's electr
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Mar 305 min read
Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Code of Honour" by Rosemary Hayes
BOOK EXCERPT 1812 The March wind was sharp and Will Fraser buttoned up his jacket over his wool waistcoat and thrust his hands into his pockets. He paused for a moment to look about him and allowed himself a rare smile. The sheds were weatherproof now, the barns full of hay, the yard newly swept and all the tools repaired and cleaned. He raised his eyes to the hills where he could just make out the sheep, white dots sheltering from the wind against the drystone walls that cri
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Mar 274 min read
Featured Spotlight Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Lost Seigneur" by David Loux
WINNER OF THE 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR from THE HISTORICAL FICTION COMPANY BOOK EXCERPT Chapter One The afternoon turned the worn hue of an old silver coin as Magdalena began the daily ritual of closing up the lonely château, which sat on a plot of cultivated land in the new-world colony of Penn’s Woods, not far from the western frontier. First, she checked the bolt on the front door as well as the one that led from the mudroom to her husband’s vineyard. Then she pulled the heav
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Mar 264 min read
Tales of Robin Hood - A Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Rogues and Kings"
BOOK EXCERPT Allan gave Robin a crooked smile. “Would serve John right if we stole the treasury from right under his nose.” Robin butted him with a clenched fist. “Which of course you said don’t even think,” Allan added, rubbing his arm. “Too dangerous,” Little John agreed as he cracked the first of five eggs into water boiling in the pot over the fire. A gleam lit Allan’s eyes. “They’ll be putting more coin in the coffers on the morrow.” He tapped the coin pouch hanging from
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Mar 132 min read
Blog Tour for "Quetzalcoatl" by Ian Hunter
Book Title and Author Name: Quetzalcoatl: Time Stones Book II By Ian Hunter Publication Date: 22 nd April 2021Publisher: MVB Marketing- und Verlagsservice des Buchhandels GmbHPrint Length: 277 PagesGenre: Historical Fantasy Blurb: Jessie Mason lives with her nose in the pages of history. But she is discovering that the past is a dangerous place where she doesn't belong, and knowledge alone is not going to save her. Jessie’s life has become a series of terrible challenges. No
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Mar 103 min read
Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "West of Santillane" by Brook Allen
BOOK EXCERPT Sheheke prodded the fire, and Lodge plopped down next to his mother, shaking a buffalo-bladder rattle and grinning playfully with his sparse teeth. Yellow Corn spoke some solemn-sounding words to Sheheke, and he nodded in obvious agreement, not taking his eyes off of me. Clearing his throat, he said, “I learn much from these years on this journey to see the Great White Father, but my greatest lesson is that the season of my people is changing. It is a storm I can
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Mar 63 min read
Blog Tour for "Love Lost in Time" by Cathie Dunn
Love Lost in Time Cathie Dunn Blurb: A reluctant daughter. A dutiful wife. A mystery of the ages. Languedoc, France, 2018 Historian Madeleine Winters would rather research her next project than rehash the strained relationship she had with her late mother. However, to claim her inheritance, she reluctantly agrees to stay the one year required in her late mother’s French home and begins renovations. But when she’s haunted by a female voice inside the house and tremors emanatin
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Mar 23 min read
Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "An American Slave in Barbary" by Larry Kelley
BOOK EXCERPT We were only about thirty leagues from the Straits of Gibraltar. Adjusting the sails and riggings of our twelve-man ketch, Intrepid, we made in the morning of August 2, 1801, seven days after we left Greece, ready our departure from the Mediterranean and entrance into the Atlantic. We were on our return voyage to Boston when our passage was blocked by two Muslim pirate ships. Each was a three-masted xebec, with crews of about one hundred and fourteen cannons. The
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Feb 272 min read
Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "One Fine Voice"
BOOK EXCERPT Chapter 1 “Esther,” Daddy called. “It’s time to go.” I didn’t want to go. I wanted to stay and even though it was the first day of summer, I wanted to go to Meadow Springs School and sit next to Dorothy Hoover just like I, Esther Hopkins, had done ever since my first day of school. Why, the alphabet itself had pre-ordained that we would be best friends for life! But no one ever listened to what I wanted. My voice didn’t seem to matter. When I finally climbed into
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Feb 261 min read
A Soviet Circus Arrives in America - a Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Circus Bim Bom"
Book Blurb: 1990. The Soviet Empire is unraveling. A circus has just arrived in America. When the first privately owned Soviet circus arrived in America in 1990, as the Soviet Empire unraveled, its elite performers hoped to build cultural bridges through spectacular shows. Instead, this prestigious troupe faced a perilous journey through Cold War America. Circus director Yuri had to navigate treacherous waters where American mobsters, Soviet agents, and political forces circl
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Feb 232 min read
A Tale of the Foreign Legion - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Deserter"
BOOK EXCERPT From Chapter 7: Setup: After five years of civilian life, Gil is back in training. The first big test is to march through the unforgiving Western Sahara in Algeria. Five years of civilian life made him soft, and he hated it. Rocks. Gravel. Scrub brush. That’s all Gil saw for miles once Fort Ste. Terese disappeared behind the hills. The singing had long since stopped, replaced by the low-level grumbling of soldiers on the march. They reached the top of a low rise
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Feb 203 min read
The Stories Behind a Destructive Fire - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Secrets in the Woods"
BOOK EXCERPT As we rode out of the town on the wagon, I noticed that the road ahead was made of logs side-by-side, rattling our teeth and making it nearly impossible to speak. The further away from the houses, the closer to the road the monstrous trees came. I had never seen trees so large or green in my life. The invasive smell of pine nearly erased the odor of smoke. It was dim and the trunks played tricks on my eyes, making me think I was seeing people or animals walking t
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Feb 161 min read
The True Story of a Forgotten Hero - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "A Theory in Vienna"
BOOK EXCERPT This excerpt establishes the main theme and the high stakes. Prologue Vienna, July 1847 Helga winces as a contraction ripples through her. She knows it is time. She dresses and then wakes her mother, who will accompany her to the lying-in clinic. Within the half-hour they are ready, shawls wrapped tightly around them. Helga clutches the banisters as she follows her mother down the stairs and out onto the street. Slivers of dawn start to separate the darkness as t
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Feb 124 min read
Sworn Enemies Turned Lovers Face Challenges - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Gradarius: Roman Equestrian II"
BOOK EXCERPT ‘Luigsech of the Cornovii?’ Boudicca stopped short, shock widening her bright eyes. ‘What in the name of Andraste are you doing here?’ She smiled ruefully. ‘I could ask you the same. We’re a long way from the lands of the Iceni.’ Boudicca’s face darkened. ‘We were bringing the tribe’s yearly tribute to the Roman scum.’ She gestured to the water. ‘It belongs to the gods now.’ Luciana frowned, regarding the woman. Boudicca, her childhood foe in the Beltane chariot
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Feb 94 min read
From Star Singer to Pirate Prey - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "Showboat Soubrette"
BOOK EXCERPT Sam Clemens Arrives on the Scene John Dee took out his kerchief and wiped perspiration at his brow. Who were these Burtons? This situation was spiraling and not in a good way. “So, you are going to write out a statement about Ricky’s death?” “My cub pilot Sam Clemens is gonna record my statement. Yours too. And the squaw singer’s. He’s damned good at writing things up.” The door opened and a young man with wavy red hair entered. “You called for me, Captain Martin
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Feb 63 min read
A Widowed Academic Investigates Historical Practices - Blog Tour and Book Excerpt for "The Witch of Godstow Abbey"
BOOK EXCERPT From Chapter 2 - A Garden’s Secret The abbess sat in her chambers, reviewing the abbey’s ledgers. Sister Agnes entered without waiting for the novice outside to announce her. “My child! What urgency drives you to burst in so?” “I must tell you what I’ve found, Mother. It is deeply troubling.” “Then speak, Sister.” “The piglets did not die by the blade alone. They were prepared first with a potion—I suspect monkshood, judging by the blue tint of their lips and ton
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Feb 21 min read