Review: Her Dark Enchantments

Read from 16th July – 11th August 2023

Synopsis: The Wicked Fairy. The Mistress of All Evil. The villain of Sleeping Beauty goes by many names, but where did she come from?

Myravelle Spinner grew up in a tower with only spiders, spindles, and stone walls for friends while her mother spun gold for the king. She wondered why her mother refused to teach her fairy magic until one fateful mistake led Myravelle to become the healer in the king’s Sleepy Wood Company…

Drained from years of waking soldiers from a cursed sleep, Myravelle must now choose a new canvas–a man whose life she drains with a dagger to fuel her healing powers. A ritual binds her to Byzarien Dumont, who loathes fairies for the fires that left his family impoverished and his body riddled with scars. His burning hatred causes Myravelle’s enchantments to wilt, leading the king to threaten her mother’s life.

Byzarien can only see Myravelle as a beautiful spider who strings men along her web, while Myravelle considers love a weakness for the king to exploit. With their families in danger and soldiers rotting in a death-like sleep, the pair must learn to trust one another before the dark magic spinning in Myravelle’s soul unravels once and for all.

The Wicked Fairy never asked to become a monster…

Out Now: Wanted for Indulgence, Trained for Greed!!

Wanted for Indulgence, Trained for Greed is out now on kindle and paperback from Amazon from $2.99!

Initial reviews are slowly starting to come in at 4.5 stars out of 5.

If you pick up a copy please get in touch either here or on Goodreads and let me know what you thought.

Review: Hangman by Jack Heath

Read on 7th July 2023

Synopsis: 

A 14-year-old boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a disturbing ransom call. It’s only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads.

Enter Timothy Blake, codename Hangman. Blake is a genius, known for solving impossible cases. He’s also a sociopath – the FBI’s last resort.

But this time Blake might have met his match. The kidnapper is more cunning and ruthless than anyone he’s faced before. And Blake has been assigned a new partner, a woman linked to the past he’s so desperate to forget.

Timothy Blake has a secret, one so dark he will do anything to keep it hidden.

And he also has a price. Every time he saves a life, he takes one…

Already sold into five territories, Hangman is a mesmerising dissection of the criminal mind and a bulletproof thriller.

Bookish Things: Book 1 of the 4 book Timothy Blake series. The book is 368 pages. The cover is suitably crime/thriller fiction.

Where to buy: Amazon on kindle for $9.99. I picked up a physical copy.

NaNoWriMo Day 4 update

My NaNo count for the end of day 4 is at 6737 / 50000 which is a hundred or so words above the daily word goal. I’m doing well, the structure of my story is coming together.

I’ve only added three chapters to my planned 12 so far, but I already know there’s going to be at least another one or two coming. The aim of 35,000 words in total will probably blow out to at least 45,000 or so knowing me.

First chapter is currently a kink scene, and there’s a few others sprinkled throughout, some with sex, some without. Also some vanilla sex, interesting twist of events… hopefully I can still write that well…

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#NaNoWriMo attempt for book 6

Here’s to another attempt at completing NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month for those who aren’t in the know. It’s the crazy plan of writerly people all over the globe to write 50,000 words in the month of November.

That’s 1667 words a day every day for a whole month.

The plan is to write (at least 35,000 words) in November and edit and publish book 6 in December. So keep your eyes peeled for Wanted for Indulgence, Trained for Greed in December if things go according to plan!

Who else is doing NaNoWriMo this month?

Review: Victim Without a Face

Read from 25 May to 7 June 2023

Synopsis: 

THE SWEDISH BESTSELLER.

Two gruesome murders have shocked the Swedish town of Helsingborg. The first victim, a thug who liked using his fists, died with his hands sawn off. His sidekick, a fan of steel-capped boots, was crushed feet-first by a JCB. Both men were bullies in the same class at school. Is someone serving justice after thirty years?

The killer leaves no trace behind. But for lead investigator Fabian Risk, the lack of forensic evidence is not the only problem. He too was a student in that class – which makes him both a potential victim and a potential suspect…

Full of unremitting suspense and unexpected twists, this is a sensational thriller from a superb new storyteller.

‘More gripping than Jo Nesbo, blacker than Stieg Larsson and more bleakly human than Henning Mankell… This is high-octane Scandinavian crime that knows where all the bodies are buried’ Tony Parsons author of The Murder Bag.

Bookish Things: 601 pages. The cover is quite basic but still suits the story.