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[Blog Tour & Giveaway] The Sorcery Code by Dima Zales & Lion Coffee Lion Gold
In the world of The Sorcery Code, the ability to perform spells is the defining characteristic separating the Haves from the Have-Nots. Sorcerers are large and in-charge and the common people are barely scraping by.
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[Novella Review] A Vampire’s Christmas Carol By Cynthia Eden & World Market Christmas Coal Coffee
A Vampire’s Christmas Carol is a nice little paranormal twist on the classic tale. Vampire Ben is shown the error of his ways and where the dark path he’s on will lead with the help of three beings on Christmas Eve – a demon, an angel, and a panther shifter.
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[Short Story Review] Close To You: A Downside Ghosts Holiday Story By Stacia Kane & Zombie Java Eggnog Blend
Close To You is such an odd combination of creepy and sweet that somehow manages to really work. Chess and Terrible are hunting for auto parts in an old auto graveyard when they come face to face with a creepy/crazy old women with some decidedly macabre holiday plans of her own. At its heart, this is a holiday love story - albeit a love story with murderous ghosts, but still kind of touching in a weird way.
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[Novella Review] Santa Wore Leathers By Vonnie Davis & Paramount Coffee Cup O’ Cheer
Santa Wore Leathers by Vonnie Davis is a quick holiday romance with a steamy love scene, humor, a tiny bit of drama, and an assured happily ever after.
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[Novella Review] Mine To Tarnish By Janeal Falor & Independence Coffee Company Founder’s Pride
In Chardonia, women are possessions and male warlocks use hexes, spells, and the threat of being tarnished (magically made to be bald, tattooed, and unable to have children) to keep them under their thumbs. Katherine is bold and self-sufficient – far different from what Chardonian society claims people become when they are tarnished, worth less than the shadow they cast.
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[Book Review] Post Mortem By Kira Snyder &The Roasterie Dark Mojo Dark Blend
In the previous book, Dead Letter Office, the psychic equilibrium was thrown into a state of unbalance Halloween night when someone opened the gates separating the world of the dead from the world of the living. Now ghosts are roaming about in corporal form and crimes from the past are being mirrored in the present with lethal results.
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