#blogtour The Hawks Lady by Colleen Shannon

Historical Romance

Date Published: July 4, 2026

A blond Barbary pirate captain of a xebec. . . Sinan Reis.

Who is he? Why did he desert his country?

His latest capture: a fine yacht. And its owner. . . Lady Victoria Grenville.

Who is she? Can an heiress to a fortune conform to harem life?

Amidst sea battles, kidnappings, and political menace from the Dey of Algiers,
Sinan and Tory start as captor and captive. But their fierce battle of wills
will transform them both.

Most importantly, if Tory can’t submit to him will he sell her at
auction? Or can she escape before he does?

Kismet has other plans.

In 1799, Lady Victoria “Tory” Grenville, a willful English heiress, is
captured at sea by Sinan Reis, a blond Barbary pirate captain secretly working
for a cause he can’t reveal. Aboard his xebec and within the walls of an
Algiers harem, captor and captive wage a battle of wills that becomes a battle
for the heart, set against real political intrigue between the new United
States, the Dey of Algiers, and the warring Federalists and
Democratic-Republicans of post-Revolutionary Philadelphia. Sweeping sea
battles, kidnappings, and court machinations build to a richly satisfying
historical romance grounded in meticulously researched 18th-century detail.

 


* New, expanded edition with a newly written epilogue extending the story into
the events of 1814, bridging to the author’s upcoming Regency-era trilogy.


* Bonus material: author’s historical notes, a detailed bibliography/source
list documenting the book’s research, and a preview/teaser of Shannon’s
forthcoming “Fire, Wind and Earth” trilogy (Ashes, Burning Bright; Whirlwind,
Burning Bright; Tiger, Burning Bright).


* Author Colleen Shannon was nominated by Romantic Times as Best New
Historical Romance Author and has won/been nominated for multiple industry
awards (including a Kiss Award) across an 18-novel career with over a million
copies in print.


* Limited deluxe hardback printing released to mark the U.S. 250th anniversary
with patriotic design features available on Colleen Shannon’s author website.

The Hawk’s Lady: a Deluxe 250th Anniversary Edition of Colleen Shannon’s
beloved 1989 Barbary Wars romance, now fully revised with new original
content.

 

About the Author

Colleen Shannon grew up in Midland, Texas where the skies are as
limitless as the tales told by its many colorful residents, dreamers and
entrepreneurs all, with some scoundrels sprinkled in. Colleen grew up reading
and writing stories of every kind. She wrote her first short story at eight,
began a novel at 14 and read authors like Ayn Rand and Clive Cussler at 13.
After college when she married and expected her first child, she used a scrap
computer assembled by her engineer husband, to write her first novel, Wild
Heart Tamed (not posted digitally because she considers it a learning
experience).

She sold it herself to Berkley in less than a year, and at the age of 26 began
a new career and never looked back. The strength of her first book led to her
nomination by Romantic Times as Best New Historical Author. She went on to win
and/or be nominated for many other awards, including a Kiss Award for all
three heroes of her Fairy Tale trilogy written for Dorchester Books. One of
her six completed scripts is a modern, very different version to her Georgian
England set beauty and the beast novel The Gentle Beast. It has not been shown
as it needs heavy revisions but she moves easily between scripts and novels,
including original screenplays like Full Circle, currently revised after two
Blacklist evaluations. In the last two years, she has become one of Film
Freeways’ top winning screenwriters internationally, per Film Freeway
management.

Her 18 single title releases have appeared on many bestseller lists; she has
well over a million books in print. Colleen’s recent works include
thrillers and screenplays that combine her favorite novel story elements:
romance, suspense, history and action. Most recently, she published three
Kensington Lyrical Press romantic suspense. The first in the series, Foster
Justice, was released in December 2014 and ranked #1 on Amazon’s Western
Romance list. Colleen converted the story to a novel from the original script
version she wrote at UCLA’s Advanced Professional Screenwriting program.

Colleen Shannon graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin
with a B.A. in Archaeology and more recently earned her Master’s in Real
Estate Development from the University of Southern California. She currently
lives in Austin, Texas.

 

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#blogtour Truthful Lies and Bent Realities by Stephen Foehr

A Truly Believed Love Story

 

Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Date Published: April 30, 2026

 

In a time when mythology as propaganda shapes the systems of society and
government, two unlikely souls come together to question the reality of it
all—what’s going wrong in the world, whether anything’s
right, and their own perceptions of honesty, dishonesty, and who they are.

Chillee and Gordie meet in Big Town, where their connection flourishes despite
the recognition that they could each be fatal to the identities they’ve
created for themselves. Chillee is a realistic idealist, a problem solver who
puts her faith in the truth. Gordie, too, is an idealist, but he thrives on
uncertainty, posing as a criminal to bring justice to white-collar crimes.
They vow to hold one another accountable, to push each other through the steps
to being a better person—the best person they’re capable of being.

In Chillee’s neighboring hometown, a county commissioner’s
election will determine the fate of the rural community—and unknowingly
put relationships to the test. When her best friend Willi asks Chillee to help
her run against her ex-husband, she returns to Colton Center with
Gordie…who has his own motives in mind.

As the couple continues to work with and against each other, Chillee and
Gordie begin to see the deepening cracks in the perceived rights and wrongs of
their world. No matter the outcome of the election, life as they knew it may
not be the life they continue to lead.

Truthful Lies and Bent Realities is a thought-provoking ride into learning to
understand the self and challenge the mind to keep asking the existential
questions: Who are we? Who do we think we are? Who do we want to be? And do
those identities intersect in the right places?

About the Author

Stephen Foehr, author of 14 fiction and nonfiction books, began his
career as a police reporter in Chicago. His nonfiction books examines the
relationship between music and culture, autobiography of the blues Taj Mahal,
and travel. His fiction deals with submission and how to resist.

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#blogtour Tempus Unbound  by Janet and Chris Morris 

 

This hero of legend will encounter a challenge he has never
faced before . . . 

present-day New York City.

Tempus Unbound

Sacred Band Series Book 6

by Janet & Chris Morris

Genre: Dark Epic Fantasy Adventure, Mythology

Is this the Lemuria of antiquity, or of times to come? Once
you’ve ridden the storm clouds of heaven from the edge of time, anything is
possible. Demonic hordes threaten to destroy the very fabric of time itself.
The fate of all humanity rests on the shoulders of Tempus the Black, Favorite
of the Storm God. But even this hero of legend will encounter a challenge he
has never faced before . . . present-day New York City.

 

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Not one of the hundred pillows in Chiara’s bedroom
remained on her bed when the god finally had had enough of the woman who ruled
here as Lemuria’s Evening Star. She lay belly down on marble tiles in a slick
of oil and wine and surrounded by candles he was quenching, one by one, with
his fingers.

His short sword gleamed from the midst of the mess, hair
from her body and her head on its blade. He hadn’t done a protracted ritual for
the god in a very long time, and Lemuria’s rites rang as ancient and primal as
Enlil’s name.

Their tryst had included moments when fear glazed her
round, brown eyes, and moments when he felt certain the god overestimated what
Tempus’ human flesh could give and hers could accept.

Still, he’d never killed a woman unintentionally, and although
she might hurt when passion fled, now she merely lazed, intoxicated, malleable,
sated and unresisting in the middle of the floor.

Once he’d snuffed
the last candle, she reached for a pillow and propped her chin upon it so she
could watch him more easily.

The big bed might have been easier on her, but she and
the god had done things by the book. Still on her belly with the pillow under
her jaw, she said, “You’ll really go with Rath and Mano into their horrid world
tomorrow?”

“You tell me.” He was hunting for his leathers among her
pillows.

“Stay here. With
me. We could recast the lot. You could be free of your god forever, here. Stay,
and you’ll learn of pleasures you never dreamed . . .”

“I’m a fighter, a soldier, a simple mercenary who had the
bad luck to fall in with an insatiable god. It’s been so long, I wouldn’t know
how to do anything else.”

“You could be the first not to succumb to Lemuria’s
legerdemain. Don’t cast a lot, and you’re safe here until you do. We have
strife close at hand, should you crave excitement: all the strife of many
lands. From here you can help all of humanity — ”

“You must have
mistaken me for a politician or a would-be king. I’m not the one to chart any
soul’s course. Not after what I did with mine.”

“What do you
want, then?”

And Faun’s words
came back to him: “Survival, that’s the thing.”

Don’t miss the
rest of the Sacred Band Series!


The Sacred Band
of Stepsons series is Homeric and heroic fiction following the exploits of an
ancient cavalry unit modeled on the Sacred Band of Thebes. Deftly mixing
history, myth, and fantasy, Morris’ Sacred Band of Stepsons live and die in a
world where gods are real and magic works — sometimes.

Morris’
accursed cavalry commander, Tempus, first appeared Sacred Band first appeared
in the million-selling Thieves’ world shared-universe in 1981. Subsequently,
Janet Morris, first alone and subsequently with her husband Chris Morris, take
the Sacred Band into their own series of novels, set in the fourth century BCE.
Passionate, gritty, lyrical prose and unforgettable characters make this
series. Perseid Press Sacred Band novels includes the “Author’s Cut” of the
Beyond Sanctuary Trilogy and Tempus, as well as the epic novel The Sacred Band,
and The Fish the Fighters and the Song-girl.

 

Find them at Perseid Press


Best selling
author Janet Morris began writing in 1976 and published more than 30 novels,
many co-authored with her husband Chris Morris or others. Most of her fiction
work was in the fantasy and science fiction genres, although she also wrote
historical and other novels. Morris either wrote, contributed to, or edited
several book-length works of non-fiction, as well as papers and articles on
nonlethal weapons, developmental military technology and other defense and
national security topics.

 

Christopher Crosby
Morris (born 1946) is an American author of fiction and non-fiction, as well as
a lyricist, musical composer, and singer-songwriter. He is married to author
Janet Morris. He is a defense policy and strategy analyst and a principal in M2
Technologies, Inc. He writes primarily as Chris Morris, but occasionally uses
pseudonyms.

 

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#blogtour Three Shades called Horace by Jinx James

 

Three ghosts.

One psychic.

Zero patience for corporate
greed.

A hilarious, fast-paced romp through the supernatural
underbelly of the Isle of Man!


Three Shades Called
Horace

Witchery, Trickery, Love & Serendipity

by Jinx James

Genre: Humorous Paranormal Thriller

 

“delightfully
twisted…offbeat supernatural romp”
Amazon Review ★★★★★

“A unique and hilarious story with a lot of twists and awesome revenge.
I loved the ending!”
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They have the magic, the visions, and
the afterlife on their side. But will it be enough to stop an ROI Reaper of the
airwaves from hostilely taking over their dream?

Their “Super
Moon Show” is the viral hit of the year. Too bad the stars are all dead.

Pansy Peonie is a
psychic with a problem. Actually, three problems, and they’re all called
Horace. As the host of the world’s craziest paranormal livestream, she spends
her nights herding her team of opinionated ghosts and her days trying to keep
her witch mother from accidentally summoning something worse.

But when you’re
the top-rated supernatural show on the internet, you don’t just attract
spirits—you attract sharks.

Enter Rollo
Mansell: a ruthless media mogul who doesn’t care about the afterlife unless he
can monetise it. He wants the show. He wants the ghosts. And he’s not above
using a little corporate necromancy to get what he wants.

Now, Pansy is
caught in a high-stakes tug-of-war between the living and the dead. To save her
show—and her skin—she’ll have to outmanoeuvre a billionaire, survive a voodoo
conspiracy, and figure out if Rollo’s assistant, Max, is actually on her side.

Featuring a new
cover and a tighter, more suspenseful edit, this revised edition of Three Shades Called Horace will
keep you on the edge of your seat, while laughing uncontrollably.

If you love
fast-paced paranormal suspense with sharp wit, mysterious secrets, and un

forgettable
characters, dive into the newly polished edition of Three Shades Called Horace ]

 

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    Over on the
ever-lovely Isle of Man, it’s turned out to be the most sensational evening.
The Three Shades, Horace Flaccus, Horace Walpole and Horace Silver are already
there, hovering in the twilight, when PP and Fenella finally arrive on Pansy’s
motorbike. They’re late as usual, but The Three Shades don’t seem to
mind. After all, they do have all the time in the world, don’t they?

The team is
getting together at dusk, at an ancient place where they like to meet when the
weather’s nice. It’s in the middle of the most beautiful circle of prehistoric
standing stones on the island’s southwest. This mystical place is situated on a
remote hillside, one side of which looks across to the mountains and the other
down towards the sea.

Hearing the
vroom of a hot, racing motorbike heading up the hill towards them, the three
ghosts turn their heads expectantly. Pansy, aka PP, parks behind the largest of
the enormous stones.

She appears
first, walking briskly towards the Three Shades, unbuckling, lifting her helmet
off and shaking out her hair. Behind her, Fenella, her older, White witch
partner, picks her way over the rough ground.

‘We just have
to tell all you Horaces straight away!’ says Pansy, getting excited now.
‘Barrett says the ratings for the last show were amazing!’ she gushes, adding,
‘he even told us they were “Earth-shattering!” she grins.

‘Er, would it
be possible for you to explain to us what exactly that means, Ma’am?’ asks the
ever-polite Walpole.

 ‘What it
means, gentlemen,’ says PP, grinning, ‘is that not only are we already getting
a huge worldwide audience, but it’s growing bigger and bigger with every show!’

‘And after the
last one,’ Fenella butts in excitedly, ‘we’ve had so many people trying to sign
up that Barrett has been overwhelmed. His computers and the social media
department can’t cope. He’s having to put on more people every day to handle
it!’

‘Yes, but, um,
what precisely does all of this mean, Ms Pansy?’ asks Flaccus.

‘Look, I’m
sure we explained it to you before, Horace. Don’t you remember? The
viewers of our Supermoon show all over the world are also a part of the
show, right? They’re active participants with their “Cozmics”, says
Pansy.

‘Well, yes, my
dear, you certainly did,’ said Flaccus, with that lovely smile of his. ‘But I’m
afraid that was the part I could never quite understand,’ confesses the Roman
Horace. ‘I’m so sorry,’ he adds, looking seriously embarrassed now.

‘Not to worry
at all, Horace,’ says Pansy gently. Flaccus has always been her favourite, even
though she always enjoys teasing him.

‘Did you know
that on the next show,’ she says, ‘the Supermoon is going to be the
closest it’s been to the Earth for sixty-nine years! Yes! And that
means that if we can add the viewers’ Cozmics together with all of that extra
Moon energy,’ she tells them excitedly, making a fingers-crossed sign.

At that point,
Pansy pauses, grins, and says, ‘Well, just try to imagine the power
involved!’

‘The technical
guys even think we might have enough energy,’ says Fenella, ‘to maybe bring you
back in full colour… and all of you at the same time!’

‘All of us in
colour…  and at the same time?’
says Horace Walpole, getting really excited himself now.

‘Are you sure?’
says Horace Silver, ‘In full colour?’

‘Absolutely!’
says the by-now almost gushing Fenella! ‘Bye-bye to all that fuzzy black and
white stuff, eh?’

They can all
feel the excitement rippling the air between them. The psychic, the witch, and
the three Horaces gathered in the magic circle of prehistoric standing stones.

‘It’s called “collective
mental focus”,
’ says PP. ‘And that means that if it all works out, you
three guys will materialise as psychic energy through me!’

‘And that’d be
sooo cool, baby! Right?’ smiles jazzman Horace Silver.

Fenella grins
again and nods; ‘But, how about this? If we can get enough Cozmics from the global
audience, all three of you Shades may even seem to fully come back to life for
a while!’

This time, all
three of them just stand there, totally gobsmacked!

‘Now, nobody
is certain exactly what will happen,’ says Fel, ‘but whaddya reckon,
gentlemen? Let’s give it a go, eh?’ she gushes.

By now, they’re
all totally in love with the idea… and it shows.

‘I’m afraid I
still don’t quite understand it,’ Flaccus says to her, almost flapping his toga
with excitement, ‘but wouldn’t it be wonderful if it did actually happen?
Especially for me after two thousand years in the shade!’

‘Hey, you
could even really “Seize the day!” says Pansy!

 

* * *

“It is
charming to totter into vogue.”

Horace Walpole

1717-1797

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The House on Via
Magliocco

by Jinx James

Genre: Supernatural Dark Fantasy

 

To be beautiful
forever. Would you turn down that offer?

 

A mesmerizing one-hour dark fantasy short read.

Silvia is a top fashion model who lives for the spotlight,
but the camera’s love is fleeting. When she’s offered a mysterious assignment
at the secluded House on Via Magliocco, it feels like the ultimate canvas for
her creativity and passion for dance.

But inspiration quickly twists into a feverish obsession.

As the mansion’s haunting music bleeds from her dreams into
her waking life, Silvia realizes she hasn’t just accepted a job—she has stepped
into a beautiful trap. The house demands a performance, the wealthy owner
demands perfection, and the price of eternal beauty might just be her soul.

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Bestselling dark humor fiction author Jinx James was born in
the UK and lives in Australia. He has worked in music and advertising, and has
always been fascinated by charisma, satire, and what makes people laugh He used
to write comedy sketches for a well-known Australian TV and film star, but that
was after he was in the music game, as a performer. Later came writing and
producing music for advertising, and for big events like the Sydney Olympics.
All that time he was trying his hand at writing fiction, mostly humorous.
Eventually it became his new way of living while having fun. He writes under
two author names. As Jinx James his dark humor draws on his life in show
business. As dog lover Kit James, his Mutt to Megastar series features Elliott,
a rescue dog who becomes a TV star.

 

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Life Update as of Lately 😢

To all my readers and followers I want to be transparent with you all let you all know that I’ve not been doing well. I recently lost a family member and it has been really hard to deal with. I don’t deal with death very easily. Ive been trying to stay busy and pretend like nothing happened but it’s painful each day. I want to apologize to my book blitz teams that I work with for some of my late posts, I try to always post the following day. I don’t know …and now the holidays are coming up and my heart is not in it this year. So if I’m a little late with a post my apologies it’s definitely not done on purpose. I’m hoping soon I’ll start to feel better. 💜 Thank you

#blogtour The Glass Moth by D Lieber

Dystopian Fantasy

Date Published: 09-15-2026
Publisher: Ink &
Magick

Her magic comes naturally. His is synthetic. Their different approaches could
get one of them killed.
 
Wisconsin, 2050. Kallista Marquis
doesn’t expect much anymore. When poor air quality and undrinkable water
are everyday problems, the pessimistic gardener is just glad to have a roof
over her head. But when a handsome glassblower informs her she’s a
natural witch, she eagerly learns the illicit craft as she discovers her
ability to finally impact the world.
Fort Meade. Evan Wells should be
thrilled with his special assignment. Desperate to keep taking the
wish-granting drug that makes him feel invincible, the Army specialist focuses
on hunting down naturals and avoiding the snarky yet attractive private who
hardly gives him a moment’s peace. But when his lack of progress again
threatens a court-martial, his spiraling anxiety endangers more than he’s
willing to risk.
Trapped by the economic, governmental, and environmental
pressures of their time, these opposing sides believe magic is the only
glimmer of hope either of them has. But is that power worth it? Is it worth
dying for? Is it worth killing for?
 
Uncertainty, love,
secrets, and sorcery tangle the threads of fate in this slice-of-life
dystopian fantasy.

 

 

About the Author

 
 D. Lieber writes character-driven stories for every mood. Her characters
breathe as if they have souls, and her effortlessly immersive worlds hold
inner harmonies that cleverly tie everything together.
Beyond her skeptic
and slightly pessimistic mind, Lieber wants to believe. She is a romantic
idealist at heart, always fighting to keep her feet on the ground and her head
in the clouds. When she isn’t planning her next physical adventure,
she’s recklessly jumping from one fictional world to another. Her love
of reading led her to earn a Bachelor’s in English from Wright State
University. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband (John) and cats (Yin and
Nox). 

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