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The Matchmaker’s Lonely Heart by Nancy Campbell Allen

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London, 1885

Amelie Hampton is a hopeless romantic, which makes her the perfect columnist to answer lonely heart letters in The Marriage Gazette. When Amelie plays matchmaker with two anonymous lonely hearts, she also decides to secretly observe the couple’s blind date. To her surprise, the man who appears for the rendezvous is Harold Radcliffe―a grieving widower and a member of Amelie’s book club.

Police detective Michael Baker has been struggling ever since his best friend and brother-in-law died in the line of fire. Because he knows the dangers of his job, he has vowed never to marry and …

The Contest by K. E. Ganshert

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In a world of haves and have nots, where petty crime is punishable by death and magic is forbidden, a deadly contest unfolds in secret. Twelve competitors are mysteriously invited. The winner gets one wish. For 17-year-old Briar Bishop, this means saving her brother from execution by guillotine, and she’s not going to let anything or anyone get in her way. Especially not Leo Davenbrook, the handsome High Prince, who has grown up with everything she never had and whose very presence threatens her chance at survival. She has no idea a darker battle wages in secret, one that …

On The Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright

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1885.
Adria Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor–a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior–Adria senses wickedness hovering over the property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria her life.

Present day.
Kailey Gibson is a new nurse’s aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Kidnapped as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets …

Tari Faris’ Reading Habits (with giveaway)

The lovely Tari Faris returns to Relz Reviewz to chat about her reading habits! Not sure about you, but I love discovering the where, when, why, and what about other book lovers. Tari shares about what influences her most, the book she’d loved to have written, and her ‘hang-up’ with romance! You will discover it’s no surprise Tari writes compelling contemporary romance!

Enjoy learning more about Tari and be sure to get your hands on a copy of new release, Since You’ve Been Gone!

Over to you, Tari…

Tari’s Reading Habits

When is your optimal time to read?

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The Mistletoe Countess by Pepper Basham

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Will the magic of Christmas bring these two newlyweds closer together, or will the ghosts of the past lead them into a destructive discovery from which not even a Dickens’s Christmas can save them?

Mistletoe is beautiful and dangerous, much like the woman from Lord Frederick’s Percy’s past, so when he turns over a new leaf and arranges to marry for his estate, instead of his heart, he never expects the wrong bride to be the right choice. Gracelynn Ferguson never expected to take her elder sister’s place as a Christmas bride, but when she’s thrust into the choice, …

Character Spotlight: Joanna Davidson Politano’s Ella (with giveaway)

Joanna Davidson Politano returns with her fifth novel, another historical drama with overflowing with lyrical prose, mystery, and romance. Joanna juggles writing with being a wife, a mum to young children with all the busyness that entails!

Today we meet A Midnight Dance‘s leading lady, Ella – a young woman who loves to dance, but is fearful of where her talent and ability might lead.

Kimberly Duffy, author of A Mosaic of Wings and A Tapestry of Light, has this to say about the story: “Politano has written a story that is at once deeply atmospheric, yet grounded …