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  Title: House of Yesterday Author: Deeba Zargarpur Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) Publication Date: November 29th, 2022  Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Synopsis: Struggling to deal with the pain of her parents' impending divorce, fifteen-year-old Sara is facing a world of unknowns and uncertainties. Unfortunately, the one person she could always lean on when things got hard, her beloved Bibi Jan, has become a mere echo of the grandmother she once was. And so Sara retreats into the family business, hoping a summer working on her mom's latest home renovation project will provide a distraction from her fracturing world. But the house holds more than plaster and stone. It holds secrets that have her clinging desperately to the memories of her old life. Secrets that only her Bibi Jan could have untangled. Secrets Sara is powerless to ignore as the dark truths of her family's history rise in ghostly apparitions -- and with it, the realization that as much as ...

  A WILDERNESS OF STARS Blog Tour Assets I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the A WILDERNESS OF STARS by Shea Ernshaw Blog Tour hosted by  Rockstar Book Tours . Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!    About The Book: Title:  A WILDERNESS OF STARS Author:  Shea Ernshaw Pub. Date:  November 29, 2022 Publisher:  Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Formats:  Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook Pages:  400 Find it:   Goodreads ,  Amazon ,  Kindle ,  Audible ,   B&N ,  iBooks ,  Kobo ,  TBD ,  Bookshop.org   Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only! In this magical romance from the #1  New York Times  bestselling author of  Long Live the Pumpkin Queen,  an illness cursing the land forces a teen girl astronomer to venture across the wilderness in search of the stars’ message that will, hopefully, save them all. When all is lo...

  Of Demon Kind (Kingdom of Jior #1) Genre:  Romantic Fantasy He’s heir to a dark throne. She’s a gentle healer. Will their forbidden attraction be the key to mending his broken soul? Prince Lorn just wants to be left alone. Drinking heavily to numb the despair of failing to prevent his evil father’s horrific defeat and his own inability to conquer the humans, the devastated half-demon has spent the last five years exiled in a drunken stupor. But when he’s falsely accused of kidnapping a beautiful noble, he emerges vowing to fight to clear his name…by becoming her white knight. Princess Lililaira longs to be free. Imprisoned in a sorcerer’s tower, the courageous woman is startled when a gorgeous, winged man flies in through the window and offers rescue. Seizing the opportunity to escape, she places her trust in the fierce warrior’s arms in a daring flight to freedom. Desperate to avert another brutal war, Lorn draws nearer to his lovely companion while wrestling with the sins ...

 Shadow Valley by Nik Xandir Wolf   Synopsis -  When Heath’s beloved foster mom, Linda, is brutally murdered by Burke, a crooked, small-town police chief, Heath reacts quickly, leaving a bad cop dead and going on the run. With Rori, the chief’s daughter under his protection, Heath must figure out how to outrun and outsmart Burke and his highly trained bounty hunter, Art Dominguez, who will stop at nothing until both he and Rori are murdered. The young couple tears away on an action-packed journey from Santa Cruz communes to cartel territory in Baja and are willing to do anything for their forbidden love to survive. All the while Heath carries with him a ring that holds family secrets he’s been searching to uncover his whole life: The identity of his biological parents. As Heath and Rori’s journey grows ever more perilous, Heath begins to question why he is so surprisingly good at hurting the dangerous people who cross his path. Until finally, south of the border, all of H...

I’m  so excited about this one! Check out To Steal the Sun, a thrilling heist fantasy by S.M. Carter! To Steal the Sun Publication Date:  October 11th, 2022 Genre:  Adult Fantasy/ Heist Fantasy/ POC/ LGBTQ2+ Representation 3 DANGEROUS rogues. 2 nations at WAR. 1 IMPOSSIBLE heist. Ocean’s 11 meets Game of Thrones. From one of the creators of WARFRAME! THE KICKSTARTER SENSATION THAT WAS OVER 700% FUNDED. When Raik, the most cunning smuggler this side of the desert, finds where the Ivory King vaults his magical runes—he builds a crew to execute an elaborate heist. Among them is Kahli Mahanta, a religious assassin with blind ambition. A young rogue, Kirin, with wit sharper than his arrows ought to be. And Amara, the so-called Nightspirit, whose raven-hair conceals even darker secrets. It won’t be easy. They’re opposed by the curved blades of the magic-deranged, watched by a paranoid king, and hunted by gaunt beasts that click in the cold desert night… All the while discoverin...

  I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the BRIARCLIFF PREP by Brianna Peppins Blog Tour hosted by  Rockstar Book Tours . Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!    About The Book: Title:  BRIARCLIFF PREP Author:  Brianna Peppins Pub. Date:  November 15, 2022 Publisher:  Disney-Hyperion Formats:  Hardcover, eBook Pages:  400 Find it:   Goodreads ,  Amazon ,  Kindle ,  B&N ,  iBooks ,  Kobo ,  TBD ,  Bookshop.org   Set at a luxe, aspirational boarding school inspired by the author's beloved alma mater Spelman College, this debut is a captivating celebration of the friends we choose, the family we protect, and the love we owe ourselves. It's fourteen-year-old Avielle "Avi" LeBeau's turn to do what everyone in her family has done: leave home to attend Briarcliff Prep―a Historically Black Boarding School (HBBS). And as scared as she is to say goodbye to her parents and move to G...