Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Blog Tour: Bound by Lies by Lylah James

BOUND BY LIES by Lylah James Release Date: May 13th Genre/Tropes: Dark Romance / Mafia Romance / Arranged-Marriage / enemies to lovers / forced-proximity / age-gap

SERIES: Fatal Alliances BOUND BY LIES by Lylah James is NOW LIVE!

Make sure to grab this all-new dark mafia arranged marriage romance TODAY!!

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BLURB From Amazon bestselling author Lylah James comes a new dark, arranged-marriage romance about a mafia princess and the cruel man who did everything to ruin her in an effort to make her…his. For the longest time, I had been a pawn between two empires built on blood. I had been promised to Matteo, who was supposed to be my future. But it was his brother who ruined me. Adrian Salvatore—reckless, merciless, carved from sin and evil. The brother no one dared to control. The one who looked at me like I was always meant to be…his. He stole my first kiss beneath the moonlight, right there at my engagement party. And he never stopped. Not when I begged. Not when I threatened. Until one night… One mistake. One unforgivable moment that shattered everything I was raised to protect. My modesty, my virtue, my family’s honor. Somehow I found myself bound to Adrian in ways I never wanted. But he didn’t believe in love. Everything he had ever done was driven by vengeance. Adrian wasn’t going to protect me. Instead, he had promised to break me. Somewhere between the hate and fear became a reckless obsession. And with that obsession came more destruction. We were both damned, but only one of us would survive the monster we’d become.

BOUND BY LIES is book one in the dark and twisted FATAL ALLIANCES series.

About the Author: Lylah James is an Amazon Best-Selling author, who writes emotionally intense romance featuring powerful, irresistible alpha heroes and strong yet tender heroines. Her stories are known for taking readers on a rollercoaster of emotion: heartbreak, longing, rage, and ultimately, love. Often referred to by readers as the “queen of cliffhangers,” she loves breaking your hearts and putting them back together again. She is the author of The Mafia and His Angel series and A Vow of Hate. When she isn’t writing, Lylah can be found with her nose buried in a good romance book, enjoying nature and baking.

Connect w/Lylah:

Website: http://authorlylahjames.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AuthorLy.James/

Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1738794629699569/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@authorlylahjames

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Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16045951.Lylah_James

Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/lylah-james

Rebrand Reveal: Suspicious Hearts Series by Taylor Sullivan

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Suspicious Hearts Series

Home to You: Book 1

Waiting for Wednesday: Book 2

by Taylor Sullivan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒔𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒔. 𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔𝒏’𝒕. 𝑴𝒂𝒚𝒃𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆—𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒊𝒕.

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Blurb from Book 1:

Welcome to the Suspicious Hearts series—where every story stands on its own, but the connections run deeper than you think. Each book follows a different couple with a complete, happily-ever-after.

I didn’t plan to fall in love with Jake Johnson.

He was my brother’s best friend. The man who stole my heart. The one person I was never supposed to want.

But hearts don’t listen. And sometimes they choose the exact wrong moment to show their vulnerable head.

The night we first kissed was the night I finally understood what I’d been afraid to admit—he was never going to see me as anything more than his best friend’s little sister. And once you know that, there’s no going back. So I did the only thing I knew how to do.

I ran.

Three years later, a betrayal I never saw coming sends me back to the city I thought I’d left for good—and straight back to Jake.

Back to the one person who’s seen me at my best and my worst. The one who knows my family, my history, and all the pieces I try to keep hidden. Being near him feels familiar in a way nothing else does—like coming home to the one place that ever really felt safe… and realizing my heart had never actually left in the first place.

We try to pretend we’re different now.

We’re not.

But this time, there’s something else standing between us. Something unspoken. Something that makes every look linger and every almost-touch feel heavier than it should. Time didn’t erase what we were—it just taught us how much we had to lose.

They say time heals. Maybe it doesn’t.

Maybe it just hands you a second chance—and asks if you’re brave enough to take it.

This Beautiful Lie: Book 3

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Book Tour: If Jesus Was a Project Manager by Shawna Calhoun

Faith-based Leadership in a Results-driven World

Religion / Christian Living / Nonfiction

Date Published: November 4, 2025

Publisher: Lucid Books Publishing

If Jesus was a Project Manager: Faith-based Leadership in a Results-driven World launches a groundbreaking seven-book "Faith at Work" series that bridges biblical principles with modern workplace excellence.

What makes it unique:

This series provides the first comprehensive, role-specific integration of Christ's leadership model with proven professional methodologies. Unlike generic "faith in business" books, each volume tackles specific roles—Project Manager, Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Business Analyst—showing exactly how biblical principles translate to daily responsibilities.

The series masterfully connects timeless spiritual truths with secular frameworks, such as Covey's Seven Habits, creating practical tools that work in any organizational culture. It goes beyond inspiration to provide concrete frameworks and actionable behaviors for immediate implementation, while maintaining professional credibility.

Key differentiators include character-driven performance that produces excellent results, crisis leadership integration addressing layoffs and entrepreneurship scenarios, and practical frameworks that help team members discover their God-given purpose.

The complete series creates transformed lives, stronger teams, and workplace cultures that reflect kingdom values through excellence, integrity, and genuine care for others' development. It culminates in the On-the-Job-Sword-Training (OJST) devotional workbook, which reinforces daily spiritual disciplines alongside workplace excellence.

About the Author

Shawna Calhoun is a seasoned project management professional with over 20 years of experience across healthcare, biotech, education, and a brief venture into oil and gas. Currently serving in a remote leadership role for a major healthcare organization, she blends technical expertise with spiritual insight to lead with clarity and purpose. Holding a bachelor’s in IT, an MBA in Project Management, PMP certification, and multiple Agile credentials, Shawna is also a respected instructor, consultant, speaker, and mentor. She volunteers with PMI, contributes to university advisory boards, and is pursuing her DBA in Project Management. Born again in 2019, Shawna’s testimony is one of perseverance—overcoming personal trials including trauma, divorce, job loss, and profound betrayal. She’s gifted in “connecting the dots,” often drawing connections between Scripture and professional principles, such as those found in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Her leadership encourages others to live a fruitful faith-forward life with wisdom and grace in Christ.

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Book Tour: Meat Cove by Janice Weber

SAGATHRILLER

Meat Cove combines saga and thriller via Fundy's lurid diary, which appears between each chapter, forming a tale within a tale. As Fundy's grim memories slowly come back to life, her past and present collide in a riveting conclusion worthy of the first sagathriller.

Date Published: January 22, 2026

Publisher: Seacoast Press

Constable Fundy Sutherland is a buff, gruff Mountie with a price on her head and a veritable ossuary of skeletons in her closet. A former JTF-2 sniper, Fundy is quietly raising daughter Skye in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia when three events upend her careful obscurity: Skye brings home a DNA ancestry kit; the doppelgänger of Fundy's runaway mother settles in tiny White Point; and an erratic Venezuelan ship passes through the Cabot Strait.

As local disturbances and international tensions escalate around a NATO conference in Halifax, Fundy must leave her safe lane and resurrect an implacable past. Generational love story meets geopolitical suspense in a SAGA THRILLER barreling across the North Atlantic.

Author Interview

Introduce yourself and tell me about what you do.

JW: I am a concert pianist who has written 9 novels. Or I am a novelist who plays piano concerts all over the world. I grew up Ridgewood, NJ, near NYC, and was considered a child prodigy, performing my orchestral debut at New York Town Hall when I was about ten. Over the course of my musical career, I have performed at the White House and Carnegie Hall, have appeared with the Boston Pops and leading American orchestras, have made ten recordings featuring esoteric virtuosic repertoire, and was a member of the piano faculty at Boston Conservatory before leaving to devote more time to writing.

I must usually drop the writing when I've got a lot of concerts, which is why I can only lay one literary egg every three or so years. Fortunately, that is accelerating as I dial down the performing (been there, done that) and ramp up the writing (ten more books yet to write).

I currently divide my time between two fishing villages in Massachusetts and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Tell me more about your journey as an author, including the writing process.

JW: My first literary endeavors were school plays and short stories. Three disastrous years at a conservatory begat my first novel, an 800-page satiric fantasy about life at a conservatory (duh). Fate channeled that tome to a brilliant agent, Nicholas Ellison, whose eyes must have glazed over after twenty pages, but who kindly suggested I write something more accessible to the average human.

I responded with The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, a wisecracking, torrid novel about a lusty composer of hymns. Eva became a Book of the Month Club selection and has been optioned three times for film.

Six books followed: Customs Violation, a sendup of the early days of women's lib; Frost the Fiddler, a thriller with a concert violinist moonlighting as spy; Devil's Food, a dark tale of marital distrust; Hot Ticket, second novel in the Frost series; School of Fortune, which I co-authored with Amanda Brown, creator of Legally Blonde; and Swing Set a literary bagatelle about...swinging.

My writing has been praised for its verbal virtuosity, wry wit, and emotional intensity. I could send specific reviews if you would like.

Writing process?

JW: Start early, stop when brain fries. That could be supper time. The first draft is always the hardest. I try to build on an outline driven by the story arc and finally realize that producing one lousy paragraph means I've had a good day. Books simply accrete.

About the Author

Janice Weber grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey and graduated summa cum laude from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York.

At the time of her Carnegie Recital Hall debut at age nine, she was writing her first short stories. She has continued both pursuits, with her novels providing counterpoint to the staid world of a concert pianist, or perhaps with her recitals offsetting the staid world of a writer.

Janice’s novels have a worldwide following. Her debut, The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, enjoys near cult status and is widely recognized as iconic Chick Lit – though appearing years before the genre was invented. Its colorful characters, verbal virtuosity, wit, and sensuality established the hallmarks of a style that has earned Weber comparison with Mark Twain, Fran Liebowitz, Harold Pinter, and Robert Ludlum (if such a hybrid can be imagined).

Janice’s novels happen between (and occasionally during) concerts. Music on some level infiltrates almost every book: Eva Hathaway writes hymns between trysts, Floyd Beck met the love of his life at Carnegie Hall, Leslie Frost is a concert violinist, and Ross Major listens to Beethoven when the going gets rough. Characters without music in their lives fill the void with swinging, murder, and treason, activities musicians tend to eschew since this would detract from practice time.

Janice divides her time between fishing villages in Massachusetts and Cape Breton.

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Book Tour and Giveaway: The Yellow Hair by Dwight Holing

A Nick Drake Novel, Book 10

Mystery, Contemporary Western, Native American Literature

Date Published: 04-30-2026

Publisher: Jackdaw Press

New Badge. Old Blood.

Nick Drake traded his past for the Sheriff’s star, but Harney County doesn’t do election honeymoons. His tenure kicks off with a double homicide staged as a murder-suicide—a lie Nick isn't buying. As he digs into the crime’s rotting core, the rookie Sheriff finds himself fighting a war on two fronts: a lethal learning curve with unproven deputies and a political recall designed to bury him. In the high lonesome where secrets kill, Nick must strike first and strike hard. Because in this office, the only thing shorter than his term is his life expectancy.

Excerpt

Potholes on a road I’d never traveled before grabbed at the wheels like a bad

conscience seeking redemption. It led to a ranch east of Burns surrounded

by withered hayfields scratched out of a dead sea of sage scrub.

Tumbleweeds hung on rusty strands of sagging barbed wire.

The wind-scoured house and barn looked ready to give up the ghost.

If the call that brought me out proved true, the owners already had.

A brand new 1980 Cadillac Sedan de Ville was parked out front. The color

made me think of the old saw about red skies in the morning. The driver’s

door opened and released a cloud of cigar smoke followed by a big man

wearing a pearl snap-button shirt and stockman boots. He set a

summertime Stetson atop his crew cut and eyed the seven-point

gold star on the door of my rig.

“I take it you’re the new sheriff,” he said. “I heard Harney County

had a special election to fill the boots of the old one who got himself killed.”

“Nick Drake,” I said. “And you are?”

“Red Caldera.” He chuckled. “Yup, I know, heckuva moniker.

My folks idea at being clever. Pleased to make your acquaintance,

though the situation inside is none too pleasing. Couple been dead a

week, be my guess.”

When I didn’t make a move toward the house, he clicked his cheek.

“I woulda thought you’d charge right in, but maybe you don’t know

you’re s’posed to on account you’re new to sheriffing.”

“If they’re dead like you say, what I need to know first is why you

went inside uninvited.”

The straw cowboy hat reared back as he aimed his double chin at me.

“Now, hold it right there. I didn’t do nothing wrong. I’m the one

called it in and I’m the one been cooling my heels on a hotter than a

firecracker morning waiting for you to show up.”

About the Author

Dwight Holing is the award-winning author of twenty books, including the bestselling Nick Drake Mysteries and the popular Jack McCoul Capers. He is a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Western Writers of America. He lives beside a coastal river in California with his wife and two dogs who’d rather swim than walk.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Book Blitz: Alive...For A Reason by Jaiden Jackson Smith

What You Don’t Know Will Kill You and It’s Not the Pandemic: Julia’s Story

Nonfiction / Biographies / Health

Date Published: December 23, 2024

You don’t have to die… like Julia almost did.

This gripping memoir tells the true story of a sudden, devastating illness—thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)—a rare blood disorder with a 90% mortality rate if left untreated.

Through a deeply personal and conversational narrative, Jaiden Jackson Smith brings readers into Julia’s world:

● A body turning against itself

● A mind navigating fear, confusion, and altered reality

● A spirit clinging to faith and purpose

What You’ll Discover

● The hidden dangers of undiagnosed illness

● The link between stress, trauma, and autoimmune disorders

● The reality of hematological conditions and platelet disorders

● The emotional and spiritual battle of survival

About the Author

Jaiden Jackson Smith is an award-winning author, advocate, and storyteller whose work centers on truth, healing, and human resilience.

Her debut memoir earned the 2025 International Impact Book Award, marking her as a powerful new voice in inspirational nonfiction.

Jaiden holds a Master’s degree in Law and Public Policy in Nevada and is committed to continuing her education to advocate for:

● Individuals with intellectual disabilities

● People with disabilities

● Senior adults

Her life is guided by three core values:

Integrity. Loyalty. Determination.

Beyond her professional achievements, Jaiden finds joy in:

● Spending time with her husband

● Enjoying music—especially Earth, Wind & Fire

● Writing and creative expression

● Bringing light into the lives of others through kindness

Her mission is simple yet profound:

To remind people they are seen, valued, and never alone.

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Book Blitz: Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland by D.L. Norris

Biographical Fiction

Date Published: March 26, 2026

Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is a sweeping, multi-generational saga inspired by true family history, tracing a Norwegian immigrant family's journey from the rugged valleys of Norway to the windswept prairies of Nebraska.

Rooted in the author's own heritage, the story follows Kittil and Marte Dyrebu as they leave behind everything familiar-family, language, and homeland-to chase the promise of opportunity in America. Their passage across the Atlantic is only the beginning. What follows is a lifetime of perseverance: carving a home from raw prairie, enduring devastating storms, profound loss, quiet joys, and the relentless demands of frontier life.

Told through richly detailed vignettes, Voyagers weaves together the lives of parents and children, siblings and spouses, revealing how love, faith, and tradition are carried forward even as circumstances change. From intimate moments around a family table to life altering crossroads shaped by duty, sacrifice, and longing, each generation faces its own tests-yet remains bound by shared memory and resilience.

At its core, Voyagers is a tribute to storytelling itself: the way stories preserve identity, heal grief, and connect past to present. It is a novel for anyone drawn to historical fiction, immigrant journeys, and the enduring power of family legacy.

Both tender and unflinching, Voyagers honors the courage of those who came before-and the stories that continue to shape who we are.

About the Author

Award-winning author and motivational speaker, D. L. Norris is widely recognized for her insightful contributions to literature and personal development. With a prolific career spanning several decades, Norris has explored themes of health, emotional wellness, family dynamics, and cultural history, earning her a devoted readership. Her acclaimed novels, "The Long Way Home," "Where the Heart Is," "Old Books and Faded Dreams: Collector's Edition," "Field of Memories: A Tapestry of Heartwarming Short Stories," The Intercessors: They Walk Among Us," and "Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland"—are celebrated for their vibrant, oft-humorous stories and authentic portrayal of real-life events and mindsets inspired by her beloved Scandinavian heritage.

Norris's writing is characterized by its warmth, wit, and ability to capture the complexities of human relationships, drawing from her own experiences and family traditions. Through her work, she invites readers to reflect on the importance of resilience, hope, and unconditional love, weaving together narratives that resonate across generations.

She and her husband, Quincy, reside in the picturesque city of Hartford, Connecticut, where they continue to inspire others through their commitment to storytelling and community engagement.

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