A Light to Guide Us Home

 Welcome to my blog tour stop for A Light to Guide Us Home which is been hosted by Bookouture 

A Light to Guide Us Home can be read as a standalone.

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Title : A Light To Guide Us Home 

  

Series :The Resistance Girl Book 3

Author :Dianne Haley

Genre :historical  fiction based WW 2 

Rating : 5

Would I read more by this author : Yes

Would I recommend this series ? Yes

Would I recommend this author ? Yes

Would I in fact re read this series ? Yes 

First off a big thank you to Bookouture , the author Dianne Haley , and to NetGalley for the invite to read and review A Light To Guide Us Home .Just like the first 2 books this one broke my heart to the point where there was times I had to put it down ,it one of those books that makes you see how fair the characters have grown, and makes you feel their strength  it also showed me that no matter what your fear is ,you will always have the strength and the will power to go on ,even if at times you might feel like giving up. This author is right up with some of my favorite historical fiction authors who writes WW2 based stories , because of how well they bring their stories to life , it shows that they have done their homework on the places , the people , and the siting of their stories . 

‘Please, you must get Clara out of France!’ cried the woman, her voice breaking in desperation. ‘She’s only thirteen and her parents have been taken to a death camp. Can you save her before it is too late?’

1943, Nazi-occupied France: Valérie Hallez clings to the hope that she will soon reunite with her beloved fiancé, Philippe, fighting the Nazis in Italy. Until that day comes, she risks her life helping Jewish children flee across the border with the resistance, but each tear-stained face breaks her heart a little more.

So, when she learns of little lost Clara, anorphan whose family has been torn apart by the German occupation, and is asked to rescue her, she jumps at the chance to save another innocent life. But she isn’t the only one searching for the young girl…

Because brave Clara is carrying a crucial Nazi document. And the secrets it holds could change the course of the war forever.

Frantically trying to stay one step ahead of the Gestapo, Valérie traces Clara to an isolated children’s home– but she is too late. German soldiers have already raided the building.

Her relief when she hears that Clara escaped is short lived, as there’s not a whisper of her whereabouts. And just when she’s about to start on her search, devastating news reaches her about Philippe.

Shattered by the thought that Philippe may never come home, Valérie tries to pull the pieces of her broken heart back together. She knows there’s a little girl lost out there who needs her. So, she must make the hardest choice of all. Even if she can’t save her dearest love, can she save poor Clara – and help her end this terrible war?

A totally unputdownable and heart-wrenching wartime story about love, bravery and sacrifice. Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Nightingale and The Alice Network.

A Light to Guide Us Home can be read as a standalone.

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Author bio:

 

Originally from the north of Scotland, Dianne now lives with her husband in Edinburgh and has two grown-up children. After a thirty-year business career in London and Edinburgh when Dianne wrote between projects, she is now writing full-time.

Dianne and her family have been visiting the area round Lake Geneva since 1992 and love the Alps in all seasons. The inspiration for her series set in WW2 Switzerland came from a drive through Geneva’s old town on a rainy October evening, the cobbled lanes a perfect setting for secrets and hiding places.

Author social media

 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/dhaley30

 

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Website: www.diannehaley.com

FORGOTTEN WAR by Don Bentley

 Welcome to my showcase for  FORGOTTEN WAR by Don Bentley which is been hosted by Penguin Random House

Title : Forgotten War

Series : A Matt Drake Novel

Author : Don Bentley

Buy Link : Forgotten-War-Matt-Drake-

FORGOTTEN WAR Non-exclusive excerpt

“I have a warrant for Frodo’s arrest,” Julie said. “He’s coming with us. How that happens is up to you.”

“Let me see the warrant,” I said.

“Fuck off,” Fred said. “You’re not the subject of the warrant or his lawyer. We don’t have to show you shit.”

“That’s correct. You don’t,” Rawlings said, his disembodied voice ringing through the bar, “but I’m asking that you to share it with me, as a professional courtesy.”

“Why?” Fred said.

“Because you’re in my city,” Rawlings said, “and that’s how things are done. Or I can ask my friends at Austin PD to pull you over for a traffic violation and develop probable cause for a body cavity search while I make some calls. Choose wisely.”

“This is bullshit,” Meathead said.

“Welcome to the big leagues, kid,” Rawlings said. “Read me the warrant or one of Austin’s finest checks you for hernia.”

The flush that had begun in Fred’s thick neck had now reached his jowly cheeks. He opened his mouth, but Julie’s smooth alto cut through whatever he’d planned to say.

“We’re happy to extend professional courtesy,” Julie said, even though the look she gave me suggested otherwise. “I’ll send you a copy of the warrant once we’ve taken the prisoner into custody. He’s being arrested for a murder that took place in Afghanistan in 2011.”

Afghanistan?

I hadn’t seen that coming.

“Bullshit,” I said. “We’re not going anywhere.”

“Matty,” Frodo said.

“I don’t know how else to say this,” Julie said, “but we’re not here for you, Mr. Drake.”

“We were in Afghanistan together,” I said. “He didn’t murder anyone.”

“Matty,” Frodo said, his voice more forceful.

“The warrant sounds legit, Matt,” Rawlings said. “I can take a look when I get there, but—”

“Not happening,” Julie said. “You asked for professional courtesy, and I gave it. Now my partner and I are walking out of here with Mr. Cates. End of story.”

“Don’t take this the wrong way,” I said, squaring off with Julie, “but unless you’ve got five more friends waiting outside, Frodo’s not going anywhere.”

Julie’s eyes blazed.

Whatever.

Frodo and I weren’t just friends. I’d been in the seat next to him when an explosively formed penetrator had ended his career as a commando and nearly his life. He was my brother. No way was he leaving here in handcuffs.

“Matty!”

I turned to see Frodo standing beside me.

“I’ll go with them,” Frodo said.

“You can’t—,” I said.

“I love you man, but you make a mule look compliant. We both know I’m going with them.”

“Not happening.”

“Damn it, boy,” Frodo said. “Think. What good will you be sitting in the jail cell next to mine? Let me go and do your thing.”

Frodo squeezed my shoulder and then slipped past me.

“I’ve got only one hand,” Frodo said, offering right arm to Julie. “Not sure how your cuffs are going to work.”

“We’ve got that covered,” Fred said, grabbing Frodo by the shoulder and spinning him around.

The CID agent took a pair of specialty restraints from his pocket. He fastened one on Frodo’s wrist and the other to the stump just above this prothesis. “Don’t expect any special treatment because of your injury. You’re a war criminal. Period.”

Frodo.

A war criminal.

If there were any two sentences in the English language more incongruent, I couldn’t think of them.

Though he never talked about it, Frodo had been awarded the Silver Star for an operation in Afghanistan during which he and another Unit sniper had saved the lives of four SEALs. What he had done that day was legendary in the special operations community.

Frodo had never seen fit to mention it to me, even though we’d been running and gunning together for more than a decade. The information had come to light only when a SEAL had asked him about it in my presence. I’m not saying that Frodo was perfect, but war criminals were by and large cowards, thugs who preyed on the helpless.

Frodo was no coward.

Excerpted from Forgotten War by Don Bentley Copyright © 2023 by Don Bentley. Excerpted by permission of Berkley. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Intent.

As a team, Matt Drake and his partner, Frodo, have watched each other's backs through some very dark days. But one thing they've never doubted was their commitment to each other...until now. 

     Frodo has been accused of a war crime ten years after leaving Afghanistan. Matt is determined to prove his friend innocent, but what will he do when he finds that his closest friend has secrets he won't share?

 

Author : 

About the Author

Don Bentley is the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour, Tom Clancy Target Acquired and the Matt Drake series (Without Sanction,  The Outside Man, and Hostile Intent). In 2023, he was named as the new author for the Mitch Rapp series begun by the late Vince Flynn. Don is a former FBI Special Agent, SWAT Team member, and Army Apache helicopter pilot. Learn more at DonBentleyBooks.com.

 

Deep Tide

Welcome to my blog Bliz for Deep Tide which is been hosted by Penguin Random House

Title : Deep Tide

Series : The Texas Murder Files 

Author : Laura Griffin

Sean Moran slipped away from the party. The bride and groom had left under a shower of rice, but people were still milling around beneath swags of white lights, drinking the couple’s booze and enjoying the breeze off the water. Sean would have liked another drink, but he needed to get back to his condo. As he crossed the wooden bridge spanning the sand dunes, he spied a woman on the beach with a champagne flute in hand. Leyla Breda. Her formfitting dress looked silver in the moonlight, and it shimmered against her body as she strolled toward the surf. Nearing a piece of driftwood, she dropped her shoes to the sand and sat down. She nestled the flute at her feet, then lifted her arms and twisted her dark hair into a knot at the top of her head. Sean stopped at the end of the bridge. He had about a hundred things left to do tonight, including contacting his boss. Instead, he walked over to Leyla. "How's the champagne?" She jumped and turned around. Recognition flickered across her face, and her shoulders relaxed. "It's good." She held up her glass. "You didn't have any?" "Nope. Can I get you a refill?" She smiled. "What, are you a waiter now, too?" He stepped closer. "I'm Sean Moran, by the way." He held out his hand. "We never actually met." "Leyla Breda." Her handshake was brisk and businesslike, but the warm look in her eyes gave him hope. "Joel's little sister," he said. "That's me." He turned toward the water so he wouldn't be tempted to stare down the front of her dress. "I didn't get a chance to thank you earlier," she said. "Things got really hectic." "Looked like you had your hands full."

"So, are you here for Joel or Miranda?" He looked at her. "Joel." She tipped her head to the side as she gazed up at him. "And you know him from . . . ?" "Work." She frowned. "Here?" "No. We go way back. We were in the same academy class in Houston, spent some time at HPD together." "Oh. That was a while ago." "Yeah." "So . . . the vice squad, then?" "Yeah. Mind if I sit down?" "Not at all." Sean lowered himself onto the other end of the sandy log. He didn't like the direction the conversation had taken so he steered it back to her. "So, how long have you been a caterer?" he asked. "Hmm . . . let's see. I guess it's been about three weeks now." She turned and smiled at him, and he felt a hot jolt of attraction. "Why? Can you tell?" "Not at all." "Right." "Well, the timing seemed a little bumpy." "Just a little." She rolled her eyes. "We had several staffers no-show. It happens a lot in this business. People are flaky. Despite all my planning, you could say we were a bit rushed." Rushed was right. No woman had ever clapped at him before. He'd discovered it was a turn-on.

Excerpted from Deep Tide by Laura Griffin Copyright © 2023 by Laura Griffin. Excerpted by permission of Berkley. All rights reserved.

About DEEP TIDE (Berkley; April 25, 2023)

An undercover FBI agent and an independent coffee shop owner must team up when a local barista is found dead and danger circles their coastal Texas town in this new romantic thriller from New York Times bestselling author Laura Griffin.

With two brothers on the police force, Leyla Breda is well aware of the rising crime in her small beach town, but she never expected it to show up on her doorstep. When Leyla finds one of her employees murdered in the alley behind her coffee shop, she’s deeply shaken, and as a new law enforcement officer in town begins to circle her place of business, her instincts only sharpen.

 

Sean Moran is on an undercover mission: The seaside community of Lost Beach may look like a picturesque postcard, but his team suspects it’s a point of intersection for several crime syndicates that the FBI has been investigating for years. Even so, when the brash and beautiful Leyla Breda starts bossing him around, he's immediately intrigued. He knows her brothers want him to back off, but every time he sees her, he feels more of a spark.

 

Leyla’s connections in the local community and Sean’s skills allow them to go deeper into the case together than they would be able to go alone. But when a single crime spirals into something much darker, Sean’s carefully planned mission takes a deadly turn.

 

About the Author

Laura Griffin is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty-five books and novellas. She is a two-time RITA Award winner as well as the recipient of the Daphne du Maurier Award.

The American Wife

 Welcome to my blog tour stop for The American Wife which is been hosted by Bookouture

Book: The American Wife

Author: Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger 

Pub Day:  April 14th 2023

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Rating : 4 

Would I recommend it? Yes

Would I read more by this author? Yes

Would I read more of this series ? yes

First a big thank you to Bookouture , the author Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger, as well as to Netgalley for letting me read and review it ,Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger is becoming one of my favorite historical fiction authors, with the way she tells her stories,  and how she brings to life the people , as well as the  places she writes about, and let's not forget she makes you feel all of the emotions as well . Plus it's prewar which is right before WW 2 starts as well as the first book in a new series.

About the Book: 

With her heart in her mouth, Kitty let herself into her husband’s private study. She knew where he kept the papers that might save her dearest friend from the Nazis. She just had to steal them…

Vienna, 1937. When beautiful American Kitty becomes engaged to Austrian diplomat Edgar, she finds herself thrown into a very different world in Europe, and soon longs for home. But when the woman designing her wedding dress, Judith, takes Kitty under her wing, she sees the city of Vienna in a new light – a city of culture and music that she can explore with her new friend.

But when the Nazis come, the fact that Judith is Jewish means she is no longer safe. Kitty knows that as a diplomat’s wife she can steal the papers that will allow her closest friend to escape to safety, but will it mean betraying the love of her life?

Except that Edgar has grown distant and secretive since she joined him in Europe and, when war breaks out, Kitty wonders which side her husband is really on. And, as she prepares to betray him, Kitty begins to fear that she doesn’t really know the man she married at all.

Facing an impossible choice between her dearest friend and the man she loves, Kitty knows she must be brave, and do the right thing, no matter the personal cost…

An absolutely heartbreaking, powerful and gripping story about finding love, resilience and friendship in the midst of the darkness of World War 2. Perfect for fans of The Nightingale, My Name is Eva and All the Light We Cannot See.

 

Author Bio

Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger is a Ukrainian-American who transplanted to Austria.

Born in 1969, she grew up in the culture-rich neighborhood of "Nordeast" Minneapolis and started her writing career with short stories, travel narratives, and worked as a journalist and managing magazine editor, before jumping the desk and pursuing her own writing and traveling.

Her books tackle David-vs.-Goliath themes with strong women battling for the Underdogs against a system, be it political, geographical, or industrial. Sometimes all three. "I enjoy discovering the good, the bad, and the ugly in my characters when they come into conflict," she says. "And all of my stories have been inspired by injustices I've discovered along my travels."

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Reading Corner Chat 3 ( April )

Welcome to my reading corner , where we talk about the books I've read and think you should know about , and that you might be interested in. From the bad to good, to even audiobooks and before you ask you did read that right,buts its a new a year and I'm slowly getting in to them but I'm still going to be reading more books then audio books , each month the plan is to try and listing to 2 or 3 audio books and then talk about them , so pull up a set and if you want to get a drink. 

Today's book we're going to be talking about is 

Title : The Final Gambit 

Series : Inheritance Games series #3

Author : Jennifer Lynn Barnes

11 hours 24 minutes 

Narrated by Christie Moreau 

Edition

Unabridged

Final-Gambit

Rating: 4

Would I recommend it ? Yes

Would I  read more of this author ? Yes

Would I read more of this series ? Yes

Would I listen to this narrator again ? yes

Like always a big thank you to Hachette Audio as well as the author for letting me read and review The Finial Gambit , so glad that I finial picked this up to read and I can see why people like this series so much , for me the main reason was the puzzle part of this series and how the author used that through out the series . As for the narrator she did good job as to bring the story to life . 

To inherit billions, all Avery Kylie Grambs has to do is survive a few more weeks living in Hawthorne House. The paparazzi are dogging her every step. Financial pressures are building. Danger is a fact of life. And the only thing getting Avery through it all is the Hawthorne brothers. Her life is intertwined with theirs. She knows their secrets and they know her.
 
But as the clock ticks down to the moment when Avery will become the richest teenager on the planet, trouble arrives in the form of a visitor who needs her help—and whose presence in Hawthorne House could change everything. It soon becomes clear that there is one last puzzle to solve, and Avery and the Hawthorne brothers are drawn into a dangerous game against an unknown and powerful player.
 
Secrets upon secrets. Riddles upon riddles. In this game, there are hearts and lives at stake—and there is nothing more Hawthorne than winning