Review: The Witch Is Back by Stacy A, Moran

Title: The Witch is Back
Author: Stacy A. Moran
Source: Given for free in exchange for an honest review
Amazon Link: Purchase

Blurb:

Tabitha Ashworth is a lot of things, a daughter, a writer, and a reluctant witch. She was also a runner, not a grab your tennis shoes, let's take on a marathon kind of runner.

No, she has been running from her past and her heritage her entire life. She's avoided her hometown for nearly a decade but after a cryptic call from her mother, she is summoned back home.

From the moment she arrived back in Graveton County she was flooded with her past and realization her running days are over.

Welcome to Graveton County where the haunted town is make believe but the witches are real.

Review:

What a cozy mystery! Def a different take on small town life. This crew of bubbly, delightful and crazy women make you laugh as they take you through their small town’s journey into a murder. The twist and turns of the plot are heightened by the friendly personality that the ‘witches’ play with one another. GiGi’s hit list, Tabby’s quick wit personality, the sherrif’s patience in dealing with these witches as they continue to botch up his investigation.

It makes you smile as you read.

I have read a lot of cozy mysteries and this one is right up there with an easy going, care free, kick back and relax read. I love how all the female character names came from television witches and that adds all the more fun to the mix.

It almost makes you wonder if that is what real life in small town West Virginia is really like ,...

Grab a copy today and see for yourself, you won’t regret it.

Solid 4.5 Stars!
             

Teaser Tuesday: The Therian Secrets Series by Johanna Rae

THERIAN SECRETS – Johanna Rae
What if life as you know it, was a lie? Redcliffe hides a secret, not all its residents are human.
To police this community, thriving beneath the public eye, a parallel justice system exists. Not only that, but it’s globally recognized. International Shifter Information and Control, or ISIC as it is more commonly known, helps protect the rights of both the civilians (their own kind) and the innocents (humans). It’s their job to keep the truth from the human population and ensure a peaceful cohabitation. That isn’t always easy with two types of shifters, Lycans and Therians, who don’t always get along.
Danny Archer, Captain of Redcliffe’s Urewera Unit, is charged with that responsibility. He and his team of Special Forces agents work around the clock to deal with all the problems and chaos which continue to unfold despite their best efforts. You see, ISIC has only been in NZ for eight years and many shifters and rogues still believe it to be a place to escape the law or hide from their own clans. This is further complicated when some of these agents fall in love. The ISIC agent’s life is hard enough without adding romance to the equation. Welcome to Redcliffe, a world the wildlife channels DIDN’T prepare you for.
 

The Mercenary
BOOK ONE


When twenty-three-year-old Jodie Fletcher realizes shape-shifters are real—and that they’re trying to kill her—she finds herself thrust into a life of danger and unimaginable intrigue. With both parents away, and her newly-single alcoholic brother Luke camped in the spare bedroom, Jodie feels like she’s drowning in a world she doesn’t understand. The only thing she can count on is the leopard who has taken it upon himself to protect her. She cannot ignore the raw emotion he awakens in her and longs for more. The leopard becomes not only her savior, but her escape.

Mysterious and unpredictable, leopard shifter Danny Archer hides behind his dimpled smile and pretty boy façade. What’s more, he has a second job the human population doesn’t know about—the one that leads him to Jodie and Luke. Archer feels an instant connection with Jodie, and must find a way to balance his volatile lifestyle to include her.

Luke Fletcher became an alcoholic long before his wife left him. Now he faces the brutal reality that the past has caught up with him. He made a series of bad choices while under the influence, which have placed his sister and his two young daughters in danger. Luke must try to find the man he used to be in order to survive the chaos he’s inflicted. He knows he won’t be able to live with himself if anything happens to his family.

BOOK TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQaeR_kosjQ
BUY LINK - AMAZON

 
The Fury
BOOK TWO

Luke Fletcher had finally moved past his alcoholism and marriage breakup when the past caught up with him. Abducted by a clan of Lycans, he woke chained to a cell wall. How long will it take before someone finds him? Will he survive the ordeal and more importantly, retain his sanity?

Jodie Fletcher is under house arrest and not even in her own home. Her boyfriend Danny Archer has become more than protective since Luke disappeared. Working for International Shifter Information and Control, or ISIC, Archer is head of the Urewera Unit in Redcliffe.

Trained and employed to maintain the shifter justice system in a world where humans are oblivious, is no easy task. Now his connection with the local shifters has crossed paths with Luke’s past, Archer is caught between keeping Jodie safe and finding her brother.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is conflict within the Unit. A group of men closer than family are suddenly at odds, distanced from their duty as ISIC agents. Rufus discovers he may have missed the chance to be with the woman he loves. Eddie reveals his animal side to girlfriend Ainsley for the first time; can she accept his second form?

The turmoil surrounding Jodie leaves her nowhere to hide. The clan of were-boars who took Luke, grow bolder by the day. This escalation of tension has to end, but who will emerge victorious?

BOOK TRAILER - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boFbgiTx08w
BUY LINK - AMAZON


The Butcher
BOOK THREE

Polar bear Therian, Rufus Ramanui, is one of Redcliffe’s most dangerous ISIC agents. He swore an oath to protect the innocent and serve the greater good. Now, he wants to retrain as a Phoniás – an assassin – believing it necessary to help his comrades in the ongoing conflict with the Lycans.

The only problem with that plan, is pretty bartender, Summer Matthews. She and Rufus have definite chemistry, but she’s currently dating someone else. Will it be too late to win her heart by the time he returns home?

Siblings, Jodie and Luke Fletcher, also intend to train as agents. With Rufus and the two Fletchers out of the country, Danny Archer, Captain of Redcliffe’s Urewera Unit, will have his hands full. Already Rufus’ boss, and Jodie’s boyfriend, Danny has a lot invested in their success. When things start to get complicated, both at the academy, and back in Redcliffe, will Danny be able to spread himself thin enough to avoid disaster?
BOOK TRAILER – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJXz6GKZ4LI
BUY LINK - AMAZON



ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Johanna Rae is a former fashion designer and married mother of three. She has always had a passion for writing, even at a very young age. When she was five years old, her teacher asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. The answer was: A writer and an artist. It is safe to say that she hasn't deviated far from that mindset. Johanna lives near Hamilton, New Zealand. She shares her rural property and gorgeous outlook, with her family, cats, cows, chickens and several crazy goats.



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Twitter - @JohannaMRae




Everything you thought you knew about the world is a thinly veiled façade. Shapeshifters exist and live amongst the humans, a double life filled with danger and intrigue.

Sweet Summer Love Blog Hop

Who loves Christmas in the Summer? This chick that's who!

This wonderful summertime treat is brought to you by Christina Cole and Devika Fernado.

You know that feeling you get the night before Christmas when you are just about to pass into your deep sleep and everything feels just perfect. Those sensations are one thing I LOVE about the Bud's Christmas Series.

It is timeless! At any point of the year you can pick up this sweet romance and cuddle under the covers and smile. Just because it is a short story, doesn't mean it won't pack a solid force of enjoyment.

One of the best things to me about sweet romances are just that ... they are sweet. So often I think people now don't believe in those fairy tale happy endings. Or even that whirl wind romance.

Love at first sight CAN happen. It happens all the time.

And Love after a long battle of trying happens too.

Bud and Lucy keep that alive for me. And that is why when I read their story, it is Christmas ANY time of year.

NOW ..... Do you want a chance to win a 50 Amazon Gift Card? Then go check out the main post and enter in the rafflecopter. (  SWEET SUMMER LOVE )

If you would like a chance to win a free Ebook from me then leave a comment and join my blog. I will be giving away the short story Sekhmet's Revenge.

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Read - A -Thon: Remembering 2013

Vonnies Reading Corner & A Night's Dream of Books

- Best of 2013

GAMEBOARD OF THE GODS

-Worst of 2013

THE FIFTH COLUMN

-Favorite new author

Steven dos Santos

-Book that surprised you

SHADOW HEIR

-Book that disappointed you

STYXX 

Read - A - Thon: Rainbow Book Spine

Rainbow Book Spine....grab books from your shelf that have the following spine colors to make a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, & violet

Vonnies Reading Corner & A Night's Dream of Books

Here are a few books on my To Be Read List for 2014

UPDATE

Last night I finished FORGED, the ARC by Jacquelyn Frank. And let me just say, it was freaking amazing!!!! I can't wait fort he next book to come out in January so I can read what happened before this ARC. The way everything sits now, FORGED will be my first five star review of 2014.

Catch the host Vonnie's main post at Vonnie's Reading Corner

Last Minute Read - A - Thon!!!

It's the last push of the year and Vonnie's Reading Corner and A Night's Dream of Books are hosting a Read - A - Thon! If you love reading - grab a book, cozy up and join them and their blog world friends in that last struggle to finish your list!

Goals --

I want to read two more books by the end of the year - That will bring my grand total up to fifty-six for 2013, six more than I aimed for.

What two am I reading?

Forged, an ARC copy from Random House by Jaquelyn Frank.
Serendipity by Janet Nissenson, ARC from the Author

Another goal that I have is I'd like to hammer out the final book count/list I want to read for 2014. I want to start a list, twenty five books that I want to read for me, then twenty five books I want to read for review blog tours, and then ten random books tossed in here and there. Bringing my total to sixty for 2014. Now, the ten random and the twenty five for blog tours obviously I won't have those made out, but the twenty five I want to read for me - that will be a main list I make up.

I will also post reviews for all sixty of these books inside the 2014 year.

So come and join myself and my blogging friends in our 2013 end of the year fun!

Catch the host, Vonnie at Vonnie's Reading Corner