Project Demon Hunters is canceled…but apparently no one told the demons.
 
Knowing how the horrifying events that took place while filming Project Demon Hunters shook his friend Michael Covenant to the core, Will Gordon readily says yes to Michael’s request to be ready — as a friend and as an Episcopal priest — in case psychic Rosemary McGuire calls for help.
 
Rosemary doesn’t know exactly why the show was canceled...other than a demon murdered the show’s producer, and the network buried every scrap of harrowing footage under a ton of hacker-proof security.
 
When an independent filmmaker shows up at Rosemary’s metaphysical bookshop with tantalizing clues that a backup copy of the missing footage exists, she promises Michael she’ll call some crusty old priest “in a pinch,” and begins following a trail of impossibly tiny bread crumbs.
 
But that trail doesn’t just lead her somewhere. It leads something to Rosemary, alarming enough that she calls Michael’s priest friend…who turns out to be way younger and heroically handsome than she could have ever anticipated. But the heat between them may be no match for the demonic fire that grows hotter and more dangerous the closer they get to the truth.
 
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47817993-unseen-voices

Author Bio:
USA Today bestseller Christine Pope is the author of the paranormal romance Witches of Cleopatra Hill series and the Djinn Wars series, among many other books (sixty and counting!). Researching UFOs brought her to magical Sedona, Arizona, where she now makes her home. Find out more about her books at christinepope.com.
 
Author Links:
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4181354.Christine_Pope
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2X9svOI
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChristinePopeAuthor
Web: http://christinepope.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/christinejpope
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/christine-pope
 
Buy Links:
Unquiet Souls: https://books2read.com/u/3JVlMB
Unbound Spirits: https://books2read.com/u/bxvPXk
Unholy Ground: https://books2read.com/u/3npyLx
Unseen Voices: https://books2read.com/u/mlaGg9

25.12.2069 UNITED NORTH STATES WANTED BULLETIN: JEMA WALKER, 16, 5’10”, 130 LBS, OLIVE SKIN, DARK HAIR, DARK EYES, ASIAN DESCENT. WANTED FOR THREE COUNTS OF MURDER, CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU’VE SEEN HER, CONTACT 911 IMMEDIATELY. LAST SEEN APROX. 100 MILES SOUTH OF THE UNS BORDER WITH TROY MASTERSON, UNINCORPORATED GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.

25.12.2069 UNITED NORTH STATES WANTED BULLETIN: TROY MASTERSON, 18, 6’2”, 175 LBS, BLOND, BLUE-EYED, CAUCASIAN, WANTED FOR ONE COUNT OF MURDER, CONISDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS. IF YOU SUSPECT YOU’VE SEEN HIM, CONTACT 911 IMMEDIATELY. LAST SEEN APROX. 100 MILES SOUTH OF THE UNS BORDER WITH JEMA WALKER, UNINCORPORATED GLENWOOD SPRINGS, COLORADO.
 
26.12.2069
Troy clicked off the radio. “Well, happy Christmas to you too. I’m glad we didn’t listen to that yesterday.”
I rubbed the medallion and ID tags hanging around my neck. I couldn’t think about the men I’d killed, or it would drive me crazy. “There’s nothing on vaccination centers. Why aren’t they distributing the cure? It’s been a week.”
Wrapping his hands around mine, Troy kissed my forehead. “They have to clean and retrofit a plant, scale up. It takes a while.”
I shook my head. “Dena already had the production location picked out. I heard them talking; it didn’t need any customization. They should be setting up distribution locations. I don’t get it. Hundreds of people are dying every week, and soon it’ll be thousands.”
“Why withhold the vaccine?” Troy hooked his fingers in my belt loops.
“You trust Owen and Dena after what they did to us? After they’ve refused to share the technology with other countries?”
“No, not on a personal level. They formed Lovelock to develop a cure. Things like this take a while. You’ll see. They said they’d send crews to Europe and Asia after the plant was up and running. Aren’t we taking a break from saving the world?”

...Four months earlier Jema and Troy were shipped to the desert to avoid an epidemic flu. Now they're hiding out in the same desert. Can they avoid detection and a life of being used as lab rats? Will they figure out a way to get the cure to everyone around the world? Read the first of the story in the Deadly Reality Anthology out today! Over fifteen short stories from all genres great for quick reads.

Free in KU at https://geni.us/DeadlyReality & if you plan to be in Colorado in November, don't miss the Book Signing Event at the Stanley Hotel 11/9/2019. Go here for the FREE reader event: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/deadly-reality-at-the-stanley-hotel-tickets-46096444707

To end, I wanted to include a few fun facts about the prequel to this short story, Lovelock Ones. Lovelock Ones is named for a cave in Nevada that served as a home for people as early as 1450 B.C.. Lovelock Cave is situated near the now dry Humboldt Lake. The lake and surrounding marshlands, now a dry desert, offered early settlers access to food like fish and duck. Duck decoys dating back to 400 B.C. were found in the cave. The Paiutes, a Native American tribe that inhabited regions of Nevada around Lovelock, have legends of red-haired giants, the "Si-Te-Cah", a cannibalistic and aggressive tribe that were defeated by the Paiutes at the site of Lovelock Cave. In Lovelock Ones, the Lovelock Cave site served as a base camp for the group evading the epidemic plague Jema and Troy join with their families.

Hoping to see everyone in November! Happy reading!
Tricia

I'm excited to announce the pre-order for my new #chicklit #romcom #romanticcomedy, Perfect! And today I've got everything you need to know about this fun twist on a romance novel. Here are all the deets from the back cover.
Perfect
a novel by Tricia Copeland
 
Searching for the perfect someone? He’s out there! Is it the high school sweetheart? College romance? Parisian affair? Friend turned lover? A random encounter? Are they the strong silent type or is every moment filled with whispers of I love you? Who will utter those four magical words? Will you marry me? Should she say yes? Is he the perfect one?
 
Praise for Tricia’s Deepest Scars, a contemporary romance novel
“… the reader has a front row seat to the emotions of falling in love.” – Amazon
“Her characters are both lovable and true to life.” – Goodreads

A little more about Perfect... Chloe grew up in rural Kentucky, smack dab in the middle of horse country. She's been dating her high school sweetheart for three years. Is he her perfect match? Find out in Perfect!
 
$0.99 with Pre-order on all major platforms, releases 2-6-2020, Perfect for Valentine's reading
Amazon:
US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07XZC9Q7N
UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07XZC9Q7N
CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07XZC9Q7N
AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07XZC9Q7N

KOBO: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/perfect-72

B&N: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/perfect-tricia-copeland/1133746401?ean=2940163342181

iBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/perfect/id1481026884

Goodreads Giveaway - delivered to your Kindle by Nov. 2 – 50 will win!
Enter 10/2-11/1/2019 https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/298081-perfect
Add to your Goodreads TBR list: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48256772-perfect

Wishing you happy reads!
Tricia

Happy Thursday! I'm hoping this week is finding you well. I am having a great week as one, it was my birthday, and two, it was my birthday! I've begun my 50th year around the sun and plan to live every day to it's fullest!

I'm especially excited to talk about The Cocoon Chronicles today. I have a bit of a story, but it's a good one, so stick with me. Two years ago I was introduced to Amy Collette of Unleash Your Inner Author through a mutual friend. Amy lives in the town next to mine so we met for coffee. I learned she helped non-fiction authors publish their books and was an author herself (see my prior blog post on her book, The Gratitude Connection). She told me about an author and book (Awakenings from the Light, Nancy Rynes) that I absolutely loved about a near-death experience that just blew my mind, read the book, that's all I can say! (That, and I totally want to meet this lady too - see the next paragraph)

Fast forward to a year later when I joined Toastmasters International to improve my public speaking skills. There I met Glenn Bott who gave a speech about his near death experience after a bicycle crash. Glenn probably thought I was crazy, but I asked to have coffee with me to learn more. For some reason I'd become obsessed with the near death experience (NDE) topic. Glenn's experience wasn't anything like Nancy's but our meetup began a wonderful friendship. I introduced Glenn to Amy Collette of Unleash Your Inner Author because Glenn and his wife already had a book out, the inspiring Luke's Life Lessons.

This connection led Glenn's wife, Brenda (are you still with me... it's a three degrees of separation story, I get chills thinking about it), to write and publish her, at the time challenging but now inspiring, experience during Glenn's rehabilitation from a traumatic brain injury sustained during the biking accident. I had the pleasure of attending Brenda's book launch and hearing her story first-hand.

The Cocoon Chronicles, a love story, by Brenda Bott is an inspiring account of her journey of helping Glenn through his recovery. Because she kept a journal she was able to retell her story day by day as Glenn improved, and sometimes didn't, and how her positivity, faith, and love for Glenn pulled them both through to the other side. My favorite part of the book may be the quotes she took from her journal and included for readers. Here is one of my top picks:

"Watch me, I'm making a cocoon. It looks like I'm hiding, I know, but a cocoon is no escape. It's an in-between house where the change takes place... During the change, it will seem... that nothing is happening, but the butterfly is already becoming, it just takes time." - Sue Monk Kidd

All the links are above so please find Brenda, Glenn, Amy, and Nancy and their books on Goodreads or their websites!

As always, happy reading and stay inspired!
Tricia

Happy Tuesday and Happy Fall! Today I'm highlighting a new author. Sarah Stevens is a new adult romance author and her book That Night He Saved Me sounds like an awesome heart-warming read. Here are all the details.

Title: That Night He Saved Me
Author: Sarah Stevens
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance
Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR
 
Blurb:
All Katarina wants is one night away from stressing over school. One night free from the constant bickering with her mom and stepdad. One night to cut loose and live a little.
 
One night... that will destroy her innocence and change everything.
 
Every day feels like a struggle, everyone casting their own judgments her way. Everyone... except James. With his easy smile and kind demeanor the young  cafè owner swoops in just when it feels Katarina’s world is crumbling around her.
 
James wants nothing more than to be the pillar of strength Katarina needs, but dark secrets from his past have resurfaced and refuse to be ignored. With more to lose than ever, he realizes it’s time to stop running and face the darkness that haunts him. Fighting through his own turmoil, James finds the strength to be her salvation when it feels the rest of the world has turned on her.
 
During life’s darkest trials, battered hearts can only be saved... by love.
 
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30140081-the-night-he-saved-me
 
Author Bio:
Sarah Stevens is a New Adult Romance author.
 
Sarah started writing her first novel The Night He Saved Me in her free time while being a stay-at-home mom. Then one day, it started to flow, and she was writing "The End" in a matter of two months.
 
When she isn't writing, she is enjoying the southern life with her husband, three kids, a Saint Bernard—who is still adjusting to the southern summers and Bruno a rescue dog. She can't go a day without her coffee in the morning—and a few more cups during the day and her late nights writing.
 
She enjoys reading Contemporary or New Adult Romance and going to the pool or beach as much as she can. She loves all things Disney and collects Disney mugs to drink her beloved coffee in.
 
Author Links:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2O0pePR
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7104741.Sarah_Stevens
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SarahSauthor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SarahStevensauthor/
Newsletter: http://eepurl.com/dFwRgb
Bookbub: https://www.bookbub.com/authors/sarah-stevens-4805624c-9b25-4e57-bdf8-fc7911abe1fb
 
Buy Link:
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2OCDSK8

I'm so very excited to share the cover image for my upcoming release, Perfect. Perfect, is just what the name implies, the perfect love story. If you're a chick lit, rom com, and romance reader, this book is for you!

From the back cover...

Searching for the perfect someone? He’s out there. Is it the high school sweetheart? College romance? Parisian affair? Friend turned lover? A random encounter? Are they the strong silent type or is every moment filled with whispers of I love you? Who will utter those four magical words? Will you marry me? Should she say yes? Is he the perfect one?

Award-winning author Tricia Copeland brings you a romance with a twist.

More about Perfect...

Chloe Hahn is a first-generation Vietnamese American. She grows up in a small Kentucky town where her family owns a restaurant. She envisions a life with a rewarding career, a loving husband, a house, and maybe even children. But what will her future look like? What type of person is perfect for her? Follow Chloe as she searches for that perfect someone.

Perfect will be available for pre-order October 3, 2019 and release February 6, 2020, just in time for your Valentine romance reading spree. Make sure to join my newsletter for opportunities to read an advance copy of Perfect four months before release. You can see a trailer video here.

Until next time, happy reading!
Tricia

Hello and happy back to school week! My kids started their school years today and I'm catching up on my to-do list. My most recent book club read is a dark dystopian read, Unwind, by Neal Shusterman. This is a highly rated book with 4.18 stars with over 150k ratings. Unwind is set after a second civil war in the United States fought over when a life starts. The treaty between the groups reads that life begins at conception and that abortions are illegal. The caveat comes in at the age of thirteen when parents may choose to "unwind" their children. This process takes every part of their bodies and makes them available for reuse by other people in need, or as you find out, that just want different parts.

As a mother, this idea is horrid. How one could decide to have their child taken apart in such a way is beyond me. But I give kudos to the author for thinking up the story line. Having said that, I did like the characters, plot line, and twists in the story. Three teens have been sentenced to be unwound, one by his parents, one by the state, and a third serves as a "tithe", a child born to be donated. Their paths intersect and they combine forces to avoid being unwound.

My official review: 5* - I rarely give 5 stars to book and if this was a 1/10 scale, I may have rated it 9/10. At times I felt this book should have been written in first person POV, and others I was grateful it wasn't. This book was haunting enough as it is and having a 1st person POV may have been too much for it, so in the end I agree with the author's choice of the 3rd person. I liked that the characters stories and backgrounds intersected. It is a unique although horrible premise to a dystopian read. I equally want to read the following books as well as am not sure I can put my mind through the mental torture of the high and low of the characters' fates. I feel this is exactly what this book is supposed to be though, horribly appalling, intimate, and yet holding us at arm's length all the same. Kudos to the author.

Shusterman weaves a tale that horrifies yet engages you. Part of me wants to continue the series but the thought of reading about a kid dying isn't something I can take right now. Those that like dark reads will love this book! You can find it on Amazon here. Or go to Goodreads to add it to your TBR list!

Happy reading,
Tricia

Happy August and happy Tuesday,

Every year I go through this cycle, my reading starts picking up in the summer, then by August I start feeling like I'm already behind. I scoured the internet to get some recommendations of the hottest new reads of 2019! These top picks ranked on several of the sites I found!

1. Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi - rated 3.11 with 4254 ratings on Goodreads. From the back cover: Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's house in "Hansel and Gretel" to the man-shaped confection who one day decides to run as fast as he can--beloved novelist Helen Oyeyemi invites readers into a delightful tale of a surprising family legacy, in which the inheritance is a recipe. Mother and daughter embark on a magical journey to land where their gingerbread recipe is highly regarded, Druhástrana, the far-away and potentially fantastical land of the daughter's early childhood. This isBlack Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James renowned magical realm British novelist Helen Oyeyemi's sixth novel. Find on Amazon by clicking the title above.

2. Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James - rated 3.53 with 7313 ratings on Goodreads. The first novel of the Dark Star trilogy bringing together myth, fantasy, and history in a tale that finds a mercenary searching for a missing child. Form the back cover: Drawing from African history and mythology and his own rich imagination, Marlon James has written an adventure that's also an ambitious, involving read. Defying categorization and full of unforgettable characters, Black Leopard, Red Wolf explores the fundamentals of truths, the limits of power, the excesses of ambition, and our need to understand them all. Read from Amazon by clicking the title above.

3. Normal People by Sally Rooney - 3.96 Stars on Goodreads from 83,364 ratings. This one looks like a book I'll put at the top of my TBR list as I'm searching for a lighter read right now (more beach reads below). From the back cover: At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other.

4. Lanny by Max Porter - 4.23 Stars on Goodreads with 3500 ratings. There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and walking the dogs. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England’s mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort, a figure schoolchildren used to draw green and leafy, choked by tendrils growing out of his mouth. Dead Papa Toothwort is awake. He is listening to this twenty-first-century village, to his English symphony. He is listening, intently, for a mischievous, enchanting boy whose parents have recently made the village their home. Lanny.

5. Spring by Ali Smith - 4.32 Stars with 2215 ratings. From the bestselling author of Autumn and Winter, as well as the Baileys Prize-winning How to be both, comes the next installment in the remarkable, once-in-a-generation masterpiece, the Seasonal Quartet. Spring will come. The leaves on its trees will open after blossom. Before it arrives, a hundred years of empire-making. The dawn breaks cold and still but, deep in the earth, things are growing.

6. Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid - 4.24 Stars from 84,177 ratings. Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now. Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.

Touted Beach Reads...

City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert - From the # 1 New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love and The Signature of All Things, a delicious novel of glamour, sex, and adventure, about a young woman discovering that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person. Life is both fleeting and dangerous, and there is no point in denying yourself pleasure, or being anything other than what you are. Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love.

The Wedding Party by Jasmine Guillory - Another that will be added to the top of my TBR list... Maddie and Theo have two things in common:
1. Alexa is their best friend
2. They hate each other
After an “Oops, we made a mistake” kiss, neither one can stop thinking about the other. With Alexa’s wedding rapidly approaching, Maddie and Theo both share bridal party responsibilities that require more interaction with each other than they’re comfortable with. Underneath the sharp barbs they toss at each other is a simmering attraction that won’t fade. It builds until they find themselves sneaking off together to release some tension when Alexa isn’t looking.

Hoping that you can find some fun, entertaining, and perhaps inspiring reads in this list. Click on the titles above to get them directly on Amazon.

To find more of the top reads here are the links I found. I'll be highlighting more top picks in the weeks to come.
https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/g26234148/best-books-2019/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/05/best-books-of-2019-so-far
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g25446583/best-books-of-2019/
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/nation/best-books-of-2019


Happy reading!
Tricia

 

Happy Thursday! Today I'm highlighting my most recent read from author Kevin Kelley. Kevin is a local author and I had the privilege of meeting him last year. I read his first novel, A Time of Lies, a contemporary spy thriller, last spring and was excited to read his new work. The Life of Colin Phelps is a historical fiction set in mix-19th century London and U.S. It follows Colin, an orphan boy from his struggle to survival on the streets of London to a U.S. Civil War battlefield. As in Kelley's A Time of Lies, there's a also a bit of a sweet love story included.

Here's more about The Life of Colin Phelps..

From the back cover: A sweeping historical novel tracing a boy's journey into manhood. Set against a backdrop of poverty in 1855 London to America where he is shaped by the events leading up to and including the Civil War. Slavery, shipwrecks, treachery, and enduring romance make this a book to be savored. A book you will enjoy.

More about the author and his cause... from Kevin Kelley...

It (The Life of Colin Phelps) represents nearly three years of work, with research and, of course, procrastination. The end result is historical fiction tracing a boy’s life from poverty on the streets of London in 1855 to America, where he is shaped by events leading up to and including the Civil War.
 
I’ve pledged all sales proceeds to two Colorado non-profits including Attention Homes, which has cared of homeless and at-risk youth in Boulder for nearly sixty years, and The Colorado Women’s Education Foundation, which provides scholarships to women who are non-traditional college students.
 
My hope is that you will enjoy the novel, while providing support to two very worthy charitable organizations.

My review 4*
This is my second read from this author. It is very different from his other spy type action novel (although that one is a bit historical in nature too). I liked this book. It is a historical fiction of a boy that is orphaned in London in the 1800s. It follows him as he struggles to survive, eventually making his way to Boston at seventeen. There he is thrown into a country on the brink of civil war. The author created a likable character and does a great job of painting the historical backdrop. I found the story and plot interesting, entertaining, and heart warming.

Find The Life of Colin Phelps on Goodreads and help support Attention Homes and The Colorado Women's Education Foundation!

Happy Reading,
Tricia

P.S. I'm currently reading Unwind by Neal Shusterman a haunting dystopian story, book 1 of the Unwind Dystology... more on that next week unless I'm having too many nightmares to stay awake... ;)