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Lovely Torment #CoverReveal

Posted on October 23, 2025October 22, 2025 by Reluctant Retiree

Lovely Torment
Kimberly Quinn
(Savage Hearts Syndicate, #2)
Publication date: November 18th 2025
Genres: Adult, Dark Romance, Romance, Suspense

He’s cold, calculating, and lethal. A killer.

He’s also my hero.

Finn Decker rescued me from a life in captivity, but not out of mercy. I’m his key to destroying the Bratva leader who shattered both our lives. A pawn in his ruthless game of vengeance.

I should be afraid. I should run.

Instead, I’m drawn to the darkness in his eyes, the craving he ignites, and the promise of retribution he offers. And I realize—I want him to use me in ways that have nothing to do with revenge.

Only, it’s hard to tell if I’m his leverage, his weakness, or something far more dangerous.

His.

Because in a war this savage, there’s no room for mistakes.

Or love.

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Author Bio:

Kimberly is a contemporary romance author, born procrastinator, and lover of morally gray heroes. She enjoys lively conversations, usually with imaginary people, and can often be found daydreaming at work.

She writes gritty, messy, dangerous romances, featuring beautifully flawed characters, pursuing love at all costs. It’s romance with rough edges.

When she’s not busy writing, you can find her with a coffee in hand, dog at her side, and exploring the wilds of her hometown in Ontario, Canada… Or on her couch, getting lost in a good story.

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Some Call Me Eve #Pre-Order

Posted on July 7, 2025June 30, 2025 by Reluctant Retiree

Enemies bound by desire.

Allies torn by fate.

Some Call Me Eve

by T. Pike

Genre: Historical Romance

Princess Evangeline has an insatiate lust for power. As her kingdom’s most feared warrior and heiress to the throne, she plans to one day rule in her father’s place, just as she rules over countless men during secret nights of sin.

But when the castle falls to a new enemy, Evangeline becomes a slave in her own kingdom, forced to obey the heartless queen’s commands to honor her father’s dying wish: to protect her people.

The princess craves vengeance, but can she resist the carnal magnetism between her and Prince Rune, the queen’s son and royal pawn? And as rebellion brews, can she trust Rune, the man with the power to quench her torrid flames, to be her greatest ally?

**Releases July 21st – PreOrder Now!**

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T. Pike grew up in Northwest Arkansas where she swam competitively for more than 17 years. After graduating from Texas A&M University with an English degree and All-American honors, she returned home to pursue her master’s in English and write her debut novel: Some Call Me Eve. Now a law student, she enjoys running and hiking with her dogs and exploring the mountains with her partner.

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Death’s Honest Pre-Order!

Posted on June 16, 2025June 15, 2025 by Reluctant Retiree

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Death’s Honesty

The Lyle Dahms Mysteries

Brian Anderson

About the Book:

Publication Date: July 14, 2025

Genre: Mystery. A hardboiled PI novel with family dynamics.

On his deathbed, Minneapolis private investigator Lyle Dahms’s father, a retired suburban police patrolman, asks his son to reach out to a dark figure from their shared past. Despite his reservations, Dahms feels he cannot refuse. But the visit sets off a chain reaction that will expose long-buried family secrets and provoke dangerous enemies. As threats mount, Dahms must protect not only his family, but also that of his dad’s former partner—a man he is not sure he can trust.

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When his dying father, a retired suburban police patrolman, asks a Minneapolis private investigator to reach out to a figure from their shared past, the visit sets off a chain reaction that will expose long-buried family secrets, provoke dangerous enemies, and endanger both his family and that of his dad’s former partner.

Excerpt:

“Knuck!” I demanded. “What happened?”

At first, I wondered if Knuck was in shock. He just stood there, unmoving, staring down at the dead hoodlum. But I’d seen shock before—the disbelief in the eyes, the slack-jawed absence of feeling. This wasn’t that. This was a whole lot more casual.

Knuck faced me and shrugged. “Had to do it,” he said simply, holstering his revolver. “I guess we’d better call the police after all.

About the Author:

Brian Anderson is a graduate of the University of Minnesota whose Dinkytown neighborhood provides the setting for his mystery series featuring private investigator Lyle Dahms. The Dahms novels spring from his lifelong love of mystery fiction, especially the works of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, as well as more contemporary masters like Robert B. Parker and G.M. Ford. He is a three-time finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association mystery and suspense contest.

Brian spent much of his professional career working to alleviate domestic hunger serving as the operations director of the Emergency Feeding Program of Seattle & King County as well as the manager of the Pike Market Food Bank in downtown Seattle. Married with three beautiful daughters, he now lives and writes in Ocean Shores, a small city on the Washington coast.

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