Indie Book Recs
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Sometimes my guests recommend a book or series I have already included elsewhere. I omit those from their lists.
This month's list was put together with the help of Heather Lynn. (Skywatcher_HL on socials) https://linktr.ee/HeatherLynn_author. Author of the Skywatcher series. There are four books so far with a fifth on the way.
Charlotte Harper travels back 200 years to try and save the life of Elizabeth, her possible ancestor. This is a description rich series which doesn't shy away from some difficult issues. I found the idea of a contemporary character living in the past fascinating. There's so much we take for granted, life was very different then. Romance is very much part of the story so it could be said that this is a fantastical historical romance series. I read the first four books in 2024 and so much of the story is still with me now. What will happen next?
These are Heather's book recommendations.
A young wife. A much older husband. Is it only the age gap that threatens to ruin their marriage?When Margo marries Michael, she believes that her life will change forever. And it really does, only not in the way a young girl from a small country in Northern Europe thought it would.Latvia, a dreamy land with rich historical heritage and endless beaches stretching for miles, for Margo, is a gloomy place where she would have to struggle for years to have a decent life. All she knows is her hometown – a depressing place built for the needs of the factory workers – dull commuting to the capital Riga, and a bar in the Old Town where she works, always full of loud and often unceremonious tourists.Skipping a chance to explore her home country and the opportunities it might offer, Margo accepts Michael’s proposal and moves to a dramatically picturesque island in England.
Ines has mastered the art of pretending.
Pretending Dylan her partner is faithful. Pretending she’s not in love with her best friend, Luke. Pretending her life isn’t quietly collapsing. But when an MS diagnosis hits, every lie she’s told herself begins to unravel. Ines must choose between the familiar— the comfort of what’s destroying her, and the risk of losing the chance of happiness that she deserves.
From Book 1: Banished from his home long ago for love. Mel King travels the mortal world hunting evil. Having loved once, he knows he can never love again. Until he meets Nora, and everything changes. Nora Rossi is just starting her life when she meets the mysterious Mel King with all his secrets. Can they find love while hunting evil? “Whatever you thought you knew about God’s angels will change when you read this book. Angels don’t all get along, and two brothers Michael and Mel are even willing to kill each other! BTW it’s not Adam and Eve, it’s Adam and Lilith! Lilith is a little firecracker that Mel falls in love with! Find out what happens in this unique twist to what you may have learned in Bible class.”
There was only ever meant to be one Creator.In 1972, German scientist Renner Scholz travels to Barbora Bay, Washington to continue his research in recombinant DNA technology. Only believing in things proven by science, his deeply held beliefs are challenged when he meets Milena Nowak, a psychic. After a whirlwind romance, Renner becomes obsessed with understanding Milena’s unexplainable ability. Stumbling upon an exclusive occult ritual involving an evil spell that connects him to the spiritual realm where psychic abilities and power originate, he finds the answers he’s been searching for...but at a cost.Compelled by the ritual, Renner pursues a new vein of research. He develops the genetic blueprint to produce psychic abilities in humans—creating a superhuman—without realizing he is the main player in a plot to destroy mankind.Milena senses that Renner has changed and a new darkness resides within him. Helplessly she watches as the man she loves transforms, becoming deceptive, volatile and both physically and mentally more powerful. Can Milena save Renner from this evil presence? Or will she become an unwilling participant in his next experiment—one of the darkest kinds?
The Girl in the Scrapbook is a compelling, romantic, mystery novel of life, love and family. The lives of Emily, Jennifer and Norah become entangled with the discovery of photographs of a girl in an old scrapbook. The search to uncover the girl’s identity reveals tragic family secrets long hidden and a mystery spanning over ninety years.Warning: contains a scene of sexual violence.
From Book 1:
A story where secrets are hidden, lies are uncovered, and evil lurks on the grounds of Storm River Manor.
Two weeks before Wynter’s eighteenth birthday she finds herself running again from the demons that have hunted her since birth. She has something they want. Unfortunately, her family has kept this secret for seventeen years, and at the eleventh hour they finally tell her the truth, but it may already be too late.
Her roots reach much deeper than the bloodline of one family tree. It’s changed this ordinary girl, living in an ordinary world, and knocked her into a reality of magical myths. Her mysterious past has caught up to her.
Will the demons that seek her soul capture her, or will she escape in time?
From Book 1:
Dark high fantasy, slow-burn forbidden romance, dragons, and a world at war. An elven Dragonmistress and an immortal vampire warrior may be each other’s best hope for peace... if the world doesn’t destroy them first!
Things take a strange turn for Dulcea, the elven enchantress turned war heroine and Dragonmistress, when a countryman’s betrayal lands her in enemy hands. As she awaits her execution, a handsome stranger with mysterious powers offers her another chance at life. Will she die here or risk what sinister fate he has in store for her?
Can Dulcea reclaim her rightful place and lead her army once more? Or does Krath, the man who travels the Realm of the Dead as one of its own, prove to be the obstacle that fells her rebellion? … Or will this immortal vampire warrior turn out to be the best chance she has of defying the ancient evil arising in the west?
Some things never die. Hope. Heroes. Defiance.
MISTY SPRINGS is a series of closed-door, small-town romance novellas, set in the fictitious small town of Misty Springs in America. Book 1 is ‘Seeking Love’, and Book 2 is ‘Finding Love’. While the first book focuses on Abigail, the second book features her sister Isabella as the main character. Both stories can be read as stand-alones with happy endings.
The year is 1792. The French Revolution rages in Paris, the French monarchy abolished, and William Pitt is about to declare war on the Revolutionary government. Yet all London Society can talk about is the enigmatic highwayman known as the Black Unicorn. But newly widowed Elina, however, has no time for highwaymen or politics. Freed from her brutal seven-year marriage, she is fiercely protective of two things: her new freedom, and her two sisters. But when Elina’s family is mistakenly stopped by the Black Unicorn on their way up to the North Yorkshire Moors, and her sister is savagely attacked by one of his men, revenge consumes Elina. For the sake of her sister, she will destroy the Black Unicorn. And the shooting party at Scarcliffe Towers seems the perfect place to ensnare the mysterious figure. Another guest at the party, Ashby, is known to London Society as a beautiful Portuguese libertine, whose mother, it is whispered, was the illegitimate progeny of a Brazilian native. Elina knows him simply as the former whoring companion to her late husband. But this dark Northumberland lord is a man with secrets: a secret love for Elina Brinkley, the daughter of the lofty Marquess of Hertford, and a secret life as the Black Unicorn. But as Elina unravels the mystery surrounding the man behind the mask, she discovers that the Black Unicorn is so much more than just a highwayman.
Happy Reading
Lily x
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