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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Echoes of Darkness by Darlene L. Turner, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! About the Book Title: Echoes of Darkness Author: Darlene L. Turner Publisher: Love Inspired Trade Release Date: June 24, 2025 Genre: Christian Suspense/Romantic Thriller A serial killer stalks a small town, and a police officer must face her family’s dark past to catch him. The sleepy community of Kenorapeake Falls in northern Ontario seems… Read More

Welcome to the Takeover + Review Blitz for Some Like it Scot by Pepper Basham hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours! About the Book Title: Some Like it Scot Author: Pepper Basham Publisher: Thomas Nelson Release Date: April 8, 2025 Genre: Christian Contemporary Romance She lives her life on the fly. His heart is double-knotted to home. Can two different souls create a life together? Popular travel writer and podcaster Katie Campbell roams… Read More

Title: The Restless Wrangler (Colter Sons #5) by Karen Baney Pages: 219 Publisher: Desert Life Media (Mar. 8, 2023) Genre: Christian, romance, historical Summary Compelling love story full of heartache and redemption set in Ash Fork, Arizona Territory in 1893-1894. Preston Colter felt like he was the forgotten son. Years of drinking and drifting finally catch up to him. When a near-death experience recharts the course of his life, he finds himself… Read More

Title: Up to this Pointe by Jennifer Longo Pages: 368 Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers (Jan. 19, 2016) Genre: YA, contemporary Summary She had a plan. It went south. Harper is a dancer. She and her best friend, Kate, have one goal: becoming professional ballerinas. And Harper won’t let anything—or anyone—get in the way of The Plan, not even the boy she and Kate are both drawn to. Harper is a Scott. She’s related to Robert… Read More

Title: Set Your Eyes Higher by Whitney Lowe Pages: 208 Publisher: Zondervan (Sept. 24, 2024) Genre: Christian non-fiction, devotional Summary Find peace and rest for your spirit when you fix your eyes on God. Life feeling out of control? Overwhelmed and need a break? You’re invited to a 40-day reset that will help you let go of what’s not serving you, honor your limitations, and turn your gaze toward a God who loves you. Set Your… Read More

Title: Daughter of Ruins by Yvette Manessis Corporon  Pages: 400 Publisher: Harper Muse (oct. 8, 2024) Genre: historical fiction Summary A motherless daughter. An Italian prostitute. A mail-order bride. Are these women brave enough to change their fates? Demitra’s mother died in America in the 1930s when Demitra was three years old. Her father took her home to the Greek island of Cephalonia, where she endures a lonely childhood and dreams her… Read More

Title: The Bodyguard by Katherine Center Genres: contemporary , romance Publisher: St. Martin’s Press (Jul. 19th, 2022) Summary She’s got his back. Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka “bodyguard”), and she just got hired to protect superstar actor Jack Stapleton from his… Read More

Title: Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score Pages: 552 Genres: romance, contemporary Publisher: Bloom Books (Jan. 12th, 2022) Summary Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn’t tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the… Read More

Title: Bright Burning Stars by A. K. Small Pages: 304 Genres: YA, realistic fiction, contemporary, Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers (May 21st, 2019) Summary Best friends Marine Duval and Kate Sanders have trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School since childhood, where they’ve formed an inseparable bond forged by respective family tragedies and a fierce love for dance. When the body of a student is found in the dorms just before the start… Read More

Title: At the Table with Jesus by Louie Giglio Pages: 224 Genres: nonfiction, Christian, Devotional Publisher: Thomas Nelson (Mar. 29th, 2022) Summary At the Table with Jesus invites readers to sixty-six days of rich engagements with the Good Shepherd, providing deeper truths, power, and connection to walk through life’s troubles.   Through practical daily devotions, At the Table with Jesus invites readers to sit at the table with the Good Shepherd, building a… Read More