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Review - Animated by Kim Fielding
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Frank was a paratrooper in World War II, but he was injured in a drop shortly after the D-Day landings. The injury left him with a bad foot and the need to use a cane to get around. Although he had dreams of being an artist, Frank found work as an animator for a Hollywood film company, and he’s very good at it. He’s now the lead animator for the frog character of a cartoon version of The Frog Prince.
Review - The Most Unsuitable Prince by Lisa Oliver
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Crown Prince Rupert is in an impossible situation. He has delayed marriage for so long, his aging father is refusing to let him return home without a marriage contract. Rupert doesn’t want to get married. He doesn’t want to change anything about his life of hunting parties. At a ball celebrating the marriage of another royal, Rupert spots Winter across the room. The diminutive young prince is opulently dressed and flitting from one seemingly frivolous conversation to the next, a veritable “peacock” of a man.
Tags: Fantasy
Review - The Alignments by E. H. Lupton
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Ulysses and Sam travel to Brittany to get a break from things in Madison, and as a sort of honeymoon. They’re staying at an apartment in Carnac that’s been in Ulysses’ family for many years. Unfortunately, the mood of their first night in town is ruined a bit when they meet a colleague of Ulysses who seems to go out of her way to cast doubt on the theories forming a cornerstone of his doctoral thesis, which won him a prestigious award.
Tags: Paranormal Mystery
Review - Asterios and the Labrynth by Edmond Thornfield
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After Theseus slays his eldest brother, Asterios is next in line for the throne of Knossos as his father, the famous King Minos lays on his deathbed. The young man is well prepared for the task, but it’s a daunting prospect nonetheless. Among Asterios’ concerns is his relationship with Phaistos. The two have been lovers since they were young men, long past the time it was considered seemly for two men to be lovers.
Tags: Ancient Greece Myth
Review - Cuddles for the Bear by Lisa Oliver
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Devon has been chatting with a young man online for months. It’s the one friendship he has outside of his colleagues at Assassin’s Alley. When the young man, named Wren, reveals he feels he is in danger from the man that has kept him as a slave for ten years, Devon wants to rescue him. It turns out that the agency which runs the Alley has had their eye Wren’s master for a while, due to his involvement in a trafficking ring.
Review - Hoodoo House by Peter E. Fenton
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Declan and Charlie are asked to find a laptop that went missing from Hoodoo House, an isolated writer’s retreat, after its owner was found dead. The computer stores a potentially valuable manuscript, and some videos that could be very damaging if they ever got out. It turns out the detectives aren’t the only ones looking for the laptop, and finding it is only the beginning of their troubles. Meanwhile, both men are questioning their resolve to keep their relationship “strictly business.
Tags: Mystery Private Eyes
Review - The Perfume of War by Garrick Jones
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Tommy has his hands full dealing with the fallout of his last mission to Germany, which resulted not only in the planned rescue of a math savant, but several other children with disabilities destined for a death camp. Publicity surrounding that rescue has raised awareness of the need for a care system for war orphans. It’s a cause enthusiastically taken up by the Duchess of Kent as well as Eleanor Roosevelt.
Review - Infernal Hearts by Danny Haliwell
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After losing his mother in a terrible accident, Jason decides to leave his father’s practice where he treats supernatural creatures and set up as an ordinary veterinary doctor. Levi is an incubus, possibly one of the last of his kind now that his maker is dead. The maker’s last act was to extract a promise from Levi to find the only other surviving incubus. If Levi doesn’t fulfill his promise, he faces oblivion.
Tags: Fantasy Contemporary
Review - Dauntless by Lisa Henry and J.A. Rock
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The residents of Dauntless Island are proud of their history as mutineers who lynched their tyrannical captain after being shipwrecked on the island 200 years ago. Joe is a direct descendant of the leader of the revolt and is well aware of the power that gives him on the island, although he is careful about how he exercises that control. Eddie is a history graduate student descended from the captain the mutineers lynched.
Review - Trader Argyle (Definitely Human) by Angel Martinez
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Argyle is a trader. He travels from town to town, buying wares he thinks he can sell or that someone has asked for, as well as selling the things he has brought with him. It’s usually a leisurely occupation, but now Argyle is in a hurry to reach Mereston. The trader met some soldiers in another town who were looking for the village, bent on killing all the “monsters” living there.
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