★★★★☆ 🌶 Review: First, I would like to thank the author and Thomas Nelson for providing me with a free advanced listener copy of this audiobook. This is my honest review. Denise Hunter is easily one of my favorite no-spice romance authors. While her books are classified as Christian, they never proselytize, making them a great option for readers of any faith (or lack thereof). Jenna and Tyson are childhood best friends. When Jenna returns to her hometown after turning down an engagement and losing her job, sparks fly between the two. Set against a backdrop of wild horses and kayaking tours, it's impossible not to fall for the small town of Chincoteague Island. I love the chemistry between Jenna and Tyson, as well as the suspense of determining whether Jenna's mom's new beau is as perfect as he portrays himself to be. Denise adds just enough emotional tension to raise the stakes. Once again, she has kept me spellbound; I read the entire book in a single s...
Book Blitz + GIVEAWAY: The Weird Girl by Carla Damron
One shattered birthday party.
Two teenage victims.
A city
drowning in fentanyl.
The Weird Girl
A Georgia Thayer Novel #2
by Carla Damron
Genre: Women’s Suspenseful Crime Fiction
One shattered
birthday party. Two teenage victims. A city drowning in fentanyl.
Social worker Georgia Thayer (The Orchid Tattoo) has spent her career fighting
for the vulnerable, but nothing could prepare her for being a foster mom to
Tessa—a teenager haunted by her traumatic past. Determined to give her a normal
life, Georgia's efforts to give her a normal life crumble when a neighborhood
party spirals into disaster, leaving one girl fighting for her life while
another disappears from the front yard of her family's home.
As Georgia undertakes a frantic search for the missing girl, she uncovers a
dangerous fentanyl trade that snakes from hospital emergency rooms to high
school hallways to the darkest corners of her city. She is up against a
charismatic candidate for attorney general and a ruthless drug kingpin, two
powerful men willing to use lethal means to bury their secrets.
With her chosen family threatened, her faith in herself shaken, and an
unexpected ally emerging from the shadows, Georgia’s efforts to save one girl
puts her own in danger.
The clock is ticking. The truth is deadly. And every second lost could mean
another life destroyed.
Crime fiction that
makes a difference: in The Orchid Tattoo, award-winning author
Carla Damron delves into the disturbing world of human trafficking.
Social worker Georgia Thayer can balance her own mental
illness with the demands of an impossible job. Mostly. But when her sister
vanishes in the dead of night, her desperate quest to find Peyton takes her
into the tentacles of a human trafficking network-where she encounters a young
victim called "Kitten."
Kitten is determined to escape. She won't be trapped like
the others. She won't sell her soul like Lillian, victim-turned-madam, feeding
the dark appetites of international business moguls and government leaders. But
the Estate won't let her out of its lethal grip, and her attempts at freedom
threaten her very life.
Aided by Kitten and, at times, by the voices in her head,
Georgia maneuvers to bring down the kingpin of Estate and expose its dark
secrets, but her efforts place her-and the few people she allows to get
close-in grave danger.
Carla Damron
believes fiction can make a difference. A social worker, advocate, and author
of suspense, women’s fiction, and mysteries, Damron uses her writing to put a
human face on issues like drug abuse, mental illness, and human trafficking.
She’s won multiple literary awards, including the Women’s Fiction Writers
Association Star Award for Best Novel and the NIEA award for best suspense.
Damron holds an
MSW and an MFA in Creative Writing and teaches with Writers.com. Currently the
VP for the Southeast Chapter of Mystery Writers of America, she lives in South
Carolina with her husband and their family of entitled rescue animals.
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