Release Blitz for Sunshine and Sins by R.C. Stephens

 

Sunshine and Sins by R.C. Stephens is now live!

Some people are made of light.
Others are made of shadows.

I have always been both sunshine and sin, and I was never meant to outrun the darkness I was born into.
I didn't return to Val-Du-Lys because it was safe. I came back because it was the only place my heart still recognized, a quiet town holding memories I never learned how to leave behind.
Small towns don't forget. Not the past. Not secrets. And not the boy I loved before I understood how dangerous love could be.
Eric Thorne.
We were never supposed to exist in the same world. The police director's son and the daughter of a man everyone feared. What began in secret turned into scandal, and I learned quickly that loving him meant putting him in danger.
So I left the moment high school ended, believing distance was the only way to protect him from the life my father was pulling me into.
Years later, I'm back.
As encrypted messages begin appearing again, ones only someone from my past should know, and I realize someone is watching my every move, Eric is the one who steps closer, steady and unshaken, even when I try to push him away.
The history between us still aches.
The love never faded.
In a town where shadows return without warning, he reaches for me anyway.
This time, choosing him might expose everything I ran from, but loving him has never felt more worth the risk.

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Meet R.C. Stephens

R.C. Stephens is a top 100 Amazon bestselling author. She writes contemporary romance novels ranging from hot hockey players to romantic suspense.

When she isn't in her writing cave she is raising three lovely children with her adoring husband.

Her books are filled with humor, heartbreak, emotion and true love.

Born and raised in Toronto, she loves the winter, but Spring and Fall are her favorite seasons.

 

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Spotlight for The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera

 

The Midnight Taxi by Yosha Gunasekera

Published:  February 10, 2026 by Berkley

Genre:  Mystery Thriller, Cozy Mystery

 

Taken from Goodreads:  When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera.

Siriwathi Perera doesn’t quite know where she’s going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab driver in New York City, struggling to make ends meet and still living with her parents at twenty-eight. The true-crime podcasts that keep Siri company as she drives don’t do much to make up for the legal career she imagined for herself, or the brother she’s grieving.

When public defender Amaya Fernando gets into her cab, they make a quick connection through their shared Sri Lankan roots. Siri, whose social circle is limited to her grade-school best friend, Alex, thinks things might finally be looking up with this new potential friendship. But she’s suddenly dropped into her own true crime when she discovers her next passenger murdered in the backseat, and she has to call Amaya sooner than she’d expected.

Pinned as the obvious and only suspect, and desperate to clear her name, Siri chases down leads across the boroughs of New York City with Amaya’s help. But with her court date looming, they have just five days to find out who really killed the midnight passenger—or Siri’s life will be over before she can even truly live it.

 

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Meet the Author:  Yosha Gunasekera is a Sri Lankan-American attorney who represents people who have spent decades behind bars for crimes they did not commit. She teaches a course at Princeton University focused on wrongful conviction and exoneration. Yosha is a former Manhattan public defender and has written and spoken extensively on the criminal legal system. She lives in New York City with her husband.

Available Now!! On the Brink of Bliss by A.L. Jackson

 

On the Brink of Bliss by A.L. Jackson is now live! A sizzling single mom, fake marriage, heroine in danger romance from New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author, A.L. Jackson The last thing I expected when I found the trespasser bathing in my river was for it to be her… Daisy Adair has always been my dream girl. From when we were best friends in high school to finding her now. A gorgeous mother who shows up on my property with three kids in tow. But I became a recluse for a reason. The life I chose is full of wickedness and peril. The last thing I need is the object of my every fantasy invading my space and risking her life because of me. Only when she tells me she’s on the run from her ex, I promise to do anything to keep them safe, even marry her to protect her kids. That single kiss at the altar rips through every barrier, our passion unleashed. Now, living under the same roof blurs the lines I’ve drawn. Each glance of her down the hall and I am splintering. Each brush of her hand and I am brought to my knees. Our future—bright, hopeful, and almost within reach—hovers on the edge of becoming real… Until we discover the threat surrounding her is grimmer than either of us imagined. Now I’m fighting to save her and her children before our second chance at forever is burned to the ground… Download today or read for FREE with #kindleunlimited Amazon: https://geni.us/OTBOBAmznOP Also available in audio! Narrated by: @seanmastersaudio & @ms_brentmoor Listen today: https://geni.us/OTBOBAudio Enter the release day giveaway! https://geni.us/OTBOBRlsGvwy Goodreads: https://geni.us/OTBOBGoodreads

Release Blitz for Acquired Vow by Dea Verdi

 

Acquired Vow by Dea Verdi is now live!

Victor

She’s a brat. There’s no other way to put it.

She defies me, talks back and has a nasty habit of getting on every single nerve I possess.

Also, she’s a spoiled trust fund princess, and there’s nothing I despise more than entitled little girls with too much time on their manicured hands.

But when I lay eyes on her for the first time, I sense something different lurking underneath that perfect façade. She’s sharp-witted. She has fire inside of her, and frankly, that makes me hard. It also doesn’t help that she’s so beautiful a lesser man would worship at her feet every single day of his miserable life.

So, I decide to marry her.

I need her more than she needs me, though I’ll never admit to it.

But at what cost?

***

Abigail

He’s the devil incarnate.

Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating slightly.

He’s rude, demanding and thinks the entire world revolves around him and his expectations.

He’s the most infuriating man I have ever met, and to my utter dismay, also the most attractive.

I’m being forced to marry him. My grandfather, the person I love most in this life, has had it with me. With my laziness and my unpredictability. No matter how much I cry or beg, he will not change his mind.

I’m not wife material. I don’t want to submit to any man, much less one as strict and immovable as my future husband.

He’ll try to keep me in check.

I’ll give him a run for his money.

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Meet Dea Verdi

Dea Verdi is an author of romance novels with a twist of suspense and darkness. She started writing fanfiction when she was in college. During the pandemic, she decided to try her hand at creating her own original characters.

When she's not writing, she enjoys spending time with friends and reading too many romance novels.

 

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Book Review for Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

 

Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson

Published:  February 10, 2026 by 37 Ink

Genre:  Historical Fiction, WWII

Taken from Goodreads:  In this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The House of Eve, one American woman’s vision in post WWII Germany will tie together three people in an unexpected way.

Lost in the streets and smoldering rubble of Occupied Germany, Ethel Gathers, the proud wife of an American soldier spots a gaggle of mixed-race children following a nun. Desperate to conceive her own family, she feels compelled to follow them to learn their story.

Ozzie Philips volunteers for the army in 1948, eager to break barriers for Black soldiers. Despite his best efforts, he finds the racism he encountered at home in Philadelphia has followed him overseas. He finds solace in the arms of Jelka, a German woman struggling with the lack of resources and even joy in her destroyed country.

In 1965, Sophia Clark discovers she’s been given an opportunity to integrate a prestigious boarding school in Maryland and leave behind her spiteful parents and the grueling demands. In a chance meeting with a fellow classmate, she discovers a secret that upends her world.

Toggling between the lives of these three individuals, Keeper of Lost Children explores how one woman’s vision will change the course of countless lives, and demonstrates that love in its myriad of forms—familial, parental, and forbidden, even love of self—can be transcendent.

My Thoughts:  Keeper of Lost Children is a WWII book, but it is not the same as all the other WWII books I have read.   This book tells the story of an amazing woman and her husband that decide that brown babies deserve to have families too.   These babies are left in orphanages without much hope of being adopted. Ethel Gathers takes it upon herself to find homes in the US for these children.

This book opened my eyes to a different part of WWII.   The children are often forgotten.  It is not thought of how the war has affected them, but it certainly does.  I was in awe of the nuns and the care they were able to provide for the children.  As Ethel became more involved these children were given a chance to find a family to love and care for them.  I felt so much hope for their future.

Sadeqa Johnson is an author that I am always excited to read.   For me, she is the author that finds that lesser known person or event and writes a books that brings it to attention.  Keeper of the Lost Children is the perfect book for any historical fiction reader.   I highly recommend getting your own copy.

Thank you Simon and Schuster for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

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Check out my review of other book by Sadeqa Johnson.

The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson