Book Launch, Book Promo, Christmas, contemporary romance, fiction, holiday, Novels, romance, romantic fiction, Sharon Black

By Next Christmas by Sharon Black

October 7, 2026 Melanie Leave a comment

I’m pleased to feature By Next Christmas by Sharon Black on its launch day. Don’t you just love the cover? I know I do.

By Next Christmas

Blurb

For Ria Joyce, love belongs in the past. But when she spots her ex-boyfriend Jon Donnelly via the Dublin-New York Portal, she wonders if it’s fate. Especially as it falls on her late husband’s anniversary, just before Christmas.

Then her daughter Amelie posts a photo of Jon, snapped at the Portal, together with a plea to help find him and, to Ria’s horror, the post goes viral.

When Nick Newland, host of the popular podcast, Sex and the Single Dad, asks Ria to appear on his show, she reluctantly agrees. And after Jon, AKA American thriller writer JL Walker, gets in touch, Nick sweeps her off to New York, to document the reunion for his hit podcast.

There, old feelings resurface. Amid twinkling lights, snowy streets and reawakened memories, Jon offers a second chance. But the mistakes of the past must be confronted before she can move forward into an unexpected future.

Will Ria take the ultimate leap of faith this Christmas?

Heart-warming and full of festive magic, this is a story about second chances and discovering that love often arrives when – and where – you least expect it.

Praise for By Next Christmas

‘Heart-warming, funny and enthralling, with engaging characters,
a gripping plot line, and a loveable heroine in the tender-hearted Ria.
I laughed and I cried. Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes.’
ZOE MILLER – author of The Birthday Weekend

‘I loved this book! It’s full of heart and humour and real life complications.’
SEÁNA TINLEY – Award winning Irish author

Buy Link

bit.ly/4zR2Mgd

About the Author

By Next Christmas

A recovered journalist, Sharon Black is a member of Writing.ie, Writers Ink and the Romantic Novelists Association. She is also a Curtis Brown Creative alumna and was long-listed for the 2023 Retreat West ‘Opening Lines’ Competition. She has published short stories in women’s magazines.

When she’s not writing, she catches up with family and friends and drinks a lot of coffee. She is a grateful member of a long-running book club in her village, where books and wine are consumed in roughly equal amounts. She loves theatre, old Hollywood films, romantic comedies and live stand-up comedy.

In recent years, she has developed a close relationship with Google Maps, thanks to her appalling sense of direction. She is highly allergic to shopping. Except for bag shopping. She lives in Dublin with her husband and the youngest of her grown-up family.

Love like the (Real) Reel Thing is her third novel and can happily be read as a standalone or as a sequel to The Last Saturday in July.

To find out more about Sharon, visit sharonblackwriter.ie

#review, book review, crime writer, crime writing, Crime/Thriller, fiction, Novels, Rachel Amphlett, suspense

The Cold Shore by Rachel Amphlett

October 6, 2026 Melanie 1 Comment

I’m pleased to welcome back Rachel Amphlett and her new book, The Cold Shore, to Celtic Connexions.

Cold Shore

Blurb

A chilling murder.

A coastal town full of secrets.

A detective with everything to prove.

When a man is found savagely murdered on an abandoned vessel off
the north Kent coast, what begins as a routine inquiry turns deadly.
Detective Gavin Piper had intended only a brief visit to assist his
superior officer – but when circumstance forces him to take
command, he finds himself leading his first homicide case in a place
that feels both unfamiliar and unforgiving.

As the investigation deepens, a key witness is found dead and dark
secrets begin to surface. With the body count rising and the pressure mounting, Gavin must race against the clock to find the only
surviving link – before the killer strikes again.

Will Gavin’s inexperience cost him more than just the case?
Or can he uncover the truth before it’s too late?

Cold Shore

Book Links

Goodreads: The Cold Shore

Purchase Link: https://mybook.to/coldshore-zbt

My Review

I thoroughly enjoyed this novel. I’ve never been to the area where the author set it, but I’ve read others set there. It felt like I was coming home.

We meet a new Detective Constable (Gavin Piper), transferred to the area temporarily to aid his superior officer, not to investigate a murder. As crime books go, there is always at least one murder, and usually more.

The author spun a tale as much about the crime as about the area.

This is the first book in this spin-off of the DI Kay Hunter series, so I was especially happy to know that. This is a series I’ll be reading. I’m so hooked; I can’t wait for the second book.

About the Author

Cold Shore Before turning to writing, USA Today bestselling crime author Rachel Amphlett played guitar in bands, worked as a TV and film extra, dabbled in radio, and worked in publishing as an editorial
assistant.

She now wields a pen instead of a plectrum and writes crime fiction with over 30 crime novels and short stories featuring spies, detectives, vigilantes, and assassins.

A keen traveller and accidental private investigator, Rachel has both Australian and British citizenship.

You can find out more about Rachel and her books at www.rachelamphlett.com

Follow Rachel at these Links:

Website: www.rachelamphlett.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rachelamphlett/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rachelamphlett.author

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rachelamphlett.bsky.social

book review, crime writer, Crime/Thriller, Inkubator Books, Lauren Dykovitz, Novels, Psychological Thriller, Reviews

What She Did by Lauren Dykovitz

October 6, 2026 Melanie 1 Comment

What She Did is Lauren Dykovitz’s latest book. And she’s another new-to-me author.

Blurb

Liz has been watching the neighbors. One of them has noticed.

Liz McAdams knows a lot about her neighbors. Recently divorced, with time on her hands, she amuses herself by observing them as she walks her dog past their houses. And no life looks more wonderful than Sabrina Thompson’s. Beautiful, wealthy, married to a gorgeous husband, Sabrina seems to have it all.

But one day Liz sees something through Sabrina’s bedroom window – something that could blow her seemingly perfect marriage apart.
Liz is shocked and intrigued. She herself has always played by the rules and now she can’t help envying Sabrina’s reckless abandon as she risks everything for her own pleasure.

Fascinated, she starts to watch Sabrina’s every move. And soon realizes that her glamorous neighbor has some very dark secrets.

Then there is a chilling murder on this affluent street, and Liz wonders if Sabrina could be involved. Even more disturbing, Sabrina seems to have noticed that Liz has been shadowing her.

Leaving Liz with two terrifying questions – Is Sabrina a killer?

And what might she do to the woman who knows too much?

My Review

This book was a fairly easy read, told in alternating points of view from Sabrina, an unhappily married woman, and Liz, a recently divorced woman.

The only cringe-worthy bit about the book was the way Sabrina talked about her husband, Gavin (Gavey-poo), and another man, Ben (Benny-boo). But for Sabrina, that was totally in character for her.

The book left me wondering what would happen and to whom, but I didn’t see that last twist coming.

Overall, it was a good read.

Book Links

Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/258987902-what-she-did
Purchase Link	https://mybook.to/whatshedid-zbt

Publication Day	30 September
Publisher	Inkubator Books
Genre	Psychological Thriller
Page Count	242 pdf pages
Series / Standalone	Standalone

About Lauren Dykovitz

Lauren Dykovitz writes psychological thrillers and suspense novels. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, Steve, and her black lab, Lucy. Lauren is a former police officer with a Bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and sociology, as well as a minor in legal studies.
She has an unhealthy obsession with true crime and murder that makes her husband sleep with one eye open. Lauren has also self-published two memoirs about her mom’s battle with Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

Connect with Lauren

Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/laurendykovitzauthor
Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/laurendykovitzauthor

#coverreveal, Deborah Stone

Buried in Silence by Deborah Stone #coverreveal

September 30, 2026 Melanie 2 Comments

I’m thrilled to share the cover of Buried in Silence by Deborah Stone!

Deborah Stone

Blurb

The police say Calvin Cross died naturally.

Former Scotland Yard detective Ember Lockhart lost her career following a scandal. Now working as a private investigator, she is hired by Amelia Cross to investigate her husband’s sudden death on a flight into Heathrow.

Calvin had been frightened before he died, and the corrupted USB stick he left behind suggests he had good reason. As Ember begins asking questions, she is followed, warned and threatened to abandon the case. With reluctant help from her former colleague and ex-lover, Leo Campbell, she traces Calvin’s death to a secretive technology company involved in political blackmail and corporate espionage involving an elaborate plan to destabilise the British government.

Then Amelia is murdered, and the evidence is carefully arranged to frame Ember.

Charged with killing her own client, Ember must prove her innocence while pursuing an organisation prepared to eliminate anyone who gets in the way of their ultimate political goal.

*****

This sounds like it’s going to be a cracker of a read! I can’t wait for to come out.

Book Promo, Book Tour, crime writer, crime writing, Crime/Mystery, Edinburgh, Novels, police procedural, Val Penny

Murder in the New Town by Val Penny #MURDERINTHENEWTOWN

September 27, 2026 Melanie 2 Comments

I’m pleased to be welcoming author Val Penny and her newly re-branded DI Hunter Wilson series novel, Murder in the New Town to Celtic Connexions.

Murder in the New Town

Blurb

Behind the elegant Georgian terraces of Edinburgh’s New Town, a killer is hiding in plain sight . . .

Detective Hunter Wilson is dragged from his bed by a frantic call in the early hours of the morning.

A young woman has been found dead in a flat above a betting shop on Frederick Street.

By the time Hunter arrives, it’s clear this wasn’t a crime of passion.

The victim has been beaten beyond recognition. The tips of her fingers are missing. The kitchen floor is soaked red with her blood.

Someone wanted to make sure she could never be identified.

But that’s not what stops Hunter in his tracks.

The flat is the home of his own son.

Murder in the New Town

Buy Links

PAPER BACK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/absolutely-gripping-Scottish-Detective-Mysteries/dp/1805737619

KINDLE – https://www.amazon.co.uk/absolutely-gripping-Scottish-Detective-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B0H5QMD4CR

Excerpt

DI Hunter Wilson looked at the time on his phone before he answered the call. 4.03am. If this was some comedian from the sub-continent calling to tell him about putting in a claim for the accident he hadn’t had… Then he noticed it was Cameron calling him.

“What’s the matter, son? This is a hell of a time to phone.” Hunter whispered.

“I didn’t know who else to call.”

“What’s the matter? And it had better be good.”

“It’s far from good.” Cameron told his father of the scene that had met him and his new friends when they got back to his flat.

“She’s had what cut off? Bloody hell!”

“I know, Dad, I know. And her head has been bashed in too. What do I do?”

“Well, now we have Police Scotland in place there is a Major Incidents Team, imaginatively know as MIT, that deals with cases like this.”

“Oh, Dad no! The other girls’ll go mental. You come. Please? At least at first. I need your help.”

Hunter thought back to the days when Cameron used to ask for his help regularly: tying his shoelaces, drying him after swimming, learning to ride a bike. Those had been the golden years. It had been a long, long time since his son had sounded so desperate and pleaded for his help. It made Hunter feel good. He could help Cameron again. Brilliant!

“You’re not back on the cocaine are you, Cameron? You’re not hallucinating?” Hunter said suddenly.

“No, I’m bloody not! But thanks for the vote of confidence. Believe me, I will be if you don’t get your arse over here pronto!”

“And that’s how you ask for help from your dad? A favour? Stuff you!” Hunter shouted back.

“What is it?” a bleary voice beside Hunter said.

“Please, Dad. Just come. I need you.” Cameron sounded like a little boy about to burst into tears. “Another person’s in my flat too. I’ve never seen her before. Just come, quickly, please Dad! I can’t tell you how awful it all is here.”

Hunter got out of bed and patted Meera’s arm. “Go back to sleep, pet. I’ve got to go and see Cameron. It’s an emergency.”

“At four o’clock in the morning? What’s wrong? Is he using again?”

“No. But he was out for the evening and got back to his home to find his flat mate dead on the floor”

“Why does he need you? Shouldn’t he call an ambulance?” Meera asked.

“It’s a bit late for that. She’s been mutilated; her head has been bashed in and the tops of her fingers cut off.”

“I’d guess she’s probably dead, right enough. But doesn’t Cameron need me more than he needs you? I’m coming with you,” Meera said in a determined voice that brooked no contradiction.

About the Author

Val Penny’s crime novels, form the bestselling series of DI Wilson Series set in Edinburgh.

She is an American author living in SW Scotland with her husband and their cat.

Follow Val at these links:

Website: https://www.valpenny.com

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B07C4725TK

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Authorvalpenny/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valerieepenny/

Bluesky: https://www.bsky.app/profile/valpennyauthor/

Cath Staincliffe, crime writer, crime writing, Crime/Mystery, fiction, Novels, police procedural, suspense

Secrets on the Fells by Cath Staincliffe

September 23, 2026 Melanie 4 Comments

Today at Celtic Connexions, I’m reviewing Secrets on the Fells by Cath Staincliffe. The best part of being a blog tour host is discovering new authors and their books.

Blurb

One bitter winter’s night, Detectives Donovan and Young are called to Fountains Abbey. A crumbling ruin out on the wild and windswept Yorkshire Fells. Where the air hangs heavy with local legend, ancient secrets and now the overpowering tang of freshly spilled blood.

College teacher Patrick Armitage lies sprawled across the stones, in a gory crimson pool. His handsome face is a mask of shock and disbelief.

Because Patrick’s not just been murdered. He’s been slaughtered. Stabbed over and over in the coldest blood.

Patrick was a devoted family man and everyone’s favourite drama teacher. Does that make him a tragic victim — or a consummate actor, who kept his true self hidden behind a spotless façade?

The deeper Donovan and Young dig, the more they realize that no one in this baffling case is quite what they seem.

Least of all Patrick’s grief-stricken widow. She begs the detectives for answers, but meets every question with hostile silence.

Then a vulnerable young witness vanishes from college.

And Young knows, with spine-tingling certainty, that Patrick’s killer is not done yet…
Buy Links

Goodreads	https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257572854-secrets-on-the-fells
Purchase Link	https://mybook.to/secretsonthefells-zbt

My Review

While this is the third book in the author’s Donovan and Young series, the author shared enough of the characters’ backstories that I wasn’t confused about their working relationship or their personal ones with their spouses.

The book was fast-paced, and I enjoyed the differences between the two main characters. DC Shan Young is an eager and smart constable assigned to work with DI Leo Donovan.

The novel follows the pair as they unravel a murder at Fountains Abbey. I can’t tell you more without giving away spoilers.

This is definitely a series I’m anxious to read more of.

About the Author

Cath Staincliffe

Cath Staincliffe is a best-selling, award-winning novelist, radio playwright and creator of ITV’s hit show Blue Murder. Cath has been shortlisted for the CWA Daggers five times, winning 2012’s Short Story Dagger. She won the WGBB Best Radio Drama Award in 2019. Cath’s standalone titles describe the human impact of crime on ordinary families, giving voice to victims, the bereaved, survivors and witnesses.

Cath is a reading junkie who loves hill-walking or pottering in the garden. Her new detective series features chalk and cheese duo Leo Donovan and Shan Young in the stunning setting of the Yorkshire Dales.

Connect with Cath

Instagram	https://www.instagram.com/authorcathstaincliffebooks/
X / Twitter	https://x.com/CathStaincliffe
Website	https://www.cathstaincliffe.co.uk/

Allison Symes, anthology, Book Promo, Books, Flash Fiction

Seeing the Other Side by Allison Symes #SEEINGTHEOTHERSIDE

September 13, 2026 Melanie 4 Comments

Today I’m hosting Allison Symes and her book, Seeing the Other Side.

Blurb

Perspective can be wonderful, but will you still feel the same if your view from the fence changes?

Allison Symes has long loved what can be done with flash fiction in terms of genre and even how it is presented. Here, you will find flash tales covering a wide range of genres. Some are written in acrostic format, some are linked flashes where a character will turn up in two or more tales revealing more about themselves as the stories go on, and many will make you laugh. Others will make you shudder. Justice is served in some of the tales too, though whether it is to the characters’ liking is another matter. Flash fiction is perfect for any mood or genre. Oh, and a Canada Goose comes into the book too.

Allison Symes, author of Seeing The Other Side, Tripping The Flash Fantastic and From Light to Dark and Back Again, is passionate about flash fiction and hopes her latest collection introduces more to the joy and fun of the form.

Exerpt

Getting Lost

Where the hell was he now?

Goodness knew his sat nav had sent him in some strange directions in her time. He still hadn’t forgiven her for trying to send him the wrong way up a slip road. She’d told him the way so nicely too.

Well, she wasn’t catching him out with her tricks again. No way! He’d been checking the route before setting off. If her route didn’t match hers, tough. Like Sinatra, he would do it his way.

He thought back. Yes, he’d been looking for The Oak as he used pubs as landmarks. What he had found was a horse chestnut. He grimaced. He could’ve sworn he’d only winged it but that dent in his Audi would take some shifting. Still, that could be sorted out later.

Gloomy place this, he thought. Won’t get many visitors until they tart the place up a bit.

He sniffed. There was a distinct smell of rotten eggs. Oh yes, that would probably be the sulphur.

Now if he could only figure out where the hell he was, he would move on.

Buy Links

KINDLE – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Other-Side-Allison-Symes-ebook/dp/B0H6MQFN8K

PAPERBACK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Seeing-Other-Side-Allison-Symes/dp/1915762456

About the Author

Allison writes flash fiction and short stories; she has been published online and in print by Bridge House Publishing, Cafelit, Iron Press and Chapeltown Books, who published her first flash fiction collection, From Light to Dark and Back Again in 2017.

Her second flash fiction collection, Tripping The Flash Fantastic, has now been published by Chapeltown Books.

She was one of the winners of the 2020 Waterloo Arts Festival Writing Competition with my story, Books and the Barbarians. She was one of the winners of this competition three years in a row. Please see Transforming Communities, To Be…To Become and Transforming Being as these are the compilations of the winning entries. Later in 2020 there should be a paperback of these three ebooks.

She also blogs for Chandler’s Ford Today, an online community magazine, and usually on topics of interest to other writers.She also writes for online writing magazine, Writers’ Narrative, and is one of their team of editors and also a freelance editor and runs workshops on that and on flash fiction.

Follow Allison at these links:

Website: https://allisonsymescollectedworks.com/

Amazon Author Page: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Allison-Symes/author/B07T3HT18L

Books: http://author.to/AllisonSymesAuthorCent

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPCiePD4p_vWp4bz2d80SJA/

Facebook – Author Page – https://www.facebook.com/Allison.Symes.FairytaleLady

Facebook – Book Page (called From Light to Dark and Back Again – I focus on flash fiction here) – https://www.facebook.com/fairytaleladyallisonsymes/

Substack – https://substack.com/@allisonsymeswriter1

Chandler’s Ford Today Author Page – Allison’s Weekly Column – http://chandlersfordtoday.co.uk/author/allison-symes/

19th Century Architecture, architectural symbolism, atmospheric fiction, Book Launch, contemporary fiction, dual timeline, dual-timeline, haunted, Historical Fiction, King Park Press, modern researchers uncover past, Mystery, Novels, occult, Paranormal, SECRETS THROUGH TIME, supernatural elements, suspense, thriller, time-layered narrative

It’s release day for SECRETS THROUGH TIME!

September 5, 2026 Melanie 2 Comments

The wait is over… SECRETS THROUGH TIME has arrived!

For years, Milford Manor has held onto its secrets. Now, readers can finally step inside the forgotten rooms, uncover the hidden passages, and discover the mysteries buried beneath the ashes of Milford Hollow.

Yes, I’m a wee bit excited. Nervous, too, letting my latest book baby free in the outside world.

release day — ID 144571891 © Melinda Nagy | Dreamstime.com

Blurb

Past and present collide when echoes of the haunted emerge and secrets refuse to remain buried

When Nicole, her brothers and her husband stumble upon the ruins of Milford Hollow, a ghost town long forgotten by history, they’re drawn to the only building left standing: the crumbling stone shell of Milford Manor.

Rumours circulated about the fire that devoured the town despite its closeness to Little Lake, and something unexplainable drove those who survived the inferno away.

Inside the manor’s scorched walls, Nicole senses she’s not alone. Whispers drift through the halls, and a long-faded family portrait seems to watch her every move.

As Nicole unravels the manor’s dark past, she discovers a tragedy that links her own world to the secrets of a family long dead—and learns that some fires never truly burn out.

release day

If you pre-ordered SECRETS THROUGH TIME, it will magically appear on your device today.

Thank you to everyone who followed along on this journey—from the first glimpses of the characters to the mysteries hidden within the walls of Milford Manor. I hope you enjoy uncovering the secrets as much as I enjoyed creating them.

While I’m celebrating launch day at the local market, I’m thrilled that SECRETS THROUGH TIME is finally available for readers everywhere.

If you haven’t, you can order at this link: https://books2read.com/u/bMkj0V

Please enjoy the trailer I created to go with the book.

#review, Book Tour, Charlie Gallagher, Crime/Mystery, Crime/Thriller, Novels, police procedural

The Perfect Victim by Charlie Gallagher

August 26, 2026 Melanie 4 Comments

Today at Celtic Connexions, I’m featuring a book from another new-to-me author, Charlie Gallagher and his novel, The Perfect Victim.

Charlie Gallagher

Blurb

Detective Abigail Morton of Kent Police is in a race against time to catch a killer before he finds his perfect victim.

Because when he finds her, she will die.

She must have red hair, green eyes, and pale skin.

Just like Lizzy Oaken.

Lizzy’s drink is spiked. She wakes up in a locked basement. Trapped by a man who knows exactly what he wants from her. He cuts a lock of her hair as a trophy.

But for some reason she’s not quite right. And Lizzy survives.

Detective Abigail is Lizzy’s source handler. Her last informant turned up in A&E, badly beaten, too frightened to talk anymore. Now she’s relying on Lizzy.

Because the attacker is still out there. Still searching.

And the next woman might be the perfect victim.

Charlie Gallagher

Book Links

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/256119668-the-perfect-victim

Purchase Link: https://mybook.to/perfectvictim-zbt

My Review

This is the first novel I’ve read by Charlie Gallagher. It didn’t disappoint. Now, I think I need to get the first two in this series so I can catch up.

It was fast-paced, the characters were likable, and there were enough red herrings to keep me guessing until the reveal. I will admit, I didn’t see it coming.

I’ll definitely be looking for more books by this author.

About the Author

Charlie Gallagher was a serving UK police officer for thirteen years. During that time he had many roles — starting as a front-line response officer, he became a member of a specialist tactical team and finally a detective investigating serious offences. Charlie left to concentrate on writing full time.

Follow Charlie at:

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Facebook	https://www.facebook.com/Charliegallagherwriter/
X / Twitter	https://x.com/Gloriouscharlie

Charlie Gallagher

19th Century Architecture, characters, Domestic noir, dual timeline, dual-timeline, historic adventure, King Park Press, Novels

Meet the supporting cast in Secrets through Time: The Past

August 19, 2026 Melanie 2 Comments

Today, I’m introducing the supporting cast in my novel, Secrets Through Time.

Eliza Milford Mitchell

supporting

The dutiful wife. Daughter of the man who founded the village of Milford Hollow and commissioned the original Milford Manor, Eliza has watched her childhood home change over the years. Quiet, compassionate, and devoted to her family, she spends much of her life trying to keep peace within a household overshadowed by her husband’s ambitions.

Samuel Mitchell

supporting

The respected businessman with an iron will. To the outside world, Samuel is successful, influential, and above reproach. Within the walls of Milford Manor, however, his relentless need for control shapes the lives—and ultimately the destinies—of everyone under his roof.

Anna Mitchell

supporting

Samuel’s illegitimate daughter. Raised in the shadows of the family she can never truly belong to, Anna longs for acceptance while carrying burdens that threaten to consume her.

Elias Greaves

supporting

The eccentric architect. Brilliant, unconventional, and fascinated by hidden spaces, Greaves transforms Milford Manor into a masterpiece of secret passages, concealed rooms, and architectural puzzles. More than a century later, those hidden features become the key to uncovering long-buried truths.

Some secrets refuse to stay buried…

supporting

Past and present collide when echoes of the haunted emerge, and secrets refuse to remain buried.

Rumours circulated about the fire that devoured the town despite its closeness to Little Lake, and something unexplainable drove those who survived the inferno away.

Inside the manor’s scorched walls, Nicole senses she’s not alone. Whispers drift through the halls, and a long-faded family portrait seems to watch her every move.

As Nicole unravels the manor’s dark past, she discovers a tragedy that links her own world to the secrets of a family long dead—and learns that some fires never truly burn out.

SECRETS THROUGH TIME releases on September 5, 2026. Pre-order your copy today ($6.99 CAD) from Books2read and discover what lies hidden within Milford Manor.