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1/28/2021

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Black Willows
Trapnell Thriller Book 2
by Jill Hand
Genre: Thriller 

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A mysterious cowboy is stalking the eccentric Trapnell siblings. Is he a supernatural entity or a hired killer? To complicate things, the will making them heirs to their billionaire father’s estate is missing and a relative has returned from a watery grave.
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Last time, the Trapnells saved the world from destruction. This time they may not be able to save themselves. Black Willows is a darkly funny Southern-fried adventure, complete with Voodoo, arson, and alligators.


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​“And then,” Palmer Trapnell told an architect named Chase Merriweather, “An alarm will sound, one of those that goes aoogah! aoogah! The room will start filling up with ice-cold water and everyone will have to swim to safety. What do you think of that?"
            Merriweather looked over Palmer’s shoulder to where her husband stood. Trainor Trapnell was shaking his head and frantically waving his hands, as if to say, No way! That’s insane!
            “Well,” the architect said cautiously. “It’s an interesting concept.”
            “I know! Escape rooms are popular right now. My friend Chandler Woodbury has one. It’s at Lakeland Mall, between Razzle-Dazzle Doughnuts and Sweet and Sassy Lingerie, where that store that sold things like blacklight posters and lava lamps used to be. You have to find clues to figure out how to escape from a room done up like a library in a spooky old mansion. This will be much better.”
            Palmer beamed complacently. Her sandy blonde hair was cut in an asymmetrical style popularized by an actress with a starring role in a daytime television drama. Palmer was a former dog groomer who had advanced several rungs up the social ladder by marrying Trainor. With her bright pink lipstick and Lilly Pulitzer twin set, she was the apotheosis of an affluent young Atlanta matron.
Palmer and Chandler Woodbury, ostensibly friends, were locked in a mortal combat of one-upmanship. If Chandler had an escape room then Palmer wanted a better one.
            “But the logistics,” Trainor said desperately. He drew up a chair and seated himself next to his wife at the polished mahogany conference table in Merriweather’s office. He spread his hands in mute appeal to the architect to put an end to this nonsense. “That’s what they’re called, right? Logistics? Ways of doin’ things? You can’t fill up a room up with water and make people swim out. It’s not safe. What if somebody drowns? And how do you empty the water out afterwards? I don’t see it.”
He turned to Palmer who had folded her arms across her chest and was pouting. “I’m sorry, Chicken Legs, but I think it might be illegal.”


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White Oaks
Trapnell Thriller Book 1 

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“An ingeniously dark comic thriller about greed, gluttony and murder that is destined for the big screen.” –Best Thrillers

Aimee Trapnell reluctantly leaves her apartment on Manhattan’s Central Park West to return to her childhood home in Georgia for her father’s ninetieth birthday. Also on hand are her two brothers, wily Marsh and ne’er-do-well Trainor. With a forty-billion-dollar inheritance at stake, they’re willing to do whatever it takes to make the old man happy.
To their shock they learn that what their father wants for his birthday is to kill someone. He doesn’t care who it is. He just wants to know what it’s like to commit murder.
Betrayal, double-dealing, and fast-paced action set the Trapnells on a collision course with an unexpected villain. Their journey takes them from the swamps of Georgia, to Italy’s glittering Amalfi coast, to rugged Yellowstone National Park.


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​Earlier that morning a man named Pewee Pelletier drove his pickup truck through a gap in the tall privet hedge in front of White Oaks. A discrete metal sign, white letters on a forest green background, declared it to be the service entrance to the estate.
The truck’s tires crunched on the gravel roadbed as Pewee drove past the kitchen wing, past the greenhouses and the water cascade, water burbling over its stone steps, and down beyond the old slave graveyard. He parked beside the white granite mausoleum. TRAPNELL was carved in stern block letters in the triangular pediment above the door.
It’s only seven-fifteen and already it’s hot as a crotch, Peewee thought, squinting at the white disc that was the sun, blazing mercilessly above the tangle of trees marking the beginning of the swamp. He wanted to finish the day’s work early and go fishing. He’d sweep out the mausoleum and get it looking shipshape for Blanton Trapnell’s big sendoff. Then he’d swing by Holy Redeemer and White Knoll cemeteries and cut the grass before knocking off for the day. With any luck he’d be on the lake in his bass boat by noon, along with a cold six-pack and a container of minnows from Buzzy’s. Perhaps he’d get Gordon Buzzy to sell him a bottle of Old Rocking Chair. He bit into the egg salad sandwich his wife had made for him.
Chewing egg salad on white bread liberally smeared with mayonnaise he looked at the mausoleum and snorted in contempt. The damn thing probably cost more than his house. Rich people, he thought resentfully. At least rich people died, just like everybody else. Blanton Trapnell wouldn’t be driving his Rolls-Royce through town anymore, not deigning to wave at Pewee when Peewee drove past going the other way in his truck.
Peewee always waved when he encountered other drivers. It was the neighborly thing to do, but Blanton Trapnell thought he was too good to acknowledge people like Peewee who weren’t born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Blanton Trapnell wasn’t neighborly. Now he was dead and good riddance. Let’s see what Saint Peter would have to say about his lack of neighborliness when he showed up at the Pearly Gates. Peewee bit into the dill pickle his wife had packed along with the sandwich. Pickle juice ran down through the beard stubble on his chin as he smiled, thinking of Old Man Trapnell being denied admission to Heaven and instead being cast, shrieking, into a lake of fire.
He crumpled the pieces of wax paper the sandwich and the pickle had been wrapped in and stuck them in the hip pocket of his green Carhartt work pants. Then he took the key hanging from a cardboard tag marked ‘Trapnell’ that Chapman had given him and went to unlock the door.
Leaving the bronze door open to let it air out inside, Peewee got a push broom and a pry bar out of the truck. He carried them into the cool interior of the mausoleum and sniffed cautiously. It smelled musty, like closed-up spaces always did. He also detected the unmistakable stink of decomposition.
The decomp odor wasn’t coming from any of the corpses in the crypts. Those were embalmed and would be as dry as old leather. It was something freshly dead, most likely a possum or a raccoon that had crawled through the ventilation shaft on the roof. Pewee figured he’d find whatever it was lying in the shadows, paws-up. He drew on a pair of rubber work gloves and patted the black plastic trash bag tucked in his belt. Ms. Possum or Mr. Raccoon would be going into the bag. He just hoped they weren’t too gooshy.
A stained glass window in the rear wall threw splashes of red, blue and green over the stone floor. The window’s subject was utterly inexplicable to Peewee: not Jesus or some saint but three naked men being attacked by huge snakes. Peewee stared at it, trying to recall which Bible story it could have come from. There were several involving animals. There was Daniel in the lions’ den, and Jonah and the whale, and one about a talking donkey that got pissed off when its owner kept hitting it with a stick, but he couldn’t think of anything involving snakes, other than the Garden of Eden thing.
“Rich people,” he muttered shaking his head.
He leaned the broom against the wall inside the door. He’d sweep the floor before he locked up.
The double crypt where Blanton Trapnell’s coffin would go was on the left wall, down near the snake window. Trapnell’s second wife was in there and he would be going in beside her. The late Mrs. Trapnell had been a terror. Peewee wouldn’t want to wait for the last trumpet to blow while lying beside a bitch like Deirdre Trapnell. Fortunately he wouldn’t have to. He’d be buried out at Holy Redeemer with his wife and his mama and daddy and the rest of his family. The Trapnells could keep their old mausoleum with its bizarre naked-men-and-snakes window, thank you very much.
Pewee intended to use the pry bar to remove the granite slab known in the funeral trade as a shutter from the front of the double crypt. The shutter was inscribed with Blanton’s name and date of birth, as well as his wife’s name and her dates of birth and death. A stonecutter would add Blanton’s final date and it would go back in place and be sealed, after his bronze casket went in.
The casket was a model called the Chancellor made by the Batesville Casket Company. It cost $25,000. It had a variety of high-end features, including a rounded glass seal, bronze swing-bar handles, fully adjustable inner bed with head and foot velvet pillows and matching velvet blanket and a hidden locking mechanism.
Blanton’s purchase of the most expensive casket among those on display in Chapman’s showroom had been a red letter day for Lycott and Joelle Chapman and their two children. The family celebrated by taking a trip to Jekyll Island, where they’d gone to a water park.
Peewee walked down the center aisle, pausing to kick at a drift of leaves that must have blown in under the door. As he kicked at the leaves, scattering them, his work boot came in contact with something unyielding. He looked down to see what it was and found it was a foot, clad in a narrow, polished black shoe.
The pry bar hit the stone floor with a clatter as Peewee turned tail and ran.


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Jill Hand is a member of International Thriller Writers. Her Southern Gothic novels, White Oaks, and Black Willows, are available on Amazon and from the publisher, Black Rose Writing.
Advance readers called White Oaks a fast-paced, hilarious account of three siblings who are competing for their father's forty-billion-dollar fortune while trying to prevent the destruction of Planet Earth.
Diane Donovan, senior reviewer from Midwest Book Review praised White Oaks, calling it, "an unusually multifaceted tale that holds the ability to prompt laughter from thriller-style tension."
A sequel to White Oaks, Black Willows, follows the adventures of the squabbling, dysfunctional Trapnell family.



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Most of the action in Black Willows takes place in a beautifully preserved Southern plantation house. While researching antebellum architecture I discovered a secret language hidden in plain sight on the gracious old buildings of the French Quarter in New Orleans.
Overhanging ironwork balconies not only shade the sidewalks from the fierce Louisiana heat, they tell a story. Tucked among the wrought iron vines and flowers and interwoven initials of the buildings’ original owners are traditional West African symbols called adinkra. They represent strength, endurance, imperishability and a variety of other concepts. Customarily woven into fabric and painted on pottery, adinkras were added to the iron balconies and gates and fences of the Vieux Carré by enslaved people who were apprenticed to blacksmiths. To those in the know, their meaning was clear, but to the unenlightened they were just abstract designs, nothing more than pretty decorations.
White Oaks, home to the eccentric, wealthy Trapnell family, has gorgeous ironwork running along its second-floor balcony, with adinkras incorporated into the design. When faced with a terrifying supernatural threat the Trapnells turn for help to a descendant of the slave who chose which adinkras to add. Her response sends the story racing to a surprising conclusion.
More about adinkras and their meanings can be found here:
https://www.adinkrasymbols.org/

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77 Comments
Sarah L
1/28/2021 03:06:02 am

Looks like interesting books.
Thanks for the contest. 

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Bea LaRocca
1/28/2021 03:07:58 am

The book covers are gorgeous and the synopses and excerpts intriguing, this sounds like a must read series for me. Thank you for sharing your guest post and book details and for offering a giveaway, I have enjoyed reading about you and your work and am looking forward to reading your stories

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Bernie Wallace
1/28/2021 06:30:08 am

How long did it take you to write your book?

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Beyond Comps
1/28/2021 09:14:43 am

Awesome cover!

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Jon Heil
1/28/2021 10:11:01 am

What secrets or bodies will come a float

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Wendy Jensen
1/28/2021 10:24:53 am

The book details make this sound like a thrilling read.

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Rita Wray
1/28/2021 11:01:15 am

Sounds like a great book.

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Susan Smith
1/28/2021 01:34:44 pm

Sounds like a good book I like the cover.

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Kelly D
1/28/2021 02:12:08 pm

It sounds like a suspenseful and unique book.

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Barbara Montag
1/28/2021 02:41:52 pm

Oh boy I could really go for a thriller now!
And what a magnificent cover.
Thank you for sharing the review.

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wendy hutton
1/28/2021 04:57:30 pm

love the cover, this sounds like an exciting book

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Debbie P
1/28/2021 05:21:31 pm

This sounds like a great page-turner. Cool cover!

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beth shepherd
1/28/2021 05:34:09 pm

I like the cover and the blurb

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Lisa
1/28/2021 06:17:34 pm

Love the cover!

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David Basile
1/28/2021 07:07:39 pm

Looks like a good thriller

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bn100
1/28/2021 07:25:35 pm

interesting book

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Sherry
1/28/2021 08:09:39 pm

Sounds like a great book.

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Mary Cloud
1/28/2021 08:16:13 pm

Sounds interesting - thanks for sharing

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Amy F
1/28/2021 08:37:26 pm

Great cover. Sounds like an interesting thrill read.

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David Hollingsworth
1/29/2021 01:20:32 am

That cover looks subtly creepy.

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kelly tupick
1/29/2021 03:39:34 am

Sounds like a good read to me, thanks for sharing!

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Angela Heerde
1/29/2021 03:47:56 am

I like book details.

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Michele Soyer
1/29/2021 06:08:51 am

Covers are so pretty especially White Oaks

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Cynthia C
1/29/2021 09:36:22 am

The excerpt is interesting. Thank you for sharing it.

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Ginger Hafer
1/29/2021 11:17:32 am

Like the covers. They give an eerie vibe to the books. Should both be great reads.

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Debbi Wellenstein
1/29/2021 12:56:46 pm

I love thrillers, and this sounds especially thrilling! Thanks for the giveaway!

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Paige Chandler
1/29/2021 01:14:23 pm

Looks like a lot could go down in that awesome plantation.

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Thomas Gibson
1/29/2021 01:32:09 pm

The cover is so nice.

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Ann Fantom
1/29/2021 01:55:48 pm


This sounds like an interesting book and the cover has a beautiful photo.

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Ellie Wright
1/29/2021 03:56:31 pm

Sounds like a great book. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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Robert Young
1/29/2021 05:33:33 pm

Nice Cover!
Good Luck with the Book!

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Terri Quick
1/29/2021 08:57:19 pm

Great cover

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Victoria Alexander
1/29/2021 10:07:37 pm

Sounds like a good book, thanks for sharing!

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lynn clayton
1/29/2021 10:08:07 pm

oh nice cover looks likea great read

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Abigail Gibson
1/30/2021 01:09:27 am

This looks awesome!

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Serge B
1/30/2021 08:53:46 am

I liked the cover--especially the gator!

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Marcy Meyer
1/30/2021 02:03:34 pm

I like the covers. Look good.

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Tara Zarecky
1/30/2021 06:04:01 pm

The excerpt definitely makes me want to read more!

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Jamie Martin link
1/31/2021 06:41:40 am

Any writer's block tips?

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Monica McConnell
1/31/2021 05:27:59 pm

sounds really good cant wait to read it

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Judy Thomas
1/31/2021 07:07:35 pm

I love the book covers, beautiful!

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shannon zeidan
1/31/2021 07:52:41 pm

This is a gorgeous cover! I'm really excited to read this.

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molli taylor
2/1/2021 12:28:52 am

this looks like a great read

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Cathy French
2/1/2021 09:07:33 am

I am in love with this cover! I have always dreamed of having a mansion with a long drive or path canopied with these large willow trees.

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June S.
2/1/2021 11:03:01 am

Black Willows sounds like a great new book to read.

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julie murphy
2/1/2021 12:54:09 pm

The covers look good.

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Laura Rubenstein
2/1/2021 02:57:53 pm

Looks good sounds really good

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Cindy Merrill
2/1/2021 04:25:22 pm

As a Yankee, I fear some of the dialogue would be hard to fathom.

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Danielle Day
2/1/2021 07:31:56 pm

I think its interesting!

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Veronica Lee link
2/2/2021 05:59:59 am

Sounds like a suspenseful read! Captivating excerpt, cover and title!

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Linda Fast
2/3/2021 09:02:55 am

The title as well as the covers would be the first thing that would draw me to these books. I definitely would buy the books on these merits alone.

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Emily B.
2/3/2021 01:05:59 pm

Looks so mysterious!

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Olivia Parker
2/4/2021 07:13:28 pm

I love the book tours and new authors! I joined thank you

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Peggy Salkill
2/4/2021 10:58:45 pm

Sounds good!

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Paula
2/6/2021 09:11:54 am

The cover art seems appropriate for the book. Good job.

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Karin
2/8/2021 07:26:27 am

The cover of Black Willows is really good!

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Mishelle G
2/8/2021 08:51:29 am

I like how the summary says enough to hook you but not enough to give the ending all away.

Mishelle

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Heather Mahley
2/13/2021 07:38:05 pm

Loving the cover

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avm
2/15/2021 01:52:30 pm

i like the iguana

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Christy R
2/18/2021 12:50:36 pm

Kind of spooky cover. Looks great!

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Emily Gibb
2/20/2021 09:12:55 pm

This is a must read!

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Allison Swain
2/21/2021 09:18:55 pm

I enjoyed reading the excerpt of this! It seems like a thrilling read. Thank you for the chance to win :)

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Jeff L
2/24/2021 11:03:48 am

What inspires you when you write?

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Jeff L
2/24/2021 11:04:42 am

What inspires you when you're writing?

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Andreas Myrokis
2/24/2021 12:00:04 pm

Sounds good.

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Diana Corlett
2/25/2021 04:08:36 pm

Sounds like an excellent read! Love, love, love the cover!

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Daniel M
2/25/2021 06:48:23 pm

like the cover

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Arthur Begly
2/27/2021 12:18:38 pm

a great mystery

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Jessica Hays
2/27/2021 04:22:21 pm

I love the look of the cover! You don't know what to expect!

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latisha depoortere
2/27/2021 08:51:54 pm

Love the cover sounds so good!

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Renata
2/28/2021 06:18:46 am

Sounds interesting !

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Francine Anchondo
2/28/2021 12:42:28 pm

I like the cover

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Jaclyn Mercer
2/28/2021 03:13:26 pm

Sounds like an intriguing next read! Congratulations.

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jose rosado
2/28/2021 04:02:55 pm

What do you think of the book details? Do you have any questions for the author?


The blurbs sound fine.

THX

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Karen A.
2/28/2021 08:05:47 pm

Sounds like a great read.

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Stacey A Smith
2/28/2021 09:22:50 pm

the covers are a little spooky.

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Jerry Marquardt
2/28/2021 10:52:17 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including Black Widows, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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