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March Virtual Book Tour: FALLS TO PIECES by Douglas Corleone

“[A] psychological thriller that’s very much in the vein of Gillian Flynn or Lisa Jewell…Fans of the genre should be urged to pick this one up, and fans of the author can safely be told that this book is just as good as his previous ones.” ―Booklist

“A twisty, fast-paced thriller from a gifted storyteller. Corleone masterfully combines great characters, a setting in Hawaii that is lush and forbidding, and a tense, dark plot.” ―William Landay, New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob

“FALLS TO PIECES twists and turns at breakneck speed in its exploration of parental devotion, the secrets kept by those we love, and the lengths some people go to in order to escape the past.” ―Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left and The House Across The Lake

A mother and daughter in hiding are threatened by more than secrets and lies in a twisting novel of paranoia, revenge, and psychological suspense by bestselling author Douglas Corleone.

Douglas Corleone, the bestselling author of ten contemporary crime novels and international thrillers, has turned his talents to writing a fast-paced psychological thriller. FALLS TO PIECES (Thomas & Mercer; ISBN 978-1662522062; $16.99; April 1, 2025) is a riveting mystery set on the Hawaiian island of Maui that will have you turning the pages in one sitting!

For two years, Kati Dawes and her teenage daughter, Zoe, have lived off the grid in Hawaii, hiding from a past Kati must forget as if her life depends on it. New names. Anonymous online presence. So far, safe. Until Kati’s fiancé, attorney Eddie Akana, disappears along a popular hiking trail in a Maui national park. Now all eyes are on Kati. Exposure can make a woman with so many secrets very paranoid.

Eddie’s law partner, Noah Walker, is doing everything he can to protect his new client from the press that’s hovering like a vulture and the authorities whose suspicions about Kati―and the disappearance―are rising. Then suddenly, Zoe goes missing as well. Kati will risk anything to find her. But the worst is still to come. Because Kati’s not the only one with secrets. And buried among them is a twist she never saw coming.

To help celebrate the release of FALLS TO PIECES, we are hosting a virtual book tour with this outstanding list of book influencers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along!

March 3 Bethany Buried In Books AND We Love Big Books And We Cannot Lie

March 4 Brianna’s Best Reads AND Love My Dane Dolly

March 5 Speed Readstagram AND Sarah’s Bookish Reviews

March 6 Hooked By Books AND Love My Books 2020

March 7 Carol Doscher Reader AND Paperbacks N Frybread

March 8 Purrfect Pages

March 10 Cassie’s Book Reviews AND Suzy Approved Book Reviews

March 11 Dive Into A Good Book AND My Bursting Book Bag

March 12 Nik’s Bookshelf AND Books and Biewers

March 13 Danish Mustard Reads AND We Break For Books

March 14 Subakka Bookstuff

March 17 Stacy40Pages AND The Maddie Hatter

March 18 Book Boss 12 AND Kera’s Always Reading

March 19 Book Girl Brown Reviews AND WBTB Book Reviews

March 20 Library of Bookish AND The Salty Islander

March 21 Go Fetch A Book AND Dea’s Bookshelf

March 24 Meg’s Book Club AND Books Cats Travel Food

March 25 Wuthering Vines AND Rebekah Dolmat

March 26 Journal of Jaida AND Gloriana Wong

March 27 Candice Reads AND Madi’s Mysteries

March 28 Addicted to Books 86 AND Secret Reading Life

March 29 Andrea C Lowry Reads

March 31 Nissa The Bookworm AND Reading 2 Escape

April 1 Storeybook Reviews

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Thrillers, Uncategorized Tagged With: Blog Tours, Douglas Corleone, fiction, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Psychological Thriller, thriller, Virtual book tour

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Virtual Book Tour: AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE by C.I. Jerez * March 18 – April 18, 2025 *

“C.I. Jerez’s enchanting novel, AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE is a captivating and poignant debut about a young mother’s struggle to heal from the scars of war following her deployment to Iraq as a U.S. Army medic. Jerez’s deeply moving prose dives into the realities of war for women in combat, the complexities of serving while balancing motherhood, and the sacrifices made. This heartwarming novel captures the beauty of Puerto Rico’s culture and leaves us wanting more!” – Robert Dugoni, author of Suspense Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year, The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

“C.I. Jerez’s AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE is an astonishing debut; an eloquent, moving, and heartfelt story about a young mother’s efforts to claw herself back from the precipice for the sake of her young son, even as she is convinced that she is beyond redemption. Jerez’s compelling prose and deep insights into Puerto Rican culture elevate this thoughtful and thought-provoking novel. I loved this book!” – Karen Dionne, author of the #1 internationally bestseller The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Wicked Sister

“Rich with culture, vivid characters, and elegant prose, AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE is a knockout debut by an author who is sure to leave a bright literary mark on this world. I was swept away.” – Boo Walker, bestselling author of An Echo in Time

“C.I. Jerez’s debut novel is a fresh and immersive delight. Somber and heartfelt. AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE offers a flawed but substantiative protagonist plagued by the psychological trauma of war as she returns home to face her family’s failed expectations. It is also a love letter to the island of Puerto Rico and its people, a richly woven tapestry, filled with wonderfully palpable details. From beginning to end, I was utterly transported.”– Barbara Davis, bestselling author of The Echo of Old Books

AN IRAQ WAR VETERAN RETURNS TO PUERTO RICO TO RECONNECT WITH—AND CONFRONT―THE PAST IN A HEART-WRENCHING NOVEL ABOUT DUTY, MOTHERHOOD, AND THE HEALING POWER OF HOME.

Inspired by her time as an Army Officer during the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, C.I. Jerez has written a heartbreaking and gripping debut novel, AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE (Lake Union; March 18, 2025), about a single mother who returns to her native Puerto Rico with her son to heal from the trauma of war. 

Says Jerez, “As a writer, I want my stories to positively promote Latin culture, real-life struggles that deeply affect our society, and representation of people of color and people with disabilities. With AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE I hope to entertain AND elevate these voices.”

As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her convoy is attacked, she must set aside her identity as a healer and take a life herself.

Although she is honored as a hero when she returns to the US, Lina cannot find her footing. She is stricken with PTSD and unsure of how to support her young son, Teó, a brilliant, loving little boy with Tourette’s. As her attempts to self-medicate become harder to hide, Lina realizes she must do the toughest thing yet: ask for help.

She retreats to her parents’ house in Puerto Rico, where Teó thrives under her family’s care. Lina finds kinship, too―with a cousin whose dreams were also shattered by the war and with a charming and compassionate veteran from South Carolina who also sought refuge on the island and runs a neighborhood bar.

But amid the magic of the island are secrets and years of misunderstandings that could erode the very stability she’s fighting for. Hope lies on the horizon, but can she keep her gaze steady?

AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE is a harrowing and redemptive novel from an exciting new Latin American voice that sheds light on women war veterans and the debilitating trauma they face, as well as the healing power of family and Puerto Rican culture.

To help celebrate the publication of AT THE ISLAND’S EDGE, we are hosting a virtual book tour with this stellar list of book influencers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along!

Tuesday, March 18: WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE

Tuesday, March 18: STOREYBOOK REVIEWS

Wednesday, March 19: BOOKS N BIKRAM

Thursday, March 20: BOOKALONG

Friday, March 21: SUNFLOWER BOOK LOVER

Friday, March 21: MEOWSKINS BOOKSKINS

Monday, March 24: BOOKS AND COFFEE MX

Monday, March 24: SUBAKKA BOOKSTUFF

Tuesday, March 25: THE BOOK CLUB MOM

Wednesday, March 26: BOOKS ON MY MIND

Thursday, March 27: WBTB BOOK REVIEWS

Friday, March 28: THE READING BLACK GIRLS

Saturday, March 29: THE MADDIE HATTER

Monday, March 31: BEE IS FOR BOOKS

Monday, March 31: JENS TOWERING TBR

Monday, March 31: STORIES ON BOOKSHELVES

Tuesday, April 1: NURSE BOOKIE

Wednesday, April 2: NIK’S BOOKSHELF

Thursday, April 3: DANISH MUSTARD READS

Friday, April 4: SUE THE BOOKIE

Monday, April 7: MELANN ROSENTHAL

Tuesday, April 8: LEXIJAVA

Tuesday, April 8: 2 MANY BOOKS 2 LITTLE TIME

Wednesday, April 9: BOOKS AND BIEWERS

Thursday, April 10: GLORIANA WONG

Friday, April 11: SPEEDREADSTAGRAM

Monday, April 14: MICHELLE LOVES BOOKS

Tuesday, April 15: MY BURSTING BOOK BAG

Wednesday, April 16: A BLUE BOX FULL OF BOOKS

Thursday, April 17: WE BREAK FOR BOOKS

Thursday, April 17: LOVE MY BOOKS 2020

Friday, April 18: BOOK DRAGON 217

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Uncategorized Tagged With: At the Islands Edge, CI Jerez, Debut novel, Family Fiction, fiction, Lake Union, March 2025 releases, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, PTSD fiction, Puerto Rican fiction, trauma fiction, women veterans ficiton, women veterans fiction

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January 2025 Virtual Book Tour: BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE by Christa Carmen


“Bram Stoker Award winner [Christa] Carmen weaves a captivating web of psychological suspense in her latest spine-tingler…For gothic mystery fans, this is a treat.” ―Publishers Weekly

“Incorporating a love of all things Poe (both the horror and romantic parts), Bram Stoker award-winning author Carmen has written an intense, creepy psychological thriller that is a perfect cozy read for spooky season.” ―Booklist

“Beneath the Poet’s House is a brilliant, gripping novel filled with secrets and danger. Christa Carmen captures the haunted magic of Providence and introduces one of the most fascinating and singular characters I’ve ever encountered. The novel shimmers with questions of what is real and what is imaginary, helped by the extraordinary setting of a writer’s house with a tragically romantic rose garden, a cemetery, and ghosts in love. Shocking, tender, and wildly compelling, Beneath the Poet’s House will keep you racing through the pages all night long.” ―Luanne Rice, Amazon Charts and New York Times bestselling author of Last Night

For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Daughters of Block Island.

Based in part on the real-life romance between Sarah Helen Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe and set in the actual house at which Poe first spotted Whitman tending her rose garden under a midnight moon in 1845, Christa Carmen’s compulsively readable new novel of suspense, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE (Thomas & Mercer trade paperback original; December 10, 2024), sees protagonist Saoirse White navigate both a personal haunting and the lingering ghosts of much-revered public figures, as well as the ramifications of men who treat women as stepping-stones on their way to artistic greatness.

Vanessa Lillie, USA Today bestselling author of Blood Sisters, raves, “Haunting and gorgeously told, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE brings new life to the tumultuous romance and compelling lives of Edgar Allan Poe and Sarah Helen Whitman, all within a modern psychological suspense with a riveting plot that will enthrall readers.” And Katrina Monroe, author of Through the Midnight Door, cheers, “With lush, haunting prose to rival any classic, BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE twists patriarchal gothic tropes and gives new breath to old stereotypes in a story that is at once a historical reckoning, a desperate love story, and an intriguing mystery. Like a crooked finger beckoning the reader down a castle’s winding staircase, Carmen’s writing is impossible to resist. Mark my words: she will soon find her place among the gothic greats.” 

To help celebrate the publication of BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE, we are hosting a virtual book tour with this stellar list of book influencers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along!

Monday, January 6 – NIK’S BOOKSHELF and BOOK GIRL BROWN REVIEWS

Tuesday, January 7 – MY BURSTING BOOK BLOG and BRIANA’S BEST READS

Wednesday, January 8 – CASSIE’S BOOKS REVIEWS, SUNFLOWER BOOK LOVER, and ATHENA NO ONE ASKED YOU

Thursday, January 9 – ANDREA C. LOWRY READS, BOOKS CATS TRAVEL FOOD and ADDICTED TO BOOKS 86

Friday, January 10 – MEG’S BOOK CLUB and LIBRARY OF BOOKISH

Saturday, January 11 – STOREYBOOK REVIEWS

Sunday, January 12 – PURRFECT PAGES

Monday, January 13 – GWENDALYN BOOKS and SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Tuesday, January 14 – BOOKS AND BIEWERS and SPEEDREADSTAGRAM

Wednesday, January 15 – LOVE MY DANE DOLLY and REBEKAH DOLMAT

 Thursday, January 16 – SUBAKKA BOOKSTUFF and IT’S ALL ABOUT THE THRILL

Friday, January 17 – WUTHERING VINES and HOLLY READ IT

Saturday, January 18 – WE BREAK FOR BOOKS

Monday, January 20 – DIVE INTO A GOOD BOOK and KERA’S ALWAYS READING

Tuesday, January 21 – LOVE MY BOOKS 2020 and THE MADDIE HATTER

Wednesday, January 22 – PAPERBACKS N FRYBREAD and SARAH’S BOOKISH REVIEWS

Thursday, January 23 – DANISH MUSTARD READS and LEXIJAVA

Friday, January 24 – WE LOVE BIG BOOKS AND WE CANNOT LIE and READING 2 ESCAPE

Saturday, January 25 – JOURNAL OF JAIDA

Monday, January 27 – BOOK BOSS 12

Tuesday, January 28 – THE SALTY ISLANDER

Wednesday, January 29 – BOOKALONG and ROZIER READS AND WINE

Thursday, January 30 – NISSA THE BOOKWORM

Friday, January 31 – LAUREN’S BOOK VIBES

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Thrillers, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beneath the Poet’s House, Christa Carmen, Gothic suspense, Gothic Thriller, January Virtual Book Tour, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Psychological horror, Rhode Island fiction, Thomas and Mercer, thriller

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December Virtual Book Tour: MY UNDERSLUMBERBUMBLEBEAST by Zoje Stage, Illustrated by J.E. Larson

First depicted in the international sensation Baby Teeth — and now in its sequel, Dear Hanna — My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast is a quirky and charming story about a girl with a most unusual way of making new friends. Watch what grows beneath the bed…

“Nine-year-old Prudencia—Pru for short—loves big words and her charming vocabulary is on full display in Zoje Stage’s My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast. Accompanied by gorgeous illustrations from J.E. Larson, this is the story of a girl and the not-so-scary monster who lives under her bed. Pru’s ingenuity and compassion shine when her little friend becomes a big problem and she has to set things right. A lovely, whimsical tale for younger middle grade readers, My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast is also a perfect bedtime read-aloud for smaller children who want a “big kid” story. I was delighted by My UnderSlumber-BumbleBeast and kids and their grownups will be, too.” – Lora Senf, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the Blight Harbor books

“This book is my Scholastic Book Fair fantasy made real! A dark, whimsical delight for all ages. I’ll shelve it next to Gaiman’s Coraline.” — Sadie Hartmann, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of 101 Horror Books to Read Before You’re Murdered

“In My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast, Zoje Stage expertly weaves the tale of a child who embraces what would scare other children – be it the creature under the bed or the monsters in the basement. With shades of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman storytelling, and illustrations evoking Edward Gorey’s style, My UnderSlumberBumbleBeast unfolds as a slightly eerie narrative sure to captivate and intrigue young readers and their parents.” — Collen Rowan Kosinski, author of A Home Again, author/illustrator of Lilla’s Sunflowers

Zoje Stage’s debut, Baby Teeth was a breakout psychological thriller when it was published in summer 2018. It was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award, a Goodreads Choice Award (and came in second behind Stephen King!), became a USA Today and international bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by Forbes Magazine, Library Journal, PopSugar, Barnes & Noble, Bloody Disgusting, and Book Bub, named a People Magazine Book of the Week, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book, awarded four starred trade reviews, praised by The New York Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, Forbes, PopSugar, HelloGiggles, and others.

In Dear Hanna, published August 2024, fans of Baby Teeth finally got the follow-up novel they’d longed for from “master novelist” (Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle) Zoje Stage. Dear Hanna —”one of the best, most squirm-inducing portraits of a deviant schemer this side of GONE GIRL” (Nat Cassidy, Mary and Nestlings)—also marked the return of the UnderSlumberBumbleBeasts. For the first time in MY UNDERSLUMBERBUMBLEBEAST (Bad Hand Books; Dec. 3, 2024) these misunderstood “monsters” are the stars of their very own book.

Nine-year-old Pru has many hobbies: inventing things, collecting stuff, and learning new and interesting words. But her newest passion is discovering the source of the weird sounds she hears at night—coming from beneath her bed.

Ever since she was very little, Pru suspected there might be a special kind of creature making a home in her room. But because UnderSlumberBumbleBeasts only come out in the dark, she had never seen one.

That all changes one day after Pru’s mom asks her to clean her room—an ordinary request that sets off an extraordinary chain of events. And Pru’s life will never be the same.

Adult readers of Baby Teeth and Dear Hanna will delight in seeing this book-within-a-book finally come to life, and young readers will fall in love with this imaginative girl and her strange but wonderful friends. (Grade level 2 – 5; Enjoyment level ages 5-125)

To help celebrate the release of Zoje Stage’s new book for young (and old) readers, we are hosting a virtual book tour with this fantastic list of book influencers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along!

Sunday, December 1 Books Love And Understanding

Monday, December 2 Books and Coffee MX

Tuesday, December 3 Briana’s Best Reads

Wednesday, December 4 Sarah’s Bookish Reviews AND Bbecca Marie

Thursday, December 5 Carol Doscher Reader AND Nissa the Bookworm

Friday, December 6 Bookapotamus

Monday, December 9 Sarah’s Book Stack

Tuesday, December 10 Nurse Bookie

Wednesday, December 11 Jess Nicole’s Bookshelf AND Sacred Hearth Book Reviews

Thursday, December 12 Meg’s Book Club

Friday, December 13 Rebecca Reviewed It AND Sheila’s Enchanted Bookshelf

Monday, December 16 KMO Reads

Tuesday, December 17 Go Fetch A Book

Wednesday, December 18 Library of Bookish

Friday, December 20 Bethany Buried In Books AND The Dusti Bookshelf

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Books, Uncategorized, Young Readers Tagged With: fiction, JE Larson, My Underslumberbumblebeast, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Virtual book tour, Young Readers, Zoje Stage

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October Virtual Book Tour: BLINDSPOT IN AMERICA by Elom Akoto

Blindspot in America gives a provocative depiction of some of the realities immigrants face in the United States—racism and discrimination—but also their hopes and faith in a country that promises freedom and opportunity to all.

“What happens when a prominent Ghanaian immigrant moves to the American ghetto? What happens when Ghanaian privilege meets American privilege? What happens when higher education and American politics become entangled? What you get is a good story, a story of class, privilege, and power. . . . Elom K. Akoto’s fiction makes a simple, yet sharp meditation on the American Dream, and yes, a dream that for the faithful is still possible.” —William Archila, author of The Art of Exile, winner of the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger’s Archaeology, Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

Kamao is the son of a prominent Ghanaian academic and incumbent minister of health and is devoted to all that America symbolizes. After immigrating to the United States in pursuit of higher education and the American Dream, he becomes unwittingly entangled with American politics when he meets Lindsey McAdams, the daughter of an influential, anti-immigration senator. As the couple’s feelings grow, so too does the senator’s animosity toward Kamao. Despite support from fellow immigrants Lazo, Ayefumi, and Dania—who follow American Dreams of their own—Kamao soon finds himself drawn into intrigues hidden from the American public that make him question himself and his adopted country. When Kamao is implicated in a murder, Lindsey’s loyalties are tested, Dania must decide if she is willing to risk her own future and security for the sake of justice, and Kamao discovers how far he’ll go to fulfill his American Dream.

To help celebrate the release of Elom Akoto’s debut political novel, we are hosting a virtual book tour with this stellar list of book influencers who will post reviews, features, and giveaways. We hope you will follow along!

Tuesday, October 1 – DIVE INTO A GOOD BOOK

Wednesday, October 2 – STOREYBOOK REVIEWS

Wednesday, October 2 – BOOKS AND COFFEE MX

Thursday, October 3 – AIMEE DARS READS

Friday, October 4 – MICHELLE LOVES BOOKS

Monday, October 7 – REBEKAH READS

Tuesday, October 8 – BOOKALONG

Wednesday, October 9 – THE MADDIE HATTER

Thursday, October 10 – SARAH’S BOOKISH REVIEWS

Friday, October 11 – NURSE BOOKIE

Friday, October 11 – AUDREY OAKS READS EVERYTHING

Monday, October 14 – HASTY BOOK LIST

Tuesday, October 15 – BOOK GIRL BROWN REVIEWS

Wednesday, October 16 – SUZY APPROVED BOOK REVIEWS

Thursday, October 17 – LEXIJAVA

Friday, October 18 – GLORIANA WONG

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Uncategorized Tagged With: Black fiction, Blindspot in America, Elom Akoto, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, political novel, Political thriller, romantic thriller, thriller, West African American author, West African fiction

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