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Episode two hundred ninety – part three

Jessikah chats with Maggie Thrash about Moral Panics, Nostalgia, and Media Frenzies as we discuss RAINBOW BLACK, Maggie’s first adult novel which tells the story of Lacey Bond, a queer teen whose parents are implicated in a heinous crime during the Satanic Panic era of the 80’s and 90’s. Lacey finds herself and her sister under waves of cruel and manipulative media scrutiny which is posed as helpful, and proves anything but.

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Episode two hundred ninety – part four

Katharine J. Adams invites us in to a delightfully dark world full of magic, intrigue, romance and witchcraft. TONIGHT I BURN will leave you thirsting for the next installment.

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Episode two hundred eighty seven – part four

Author Melodie Edwards chats about ONCE PERSUADED TWICE SHY – her charming retelling of Jane Austen’s PERSUASION, featuring some small town antics, witty banter, and a runaway goose! And of course a classic second chance love story.

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Episode two hundred eighty six – part two

Leah Konen plays clever homage to Hitchcock and Highsmith with the story of Mary – a young mother with everything to lose who finds a friend in Willa when they meet on a playground in Brooklyn where Mary’s son likes to play. But then Willa mysteriously drops out of Mary’s life and reappears as someone completely different.

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Episode two hundred eighty four – part three

Academy Award Nominated Screenwriter, Iris Yamashita is back with THE VILLAGE IN THE DARK, her second novel centering around Detective Cara Kennedy. This time, Kennedy has to exhume the graves of her son and husband to find out if their deaths were truly the accident they were reported as. Along with Ellie from THE CITY UNDER ONE ROOF, Cara must solve a mystery that leads to a mysterious woman from nowhere.

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Episode two hundred eighty three – part three

Gourav Mohanty joins us to chat about SONS OF DARKNESS – a gorgeous grimdark fantasy retelling of The Mahabharata, one of the two two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism. This was an addictive read that will have you begging for the second installment as soon as you close that last page.

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Episode two hundred eighty two

Author Ashley Elston zoomed in to chat about The First Lie Wins, her first adult novel, which finds a con woman in the middle of a web of lies of her own making. The question is, which lies are her own and which are part of a trap?