A priceless jeweled collar disappearing in the middle of an elite dog show is already the kind of theft designed to attract attention. In Best in Murder, however, Lauren Carr quickly gives Mac Faraday far more to investigate: two murders, a missing Irish Wolfhound, competing law-enforcement agencies, wealthy dog owners, fierce rivalries, and Gnarly in the middle of the resulting chaos. The fifteenth Mac Faraday Mystery brings the Spencer Inn into the high-stakes world of championship dogs, where carefully polished appearances make particularly useful camouflage for secrets.

Mystery

Release Date: October 13, 2026

Publisher: Acorn Book Services

Category: Adult Fiction (18 +)

Content Rating: PG-13 (Lauren Carr's books are murder mysteries, so there are murders involved. Occasionally, a murder will happen on stage. There is sexual content, but always behind closed doors. Some mild swearing (a hell or a damn few and far between). No F-bombs!

Pre-order Best in Murder now and receive the exclusive bonus novelette Who Framed Michelangelo? — a complete Mac Faraday mystery featuring Gnarly and a very special Goldendoodle!

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The polished world of Best in Show gives Lauren Carr an especially useful backdrop for a Mac Faraday mystery. Valuable dogs, expensive prizes, intense competition, and carefully protected reputations create plenty of reasons for suspicion before the murders even enter the picture. Add Gnarly's particular approach to investigation and a missing Irish Wolfhound to the stolen jeweled collar, and Best in Murder has the ingredients for a case where canine chaos and criminal motives are thoroughly intertwined. The accompanying Who Framed Michelangelo? bonus also gives readers a chance to visit the Spencer Inn through a separate mystery immediately before the new novel's events.

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Len Wechsler has spent a lifetime moving between places and creative identities: New York and California, Paris and Portugal, professional basketball and teaching, filmmaking and theater. The Hero of Pamplona and Other Mostly True Stories gathers pieces of that life into twenty-two short stories, but the phrase “mostly true” signals that this is not a conventional chronological memoir. Wechsler is interested in what survives in memory—the danger, humor, betrayals, friendships, accidents, and encounters that remain vivid decades later—and in the stories we ultimately make from those experiences.

And Other Mostly True Stories

Memoir

Date Published: June 12, 2026

Publisher: MindStir Media

The Hero of Pamplona and Other Mostly True Stories is a memoir told through twenty-two vividly rendered short stories drawn from the extraordinary life of Len Wechsler. Spanning decades and continents, these deeply personal reflections move effortlessly from New York to Los Angeles, Paris to Pamplona, Lisbon to Tangiers—each place leaving its mark, each moment carrying emotional weight. 

With the voice of a philosopher, the instincts of a filmmaker, and the honesty of someone who has lived fully, Wechsler explores friendship and betrayal, risk and reinvention, longing and belonging. These are stories shaped by youthful bravado, artistic pursuit, cultural collision, and the quiet reckonings that come with time. 

Sometimes humorous, sometimes haunting, and always human, this memoir invites readers into a life lived on the edge of experience—where truth and memory blur, and where the author believes one simple thing: if a story touches him, it may touch you too.

Whether you read it as travel memoir, coming-of-age reflection, or a meditation on identity and chance, The Hero of Pamplona and Other Mostly True Stories is a journey worth taking.

The twenty-two-story structure gives Wechsler room to approach a life through the moments that still demand to be told rather than forcing decades of experience into a strict chronology. New York, Los Angeles, Paris, Pamplona, Lisbon, and Tangiers become more than stops on an itinerary; they are settings for encounters with friendship, betrayal, risk, artistic ambition, cultural difference, and the gradual reassessment of youthful choices.

There is also an intriguing promise in the subtitle. Calling these stories “mostly true” acknowledges something memoir readers already understand: an experience and the memory of that experience are not quite the same thing. Wechsler allows that uncertainty to become part of the storytelling instead of pretending memory is an exact transcript of the past.

His background adds another dimension. Philosophy, professional basketball, teaching, filmmaking, screenwriting, theater, and years spent living abroad give these stories multiple points of entry into one life. Readers can encounter the collection as memoir, travel writing, coming-of-age reflection, or the retrospective work of a storyteller looking again at the events that shaped him.

Readers who prefer memoirs assembled from sharply remembered episodes rather than a year-by-year account should find plenty to explore here. The movement among countries and cultures gives the collection a strong appeal for travel-memoir readers, while Wechsler's years in filmmaking, theater, teaching, and professional basketball bring creative and unconventional turns to the life behind the stories.

The book should also speak to readers interested in the unreliable edges of memory—those places where an event has been replayed for so many years that remembering and storytelling begin to overlap. Anyone drawn to personal essays about youth reconsidered from the vantage point of age, friendships that changed direction, risks that look different in retrospect, and the strange incidents that become permanent pieces of a person's private history will understand why these are the stories Wechsler chose to keep.

Len Wechsler is a writer, filmmaker, and lifelong storyteller whose work spans continents, cultures, and creative disciplines. Raised in New York City and educated in the Midwest, Wechsler studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris before earning a master’s degree from New York University. His early adult years were marked by adventure and movement—from playing professional basketball in France and Italy to traveling across Europe and around the Mediterranean. 

In the United States, Wechsler taught in both New York and California before launching a filmmaking career in the mid-1970s. He was among the earliest filmmakers to capture the raw beauty, risk, and exhilaration of surfing and skateboarding on film, later transitioning into screenwriting for feature films. His creative life continued overseas when he lived and worked in Portugal for thirteen years as a teacher and theater director. 

More recently, Wechsler co-wrote a stage play exploring the underbelly of Los Angeles, which debuted in New York City. A member of the Writers Guild of America West, he now lives in California, where he continues to write—and still plays basketball when he can, even if the three-pointer no longer falls as easily.

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A memoir does not have to account for every year of a life to reveal the person who lived it. Wechsler's decision to preserve twenty-two particular stories suggests something more selective: these are the experiences that survived the passage of time strongly enough to demand another telling.

That makes the “mostly true” in The Hero of Pamplona and Other Mostly True Stories especially fitting. Memory changes perspective, age changes interpretation, and storytellers inevitably discover meaning in connections that may not have been visible when events first occurred. Wechsler seems willing to leave that tension exposed. Across cities, countries, careers, friendships, risks, and reinventions, the collection asks readers to consider not simply what happened, but why certain moments remain—and why, after everything else has faded, we are still telling those particular stories.

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The practice of law asks people to work inside questions of truth, advocacy, judgment, responsibility, and justice every day. For a Christian legal professional, those responsibilities can raise another question: how should faith shape the way that work is actually done? In The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron, Joe Bill Campbell draws on more than fifty years in the legal profession to examine that intersection through Scripture, professional experience, and the ethical challenges faced by attorneys, judges, and law students.

Christian / Devotional

Date Published: December 4, 2025

Publisher: MindStir Media

Can a Christian lawyer zealously represent a client without compromising biblical truth? Can a judge administer justice while honoring God's principles? How does a law student prepare for a successful legal career without sacrificing their relationship with Jesus Christ? 

These are the challenging questions explored in The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron, a #1 Amazon Best-Selling Christian devotional by distinguished trial attorney, former President of the Kentucky Bar Association, and award-winning legal leader Joe Bill Campbell. 

After more than 50 years in the courtroom, Campbell shares a lifetime of experience, biblical wisdom, and spiritual insight to encourage Christian attorneys, judges, law students, and legal professionals who desire to honor God while serving the law with integrity. 

In a profession often defined by difficult ethical decisions, this inspiring devotional demonstrates that faith and the practice of law are not contradictory—they are a powerful calling when grounded in Scripture.

Inside this inspiring Christian devotional, you'll discover:

✔ How to balance professional responsibility with biblical truth

✔ Practical guidance for living out your Christian faith in the legal profession

✔ Encouragement for Christian lawyers, judges, and law students facing ethical challenges

✔ Biblical principles for pursuing justice, righteousness, honesty, and integrity

✔ Scripture-based reflections that strengthen your walk with Jesus Christ

✔ Wisdom for navigating today's legal system without compromising your values

Drawing on decades of courtroom experience and a deep commitment to Christ, Campbell reminds readers that every legal professional has the opportunity to serve not only clients but also God's greater purpose. Through thoughtful reflections, biblical teachings, and practical encouragement, he challenges readers to become lawyers, judges, and leaders who pursue truth, justice, mercy, and righteousness in every decision. 

Inspired by Matthew 16:24–26, The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron calls believers to take up their cross, follow Christ, and discover that genuine success comes not only from winning cases but from faithfully serving the ultimate Judge. 

Whether you are an experienced attorney, newly appointed judge, law student, legal educator, or someone interested in Christian leadership and ethics, this devotional will encourage you to live boldly for Christ while excelling in your profession. 

If you're searching for Christian books for lawyers, Christian leadership books, legal ethics from a biblical perspective, Christian devotionals for professionals, or faith-based workplace inspiration, The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron belongs on your bookshelf.

Discover how your profession can become your ministry—and how faith, truth, and justice can work together to glorify God.

"He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life." — John 14:6

Campbell brings an unusual perspective to this discussion because the questions in The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron come from inside a profession he practiced for more than fifty years. Rather than treating faith in the workplace as an abstract idea, the book focuses on situations in which advocacy, professional responsibility, truth, justice, and personal conviction can occupy the same space.

That focus also gives the devotional relevance at several stages of a legal career. Attorneys must consider how conviction informs advocacy, judges carry responsibility for decisions affecting others, and law students are still developing the principles they will bring into practice. Campbell connects those professional roles with Scripture-based reflections on integrity, righteousness, mercy, honesty, service, and the meaning of success.

For Christian readers who have wondered what it means to treat a profession as a calling without ignoring its real obligations and pressures, this is a particularly specific conversation.

The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron is written most directly for Christian attorneys, judges, law students, and other legal professionals who want to examine how their faith relates to the responsibilities of their work. Its emphasis on professional ethics, justice, truth, and integrity may be especially useful to readers confronting the gap between principles that sound straightforward in theory and decisions that become more complicated in practice.

The book may also interest Christian professional groups, legal mentors, Bible studies exploring faith and vocation, and readers interested in Christian leadership. Campbell's legal background keeps the discussion anchored in a clearly defined professional setting while raising questions that can extend into other careers where responsibility, authority, and personal conviction regularly intersect.

A lifelong resident of Bowling Green, Kentucky, Joe Bill built one of the state's most distinguished legal careers. He graduated with honors from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law, where he was later inducted into the College of Law Hall of Fame. Throughout his legal career, he served as President of the Kentucky Bar Association, chaired the Kentucky Council on Higher Education and the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents, and received the Kentucky Bar Association's Most Outstanding Lawyer Award. He was also recognized by Super Lawyers as one of the Top 50 Attorneys in Kentucky and is a Fellow of the prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers. 

While Joe Bill's legal accomplishments are significant, he considers his greatest calling to be serving Jesus Christ and helping others grow in their faith. At the age of 80, he answered God's call to become an author, writing devotionals that combine Scripture, practical life lessons, and decades of professional experience to inspire readers of all ages. 

His growing collection of Christian devotionals includes:

● Just Win Baby: The Game of Life — 101 sports-inspired devotionals designed to encourage young athletes and young adults to make Jesus Christ their ultimate coach.

● Virtue Triumphs Vice — A practical devotional demonstrating how biblical virtues can transform workplaces, businesses, and everyday life through faith-centered decision-making.

● The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron — A #1 Amazon Best-Selling book that explores how Christian lawyers, judges, law students, and legal professionals can faithfully pursue truth, righteousness, and justice while honoring their commitment to Christ.

Joe Bill's upcoming devotional, The End of Life Is Not the End of Life, continues his mission of offering biblical encouragement and eternal hope through every season of life. 

As a father, grandfather, attorney, and devoted Christian, Joe Bill believes every person has a God-given purpose. His writing encourages readers to strengthen their relationship with Christ, choose virtue over vice, lead with integrity, and impact their families, workplaces, churches, and communities through biblical principles. 

Whether speaking to attorneys, business professionals, churches, Bible study groups, young athletes, or anyone seeking spiritual encouragement, Joe Bill Campbell reminds readers that success is measured not only by earthly accomplishments but by faithfully following Jesus Christ—the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Through every devotional, Joe Bill's mission remains the same: to honor his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and fulfill God's purpose for his life by helping others discover the joy, wisdom, and peace that come from living according to God's Word.

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The question in Campbell's title is more than a clever contradiction. It goes directly to the problem at the center of the book: what does Christian conviction require when professional life involves advocacy, competing interests, judgment, ambition, and decisions with real consequences?

Campbell's answer is rooted in the idea that professional achievement and spiritual faithfulness cannot be measured by separate standards. The Christian Lawyer: Not an Oxymoron asks legal professionals to consider not only what they accomplish, but how they advocate, exercise authority, respond to ethical pressure, and define success. For readers whose faith accompanies them into a courtroom, law office, classroom, or chambers, those are questions worth examining carefully.

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Frankie’s introduction to “the game” begins at a point when ordinary ideas about choice have already narrowed considerably. Abandoned by her parents, driven from her grandmother’s home, and facing a Toronto winter on the street, she meets an older man who offers companionship and a way to survive. In The Antique Picker’s Daughter, Melanie Dugan follows what happens as that arrangement carries Frankie out of the city and through small communities in southern Ontario, where buying, stealing, and reselling other people’s possessions becomes part of daily life. The title itself points toward a more unsettling question beneath those transactions: what does it mean for a vulnerable young person to be treated like someone’s daughter when the man claiming that role may also be placing her in danger?

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Book Title: The Antique Picker's Daughter by Melanie Dugan

Category: Adult Fiction (18+), 250 pages

Genre: general fiction, literary fiction

Publisher: Inanna Publications & Education Inc.

Release date: September 2026

Content Rating: PG-13 + M: because of mature themes (youth homelessness and human trafficking), and physical abuse, some rough language.

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Abandoned first by her father, and then by her mother, Frankie has been left in the care of her deeply religious grandmother. When her grandmother’s religious convictions tip into delusion, Frankie decides to run away.

Life on the street in Toronto is hard, and with winter coming, it gets tougher. This is when Frankie first meets Francis, a man old enough to be her father. He starts training her in “the game,” as she comes to call it; buying, stealing, and reselling “inventory” at inflated prices. Through winter, spring, and early summer, the two become a team, traveling around small towns and villages in southern Ontario.

As Frankie discovers, life on the road holds dangers she can’t anticipate, and her precarious world tips into disaster when Francis abandons her in an unfamiliar town. Betrayed, alone, and deserted, Frankie realizes she’s in a dangerous situation — will she be able to find her way out on her own?

The Antique Picker’s Daughter explores youth homelessness, human trafficking, and one young woman’s search for safety.

The Antique Picker's Daughter was not what I expected. I expected a feel-good story about complicated characters finding a happy ending, but it doesn't quite fit. Frankie's situation felt somewhat believable—but not completely. She's young, alone, and trying to survive, so when Francis "rescued" her and tried to show her how to make money, it makes sense that she would go along with him, even when many of his choices are questionable. I had a harder time believing she would be so interested in his past or so determined to find him after being abandoned. While it wasn't the book I expected, I enjoyed the antique-picking parts of the story and learning about Francis's past as the story progressed—and I still wanted a happy ending for Frankie.

Be patient with the character-driven journey. The author's writing style took me a little while to settle into, and there were places where the story slowed down or moved away from Frankie longer than I'd like, but overall it kept me interested in the outcome. Frankie was definitely the character I connected with most. She's vulnerable, but not helpless, and I liked seeing her gradually learn to trust her instincts. Francis was much harder to figure out, and I think that was part of what kept me reading. Sometimes he seemed to genuinely care about Frankie, and other times his motives were questionable. Was he helping her, simply using her, or somewhere in between? That uncertainty made their relationship uncomfortable at times. I never quite knew what to think about Francis or whether I liked him—and even by the end, my feelings about him weren't neatly resolved.

Would I recommend The Antique Picker's Daughter? Yes, especially if you enjoy character-driven stories that aren't afraid to hit some difficult subjects. This isn't a light read—the story deals with youth homelessness, physical abuse, exploitation, and some rough language—but it never felt like those subjects were tossed around for shock value. I did struggle a bit with the pacing and would have liked some parts of the story to flow a little more smoothly. Still, Frankie's story held my attention, and I appreciated that the book gave me plenty to think about when it came to trust, survival, and the people we depend on when we don't have many choices.

Melanie Dugan is the author of Sometime Daughter (“A stunning debut,” The Kingston Whig-Standard), Revising Romance (“…heartwarming, amusing, and…downright sexy,” Midwestern Book Review), Dead Beautiful (“Artful and funny,” Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer), Bee Summers (“…a carefully wrought portrayal of the way we carry trauma with us through life,” Brenda Schmidt, Quill & Quire), and Hard White (“It is a very compelling and beautifully-crafted story…I highly recommend it,” Skeleton Press).

She lived in Boston, Toronto and London, England, before settling in Kingston, Ontario, where she now lives.

She has worked in libraries and bookstores, and was Associate Publisher at Quarry Press in Kingston, and also served as Managing Editor for Poetry Canada, Quarry Magazine and Canadian Fiction Magazine.

In 2009 she was promotions director for the inaugural Kingston WritersFest.

She has studied writing with Leon Rooke, Keath Fraser, Kim Moritsugu, Helen Humphreys and Anita Rau Badami.

Her short stories have been shortlisted for several awards including the CBC Literary Award.

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Juliette wants the freedom promised by 1967 San Francisco, but the first pages of her rebellion reveal how differently freedom can look from either side of a family divide. In It’s All About Love, Cynthia Hilston places a twenty-year-old determined to choose her own future against parents whose objections are rooted in experiences their daughter does not fully understand. Her engagement to David becomes more than an argument over a boyfriend when she leaves home for Haight-Ashbury, forcing Juliette, Lorna, and Tristan to confront the difference between protecting someone you love and allowing that person to make choices of her own.

Women's Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance

Date Published: 11-10-2026

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San Francisco, 1967. The Summer of Love promises radical freedom—but for twenty-year-old Juliette, it becomes a dangerous trap.

 

 

Desperate to escape her conventional family, Juliette shocks her parents by announcing her engagement to David, a long-haired free spirit. When her father, Tristan—a famous novelist harboring a tragic past—vehemently forbids the union, Juliette acts on impulse. In the dead of night, she climbs out her window and flees with David to the counterculture epicenter of Haight-Ashbury.

 

 

But beneath the cloud of incense and rock 'n' roll, independence carries a steep price. As David drifts into a haze of drugs and broken promises, Juliette’s bohemian dream shatters. Back home, her flight reopens old wounds. Her fiercely protective mother, Lorna, must help Tristan confront the shadows of his past as they desperately try to pull their daughter back from the edge before it's too late.

 

 

It’s All About Love is a poignant coming-of-age story about the fragile line between rebellion and destruction and the enduring, messy grace of family.

 

༺ WHY READ THIS BOOK ༻

 

The conflict in It’s All About Love works on two timelines at once: Juliette is trying to claim a future for herself while Tristan’s response is shaped by a past he cannot simply leave behind. That gives the family’s disagreement more weight than a straightforward generational clash. The 1967 Summer of Love and Haight-Ashbury provide a setting built around promises of personal freedom, while Juliette’s experience asks what can happen when independence, impulse, and trust collide. Lorna’s position between a daughter demanding autonomy and a husband recognizing echoes of his own mistakes adds another perspective to a story in which love does not always produce agreement about what is best for someone.

  

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“I’m getting married!” Juliette burst through the door, holding her ring finger up for the world to see. Well, for my dear husband of twenty-two years and me to see.
            Said dear husband rose from his chair with such gusto that the poor chair clattered to the floor, victim of his temper. “What?!”
            The humid June air clung to the back of my neck as I stood. Pushing my graying hair out of my eyes, I took a step toward my husband and placed a hand on his upper arm. I recognized the fear that flashed beneath his anger. I’d seen that look far too many times lately as she missed her curfew night after night all summer long.  “Tristan, dear, just...calm down, okay?” I cast a pleading glance between him and our daughter. I could see the words on the edge of his tongue. Don’t follow in my footsteps. His own impulsive marriage led to a tragedy that impacted both our lives. I knew the thought of Juliette repeating his mistakes kept him awake at night.
            “Calm down?” Tristan tossed his hands up; then his arms flopped to his thin torso’s sides.
            “Your heart,” I said, stepping in front of him. “Please.”
            He released a sound somewhere between a growl and a groan, then righted his chair and sat. “So, who’s the lucky guy?” he shot at Juliette. “Don’t tell me it’s that long-haired hippie.”
It wasn’t just the hair. David's casual attitude toward drugs reminded Tristan too much of his own dance with addiction, though he'd never admit that to her.
            Juliette stood just inside the open door. Only the screen separated her from darting outside and the darkness swallowing her for another late night. Another night without a curfew. Another night we hoped we could trust her judgment. Another night our little girl proved she wasn’t so little anymore.
            She crossed her arms over her chest and sent her dad a glare worthy of one of his own. Her blue eyes held the same spark that challenged, much like Tristan’s eyes. “Seriously, Dad? Like you should talk.” She gestured toward his messy, longish hair.
            “That’s not the point,” Tristan said, teeth clenched. “You can’t just go running off with the first guy who puts a ring on your finger. If he had any decency, he’d have asked us first.”
            Juliette closed the door and scoffed. “It’s 1967, Daddio.” She popped her gum as she leaned against the table. “I don’t need your permission.”
            “Like hell you don’t.” Tristan stood, the menacing tone creeping back into his voice.
            I came between them. “Okay, both of you… Can’t we talk about this?”
            Juliette shifted her gaze to me. “Mom, please. Can’t you make Dad see reason?”
            I held back a sigh and lifted my hand. About to place it on her shoulder, I resisted and let my arm drop. “Juliette, this isn’t a good idea. David isn’t—”
            “Isn’t what, Mom?” A tremor ran through her voice. She blinked rapidly, then stepped away. She headed for the door to the dining and living rooms, stopping before she exited. “Why can’t you just be happy for me for once?” Her footsteps banged through the house and up the stairs. A slam of her bedroom door and I knew it would be unwise to knock anytime the rest of the night. 

 

༺ WHO WILL LOVE IT ༻

 

This one should speak to readers who like historical fiction to stay close to the emotional consequences of a changing era. Juliette’s pursuit of the freedom associated with 1967 San Francisco is balanced against Lorna and Tristan’s fear of watching their daughter repeat painful mistakes, making the family relationship as important as the romance. Readers interested in mother-daughter dynamics, complicated marriages, coming-of-age stories, and fiction about the distance between one generation’s experience and the next will find several points of connection here. The Haight-Ashbury setting also gives readers interested in the counterculture years a recognizable historical backdrop for a very personal family crisis.

 

༺ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ༻

Bestselling and award-winning author of the Lorna & Tristan Series, Cynthia Hilston is a stay-at-home mom of three young kids, happily married, and lives in the Cleveland, Ohio, area. Writing has always been like another child to her. After twenty years of waltzing in the world of fan fiction, she has stepped away to do her debut dance with original works of fiction, although she still dabbles in fan fiction.

In her spare time–what spare time?–she devours books, pets her kitties, looks at the stars, drinks wine or coffee with good friends, and dreams of what other stories she wishes to tell.

 

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The opening confrontation makes the emotional problem in It’s All About Love clear without making it simple. Juliette sees an engagement and a new life; Tristan sees the possibility of history repeating itself; and Lorna understands enough of both perspectives to know that neither anger nor reassurance will easily close the distance between them. Moving Juliette from that family argument into the promises and dangers of Haight-Ashbury gives her rebellion consequences beyond shocking her parents. At the same time, the wounds her departure exposes at home suggest that this is not solely Juliette’s coming-of-age story. The family she leaves behind has its own unfinished history to confront.

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Loren has no illusions about what she is or what her touch can do. As an angel of death, she moves between assignments with black wings, a battered Mustang, and a talent for antagonizing Beelzebub whenever the opportunity presents itself. Michel presents a problem that does not fit neatly into that routine: he is a vampire who wants death but cannot seem to achieve it. In Taken by the Angel of Death, Megan Slayer puts those opposing relationships with mortality at the center of a romance where getting close to someone may be considerably more complicated than either character expects.

(Taken 14)

Fantasy Romance

Date Published: October 2, 2026

Publisher: ChangelingPress

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One touch sends her victims to hell. But he’s already been there.
Would not recommend. 0 stars.

 

Loren knows her job. She’s an angel of death. When she allows herself to be seen, there are no survivors. She drives too fast, has no filter, and bows to no man. Then she sees a vampire crumpled on the ground. It’s not his time. She can’t leave him to die, but she won’t get involved with him. Too bad he’s cute. 

 

Michel never wanted to be turned. Never wanted to offer his services. Terminal illness? You’re going to perish anyway? Want to do it on your terms? Then he can help. It’s part of his death wish. But he can’t die. When he finds himself in the presence of the most beautiful, moodiest woman he’s ever seen, he can’t forget her. But she won’t touch him. He makes it his mission to get to know and melt her defenses so they can both have their heart’s delight. 

 

If nothing else, he’ll die trying.

 

She kills. He can’t die. They shouldn’t work, but what if they did and the results are fire?

 

༺ WHY READ THIS BOOK ༻

 

The collision between Loren’s work and Michel’s existence gives Taken by the Angel of Death an intriguing contradiction at its center. Loren’s touch is tied to death, while Michel is a vampire who cannot die despite wanting exactly that. The excerpt also establishes a world with a decidedly irreverent personality: Beelzebub is “Bubsy Baby” to Loren, vampires run the bar at Just One More, and an angel of death travels between assignments in a worn ’80 Mustang. That mixture of mortality, supernatural bureaucracy, sarcasm, and dangerous attraction gives the romance its own distinctive set of obstacles.

  

༺ WHO WILL LOVE IT ༻

 

Loren’s attitude makes this a particularly good match for readers who like their paranormal heroines sarcastic, independent, and a little abrasive. The supernatural setup should also appeal to those who enjoy angels, vampires, demons, and fictional worlds where the machinery of death has rules of its own. Michel’s inability to die creates an unusual counterpoint to Loren’s lethal touch, while her reluctance to let anyone close gives the romance another obstacle beyond the supernatural one. Readers drawn to dark humor alongside dangerous attraction will find both firmly established in the excerpt.

 

༺ ABOUT THE AUTHOR ༻

Megan Slayer, aka Wendi Zwaduk, is a multi-published, award-winning author of more than one-hundred short stories and novels. She’s been writing since 2008 and published since 2009. Her stories range from the contemporary and paranormal to LGBTQ and white hot themes. No matter what the length, her works are always hot, but with a lot of heart. She enjoys giving her characters a second chance at love, no matter what the form. She’s been nominated at the LRC for Best Author, Best Contemporary, Best Ménage, Best BDSM and Best Anthology. Her books have made it to the bestseller lists on various e-tailer sites.

 

When she’s not writing, Megan spends time with her husband and son as well as three dogs and three cats. She enjoys art, music and racing, but football is her sport of choice. She’s an active member of the Friends of the Keystone-LaGrange Public library. 

 

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Loren’s first assignment in the excerpt reveals more than the mechanics of her work. She can carry out a death sentence without hesitation, yet the suffering surrounding that work still affects her, and she steps into danger when she encounters a man who is not on her list. That tension between what Loren is required to do and the choices she makes on her own gives Michel’s arrival an interesting opening. A vampire who cannot die is already an anomaly in her world; becoming emotionally involved with him threatens to make him something far more complicated than another supernatural curiosity. Taken by the Angel of Death begins with death as Loren’s routine, then places someone in her path who may force her to reconsider exactly how much of herself she is willing to keep separate from the living.

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