A Book of My Heart

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of running into Jeannie J-T at the Boobs Between the Books event created by my wonderful friend and fellow author Stacey Wilk. Jeannie and I had a wonderful discussion about all the different genres I’d written and since she’d already read THE FIFTH KINGDOM, I suggested that she might also like DARKNESS CALLS since it also has a paranormal element, namely a vampire as the hero. Jeannie took my recommendation and I’m so glad that she enjoyed the book. Thanks, Jeannie, for this review of a book of my heart. Grab your copy of DARKNESS CALLS for only 99 cents at https://amzn.to/4bCbK3H.

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Thank you for the review!

Thank you for the review, Roberta! Reviews really are one of the very best ways that you can help support an author. We appreciate you taking the time to read the book and put your thoughts down in a review. Reviews can also be helpful because it gives an author an idea of what you liked and didn’t like in a story. This way we are hopefully becoming better authors! This review from Roberta is for SABOTAGE OPERATION, my May release. You can grab your copy at https://amzn.to/45vdUiP.

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Wonderful Shoutout for Escape the Everglades

I can’t believe there are only 10 days until the release of ESCAPE THE EVERGLADES! It’s so exciting and I want to thank those who already have their copies of this romantic suspense and have taken the time to leave a review. Reviews really do help authors and we appreciate them more than you can imagine. Today’s shoutout is to Wendy H. who left this wonderful review on Bookbub!

5 Stars: “The second book in this series and it’s no less compelling and emotional as the first one. Plenty of action and investigating … Twists and turns, PTSD, grief and second chances … It’s raw at times for both characters and it certainly tugged at my heart strings, both have been through so much but something just clicks between them. Attention held from beginning to end, it’s well written and a fairly fast paced read but it also has lots of depth both with feelings and information and details. Suspense and some full on scary scenes it had everything I love in this genre including the romance, a k9 and a small boy. Amazing story.”

THANK YOU so much, Wendy. If you’d like to get your hands on ESCAPE THE EVERGLADES, run, don’t walk to https://bit.ly/EscapetheEverglades.

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Special Shoutout Library Journal

I want to thank everyone who’s taken the time to leave a review for my new release, SABOTAGE OPERATION. Reviews are really one of the best ways that you can help an author! THANK YOU! I’ll do my best to do shoutouts of those reviews as my way of saying thanks to you for taking the time to read and review. Today’s shoutout is a little different as it comes from Library Journal. A big thank you to them for this review of the first book in my new South Beach Security spinoff series! P.S. – If you haven’t read the first books in the series, you can grab your copies at https://amzn.to/3R70FQs.

Teresa Rodriguez is proud of the racing stable she owns on her own, without any help from her family. Not only are some of the horses valuable, but one in particular is her friend and confidante. When someone tries to poison that horse and shoots at her stables, she loses her cool and asks her best friend, Mia, for help. Mia and her brother run the South Beach Security company and agree to offer protection. Matt Perez, a South Beach Security K-9 agent, is drawn to the pretty stable owner but has major issues when it comes to rich people. If he can get past his pre-conceived notions and see Teresa for who she really is, the two might just be able to build a life together.

VERDICT: Piñeiro (Biscayne Bay Breach) continues to write southern Florida–set romantic suspense well in this new series launch.
—Shondra Brown, Library Journal

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Shoutout to Wendy H!

On today’s Shoutout Saturday I want to give a big THANKS to Wendy H. who posted this review of SABOTAGE OPERATION on Goodreads! Thank you Wendy and everyone else who has already left a review. I’ll be sharing those as well as we get closer and closer to the release of this new romantic suspense release which is the first in a new K-9 series. All books are standalone but with connected characters. You’ll even get to see what’s happening with the heroes from the South Beach Security series! As a reader I love seeing what happens with characters from other stories and I hope you like that as well. SABOTAGE OPERATION releases on May 21 but you can snag your copy today!

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Shoutout Saturday Sabotage Operation

A big THANK YOU to Tara R. for her review of SABOTAGE OPERATION! I so appreciate that Tara took the time to read my new romantic suspense release and leave reviews. They are one of the best ways that you can support an author! Here’s Tara’s awesome review:

“I absolutely love Sabotage Operation…This story is full of intense, exciting, sitting on the edge of your seat suspense!! I really enjoyed reading about K-9 Butter. She will steal your heart…A must read.”

THANK YOU! Wondering how you can score an ARC of SABOTAGE OPERATION or ESCAPE THE EVERGLADES (June 25, 2024) like Tara did? My newsletter VIPs will have a chance to win an ARC in my upcoming newsletter! Plus, if you sign up for my newsletter, you can download a copy of SOUTH BEACH LOVE for free as my way of saying thanks! You can become a newsletter VIP at https://bit.l.y/CaridadsNewsletter. P.S. You can download SABOTAGE OPERATION at https://amzn.to/46h5lIf.

Shoutout Strength & Honor Anthology

I am honored to be taking part in the Strength & Honor anthology with 10 other amazing authors. We’ve banded together for this charity anthology to donate the proceeds to stopsoldiersuicide.org, a veteran-founded, veteran-led, and veteran-focused organization, founded in 2010 by U.S. Army veterans Brian Kinsella, Nick Black, and Craig Gridelli. Stop Soldier Suicide is a nonprofit organization that combats military suicides by addressing underlying issues such as mental health, financial strain, and the difficulties of transitioning to civilian life. Their wellness service, ROGER, provides personalized, confidential support aimed at suicide prevention. You can find out more about the organization at https://stopsoldiersuicide.org/. Please consider downloading the anthology at https://books2read.com/StrengthAndHonor. Here’s a little more about the stories contained in the anthology!

Only You by Sharon Hamilton
After a nasty breakup who could save her heart but another Navy SEAL hero? He’ll not only win her heart, he’ll help her forgive and begin to heal.

Fighting For Harmony by Ash Henry
A Delta Force Vet is tasked to protect the one woman he can never have…
The day I enlisted, I swore that I’d never return home. But when my best friend begs me to protect his sister from a stalker, I can’t say no. Even if it means returning to a place that holds more hurt than happiness for me. Even when I’ll have to stick close to the only woman forbidden to me – the only woman I crave.

Knight Reaper (Dangerous Curves Story/Grinch Reaper Sequel) by Donna Michaels
After almost losing his wife in an attack last year, all Matteo “Reaper” Santarelli cares about is her safety, but when the agency sends them to Texas for special training, his former terrorist hunting wife sniffs out a newly forming cell.

Chef McHughs Reporting for Duty by Jill Shannon
Adam and Makita are both adjusting to new lives as she helps him open his new restaurant. They weren’t supposed to fall in love…

Ghost of Khost by Lynessa Layne
Invisible wounds are the hardest to heal, but love is the best medicine.
Vance’s best friend of fourteen years saved his life when he came down with malaria in Afghanistan. But when he finds out Chris was killed on the mission that night, survivor’s guilt shatters the battle-hardened warrior.

Twisted by Tamsen Schultz
When a shadowed past meets a guarded present, two haunted warriors see a chance for a new life together; now if they can only stay alive to grasp it.

Stay the Night by Caridad Pineiro
A fateful night of passion will change the future both Elena and Rafe had envisioned.
Forced into marriage by an unexpected pregnancy, they find themselves separated by the demands of impending parenthood. Rafe enlists in the Navy SEALs to support his new wife and the child who is on the way, but Fate is determined to throw them another curve.

Saving the Soldier by EmKay Connor
When Kate Dennison’s husband returns from a difficult deployment, he’s not the same man she married. Kate faces a different kind of battle as she fights to save their marriage…and her husband’s life.

Yours or Mine by Reina Torres
Finnegan Murphy left more behind in the Middle East than his Army career when he was medically discharged. He left a dog that he’d rescued and had rescued him right back. Now he finds out that a woman living just around the corner adopted Amin. Close to the brink, Peyton and his pupper pull him back.

It’s Always Been You by PJ Fiala
Harley Jacobs was forced to retire from the military after a nasty injury. The restorative help he needs is at the Canning Cattle Ranch, but he’s not sure he’ll be welcome there. Shannon Canning is not only the youngest of the Canning brood, but a sought-after veterinarian. And his ex-wife.

Saved by Grace by Kennedy Mitchell
What unfolds when a grief-stricken man finds solace in a bar, only to become the unexpected protector of a bartender with secrets of her own?