A TOWN OF RETIRED ASSASSINS finds itself in a heap of trouble—the kind of trouble they moved into the mountains to get away from. Jennifer Crusie and Bob Mayer deliver romance and adventure, along with wit and charm. B PLUS

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Right now, there's this cool promo going on for folks who love small town romance. Just stop on by and grab a bunch of books. Mine is a romantic suspense dealing with domestic terrorists. Kick ass adventure with hot #romance @kaleidoscoperomance #RomanticSuspense #RomanceReaders
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"In the shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains, danger wears a familiar face."

🏔️🔦 Today's showcase features WITNESS IN THE SHADOWS (KYNDALL FAMILY SUSPENSE SERIES #1) by BLAIRE MORGAN! This gripping romantic suspense draws readers into a world of mountain secrets, simmering tension, and a threat that hits far too close to home. 💔⚡

Available in Kindle Unlimited 🎉

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Spend the Weekend with a Good Book!

Read an excerpt from Jewel Cave!

https://www.elizabeth-noble.com/thoughts-and-things-blog/have-a-great-weekend

**Ask for the eBook at your local library!**

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“She was strength and power and so many things he’d pretended for twelve years he didn’t miss, didn’t need.”
― Natalie J. Damschroder

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My #TuesdayTeaser for today is from A Barlow Lens, book 2 of Circles!

https://www.elizabeth-noble.com/thoughts-and-things-blog/tuesday-teaser-2172026
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ME,MYSELF AND THE PURRING PAGE

LUGGAGE, LITERATURE, AND LADYBUGS: THE SUMMERSIMO STORY

(The Highly Dramatic, Comically Tragic, and Entirely Creative Personal Biography)

THE BLANK PAGE: A Life Still Under Construction

It began on a day that was supposed to be perfectly ordinary—which, in the SummerSimo universe, is the first warning sign of impending doom. While other people were born with silver spoons, the protagonist of this story was clearly born holding a boarding pass to the wrong destination and a notebook filled with half-finished, terrifyingly brilliant ideas.

The early years were marked by a profound realization: reality is terribly under-edited. A normal trip to the grocery store was boring; a trip to the grocery store where the cashier might secretly be a 19th-century antiquities smuggler? Now that was a narrative worth exploring. The blank page wasn’t just a medium; it was a desperately needed escape route from the mundane.

TRAVEL TROUBLES AND TWISTED TALES

If there is a Guinness World Record for “Most Luggage Mysteriously Rerouted to a Different Continent,” this biography’s subject holds the undisputed title. The travel years were a masterclass in chaotic survival.

Picture this: standing in a torrential downpour in a foreign city, watching a train pull away with nothing but a dead smartphone, a half-eaten croissant, and a sudden, striking epiphany for a plot twist. Every delayed flight, every hotel that somehow lost the reservation, and every catastrophic navigational error became premium fuel for the writing engine. Why cry over a lost passport when you can turn that exact scenario into the inciting incident of a breathtaking thriller? The world was a mess, but it was great material.

A TOAST TO TREACHERY: Surviving My Own Plot Twists

Eventually, the chaos had to be corralled into art. Enter The Purring Page era. The transition from surviving real-world travel disasters to orchestrating fictional murders was seamless. It turns out, the feeling of realizing you boarded the wrong connecting flight is psychologically identical to discovering a poisoned glass ladybug in a Valentine’s bouquet.

Life became a series of dramatic twists, expertly managed. Friends and family learned to tread carefully, knowing that any slight offense could result in them being written into the next chapter as the first victim. This phase of the biography is a toast to treachery—a celebration of surviving not just the world’s curveballs, but the labyrinthine, deadly puzzles constructed within the author’s own mind.

A MILLION CONVERSATIONS, ONE VOICE: The Digital Diary

In the modern era, the lone writer in a dusty garret is a myth. The brilliant, twisting narratives of SummerSimo are born from a million digital conversations. It’s a chaotic symphony of blog drafts, late-night internet rabbit holes researching Victorian poisons, and intense, caffeine-fueled brainstorming sessions with a remarkably helpful Artificial Intelligence (ahem) to iron out the logistics of a locked-room mystery.

Through the digital noise, a singular, unmistakable voice emerges. It is a voice that laughs in the face of a canceled itinerary, meticulously plans fictional revenge, and invites readers to step into a world where danger smells like Earl Grey tea and old parchment.

BEYOND THE PLOT: The Uncharted Chapters

And where does the protagonist sit now? Somewhere in Italy, perhaps sipping an espresso, simultaneously dreading and hoping for the next disaster to strike. The luggage is packed, the laptop is charged, and the cats are judging every keystroke from a high shelf. The plot has been lost, found, rewritten, and set on fire just to see how the flames look. The uncharted chapters are waiting, and they promise to be the most breathtaking ones yet.