Waiting On Wednesday (632) Something Wicked (Black and Blue #3) by Lily Morton

Expected Publication: January 3, 2024
Genre: MM, Romance, Paranormal


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

After powerful psychic Blue Billings fell in love with Levi Black, he believed their biggest challenges would arise from Blue’s ability to see and speak to the dead. So it’s rather alarming when he and Levi are confronted with a spate of new—and frightening—problems that have to do with the realm of the living.

A sadistic serial killer is stalking their beloved York, and Blue himself is in the killer’s crosshairs. Blue and Levi must race against time to catch the murderer as the deaths increase in ferocity. But when they’re forced from their home, and close acquaintances seemingly disappear like mist over the Minster’s spires, Blue finds that he is completely and terrifyingly on his own, and for the first time in his life, he’s without his powers.


Oh no. I totally don't remember what the heck happened previously in this series. I know I loved the first book, but I read book #2 way back in March of 2022, so hopefully I can dive into this book without a refresher!

What are you waiting on this week?
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Waiting On Wednesday (631) The Kite and Tallowwood Christmas Crossover by N.R. Walker

Expected Publication: December 22, 2023
Genre: MM, Romance
Novella


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Harry and Asher are living peacefully on the North Coast of NSW. Life is quiet, boring, and utterly perfect. Though coming from a life of danger and excitement, Harry worries that Asher will grow bored of the “normal” life. He misses the adrenaline, the action, and most of all, he misses his “baby.”

So Harry goes against his own better judgement and organises a special Christmas gift for Asher.

Life has been picture-perfect in the sleepy little town of Tallowwood. Since the horrors of the murder trial ended, Jake and August couldn’t be happier. Tallowwood was unassuming and uneventful—just how they liked it.

Even the town’s newest residents are decidedly normal. On paper, that is. In person, August isn’t so sure. He’d done background checks on them when they’d first arrived and found nothing, but something about them was off.

But when the Coffs Coast Gun Club sends an application for a Christmas gala day and a familiar name catches his eye, August is determined to meet the newcomers in an official capacity. He wants to see if his hunch is correct.

What was a surprise Christmas gift for Asher, might just unbox a whole can of worms.


This novella is just a freaking TEASE that the author is putting out there for a full length follow up to Kite. It just happens to be set in the same town as another of her books, Tallowwood... hence, the crossover. However, I'm needing a sequel to Tallowwood because when it was released it was listed as #1, and I've been waiting for a follow up for 4 years. Little peeved here.

Christmas is just a few days away and I feel like I'm not done shopping. I mostly shopped online this year (thanks first to Covid, then a wedding, and now I'm STILL sick.) I'm so used to shopping in person with my handy dandy 'WISH LIST' that something feels incomplete this year. Could it really be this easy? Eeeks.

I'm almost caught up on my reading challenge for the year, so yay!

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Waiting On Wednesday (630) Forgive Me (Forgive Me #1) by Ariana Nash

Expected Publication: December 15, 2023
Genre: MM, Romance, Mystery


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Father Francis Scott knows he’s damned, but at twenty-four years old, he has a lifetime to make up for past mistakes. Newly ordained, he’s determined to clean the stain off his soul, one day at a time. Until an angel walks into his church, asking Francis to take his confession.

Francis can’t afford any more mistakes. Unfortunately, the world Angel is about to pull Francis into leaves no room for good men, and as Francis is swept into the dark underworld of organized crime, his love of the Church, his broken soul, and all the sins he’s been running from, conspire to break him.

Angel has no idea why he’s been sent to England, other than to stakeout a priest for Italy’s most notorious mob boss. He hadn’t expected Father Francis Scott to be so young, or for him to be sinfully hot in his black cassock. He also hadn’t expected the priest’s haunted eyes to be filled with secrets.

But when a rival criminal syndicate get the drop on Angel, almost executing Francis under Angel's watch, kidnapping the priest seems like the next best option. Now they’re on the run, barely one step ahead of assassins who think nothing of crossing countries and continents to track them. Why are the Russian and Italian mafia so desperate to get their hands on Father Francis Scott? And why does Angel care?


I've been SO busy reading to catch up on my Goodreads challenge by the end of the year that I haven't been researching books to read. I officially have nothing on my tbr that hasn't been released yet.

And I'm sick again and I don't feel like looking for new releases, so this will have to do.

I paused watching Red, White & Royal Blue to write this post, and I'm going back to it now so please don't interrupt me.

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Waiting On Wednesday (629) Matrimonial Merriment (Valor and Doyle Mysteries #7) by Nicky James

Expected Publication: December 7, 2023
Genre: MM, Romance


Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event that is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings
that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating.
(WoW was previously hosted by Breaking The Spine.)

This my favorite day of the week because I love sharing and discovering new books.

Synopsis from Goodreads:

Who would have thought Quaid and Aslan would come so far?

Join the couple as they scramble to arrange Quaid's dream wedding in under three months.

Then take a seat because you are cordially invited to attend the ceremony.


Whoo Hoo!! I would like to claim that this is my most highly anticipated book of 2023, but it's only been 3 months since book #6 was released. So, not long in real time, but still the wait is killing me.

Sadly, the author also announced she is taking a break from writing this couple, so who knows when or if I'll ever see them again? Makes me sad.

What are you waiting on this week?




For those who want to know, my son's wedding last Friday went off without a hitch! Yay! The stress, though. My Mom and Dad made it to the wedding and reception and they handled it really well.

Unfortunately, 8 of the 14 people we invited to the wedding were no shows. This was after they rsvp'd only a week ago. I have no words.

The bride had 120 people attend, and my son had Mom, Dad, Sister (who was also a Groomswoman) Uncle, Grandma and Grandpa and 6 other people (only 2 were at the wedding, all 6 were at the reception but left after dinner.) My other brother didn't even show up. None of those who didn't attend have contacted us either. So I don't even know what to make of it.
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