#kate brauning

New Releases: November 2021

Spin Me Right Round by David Valdes (2nd) All Luis Gonzalez wants is to go to prom with his boyfriend, something his “progressive” school still doesn’t allow. Not after what happened with Chaz Wilson. But that was ages ago, when Luis’s parents were in high school; it would never happen today, right? He’s determined to find a way to give his LGBTQ friends the respect they deserve (while also not…

Review: The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell by Kate Brauning

The Ballad of Dinah CaldwellKate BrauningPage Street PublishingPublished November 23, 2021 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About The Ballad of Dinah Caldwell Seventeen-year-old Dinah runs her family’s farm in the Ozarks. When she finds her grief-stricken mother dead in the living room with wealthy rancher Gabriel Gates standing over her, Dinah’s life narrows to a single point: kill Gabriel…

THE BALLAD OF DINAH CALDWELL

​by Kate Brauning

(Page Street, 11/2/21)

9781645673125

Add to Goodreads

Purchase from Bookshop

Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle's sleepy farming town, she's been flirting way too much--and with her own cousin, Marcus. Her friendship with him has turned into something she can't control, and he's the reason Jackie lost track of her best friend, Ellie, who left for...no one knows where. Now Ellie has been missing for months, and the police, fearing the worst, are searching for her body. Swamped with guilt and the knowledge that acting on her love for Marcus would tear their families apart, Jackie pushes her cousin away. The plan is to fall out of love, and, just as she hoped he would, Marcus falls for the new girl in town. But something isn't right about this stranger, and Jackie's suspicions about the new girl's secrets only drive the wedge deeper between Jackie and Marcus--and deepens Jackie's despair. Then Marcus is forced to pay the price for someone else's lies as the mystery around Ellie's disappearance starts to become horribly clear. Jackie has to face terrible choices. Can she leave her first love behind, and can she go on living with the fact that she failed her best friend?

I wasn’t sure if I was going to be enthralled with a story about first cousins being in love with each other, but WOW. Once I started reading, I stayed up all night until I was finished.

The romantic tension between Jackie and Marcus is thick and understandably so. Add in a murder mystery and a stalker subplot, and the tension ramps up to unbelievable levels. 

Book Review: How We Fall By Kate Brauning

The Good…: How We Fall was not what I expected when I read the synopsis. The illicit YA romance ended up being a suspense thriller that was just that – thrilling. In the story, Jackie is engaged in a romantic relationship with her 1st cousin, Marcus. If that wasn’t complicated enough, She and Marcus live in the same house. The two are torn between how they feel about each other, and what their…

Book Blast: How We Fall by Kate Brauning!

If you’ve read my review that I posted last month, you’ll know just how much I adored this book! When I heard about this Book Blast I just knew that I HAD to participate!

READ MY REVIEW

How We Fall Kate Brauning Merit Press, F&W Media Releasing November 11, 2014 Hardcover: 304 pages ISBN-10: 1440581797 ISBN-13: 978-144058179

Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle’s sleepy farming town, she’s been…

I couldn’t be more excited to share with you today a very special book and author! HOW WE FALL was one of my favorite books of the year, and I’m thrilled to have author Kate Brauning on the blog today with an exclusive interview. 

 About HOW WE FALL:

Ever since Jackie moved to her uncle’s sleepy farming town, she’s been flirting way too much- and with her own cousin, Marcus.

Her friendship…