Takeover + Review Blitz Featuring The Novel Adventures of Natalie Daughtry

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The Novel Adventures of Natalie Daughtry by Susan L. Tuttle

hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book:

Title: The Novel Adventures of Natalie Daughtry
Series: Treasures of Halstead Manor
Author: Susan L. Tuttle
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Release Date: March 18, 2025
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Adventure

In pursuit of a rare book, will Natalie and Mason find each other again?

With her twenty-plus-year marriage on the brink of collapse, bookish Natalie Daughtry
immerses herself in her new bookstore job. When the mysterious Caspar gathers
Natalie and her friends Everleigh and Brooke for the second time, she's ready for an
adventure to disperse the turmoil clouding her marriage. Caspar enlists their help in
searching for a rumored copy of Lewis Carroll's handwritten and illustrated manuscript
of Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Natalie is immediately enticed--this is the perfect
distraction. But then Mason joins the team, and suddenly Natalie and her husband
re side-by-side on the search for this elusive treasure. Being forced to work together
has them tumbling deep into their past, seeking answers to old misunderstandings.
When they emerge from the rabbit hole, things aren't the same.

Will they rediscover the love that once held the pages of their life together?

PURCHASE LINKS: Goodreads | Kregel Publications | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Christianbook

Excerpt:

“There’s a book I need you to collect for me.”
Natalie’s interest piqued. He was speaking her language. Plus, if he wanted them looking for a
book, chances were it was rare, old, or both. He wasn’t simply speaking her language—he was
speaking it fluently.

“What is it?” Natalie leaned in.

“A handwritten and illustrated copy of Lewis Carroll’s first attempt at Alice in Wonderland, which
he titled Alice’s Adventures Under Ground.” The thought of a handwritten manuscript by Lewis
Carroll vaulted Natalie out of her seat, but before she could speak, Brooke jumped in.

“That doesn’t make sense. Carroll gave that first edition to Alice Liddell, the little girl everyone
believes inspired the story. That copy is now on display at the British Museum.”

Brooke owned a pawn shop and immersed herself in antiques. In fact, she’d once been an
antique runner, acquiring pieces for wealthy collectors. Her knowledge and background often
overlapped with Natalie’s, but no one knew history and literature quite like Natalie. This instance
was case in point.
She looked across the room as she addressed everyone. “True, Carroll did give a copy to Alice,
but it’s been rumored for years that he wrote an even earlier version that’s been lost since
before Liddell’s copy was given to her.”

A line formed between Brooke’s perfectly manicured eyebrows. “I’ve never heard that theory.”
“It’s not well known, and many believe it to be myth. I can send you a link to the few articles I’ve
read.” Natalie had no trouble recounting the periodicals’ names, article titles, or publication
dates. Her memory simply worked that way. If she engaged with something once, she didn’t
forget it.

Brooke nodded, seemingly content with that answer for now. Natalie wasn’t offended by the
need to prove her statement. Over the past few months, she’d come to know Brooke and her
desire for concrete answers. Natalie couldn’t say she blamed her. Right about now she’d love
some solid solutions to her marriage.

“Natalie’s correct,” Caspar said. “This is a rumored copy, yet it is very much real, and I have a
lead on its location.”

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About the Author

Susan L. Tuttle is a pastor's wife, mom, and the director of women's ministry at her church near
Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Her previous work includes the Along Came Love series, and the Carol Award finalist
Love You, Truly.
Connect with Susan by visiting susanltuttle.com to follow her on social media or subscribe to email newsletter updates.

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Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive a signed copy of The Novel Adventures of Natalie Daughtry and

a $25 Amazon gift card!

Be sure to check out each stop on the tour for more chances to win. Full tour schedule

linked below.

Giveaway began at midnight February 19, 2025 and lasts through 11:59 PM EST on

February 26, 2025.

Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to

respond or risk forfeiture

of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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Guest Post (and GIVEAWAY) for Tatterhood by Dawn Ford!!!

 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for Tatterhood by Dawn Ford, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: Tatterhood
Series: Band of Unlikely Heroes #3
Author: Dawn Ford
Publisher: ScrivKids
Release Date: January 28, 2025
Genre: Middle-Grade Fantasy

Troll Princess Horra Fyd and young druid Rowan team up to reverse the evil Erlking’s spells and save the creatures across the Wilden Lands. However, Fairy Princess Glory Toppenbottom is still a thorn in Horra’s side. After Horra and Glory have a heated fight, Glory sneaks out of the castle. She is bent on finding the Erlking to reverse the hex he cast on her. This creates a political disaster when the Glory’s sister announces she’s coming to retrieve Glory.

Angered by Horra’s treatment of a royal guest, King Fyd proclaims Horra to be Queen Bearer. She becomes the ad hoc ruler, freeing her father from the scandal. Shocked, Horra assents. Her first move is to find the missing fairy princess before it becomes an interkingdom war. They form a search party and leave.

The Erlking stalks their every move. When the only choice points them toward the Riven, a cursed hidden land, they don’t hesitate. They find Glory is already there, but are immediately separated. The Riven is nothing like anyone imagined. Will they survive the Erlking’s magical traps, or will they, like everyone else, perish within its borders?

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Research Needed for the Book
by Dawn Ford

My first published work was a flash fiction piece titled Bona Fide Beauty, about three stepsisters. It’s a twisted fairytale where two fairy sisters cast a spell on their ugly troll stepsister, turning her beautiful against her will. That unleashed an idea in my mind for a middle-grade twisted fairytale book. The Band of Unlikely Heroes series was born. This series features four unlikely heroes who battle an evil Erlking who is bent on taking over their kingdom for his own nefarious purposes.

In this series, I wanted to find an actual fairy tale no one had used before. I came across an old Norwegian tale, a type of Cinderella story, titled Katie Woodencloak where a girl runs away from her evil stepmother. This is itself a twisted tale where a bull helps a girl secure the heart of a prince. In the story, I found a nugget of an idea that I used for the first book in this series: the woodencloak.

Unlike in Katie Woodencloak, the actual woodencloak becomes an integral part of my series. In Woodencloak, my first heroine, a troll princess, has her castle overtaken by mesmerized fairies. She has to flee with her instructor’s seedling, which when planted in the magical Weald forest, will grow into the next great druid who can keep the balance of good and evil in their world, the Wilden Lands. She is gifted a woodencloak to help disguise her so she can get to the Weald in time to plant the seed. When wearing it, she looks like a tree or boulder to whoever looks upon it.  

My villain had to be something unique, so I studied evil characters and chose the Pied Piper because it’s rarely used, except possibly in Shrek. Here, I twisted him to fit what I needed in a villain. In my series, an evil elf calling himself the Erlking uses charmed pan flutes to mesmerize creatures to do his bidding. He also steals children and releases curses upon the land as all evil villains are want to do.

Because I’m a fan of The Lord of the Rings and Guardians of the Galaxy, and I love trees, I’ve always wanted to create a tree creature that would help save a kingdom. My woodgoblin druid, created from the seed my troll princess takes to the Weald, comes into play. He stars in the second book of this four-book series, Mossycoat. He’s brilliant, but has been unrooted so fast he doesn’t have any emotional or social maturity. Those he will have to grow along the way.

In the third book, Tatterhood, we revisit the fairy princess who took over our first heroine’s castle. She’s disgraced and disfigured now thanks to the Erlking hexing her, and is bent on getting her beauty back. She’ll do anything it takes to bargain with the Erlking, no matter what, and it makes for a thrilling ride. In the story, the fairy princess learns what is really important in life.

The last book, slated to come out in November of 2025, follows our last unlikely hero, a giantess girl turned beast in Woodencloak. (Title yet to be revealed) I’ve always loved Beauty and the Beast, and so in this book, the Erlking’s magic changes a bookish giant girl into a beastly creature. Afraid of her own shadow, my giantess will have to embrace her ferocious nature to help the other three rescue the stolen children, including her own bug-loving sister, and unravel the secrets of the Erlking’s music magic to stop him from taking over the Wilden Lands.

About the Author

Winner of the 2016 ACFW Genesis Award and Finalist in the 2023 Carol awards and 2024 Realm Makers Realm awards, Dawn Ford has been recognized for her published and non-published works.

As a child, Dawn often had her head in the clouds creating scenes and stories for anything and everything she came across. She believed there was magic everywhere, a sentiment she has never outgrown. Nature inspires her, and her love for the underdog and the unlikely hero colors much of what she writes.

Connect with Dawn by visiting dawnfordauthor.com to follow her on social media and subscribe to email newsletter updates.

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Tour Giveaway

(3) winners will each receive a $15 Amazon gift card, a signed paperback copy of Tatterhood, and one eBook copy of Woodencloak and Mossycoat!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight January 27, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on February 3, 2025. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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Blog & Review Tour for The Resurrection Project by Tanya Sparks Belvin

 

Welcome to the Blog + Review Tour for The Resurrection Project by Tanya Sparks Belvin, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: The Resurrection Project

Series: The Resurrection Project Series #1
Author: Tanya Sparks Belvin
Publisher: Tonya Belvin Publishing
Release Date: September 11, 2023
Genre: Christian Futuristic, Medical Mystery

In 2034, medical student Ellen McCarthy took an internship at the mysterious Grindland Institute to fulfill a graduation requirement. But what at first seems like a boring job supervising children soon has her tangled in questions about the Institute’s Resurrection Project. Meanwhile, ER nurse Mamie Simpson is grieving the loss of her daughter, Lainey, and hoping against hope that a new scientific breakthrough will provide a miracle for her and her husband. When Ellen and Mamie's paths eventually cross, both will have to take steps of faith and courage they didn’t think possible to help save the life of a special little girl.

Excerpt:

I stood in the doorway of the cafeteria staring at L2 as she finished her cup of blueberries and
steel-cut oats with eight ounces of skim milk. The Grindland Institute, located in Chapel Hill,
North Carolina, provided its subjects with superfood choices given in precise portions to meet  
the exact nutritional requirements for ultimate sustenance and growth. L2’s shoulder-
length chestnut hair glistened like the stainless steel throughout the cafeteria’s antiseptic side.
This area was reserved for the residents of Grindland’s Resurrection Project. 

The six-year-old’s white top, knee-length khaki shorts, and specially-designed blue and white
athletic shoes, fit her small frame perfectly. As I observed her, I couldn’t stop thinking that she
was much too young to be so independent. Already accustomed to her daily schedule filled with
physical and academic requirements, L2 was still too short to sit on the bench and have her
feet  touch the ground. 

A natural-born music aficionado, L2 always seemed to have a private music channel continually
playing in her mind. As I watched, L2’s tiny fingers started drumming a beat on the table, and
she began singing her favorite song, “Little Liza Jane.”

PURCHASE LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon (ebook/audio) | Amazon (print) | Barnes & Noble

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About the Author

Tanya Sparks Belvin is a retired middle school teacher, with thirty-two years of experience. Her passion is serving the Lord, reading, writing, and entertaining her seven grandchildren. Tanya, her husband, Ron, and her mother, Tommie Moton, enjoy lakeside living in Denver, North Carolina. Tanya and Ron have three adult children. The Resurrection Project is her debut novel.

Connect with Tanya by visiting tanyasparksbelvin.com.

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Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will receive a print copy of The Resurrection Project and its sequel, Rescuing the Remnant, as well as a $25 Amazon gift card!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight January 20, 2025 and will last through 11:59 PM EST on January 27, 2025. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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Shadowcast by Crystal D. Grant Spotlight & Excerpt

Welcome to the Blog Tour for Shadowcast by Crystal D. Grant, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!

About the Book

Title: Shadowcast
Series: The Gateway Trilogy
Author: Crystal D. Grant
Publisher: Quill and Flame Publishing
Release Date: September 20, 2023

Genre: Fantasy Romance (Clean)

He has known nothing but darkness for years. Now it’s time to let it consume him.

After witnessing the brutal death of his brother at the hands of the Steward Knights, Mason Grey turns to

vengeance. Using his Gifts to read and control the minds of others, he climbs the ranks of the Dark Army,

determined to earn the coveted Shadowstone-a powerful tool against the light-wielding Stewards. But when

he is wounded in battle, he finds himself recovering in the home of a chatty peasant girl...without the use of

his

Gifts. Even worse, the girl mistakes him for one of the Stewards he despises.

Seria Gayle longs to be seen as more than the town washerwoman. When she finds an injured Steward in

the woods, she welcomes the chance to use her healing skills and hopes it will earn her some respect. But

as she nurses the sullen stranger back to health, she discovers he is nothing like the knights she has long

admired. When Mason's true identity is revealed, Seria is devastated and humiliated. But she is offered a

chance at redemption by the very prince that Mason hates. Now Mason struggles between two choices:

accept the Shadowstone to avenge his brother or pursue this newfound light in the form of a peasant girl.

With time running out and war looming, will Mason and Seria defy their own convictions for a chance at

love or stand against one another like they've sworn to do?

PURCHASE LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Bookshop

Excerpt:

Seria gave a breathless laugh. “If I didn’t know any better, I would think you could read my

mind. You keep saying what I’m thinking.”

            He raised his head and stared at her. Her exhaustion and swirling emotions pulled at him.

For the first time, he sympathized with her. He knew what it was like to lose everything. “How

do you know I can’t?”

            She laughed. “A few lucky guesses, and now you’re a mind reader.”

            A small, crooked smirk stretched across his face. “I’ve had a lot of lucky guesses.”

“Is that so?”

            Resting his knuckles on his thighs, he looked her straight on. “You don’t believe me?”

            She scoffed. “That you can read my mind? Nay, but I’ll give you a chance to prove it.”

She put her hands on her hips and tilted her head, her thoughts playing out clearly to him.

            “You think I’m stringing you along, but you’re humoring me because I’m doing your

laundry for you.”

            Seria’s jaw unhinged.

            He couldn’t stop his grin. “And I do have lovely eyes.” He gave her a wink and went

back to his work.

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About the Author

Crystal D. Grant is a daydreamer who adores freshly-baked cookies and anything with fur or feathers. During the day, she

strives to instill a love of books and learning within her young students. As a hearing-impaired, home-school

graduate, she found her voice in writing and has had multiple short stories and poems published. When

she’s not reading or writing stories that sweep her away to another time and place, she watches classic

movies and TV shows that do the same. Or she works on jigsaw puzzles. Crystal currently resides in

small town Missouri, where she is always looking for space for another scented candle.

Connect with Crystal by visiting crystalgrantauthor.com to follow her on social media and sign up for email updates.

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Tour Giveaway

(1) winner will win a signed copy of Shadowcast, book swag, and exclusive color art from the book!

Full tour schedule linked below. The giveaway begins at midnight September 18, 2023 and will last through

11:59 PM EST on September 25, 2023. Winner will be notified within 2 weeks of close of the giveaway and

given 48 hours to respond or risk forfeiture of prize. US/CAN only. Void where prohibited by law or logistics.

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