❤Author Interview: Tucker May, Author of 'The Lemon House Murders' #authorinterview

Tucker May is a writer of mystery novels, whodunit short stories and all kinds of fun, puzzling tales. Murders, crimes, and mysteries abound. He grew up in Missouri then attended Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He’s a diehard fan of the Los Angeles Rams and Geelong Cats. He lives in Pasadena, CA with his wife Barbara and their cat Principal Spittle. He is the author of The Lemon House Murders and Death of a Billionaire.

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I am so excited about your new murder mystery, The Lemon House Murders. Why did you choose this particular story to write?

I like to build stories around a central idea that I think is worth exploring deeply. The Lemon House Murders was born when I noticed how much of our popular media emphasizes the importance of family. We hear it so much that it almost doesn't register any longer: family is everything, blood is thicker than water. We're constantly told that familial relationships are some of the most important ingredients of a happy life. It made me begin to wonder if there might be a downside to this pervasive messaging. What about the people who have no family? How are they meant to feel about all of this? Even more broadly, I wondered if it's healthy to put anything, even something as supposedly good as family, up on a pedestal in that way? This led me toward the topic of addiction, something that I have personal experience with, and I crafted The Lemon House Murders to explore our society's addiction to family and how that might potentially damage a young man's life.

Can you give us a book blurb so others will know what it’s about?

A string of mysterious deaths . . . A house full of suspects . . . A secret that will change everything . . .

When residents of a live-in drug rehabilitation facility called Lemon House start dying one by one, no one in the outside world seems to care.

Two Lemon House patients, nicknamed Trip and Gobstopper, are the only ones who can see the truth: these are murders.

Their quest to find the killer will push their budding relationship to the brink, cast suspicion on everyone locked in the house with them, and force them to question their most cherished beliefs.

The Lemon House Murders is the rare murder mystery that will have you guessing at the culprit AND thinking deeply about theology, society’s relationship toward the downtrodden, and the importance of self-determination to a fulfilling life.

Can you tell us a little about the main characters in your book?

At the center of The Lemon House Murders is Francis (nicknamed Trip), a 19-year-old young man who has spent his whole life in a highly sheltered religious environment. A dramatic incident involving his parents gets him shipped off to a drug rehab facility, where new experiences challenge everything he once thought he knew.

While at Lemon House, Trip meets another resident called Gobstopper, a sensitive young man with an artist's soul and a passion for drawing. He and Trip explore their unfolding relationship while also attempting to solve the string of deaths that plagues the house. Will their friendship turn into something more? Will they find the truth behind the deaths? Or will their attempts to solve the mystery ultimately tear them apart?

Where and when does this book take place?

The story is set in 2006 at a live-in drug rehabilitation center in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. The setting is based directly on a rehab center that I personally spent time in back in 2022 to receive treatment for alcoholism. While the story is fully fictional, the setting is not. Almost all the details about Lemon House shared in this book come from my own personal experience.

They say all books of fiction have at least one pivotal point where the reader just can’t put the book down. What is one of the pivotal points in one of your books in this series?

I would hope that moment comes right away! I put a lot of effort into engaging readers right from the get-go. A later moment that I hope reels people in further is the death of a character who is working hard to turn his life around. It forces our protagonist, Trip, to question his own life path for the first time and spurs the investigation into these mysterious deaths that no one in the outside world seems to care about.

Does your book carry a message?

Absolutely! I hope that The Lemon House Murders encourages readers to think differently about addiction, which is a simple miswiring of feedback mechanisms that are baked into each and every one of our brains. Addiction is not a personal or a moral failure on the part of the struggling individual. The people who suffer from addiction are just as engaging, multi-faceted, and full of promise as anyone else. This story, I believe, can help others recognize these facts. Recovering addicts have much to offer the world and when we write them off as a lost cause, we're hurting them, ourselves, and our society as a whole.

What's your next project?

I am currently drafting my third novel, The Last Dead Guy in Hell. It's a missing person mystery that explores whether a person can lead a fulfilling and significant life even if they lack the "hustle gene" or the all-encompassing ambition that modern American society promotes to the detriment of our collective mental health. Anyone interested in updates on that work can follow me on social media at the links below or sign up for email updates on www.tuckermay.com.

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Where can we pick up copies of 'The Lemon House Murders'?

Click below for my books on Amazon!

Death of a Billionaire

The Lemon House Murders

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Thursday Book Spotlight: The Wars Between by Lee J. Mavin

A Young Adult Fantasy Novel Exploring Themes of Conflict, Propaganda and Empathy…

For centuries there had been an ongoing war between Asalandia, the proud monarchy of the east and Kastanair the progressive democracy of the west. However, the years of war would end with the most unlikely turn of events.

Outis Everrett, the disappointment of his family, a measly poet, is suddenly thrusted into an epic adventure across the sea, with the King’s blessing. His poem, the poem that somehow won the first annual Asalandian poetry competition, was meant to be taken across the seas, to the enemy island of Kastanair, there, it would be read by the President of Kastanair, the newly elected and very progressive, Penelope Chinwa and she was supposed stop the war after reading those so special words.

So Outis set sail aboard the Golden ship, guided and protected by the Knights of Sunrise and their adventures began. The Knights are led by Bartholemew Aries, the most famous soldier in Asalandia, though when their ship drifts off course to the mysterious island of Aquos Atalantious, the Princess of the island soon lures him to stay. So, the Knights of Sunrise become distracted by the beauties of this foreign island. After failing to find the prince, who had been taken by a monstrous octopus, the Golden ship sails onto Kastanair, without its leader, who had fallen in love with the Princess. They then sail to Syanthia, where the worlds’ meat was produced. There they meet, the young Kastanairian, Gwenia Xiachung, an enthusiastic vegan on a mission to stop everyone eating meat. Outis is thrown into a pig saving mission with Gwenia and is intrigued by the young girl. After saving the pigs and convincing the head of meat production to change his ways with a beautiful poem about animal empathy, Gwenia falls in love with Outis. She joins him and the Knights of Sunrise on the voyage to back to her country, Kastanair. Once they finally reach the shores of Kastanair, they are attacked on the shores by a small army, led by Caslian Jesper, the tough captain who worked his soldiers to exhaustion. The Knights, Outis and Gwenia are rescued by Nastab and his band of terrorists who take them on horseback through Kastanair to Mount Xian. Nastab and his men come from a rebel group who had been dwelling on the plateau of Mount Xian, plotting to overthrow the government of Kastanair. However, their leader, who had driven their group to crimes and violence, was hoarding their food and treasure.

Caslian Jesper follows the terrorists to Mount Xian, in pursuit of two of his enemies at once, the terrorists and the Asalandians. Outis and Gwenia are suddenly taken off their horses by huge hawks, who fly them up Mount Xian, to a cave opening. There Gwenia and Outis meet The Tall Man, a strange man with huge black eyes who has no name. He takes them into the cave, and they fall more tall people. There they learn that the tall people had been in the caves for hundreds of years and they care not for treasures of war. The tall man collects water from an underground stream and fruits from the cave roofs and they take Outis and Gwenia up to the top of the mountain. There they find Caslian’s army had managed to climb to the top of the mountain in attempt to attack but they were too drained to fight so the tall man shared his fruit with them. Both sides rested as Outis read a poem to the leader of the terrorists.

Outis and Gwenia are then taken to the capital, by an eclectic group including Nastab, The Tall Man and the Knights of Sunrise, they journey through the planes of Kastanair where they are attacked by wolves. The Knights and Nastab fight the wolves off valiantly and they continue. When they finally reach the capital Outis reads his poem to the President, but it is not the words of his poem alone that convince her to stop the war, it is the group he brings with him, a group of once enemies, who had come together with the same goal.

╰┈➤Book Details

Genre: YA Fantasy
Language: English
Pages: 300

To find out how to purchase this book, visit the author’s website at leejmavin.com.

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✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧Fantasy

Unputdownable

Coming of Age

༄.ೃ࿔*Page Turner

Excerpt:

Outis Everrett was an overthinker. Every night he would toss and turn in his tiny chamber and go over and over the things he had to do the next day. He would plan the next day and things he would say, over and over in his mind, until he slowly became too tired to think and then he would finally fall asleep. He had been like this for a while now and try as he might, he couldn’t change this habit. He became sleepy with this constant worrying and it became difficult to do his day-to-day tasks. During the days, he would mope about with his head down, being of little use to anyone. To anyone else, he was a nobody, a useless man that was easy to forget, but Outis Everrett was much more than that. Outis Everrett was a poet. Outis loved poetry and wrote poetry a lot, but he didn’t consider himself an actual poet at the time. He simply thought very little of himself. One thing he knew for sure, he wasn’t a strong man. He wasn’t a sailor, a guard or a soldier and he didn’t ever want to become one of these.

He sighed and thought of his father’s words, ‘We come from a long line of warriors, long have we held our swords high and defended our lands with pride. It is your destiny, my son, to take up arms and keep fighting.’

But he was no warrior, and he was as thin as limegoat and he had been cursed with his mother’s short stature. He was shorter than the average Asalandian and was a lot weaker. He spoke with a soft, unsure voice and often didn’t say anything at all. He rarely exercised and even his hair was unusually dark for an Asalandian (it was light brown, most Asalandians were blonde). He had avoided any kind of conflict his whole life, running from the bullies that called him Tiny in Sword School. As a child he often hid away in his room and read, he loved the adventure stories of journeys, and he especially loved the poets of the old world. He loved imagining, dreaming of far off lands, tales of monsters and horror. He was intrigued by the notion of destiny and longed for love. He was lonely and hid his thoughts from everyone. He thought nobody would understand him and was scared to look vulnerable. He just read all the time by himself and at times he wrote. He was an amazing poet but poets weren’t really talked about much in Asalandia. In fact, poetry wasn’t read much at all.

To be shunned was uncommon and not talked about. Most children (all able-bodied) trained hard before the test and if they failed, they tried again. Outis was shunned from the warriorship because he failed to take the final test. The reason for this was because he was too scared and couldn’t swing a sword hard enough to even make a sound. He was always a quiet young man, troubled by the weight of society, pressuring young men to fight, leading them to be battle ready. Everyone was constantly hearing about the threat of the enemy, every day they heard about the Kastanarians getting closer or the Kastanarians were preparing for war. The King was announcing it constantly and it was always being proclaimed from the palace. During these frequent announcements, everyone had to stand and listen. This was an unspoken rule and most people wanted to listen to the kings’ announcements. Outis wasn’t one of those people. He stopped listening to the kings’ announcements long ago and decided he would focus on other things. One of those things was poetry. He had read all the old poets over the years and started writing his own poetry out of frustration. He wanted to write poetry about the way things really were. He practiced his style constantly in his room, late at night, all by himself, slowly developing his voice. Then he wrote a very special poem. It was this very poem that changed the course of history in Asalandia. Yes, a poem did that. As absurd as it may seem, Outis managed to write the most amazing words every written. He crafted those words so beautifully that once you read it, your life would be forever different. That poem was such a special sonnet, it led to everything that happened afterward. It was in the lines of that poem that gave birth to the timeless truths, and they all came into view and the men that swayed power became powerless.

You might ask, how did the king manage to come across the poem of such an unimportant commoner like Outis. Well, that is a good question indeed. You see, around about the time Outis was masterfully creating the poem that changed the world forever, the King was actually going through a sort of inner, self-reflective process that had the Queen and the entire royal family particularly worried. It all started with the rain. Now Asalandia, famous for its beautiful sunshine, mostly had perfect weather, warm in the day, cool at night, deep blue skies that reflected the dark blue seas and it normally only rained during the rainy season for one month. However, that particular year, the rainy season stretched on for three months and it wasn’t just the typically light pitter patter, this was drizzle and depressing downpour, nonstop. So, this kept the King off his horses, which he loved dearly, and kept him in his chambers. This was where the King discovered poetry. The King couldn’t sleep well during the rainy season, so he often requested books from the library and read them to the wee hours of the morning. He started with the Histories and became quite depressed reading about all the wars, invasions, death and destruction. This left him feeling empty and alone, so he searched for more books. He was brought poetry and he instantly fell in love with it. He loved the rhyming patterns of the old poets and would sing them in his bed, often waking the poor Queen, who was getting very worried about her husband.

The King read poem after poem and slowly came to the realisation that something was missing. All the poems praised the warriors and gave thanks to all the kings. All the poems depicted Asalandia as heaven on earth, yet when he looked outside his window, all he saw was rain. He craved a poem that spoke the truth, that was as reflective as the water in Lake Asalandian (that is the clearest, cleanest and most beautiful lake in Asalandia), but he didn’t find it in his library. So, he slept less and less and worried with his head down reading, until he came up with it. The first Annual Poem Contest! This was the Contest that started it all and it was the king’s idea. He had signs made up immediately and had them posted all over the city. One sign happened to be posted right under Outis Everrett’s little house. When Outis saw the sign on the way, branded with the Kings sunbeam stamp of approval he was most pleased. It read:

The 1st Annual Poem Contest

Under order of the king, every man willing must enter the first annual poetry contest of Asalandia. The theme to the contest is: Asalandia, the winner receives fame and fortune beyond their wildest dreams and the highest honour, dinner with the king.

– Excerpted from The War Between by Lee J. Mavin, Tellwell Talent, 2026. Reprinted with permission.

About the Author

Lee J Mavin is the author of 11 books. He is also a teacher and father. He has a Masters in Creative Writing and am solely focused on writing fiction (fantasy and horror) and poetry. He is now in collaboration the illustrator Karolina Piotrowski, a Polish artist who has brought many stories to life. He has worked and studied in China and Japan and studied with Dr Xiaohuan Zhao (a master of Chinese poetry) to complete his book Li Bai’s Shadow, at the University of Sydney. He has two children who are both avid readers, so he is always in the loop with trends in children’s fiction. He is married and lives in Sydney, where he teaches English.

His latest book is the YA fantasy, The Wars Between.

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5 BOOKS TO WATCH FOR IN MAY

Can May get anymore delightful? Here are five books I recommend to read either at the beach or in the comfort of your own home!

Fighter Pilot's Daughter

by Mary Lawlor

Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War tells the story of Mary Lawlor’s dramatic, roving life as a warrior’s child. A family biography and a young woman’s vision of the Cold War, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter narrates the more than many transfers the family made from Miami to California to Germany as the Cold War demanded. Each chapter describes the workings of this traveling household in a different place and time. The book’s climax takes us to Paris in May ’68, where Mary—until recently a dutiful military daughter—has joined the legendary student demonstrations against among other things, the Vietnam War. Meanwhile her father is flying missions out of Saigon for that very same war. Though they are on opposite sides of the political divide, a surprising reconciliation comes years later.

The Calamity Club

by Kathryn Stockett

Seventeen years ago, Stockett published “The Help,” and some objected to her, as a white woman, appropriating Black speech patterns and cultural themes. In her very long and very twisty new novel, the author examines a Depression-era sterilization law in Mississippi, thereby connecting three white female characters. Meg, Birdie and Charlie are each in very different circumstances, but join forces in hopes of creating better futures for themselves.

An Inconvenient Widow: The Torment, Trial, and Triumph of Mary Todd Lincoln

By Lois Romano

Leave all “Oh, Mary!” jokes aside before you start this well-researched biography of President Lincoln’s complicated spouse. Yes, the bright young woman from Lexington, Ky., had challenges that included deep grief (she outlived three sons and her husband), but the author contends that her achievements as a political spouse have been overshadowed by negative press due to contemporary and even present-day misogyny.

32 Days in May

Betty Corrello

Still reeling from the shock of being diagnosed with lupus, Nadia returns to Evergreen, the seaside town on the Jersey Shore where she has fond memories of summer vacations as a child. The trip turns even more interesting when she is set up — and has an amazing first date — with heartthrob and former actor Marco. The two agree to carry out a no-strings-attached fling for the month of May, but as their romance deepens, Nadia finds it harder to keep the truth about her illness from Marco.

Songs of Summer

Jane L. Rosen

Turning 30 has rattled Maggie May Wheeler and made her question where she truly belongs. When she discovers that her biological mother is planning to attend a beach wedding on Fire Island, Maggie decides to crash the event to do some reconnaissance on her biological family — but even with a handsome fake date in tow, will Maggie be able to find contentment with who she truly is? This heartwarming story of love and self-discovery is perfect for fans of Nancy Thayer.

Guest: The Inspiration Behind Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor #guest

Mary Lawlor is author of a memoir, Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War (Bloomsbury 2015) and two books of cultural criticism, Recalling the Wild: Naturalism and the Closing of the American West (Rutgers UP 2000) and Public Native America (Rutgers UP 2006). She studied at the American University in Paris, the University of Maryland, and New York University. She divides her time between Easton, Pennsylvania and Gaucin, Spain. Her novel, The Translators, is set in 12th century Spain and fictionalizes the experiences of Robert of Ketton, first translator of the Koran into Latin. She hopes to see it out next year. In the meantime, she has started a second novel, The Women’s Hospital, set in 18th century Spain and inspired by the life story of an Irish woman whose family moved to Cádiz, escaping English oppression in their own country.

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The Inspiration Behind Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor

For decades I’ve wanted to go back into memory and revisit how it felt to be a stranger everywhere when I was a military child. I also wanted to explore the old feelings of worry and fear I lived with when my Dad was away at war. I also wanted to think hard about what all the moving and my father’s absences meant for my mother and sisters. I started writing what turned out to be Fighter Pilot’s Daughter about five years before the book came out. The academic in me kept thinking I had to make the dates and world historical events clear, but another part of me knew it was the personal stuff, the raw feelings and images, that would bring out more memories and make a better story.

Studying my father’s career again—in the pages of his letters, in the photographs, and the interviews with my mother—brought back the old dramas. His dramatic departures, the excitement of his returns. The way the ground shook on the tarmac and the way his flight suit smelled of canvas and fuel.

My mother on the other hand came back in the photos as a tall, slender Saks girl, with thick, black hair, wearing glasses, and looking intelligent. Later she’s curled up under a tree with my twin sisters wearing a piquet sun dress. The twins are modeling Saks baby clothes. Frannie looks sweet and gentle.

The years go by fast in the pictures. My parents start looking less happy behind their smiles. The have four four little kids and the money’s stretched thin. Cocktails in the evening ease the troubles. Evidence of these nightly rituals leave are legible in their faces.

My mother’s voice comes back, her chin-up, pleasant chiming of everything’s-great-even-if-we-are-packing up-again; then her smoky, confident growl. This brings me right back inside the itinerant pilot’s house that was “home” for so many years. The furniture is there, the paintings and the books we transported from house to house. My father comes through the door and bellows “Hi ya, Mame. What ya doing?”

In the late sixties, I had an explosive blow-up with my parents. I had joined the anti-Vietnam War movement while at college in Paris. Meanwhile my Dad was in Saigon fighting that very war. We didn’t speak for a year. Much later we found our way back to each other. Still, remnants of the jagged-edged feelings lurked in my heart. Writing Fighter Pilot’s Daughter helped me sort through these mine fields. I came to a more sympathetic understanding of my mother and father, the people with whom I had argued so much but who I always loved and still miss.

It took longer than I hoped—almost five years. If memory is never precise, the process of writing the memoir got me closer to the raw wounds, explosive thrills, and resentments I’m still trying to shed than ever before. This is what I had to go through to answer that kid in the back of the classroom. His question—“what was it like?”—was my own. Fighter Pilot’s Daughter is my answer.

Genre: Memoir

Sub-genre: Women in History / Military Leaders Biography

Language:English

Pages: 323

Paperback ISBN: 978-1442222007

Kindle ISBN: 978-1442222014

Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield

Format: Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle, Audiobook

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Amazon → https://www.amazon.com/Fighter-Pilots-Daughter-Growing-Sixties/dp/144222200X

❤Author Interview: Nicholas Teeguarden, Author of 'The Copper Scroll' #authorinterview

Nicholas Teeguarden is the award-winning author of Masa Chronicles: The Copper Scroll, a biblical-archaeological thriller blending international suspense, ancient mystery, and faith-driven storytelling. His debut novel is a ChristLit Book of the Year Finalist, a Titan Gold Medal Winner, and has earned praise from readers for its gripping pace and moral depth. Nicholas hosts Teeguarden’s Writing Room, a weekly series chronicling his creative process and the ongoing development of the Masa Chronicles. He resides in Oklahoma and is currently working on the next book.

╰┈➤Visit Nick’s website at www.nickteeguarden.com.

Connect with him at the following social networks:

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╰┈➤ BookBub: The Copper Scroll: Masa Chronicles (The Masa Chronicles Book 1) by Nicholas Teeguarden – BookBub

╰┈➤ Goodreads: Masa Chronicles: The Copper Scroll by Nicholas Teeguarden | Goodreads

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I am so excited about your new archaeological thriller, The Copper Scroll. Why did you choose to write a book for this genre in particular?

I’ve always loved Indiana Jones–style adventures and grew up on stories about lost artifacts, ancient sites, and ordinary people pulled into something much bigger than themselves. Writing an archaeological thriller let me play in that same sandbox and, honestly, I set out to tell the kind of story that would entertain me first, if I’m having fun on the page, there’s a good chance readers will too.

Can you give us a book blurb so others will know what it’s about?

Joshua “Masa” Bennett, an Army veteran and archaeology grad student, travels from Arkansas to Jordan to study the most mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Copper Scroll, a cryptic list of buried treasure.

What begins as academic research spirals into a high‑stakes chase from Qumran to Masada to Capernaum, as Joshua and his team uncover artifacts that shed new light on Jesus through the eyes of the disciple Andrew, while ISIS, modern Templars, Mossad, and church power brokers compete to control or erase the truth.

Can you tell us a little about the main characters in your book?

Joshua “Masa” Bennett is driven by faith, trauma from his Army years, and a lifelong fascination with the scrolls his grandfather told him about.

He’s joined by Noa, a sharp Israeli researcher who challenges him at every step, and Amina, a courageous Palestinian journalist; along with mentors like Father Nance and Rabbi Cohen, they’re forced into an uneasy alliance as the world closes in around their discoveries.

Where and when does this book take place?

The Copper Scroll is set in the present day, moving from the University of Arkansas to Amman, the Jordan Museum, and on through the Judean desert—Qumran, Masada, the Dead Sea, and Capernaum.

Those are the real landscapes of the Copper Scroll and the Dead Sea Scrolls, so using modern timelines and real sites lets the thriller feel like something that could happen tomorrow.

They say all books of fiction have at least one pivotal point where the reader just can’t put the book down. What is one of the pivotal points in one of your books in this series?

One major pivot comes when Joshua’s team finally uncovers artifacts tied to Andrew’s testimony about Jesus, and the implications begin leaking to the wider world.

From that point on, every choice they make—who to trust, what to reveal, what to hide—ratchets up the danger, because multiple powerful groups realize what’s at stake and move to silence them.

Does your book carry a message?

Yes, it does. I tried to weave real tension and real support between groups who, historically, would be on opposite sides—Israelis, Palestinians, Western Christians, local communities—because they all have skin in the game around these sites and stories. Underneath the thriller, there’s a quiet message that people who might normally be enemies can still work together when they share a like‑minded focus on truth, protecting lives, and honoring the past.

What's your next project?

Next is the release of my new novel, The Boy from the Vines, planned for next month. At the same time, I’m about halfway through book two of The Masa Chronicles, which follows Joshua into the fallout of The Copper Scroll and a new layer of historical intrigue.

Where can we pick up copies of 'The Copper Scroll'?

Readers can find The Copper Scroll here:

❤Author Interview: Tucker May, Author of 'The Lemon House Murders' #authorinterview

Thursday Book Spotlight: The Wars Between by Lee J. Mavin

5 BOOKS TO WATCH FOR IN MAY

Guest: The Inspiration Behind Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor #guest

The Inspiration Behind Fighter Pilot's Daughter by Mary Lawlor

★★★★★ ORDER YOUR COPY ★★★★★

Amazon → https://www.amazon.com/Fighter-Pilots-Daughter-Growing-Sixties/dp/144222200X

❤Author Interview: Nicholas Teeguarden, Author of 'The Copper Scroll' #authorinterview

❤Author Interview: Tucker May, Author of 'The Lemon House Murders' #authorinterview

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