Cozy Up to a New Mystery Today

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Join The Next Generation of Cozy Mystery Lovers In college, for one glorious year, I worked at the library. It was the best job I ever had, and sometimes I regret I didn’t become a librarian. I don’t know how it works where you live, …

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Cozy up to the Devil in a Tank Top

A Saxee Contemporary Mystery Romance Rating 4 out of 5 stars ***Slight Spoilers Ahead**** The Devil Drinks Coffee and Wears Tank Tops. The Devil in Branson Falls is most definitely Kate Saxee, even if someone else is running around killing people and she’s the one …

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Fall Tidings of Mental Health

How Jessica Darling Helped Me Feel Sane For most of my life, the first hints of cold weather have been a balm to my heat weary soul. Living in the deep South means a lot of things, but the weather being hotter than Hades most …

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Help Fight Censorship: Pick Up a Banned Book

Banned Books Week 2020 Banned Books Week (September 27 – October 3) is something I anticipate every year. I’ll never forget my middle school self being assigned a persuasive speech. I’d recently been whipped up into a frenzy by the scenes of book burning in Ray Bradbury’s …

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Hello, it’s me!

Hey, y’all. I’m Amorina Leigh Carlton. I write Southern Fiction with a Twist. I was born and raised in the rural Deep South, until I moved to NOLA with my husband a few years back, where we live with our toddler and our two pups. …

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