Friday, August 7, 2026

Book Blitz: The Baal of Shangisha by O Mez @RABTBookTours

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Middle-grade fantasy Adventure, fantasy

Date Published: January 6, 2026

Publisher: MindStir Media

One boy. One impossible dream. One journey that could change his world forever.

When a mysterious force hurls young Chetanna into the home of an enigmatic old bird, he arrives carrying an extraordinary dream: to bring peace to the wicked and divided world around him.

Even Chetanna is unsure such peace is possible.

But when his mother tells him of a distant land of possibilities—a place where hidden answers may be found—Chetanna finally sees a path forward. As darkness spreads across the island he calls home, he begins a dangerous quest armed with only a slingshot, a mysterious name whispered by his mother, and the ancient power of the Eight.

Chetanna believes that courage, hope, and determination will be enough to complete his mission.

He is wrong.

Halfway through the journey, betrayal changes everything. The companions he trusted most abandon him, convinced that the quest is doomed. Left for dead and stranded in an unforgiving wilderness, Chetanna loses nearly everything he depended upon.

He should turn back.

He should surrender.

Instead, he holds tightly to the one thing no enemy can take from him: his dream of creating a better world.

Driven by resilience, courage, kindness, and an unshakable belief in what might still be possible, Chetanna presses forward. But when he finally reaches the legendary land he has risked everything to find, a devastating truth awaits—one powerful enough to destroy his mission and shatter everything he believes.

The Baal of Shangisha is a lyrical middle-grade fantasy adventure filled with mystery, ancient power, dangerous choices, unexpected betrayal, and unforgettable lessons about hope, sacrifice, selflessness, and perseverance.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• Courageous young heroes and epic quests

• Magical lands inspired by rich cultural traditions

• Fantasy adventures filled with danger and discovery

• Stories about friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness

• Meaningful lessons about resilience, love, kindness, and hope

• Young characters who discover that even the smallest voice can inspire extraordinary change

Blending atmospheric storytelling, African cultural echoes, and timeless themes, O. Mez delivers a powerful debut novel for young readers who believe that courage is not the absence of fear—but the decision to keep moving forward.

How far would you go to save your world when everyone else has stopped believing?

Begin Chetanna’s unforgettable journey in The Baal of Shangisha today.

About the Author

O. Mez is a Nigerian-born author whose storytelling is shaped by the rich oral traditions, cultural rhythms, and imaginative tales that surrounded him while growing up. Inspired by stories passed down through generations, he writes lyrical, atmospheric fantasy that explores courage, resilience, hope, and the quiet strength of those who dare to believe in a better world.

Now based in Colorado, Mez brings together African cultural echoes, timeless life lessons, and immersive fantasy adventure to create meaningful stories for young readers. His debut middle-grade fantasy novel, The Baal of Shangisha, follows a young hero on a dangerous quest filled with mystery, betrayal, ancient power, and the unshakable determination to change his world.

Through his writing, Mez hopes to encourage children to embrace kindness, perseverance, selflessness, and the belief that even the smallest voice can make a lasting difference.

When he is not writing, he enjoys watching football, spending time with his wife and daughters, and reading stories about forgotten lands, brave souls, and extraordinary journeys.

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Teaser: Turtle Lake: The Wild Card Syndrome by Bob Milne @RABTBookTours

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Crime Thriller / Suspense

Date Published: 09-07-2026

Publisher: Mission Point Press

Turtle Lake is a gripping tale of revenge, survival, and the intricate interplay between human nature and the natural world. The story follows Jim Peters, the comptroller at Ramsey Motors, who uncovers a corrupt scheme by the company and its insurer, U.S. Underwriters, to defraud employees of their retirement and insurance benefits before moving operations overseas. Infuriated, he devises an elaborate extortion plan to expose their corruption and protect the employees through a spectacular plot that ends up achieving national headlines. To accomplish his plan, Peters uses simple, everyday methods and lessons learned from alpha predators in the natural world.

Excerpt

Life is a dangerous place to be. The woods, skies, lakes, and oceans are filled with creatures bent on killing and eating each other. Nothing in nature dies of old age, as the adage goes.

Prey animals are taken down by predators. It’s as if prey animals are made to be food.

Carnivore predators possess razor-sharp canine-like teeth. Carnivores are the watchers from the shadows. All of them, such as lions, tigers, bobcats, and wolves, are wired the same way. They don’t eat lettuce for lunch. To a carnivore, you simply look like another rabbit in the grass.

There’s another carnivore that is often overlooked – humans. Humans have canine teeth. They are born wired with the same instincts as the alpha predators.

We’re taught to control it. Supposedly.

Birds will tell you when the sun is going to come up. At the faintest glimmer of dawn's early light, they begin to converse with each other, presumably to find out where the bugs are that day. Usually, we don't hear them in their earliness. Our day starts later. Usually.

Frogs and insects do the same during the pre-dawn moments, buzzing and croaking in the woods, fields, and swamps. Presumably they do this to find out where the predators are. It's been said that frogs might be telling each other where the rattlesnakes and blue herons are at any given time. We don't usually hear them croaking away in the early hours of the day. Usually.

Today, however, as the woods came to life with this early morning serenade, Jim Peters could hear them very clearly. It was August of 1990. He was in his cabin in mid-Michigan, situated on the edge of a quiet, deep-woods nature refuge known as Turtle Lake. Peters was lyingin bed backwards, that is, with his feet at the head of the bed and his head at the foot of the bed, chin resting on his wrists as he looked at a model train set.

The train set, an ancient Lionel from the 1940s, included buildings, roads, bridges, cars, trucks, a shopping center, and a train running through it. The set looked ordinary enough to the casual passerby or rare visitor to the cabin. But in fact, it was window dressing, a model of the crime scene that was to come. The train had nothing to do with it.

In a short while, when the birds, frogs, and bugs had quieted down, Peters would push a button and Mozart's opera The Magic Flute would float from the speakers connected to his compact disc machine. Peters liked Mozart. The music was pure and uncluttered. It flowed from one section into another so smoothly that it was hard to tell a transition had taken place. The complexities of its composition flowed as smoothly as pouring oil.

As smoothly as the diabolical scam he was planning.

About the Author

Bob Milne has been hailed throughout his 60-year career as one of the best ragtime/boogie-woogie piano players of all time. A solo concert performer, he traveled all over the world playing for dignitaries and celebrities as well as small town audiences. He was given the title of National Treasure by the Library of Congress and deemed an Ambassador of Music by the U.S. Department of State.

Bob’s extraordinary musical abilities were the subject of numerous brain studies, which have inspired a popular RadioLab podcast.

Little did they know that Bob was also a talented writer.

For years he wrote articles about his saloon-playing days for music publications. Many of these stories were compiled into a book called The Journeyman Piano Player: Adventures in Gracious Dining. Bob has written reams of poetry, some of which became lyrics to songs that he composed. The longest piece of poetry he ever wrote was the lyric book for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a grand opera he composed and orchestrated.

Mr. Milne has been fascinated by nature his entire life. At a young age he realized that instincts are present in all species of birds, mammals (including humans), and literally every living thing in nature. He has used this information countless times over his lifetime to predict what the human species will do in future situations.

Bob is now retired from the long piano tours and is enjoying his woodland home. Today he spends his time studying nature in the woods. Signed copies of his book may be purchased through his website.

Contact Links

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Purchase Link

https://mybook.to/TurtleLake

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Review: Waltzing Into Love: Soulmate Registry (Fairy Tales With Fangs #15) by D. N. Leo @dnleostory

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Waltzing Into Love: Soulmate Registry

Fairy Tales With Fangs #14

by D. N. Leo

Published: July 29, 2026

Publisher: Narrative Land Publishing

Genre: Romance, Shifter Romance, Fated Mate Romance, Clean Romance, Paranormal Romance

Blurb:

Fated mates. Two cursed beasts. A Cinderella retelling and a Beauty and the Beast retelling, filed as one Soulmate Registry case — and one fairy godmother who swears she is not interfering.

Happy Novels by D.N. Leo • Fairy Tales With Fangs • Soulmate Registry

A sixpence. A signet ring. A well between worlds.

Two cases. Two beasts. Two women nobody thought needed saving — and two field agents who insist, at volume, that they require no help of any kind.

Case One — the Cinderella. The real one.
When a mouse named Buttonhole is handed one coin and three hours to stop a cursed slipper from erasing a prince, he improvises a donkey.
And when the curse comes back rewritten — aimed at Cinderella this time — Prince Alaric asks the fae who cursed him for one thing: give it to me instead. Leave her alone.

Case Two — Beauty and the Beast. (Yes. Two beasts. One book. The quota is met.)
Skye is a divine healer who has never once felt pain. She sneaks into a werewolf town for a single night to learn what mortals actually suffer — and doesn't expect the golden eyes in the treeline to belong to her fated mate.
Then three days of him end with her touch blistering his skin. A healer who cannot touch her own mate. An alpha who would rather burn than let go.

The Soulmate Registry has sealed fated bonds for eight centuries. Rosalind's agents are the best she has. They are also completely convinced they need no assistance whatsoever.

So she doesn't send help. She sends Vitrine — mirror specialist, one very old debt, one instruction: watch, and do not reach through the glass.

A Norwegian Forest Cat with eight centuries of dignity and no intention of admitting he feels things. A mouse in a signal-flag waistcoat. A shapeshifter who becomes a lamp post, a key, a tea cart, and a deeply mediocre person he dislikes intensely. A donkey who wants his knighthood in writing.

Two beasts. Two impossible bonds. Two guaranteed happy endings — and one fairy godmother who will deny all of it.

Perfect for readers who love: fated mates and fairy tale retellings, alpha werewolf shifter romance, cursed beast heroes, forced proximity, touch-her-and-die protectiveness, laugh-out-loud animal sidekicks, and a guaranteed HEA every single time.

Four connected novellas. Two complete romances. No cliffhangers.

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My Review:

Cinderella

Waltzing Into Love: Soulmate Registry, the fifteenth book in the Fairy Tales With Fangs series by D. N. Leo, brings us two captivating stories. The first is a unique Cinderella retelling split into two parts: The Sixpence in Her Shoe and A Shoe in the Garden. When a prince is cursed, Cashmere—a fifteen-pound Norwegian Forest cat—promises to help Alaric find a way to break it.

I absolutely loved reading Waltzing Into Love. What I enjoyed most was that the story is told from the points of view of Cashmere and Buttonhole. I was completely drawn into the narrative the exact moment Buttonhole made his first appearance.

Beauty and the Beast

The second story is a captivating Beauty and the Beast retelling centered on Skye, a healer cursed with the inability to touch her fated mate; if she does, he will blister painfully. Because Skye cannot feel physical pain herself, she sneaks into a werewolf town one night to learn what human sensation truly feels like. There, she unexpectedly crosses paths with the very mate she cannot touch.

Skye is accompanied by Pax, a fiercely devoted shapeshifter sidekick who can transform into whatever she needs at any given moment to ensure Skye's happiness. I loved watching these characters transition from desperate survival to a beautiful, unified bond once their fated connection takes over!

Between Skye's emotional journey and Pax's unwavering loyalty, this part of the book is an absolute must-read for any paranormal romance lover!

Waltzing Into Love

D. N. Leo’s Fairy Tales With Fangs series gets better and better with each installment. The more stories I read, the deeper I fall in love with this universe. Every time I finish a new book, it becomes my absolute favorite—until the next one comes along! Each story holds a truly special place in my heart in its own unique way.

I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves unique fairy tale retellings, witty animal sidekicks, and a great supernatural romance!