Release Day Blitz ~ The Duke Gets Even by Joanna Shupe
Friday’s Page 69 ~ Soul Lanterns by Shaw Kuzki

There are probably more mothers like Mrs. Koyama and me in this world than we can count, no distinguishing between enemies and allies; I’m sure that in America, in China, Korea, and Europe, there are mothers living their days the same way as me, breath by breath.
I’m just an uneducated woman, and I don’t know much, but even I know that somewhere in this world there is still fighting going on, and mothers are losing their precious children…
The reason I was looking up at the sky that night was because I was thinking that that same sky stretches over all those mothers.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Aggie Morton, Mystery Queen #2: Peril at Owl Park by Marthe Jocelyn, Isabelle Follath

My sister’s new home was named Owl Park, a manor house surrounded by gardens and woods that were possibly full of owls. Dotted among the gracious old trees were a gazebo and a maze and a pond where swans floated during the summer months. Marjorie’s new husband was ever so nice, even with being a lord. James was the sort of person who liked having extra children come for Christmas.
Not the sort of the person who would invite a murderer on purpose.