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Firebug

September 18, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Blog Tour and Giveaway – Firebug by Lish McBride

We are so pleased to be a stop on Lish McBride’s Blog Tour for her upcoming novel Firebug! In case you missed it, you can read my review of it here. (OMG, you guys, dream. come. true.) Firebug will be available next Tuesday, September 23! Lish joins us today to answer some very silly and […]

July 3, 2014 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Book Review (and swag giveaway): Firebug by Lish McBride

Author Lish McBride returns to the world established in Hold Me Closer, Necromancer and continued in Necromancing the Stone, with the story of Ava, a teenage girl who can set fires with her mind. As a ‘firebug,’ Ava is a valuable asset to her local supernatural group of thugs, the ‘Coterie,’ to whom she is […]

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