JoAnn Smith Ainsworth

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JoAnn Smith Ainsworth experienced food ration books, Victory Gardens, and black-out sirens as a child in WWII. These memories create vivid descriptions of time and place in her award winning paranormal suspense series which puts you in the midst of a fast-paced journey through paranormal realms as U.S. psychics hunt down Nazi spies. Ms. Ainsworth lives in California. She has B.A. and M.A.T. degrees in English and has completed her M.B.A. studies. She has published eight novels. To learn more about this award winning author, visit https://www.joannsmithainsworth.com.

 


Crystal ball reader Isadora Turgenev wants to prove she's up to the leadership responsibility of keeping Philadelphia staff safe from Hitler's occult attacks until their team leader can return from special assignment in D.C., but a Nazi spy murdered and assumed the identity of the temp secretary that D.C. had assigned to fill the gap. The spy's mission is to steal an ancient book of spells coveted by Hitler, named The Book of Cures, but her obsession is to avenge her spy lover's disappearance by consuming the U.S. facility and all who live in it in paranormally induced flames.

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Expect Betrayal - Operation Delphi, Volume 3

JoAnn Smith Ainsworth

Historical Fiction

978-1393579403

4 stars

 

The adventures of Lt. Livvy Delacourt continue in this third segment in the series of the top secret Operation Delphi team of talented psychics that search for Nazi spies. Together with her superior officer and childhood friend, Cmdr. Barrington Drew, III, Trey to his friends, Livvy embarks on top secret mission to secure the Book of Cures, a family collection of hundreds of years of occult writings for protections against malicious spells before the Nazi can find it.

The premise of this series is unique and captures the epitome of wartime 1943. Hitler’s fascination with the occult and America’s answer with the Delphi team is a good mix of believability and imagination.  While I find some scenes ramble a bit and am not a fan of two-page chapters, the storyline did keep me reading.

Expect Betrayal - Operation Delphi, Volume 3 is an interesting read. The twists and turns of the plot will keep fans of soft thrillers drawn in.

U.S. WAVES Lt. Olivia “Livvy” Delacourt is searching war torn Great Britain for her family grimoire, an ancient book of protection spells. Inherited clairvoyant gifts would allow Livvy to use these spells to defend her Philadelphia headquarters from the relentless paranormal attacks hurled by Hitler’s cadre of sorcerers. At her side is Naval Commander Trey Drew. Trey’s mission is to keep safe his lead psychic and the book, but growing feelings for her may be distracting him. With Livvy’s paranormal talents and Trey’s practicality, the duo has proven a powerful team in fighting magical threats, but can they rescue the grimoire and protect each other from the most nefarious opponents they have ever faced?


Expect Deception: An Operation Delphi Novel
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
She Writes Press
Paperback
978-1631520600
****1/2


     Operation Delphi, the covert, gifted, and psychic occult team for the U.S. has been assigned to search for Nazi spies along the East Coast. Livvy, Lt. Olivia Delacourt was at Hamilton House with the rest of the crew honing their skills. She and her team successfully planted a psychic command to Trey, Cdr. Barrington Drew.
     Learning that they wouldn’t get credit for catching the spies from their first case, the group was slightly mollified when they were given tickets to the local USO magic show. Trey and Livvy sat next to each other, both recognized the wizard, Deryk Fergus, who had wanted to join their covert group but had been denied entry. Livvy realized the man was using psychic powers to hypnotize the group and audience. She may have protected her small group temporarily but the wizard was determined. He was not giving up…
     Ainsworth has penned a riveting story full of mysticism, intrigue, and nail-biting suspense. Expect Deception takes the reader and doesn’t let go until the very last page.
Lauren Calder


 

U.S. WAVES Lieutenant Livvy Delacourt doesn't know just what to expect, but she knows to expect trouble. Finally free to use her clairvoyant powers when Uncle Sam recruits her to hunt down Nazi spies, she jumps in with both feet. Will this trail of trouble land her into the arms of the Grim Reaper?

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Ida Louise Osterbach survived Indian and range wars and the murder of her husband. She's kept the farm going through sheer grit and the help of her cousin, a friend and two farm hands. She's managed a profit, paid the mortgage and re-paid the crop loans. Hard working, focused, fiercely proprietary, the last thing she has time for is romance. Jared Buell—widower neighbor and wealthy rancher—was never particularly charitable when it came to farmers, even eye-catching ones like Ida. He's not looking to start trouble or anything else with her. His comfortable existence needs no complications, thank you very much. Then an old nemesis comes to town and threatens his and Ida's property. He has no choice but to get involved. Experience this action-packed romp through 1895 Wyoming where an outlaw schemes to take over the town and Ida and Jared find love when they least expect it.

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The Farmer and the Wood Nymph
JoAnn Smith Ainsworth
Whiskey Creek Press
Trade Paperback
978-1611606607
****

     Ernest Noland joined a posse in search of the outlaw who had shot his cousin Ida. Returning from the fight with the outlaw, Ernest and the posse came across a woman alone in the woods.
     Lilah had awakened injured by a fall, not knowing who she was, or how she had ended up alone in the wilderness. When the men from the posse found her, they searched for any clues that could tell them what happened to her.
     Waiting to hear back from the sheriff’s office, Ernest and Lilah became better acquainted. Knowing that his cousin would need help because of her injury, Ernest offered to hire Lilah to help around the house. The more he learned about Lilah, the more he convinced himself the she was out of his league.
      If you love westerns, this is the book for you. Great characters, great plot, and a story that will make you smile.
Lauren Calder

 


 

 

As a blind woman seen as a flawed commodity, Lady Lynnet is used to the idea that she's unlovable. But her parents' plan to force her into a loveless marriage is too much. Wandering, upset and lost in the cellars of the king's castle, the darkness doesn't frighten her, but the murder plot she overhears chills her to the bone. Worse, no one believes her, and the only one she can turn to is a Norman sheriff whose voice sounds disturbingly like one of the conspirators.

Basil, Sheriff of London, is battle-hardened, fiercely loyal—and torn apart. He's falling in love with the Saxon beauty, and he longs to show her she is worthy of love despite her physical limitation.

But the very corruption she is helping him root out may implicate his own half brother. How can he turn his back on family—for an Anglo-Saxon woman?

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At the time, pretending marriage to her middle-aged widower cousin seemed like the best way to escape a politically motivated betrothal to a brutal knight. Now, her journey toward a new life has landed her in hot water—she's been waylaid by a local Norman baron who's mistaken her for a real bride. And he demands First Night rights.

Hot water turns to steam in a scalding night of passion…passion she has never known. And now must live without.

Lord Geoffrey is entranced at first sight of the Anglo-Saxon beauty and finds that one night in her arms is not nearly enough. But all he can offer the low-born Matilda is a life in the shadows—as his mistress.

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