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Review – The Language of Birds by K. A. Merson

  Synopsis A brilliant, eccentric teenager must solve a series of puzzles left behind by her dead father in this debut that features codes, riddles, and a plot that ingeniously mixes fact and fiction. When seventeen-year-old Arizona’s mother goes missing on a family trip, Arizona tells herself not to worry. Until she finds her family’s […]

Excerpt – Kid Comet and the Sixth Grade Shadow by Christopher Bodmann

  Synopsis Superpowers don’t always solve your super problems. The hardest part about being a superhero isn’t the punches, the powers, or even the secret identity. It’s getting back up when everything tells you to stay down. Josh Jacobs, Jr. wasn’t looking for trouble—he’s had enough of that already. New town, new school, and after […]

New Release & Giveaway – Bracing the Storm by J.C. Reed

    Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author J.C. Reed comes Bracing The Storm, a small-town, enemy-to-lovers romance. The guy I just met at the mansion I inherited from a complete stranger? He’s drop-dead gorgeous. Sexy. And rude with a Capital R. Turns out he’s not the hot gardener as I wrongly assumed. He’s not only a […]

Review – Cupid on the Loose by John J. Jacobson

  Synopsis From the author of All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone and California Fever comes a romantic comedy about the exuberant intoxication of amore and its often hilarious antics. Aspiring author Billy Spiers tends to fall passionately in love, but soon, finding something missing, fall quickly out again. His grandmother, who raised him, thinks he […]

Excerpt – An Artist’s Life by Carlton Davis

    Visual Voices Journal An Artist’s Life by Carlton Davis presents a chronicle of 50 years of artistic self-examination through 27 self-portraits. Designed as both a memoir and visual archive, the book explores the intersections of mental illness, creativity, and identity through Davis’s lens as an artist, architect, and writer. The narrative spans decades of […]

Review – The Murder Show by Matt Goldman

  Synopsis The Murder Show is a pulse-racing novel about secrets, old friends, and how the past never leaves us by New York Times bestselling and Emmy Award winning author Matt Goldman! Showrunner Ethan Harris had a hit with The Murder Show, a television crime drama that features a private detective who solves cases the police can’t. But […]

Excerpt – All the Perfect Days by Michael Thompson

  Synopsis Family doctor Charlie Knight is in his late thirties, still playing tennis against the same people every Friday night. Still jogging the same streets every morning. Still treating the same patients every day—fixing the high blood pressure and arthritic knees of folks who’ve known him since he was a kid. But Charlie has […]

Review – The Samaritan’s Patient by Chevron Ross

  Synopsis Paige Abernathy was once the epitome of high school perfection—beautiful, popular, and deeply in love with Lucas, the most sought-after boy at Alverna High. But everything changes when her mother forbids her from seeing him, and Paige’s world takes a devastating turn. After a website she creates inadvertently sparks a wave of teenage […]

Review – The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall

  Synopsis An astonishing historical novel of one woman’s dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later—from the #1 international bestselling author of Looking for Jane Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house […]

New Release – Eliza, From Scratch by Sophia Lee

  Synopsis Deliciously awkward moments, relatable characters, and a romance that grows in the most unexpected way. Eliza Park’s senior year is set to be perfect: she’s on track to be salutatorian, give an emotional graduation speech, and enjoy her last year with her ambitious friends. But a scheduling mix-up lands her in Culinary Arts, […]