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Review – Painted Dreams by Darlene Deluca

  Synopsis Katlyn Andrews is a talented artist on her way to fulfilling a dream—her own show at a New York City gallery. Focused on her career, she’s ditched her hometown of Denver for the bright lights of the Big Apple. When she’s drawn back to check on her beloved grandmother, she finds a surprise—Nick […]

Review & Giveaway – The Bulls of Bashan by Jodi Lea Stewart

    THE BULLS OF BASHAN By Jodi Lea Stewart   Historical Fiction, Mystery, Action and Adventure, Quest Fiction Publisher: Progressive Phoenix Rising Publication Date: June 17, 2025     Synopsis In a diner on the edge of a dusty Texas border town, a young waitress’s life takes an unexpected turn when she is swept […]

Spotlight – Have You Seen Him by Kimberly Lee

  Synopsis For David Byrdsong, life is a series of daily obligations. An attorney, he lacks both ambition and the ability to commit to a long-term relationship with his girlfriend, Gayle. Abandoned by his family at an airport when he was eleven, he learned to blunt his feelings, despite his subsequent adoption by a loving […]

Excerpt – Risky Assets by Rachael Eckles

  Synopsis Risky Assets, the sequel to Trading Secrets in Eckles’s series featuring financier Celeste Donovan, is brimming with mystery and failed alliances. Celeste appears to have everything a modern woman dreams of—a doting fiancé, a penthouse apartment, and a supermodel’s physique with a mathematician’s mind. But all that glitters is not gold. A high-powered […]

Spotlight – What the River Keeps by Cheryl Grey Bostrom

    Synopsis Reclusive biologist Hildy Nybo returns to her childhood home on Washington’s Elwha River, where she untangles her mysterious past. Hildy Nybo is a successful biologist, her study of the Pacific Northwest’s wild fish both a passion and a career. But behind her professional brilliance, Hildy’s reclusive private life reflects a childhood fraught […]

Review – Let’s Split Up by Bill Wood

  Synopsis A heart-pounding thriller tailor-made for the YA BookTokers! It’s Scream meets Scooby-Doo in this electrifying horror. When the town’s “it-couple,” Brad and Shelley, are found brutally murdered in a secluded manor, a brave group of teen friends takes on the mystery. Set in 2001, Sanera, California, a small, quiet community where nothing ever happens, the shocking […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – Fighter Pilot’s Daughter by Mary Lawlor

    Synopsis FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family. Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more than a dozen times to posts from Miami to California to Germany as the government demanded. […]

Review – Bees in June by Elizabeth Bass Parman

  Synopsis Set against the optimism and excitement of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969, a feat many said was impossible, one woman struggles to achieve something she thinks is impossible–living a happy and fulfilling life. Rennie King’s world isn’t at all what she expected when she married the hotshot baseball player […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Murder Most Eastern by Nellie H. Steele

    Murder Most Eastern (Great Maine Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Maine Publisher ‏ : ‎ A Novel Idea Publishing, LLC Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages Synopsis A seaside Victorian. A skeptical artist. A cat with secrets. And a murder that […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Murder at Leisure Dreams – Galapagos by Sharon Marchisello

    Murder at Leisure Dreams: Galapagos (Giovanna Rogers Mysteries) Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Galapagos Publisher ‏ : ‎ Milford House Press Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 26, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 340 pages Synopsis Giovanna Rogers restarts her career as expatriate manager of the new Leisure Dreams resort hotel […]