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New Release & Review – The Blue Horse by Bruce Borgos

  Synopsis A controversial wild horse round-up in the high desert of Nevada results in two murders and too many suspects for Sheriff Porter Beck to deal with. A helicopter driving a controversial round-up of wild horses suddenly crashes, and the pilot is found to have been shot. Then the person coordinating the round-up for […]

Interview with author E.L. Deards, Author of The Lavender Blade

  Synopsis Colton and Lucian, a young pair of exorcist con artists, use sleight of hand and their natural charm to scam the nation’s wealthiest…until one of them becomes possessed for real. Colton has to act quickly to learn the real tricks of his trade and exorcise the demon before Lucian’s soul is snuffed out […]

New Release – Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie

    Synopsis Alex Lyons always has his mind made up by the time the curtain comes down at a performance—the show either deserves a five-star rave or a one-star pan. Anything in between is meaningless. On the opening night of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, he doesn’t deliberate over the rating for Hayley Sinclair’s show, […]

Excerpt – The Big Dry by Patrick Dearen

  Synopsis In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t […]

Time Travel Spotlight – The Winding Road by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis Southeast Pennsylvania, November 1777. For Noah and Jake Maclean, the saga gets real. One year after the brothers entered a time portal and traded the computer age for the colonial age, they rush headlong into the American Revolution. Noah, 23, rides off to war. Against the wishes of his fiancée, Abigail Ward, he […]

New Release & Excerpt – Someone to Watch Over Me by Renee Curtis

  Synopsis In a world full of cameras and scripts, the most terrifying moments are happening off-screen. Nighttime soap actress Carmindy Welch is riding high. With a new TV series ready to launch and a glamorous press tour in New York City, her star has never burned brighter. Life is good. But the spotlight turns […]

New Release & Excerpt – Unspoken by Jann Alexander

  Synopsis A farm devastated. A dream destroyed. A family scattered. And one Texas girl determined to salvage the wreckage. Ruby Lee Becker can’t breathe. It’s 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Murder on the Books by T.C. Lotempio

    Murder on the Books (A Cozy Bookshop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025 Hardcover Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages Synopsis Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find […]

Review – Shadow of the Queen by Scott Finley

  Synopsis October, 1929. Murder books passage on the British luxury liner Queen Victoria, turning the ship’s nurse Maeve Chandler into an amateur sleuth apprenticing under the tutelage of mystery writer Agatha Christie. A passenger dies in full view of the first-class dining salon, followed by a millionaire, apparently leaping overboard a day before the […]

Review & Giveaway – Higher Love by Joanne Kukanza Easley

  Higher Love By Joanne Kukanza Easley   Women’s Literary Fiction Publisher: Red Boots Press Pages: 380 Publication Date: May 12, 2025     Synopsis Higher Love – the new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane, Just One Look, and I’ll Be Seeing You. In 1986 Austin, Texas, sixteen-year-old Stephanie […]