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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 […]

Excerpt – The Gallantiers by Jim Bates

  Synopsis In the 27th century, ten-year-olds Sammy and Cal work digging tunnels beneath the streets of the underground city of Pierpoint. When two huge rats attack them, Sammy is wounded, but their boss refuses to give him any time off to heal. With a bleak future ahead of them and Sammy’s infected wounds getting […]

Excerpt – Thieving Shadows by Jessica Piro

  Synopsis Surviving in Rookfall depends on rank or thievery, and no one can be trusted. Genevieve is a master thief: one of the renowned Shadows, instilling fear into the elites. One night, an easy job to steal an automaton ends in confusion. Waking three years later in the presence of Matthew Tilcott, a lesser, […]

Historical Spotlight & Giveaway – Too Much the Lion by Preston Lewis

  TOO MUCH THE LION: A Novel of the Battle of Franklin By PRESTON LEWIS   Historical Fiction / Civil War Fiction Publisher: Bariso Press Pages: 395 Publication Date: May 13, 2025     Synopsis In the waning months of the American Civil War, a delusional Confederate commander makes a desperate attempt to change the […]

Excerpt – Smoke on the Wind by Kelli Estes

  Synopsis In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. […]