Synopsis When Defending the Homeland Means Defending Your Heart. Siberia 1581. When Umey, a young outcast woman, stumbles on a ravaged village, she uncovers a plot that threatens to devastate her beloved homeland. It’s furs—soft gold—the invading Cossacks crave, and the greediest of them is Yermak, the man […]
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Review & Excerpt – Man-Killer by Lawrence Kelter
January 28, 2024
Synopsis Gina Marie Cototi is a feisty Sicilian sparkplug, a Brooklyn-based PI with a fondness for family, friends, and one roguishly handsome Casanova named Rocco Benelli. Hey, nobody’s perfect. This headstrong sleuth drives a split-window ’63 Corvette coupe and never, I mean never, misses Sunday dinner with Ma, Dad, and her sister […]
Synopsis Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC forced into sexual slavery by a commander thirty-four years her […]
Review & Excerpt – Beyond Conviction by C.J. Watson
January 26, 2024
Synopsis Alien swarms. Ceaseless wars. Hive worlds, pirates and conflict without end. For hundreds of years, the Conviction has kept these threats at bay. So why now are its forces suddenly disappearing? Adroa is a bleak, backwater world on the edge of known civilisation, with every day a struggle to survive for […]
Excerpt – Haiku Seasons by Jim Bates
January 25, 2024
Synopsis Nature speaks to us in many ways. In this collection of haiku written over the course of one year, Jim Bates has chosen the 5-7-5 syllable format to share his feelings for the natural world. He hopes you enjoy them. After the snowstorm Winter’s soft gentle beauty Snow on evergreens. […]
Twinkle Twinkle Au Revoir: A Mermaid Bay Christmas Shoppe Mystery Cozy Mystery 2nd in Series Setting – Virginia Level Best Books (January 16, 2024) Paperback : 252 pages Synopsis Love is in the air when Hollywood arrives in Mermaid Bay, and the town may never be the […]
Guest Review, Excerpt & #Giveaway – HER: The Flame Tree by Khanh Ha
January 23, 2024
Synopsis If the fate of unrequited love survives fifty-one years, nine months, and four days in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, it leads the way for HER: The Flame Tree, a spare, remorseless love triptych that sweeps through the rich panorama of two generations of colonial […]
Guest Post & #Giveaway – A Bean to Die For by Tara Lush
January 22, 2024
A Bean to Die For (A Coffee Lover’s Mystery) Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting – Florida Publisher : Crooked Lane Books (January 9, 2024) Hardcover : 288 pages Synopsis Perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette, reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis is back […]
Guest Post & #Giveway – Deadly to the Core by Joyce Tremel
January 21, 2024
Deadly to the Core (A Cider House Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Crooked Lane Books (January 16, 2024) Hardcover : 250 pages Synopsis Perfect for fans of Amanda Flower and Julie Anne Lindsey, when Kate Mulligan inherits her great uncle’s fruit orchard, she […]
Review – Valley Verified by Zyla Zhao
January 20, 2024
Synopsis On paper, Zoe Zeng has made it in New York’s fashion world as a fashion columnist at Chic. But life in New York City isn’t as chic as Zoe imagined. Then one day, Zoe receives a job offer at FitPick, an app startup based in Silicon Valley. With her current career […]