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Excerpt – Dreamers by James Bates

    Synopsis Overlapping memories, overlapping lives, wide open spaces, and soft but sometimes heart-breaking reminiscences, with the mighty Mississippi running through it all — let Jim Bates take you on rich, human, intertwining journeys into a landscape of souls where you can glimpse beauty and peace, longing and contentment, the burden of past decisions […]

Review & Excerpt – The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang

    Synopsis   A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, […]

Mystery New Release – Off the Air by Christina Estes

    Synopsis   Equal parts thought-provoking and entertaining, Emmy Award winning reporter Christina Estes introduces Jolene Garcia in her Tony Hillerman Prize winning debut, Off the Air . Jolene Garcia is a local TV reporter in Phoenix, Arizona, splitting her time between covering general assignments―anything from a monsoon storm to a newborn giraffe at […]

Excerpt – The Phantom Enforcer by J.W. Jarvis

    Synopsis   A supernatural journal. Two kids in over their heads. Can they lead a new Chicago police officer to success in the dangerous south side of the city? Danielle and Noah’s curiosity gets the best of them when they find another magical diary about an officer’s second year in the country’s second-largest […]

Review – How To Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin

    Synopsis For fans of Knives Out and The Thursday Murder Club , an enormously fun mystery about a woman who spends her entire life trying to prevent her foretold murder only to be proven right sixty years later, when she is found dead in her sprawling country estate… Now it’s up to her […]

Review – The Taekwonderoos: Rescue at Rattling Ridge by Michael Panzner

    Synopsis   Come Join the Adventure! Hop into an action-packed adventure with George, Brianna and Jackson, kangaroo friends who are masters of taekwondo. When they spot a frightened joey trapped at the top of treacherous Rattling Ridge, the three Taekwonderoos spring into action, using their kicking, jumping and spinning skills to navigate cliffs, […]

Excerpt – Cheater by Karen Rose

    Synopsis   A shocking murder leaves an affluent retirement community reeling in this riveting, high-stakes second installment of the San Diego Case Files, from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. Death is not an unfamiliar visitor to Shady Oaks Retirement Village, which provides San Diego with premier elderly support from independent retiree housing […]

Review & #Giveaway – To Rescue a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

      TO RESCUE A WITCH   by   Lisa A. Traugott     Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure / Witch Trials Page Count: 398 pages Publication Date: March 1, 2024         It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft must be defended by a man married to an actual […]

Excerpt – The Phantom Firefighter by J.W. Jarvis

    Synopsis   A supernatural journal. An overwhelmed kid. Can he lead a crew of first responders to success in a series of dangerous missions? Noah loves his nighttime reading ritual with his dad. Stuck in a small new town after the pandemic caused his parents’ marriage to fracture, the curious thirteen-year-old happily explores […]

Review – Captive by Cally Jackson

    Synopsis   How do you escape a man who believes he owns you? Sophie Steele’s life is ruled by fear. Her husband, Ben Steele, tracks her phone, her bank accounts, her every move. His position as part-owner of a successful surveillance and investigations company gives full rein to his controlling instincts. When Ben […]