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Excerpt – Frost on the Bloom by Sally Handley

  Synopsis In Frost on the Bloom, the second book in the Holly & Ivy mystery series, one of Holly’s former students, Becky Powell, asks the look-alike sisters for help when they all spend Christmas at Skyview Manor, and Becky becomes the prime suspect in the attempted murder of her manipulative grandmother, Lyla Powell. Once […]

Excerpt – The Dream Lives On by Valeriya Goffe

  Synopsis When the war starts in Ukraine, a finance professor Viktor Yurchenko decides to flee to the US together with his elderly mother and three young kids (his wife passed away). They miraculously escape out of their small town, Irpin’, under the raining Russian missiles and through the improvised bridge across the freezing river. […]

Excerpt – They Ain’t Gonna Get Any Deader by Greg Dorchak

  Synopsis THEY AIN’T GONNA GET ANY DEADER is a collection of humorous personal essays drawn from the author’s high school, college, and young adult years. It offers vivid storytelling capturing the essence of coming of age in high school and college, as well as figuring out adulting. Whether it is getting hired and fired […]

Review & Giveaway – Vanishing Into the 100% Dark by Amber Royer

    VANISHING INTO THE 100% DARK By Amber Royer   Cozy Mystery Publisher: Golden Tip Press Pages: 288 Publication Date: March 4, 2025   Synopsis Bean to chocolate maker Felicity Koerber has been invited to be part of a chocolate festival in Tokyo. It’s a big deal for a Texas gal with a chocolate […]

Excerpt – North Country by Sarah Branson

    Synopsis Four women, each with a secret. None will return from the North Country unchanged. North Country takes place in the year 2372, a time when Earth is recovering from floods, fires, pandemics, and war. Amidst this post-apocalyptic world, the pirate nation of Bosch is thriving—but not without its complications. The focus is […]

Excerpt – Scandalous in Huntington Beach by Melody DeBlois

    Synopsis Bennett Browning has spent his life planning for success, but nothing prepares him for fatherhood—especially when he learns of his daughter’s existence only after his ex’s tragic passing. A politician on the rise, Bennett’s carefully curated life is thrown into chaos as he struggles to care for an infant he never knew […]

Trilogy Spotlight & Excerpt – Riftsiders series by Paul DeStefano

  Synopsis The lead couple meets at a support group for the possessed. Enrique Marin wants a quiet life after the death of his wife. Just one problem stands in the way—he’s possessed by the misanthropic English demon, Tzazin. A violent night under demonic influence accidentally leads Enrique to love, and it’s anything but quiet. […]

New Release – The Secret History of Audrey James by Heather Marshall

  Synopsis An astonishing historical novel of one woman’s dangerous journey through World War II Germany and her life-changing friendship with a young woman decades later—from the #1 international bestselling author of Looking for Jane Northern England, 2010. After a tragic accident upends her life, Kate Mercer leaves London to work at an old guest house […]

Review & Giveaway – Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine

  Synopsis A young girl must face a life-altering decision after awakening her sister’s ghost, navigating truths about love, friendship, and power as the Civil War looms. Sixteen years old and enslaved since she was born, Junie has spent her life on Bellereine Plantation in Alabama, cooking and cleaning alongside her family, and tending to […]

Excerpt – The Pythagorean by Alexander Morpheigh

  Synopsis The protagonist, a young man named Theodore, is about 36 years old and resides in Athens. Following a car accident, he finds himself in the body of a young man from Ancient Greece who attempted suicide. Confused about his whereabouts, Theodore sets out to find people and seeks guidance from the Delphic Oracle […]