Synopsis Vesper Wright is in hell. The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, she comes home to find an invitation waiting on her doorstep from her estranged family to the wedding of Vesper’s cousin and childhood best friend, Rosemary, the one person she regrets losing touch with. Something inside […]
Category: 4 paws
Synopsis She’s just a girl. Standing in front of four rom-coms. Praying for death. Sophie Sweet is a game programmer who adores three things: writing code; Doritos Surprise, the one thing she can cook; and her ride-or-die BFF Jodie Edwards. And only those three. To Sophie, people are a lousy bunch of […]
Review – The Ripple Effect by Cally Jackson #romance #timetravel
September 16, 2023
Synopsis The Time Traveller’s Wife meets The Butterfly Effect in this touching, heart-felt love story. When Caitlyn Richter turns twenty-one, she begins having strange, unsettling episodes: pins and needles in her hands, a rushing noise in her ears, and a blinding light obscuring her vision. After a bad episode, Caitlyn finds herself somewhere different, with no idea […]
Review – Conversations with the Dead by Jim Bates #YA #magicalrealism
September 14, 2023
Synopsis Jasmine “Jazzy” Jaspers is a ten-year-old albino who lives with his mother, an obese telephone sex worker. When his mother dies, Jazzy is sent to live with his grandparents on their farm in southwestern Minnesota. At his mother’s funeral, he meets and befriends his first dead person, and it changes his […]
Review – A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean #newrelease #fiction
September 12, 2023
Synopsis From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world. Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend―a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years […]
Synopsis He ticks every one of her “never again” boxes… Jo Weaver loves her job as a boat mechanic for her family’s marina in River’s Edge, Indiana. But when she’s pulled away from her high school reunion with her sisters to fix a stranded yacht, she can’t restrain her irritation. Jo doesn’t […]
Synopsis What’s a woman to do? Bertie Patchet has just graduated from college in New Haven, Connecticut, to become a grammar school teacher. But the year is 1936, and the country is deep in the throes of The Great Depression. Securing employment is nearly impossible for everyone, let alone a […]
Synopsis GHOSTLY PASSAGE is the riveting paranormal mystery about a depot in the Underground Railroad, unexplained noises in a library with a room that hasn’t been used in over 150 years, book 2 in the JOANNA DAVIS MYSTERY series. GHOSTLY PASSAGE is the story of ghosts in a city’s library. The librarian […]
Synopsis Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators have long suspected him in the murders of six women. As his freedom approaches, Bailey gets a surprise visit from Maddison Logan, a hot, young influencer with a huge social media following. Hours later, Maddison disappears, […]
Review – Wolfsong by Kathryn Silver-Hajo #shortstories
August 23, 2023
Synopsis Through a series of flash narratives, Kathryn Silver-Hajo’s powerful debut story collection, Wolfsong, draws us irresistibly into the lives of a constellation of female characters. The girls and women of Wolfsong are by turns fierce, curious, playful, vulnerable, reflective and wise. Taken together, the stories form a compelling arc from […]