Category: 4 paws

Review & Excerpt – What Happens in Montana by Kim McCollum

    Synopsis   A ghost’s antics, a harrowing moose chase, a hypnosis session, and smuggled booze lead to spilled secrets and betrayal, but do they also lead to murder? At a hot springs retreat in Montana, whiskey-swigging Maude, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead […]

Recipe & #Giveaway – Ill-Fated Fortune by Jennifer J. Chow

            Ill-Fated Fortune: A Magical Fortune Cookie Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – California Minotaur Books (February 20, 2024) Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 320 pages   Synopsis   Jin grew up literally hanging onto Mom’s apron strings in their magical bakery in the quaint town of Pixie, […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Song That Never Ends by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Home. For over three hundred years, that’s what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Home. That’s the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the […]

Review – Meant for Me by Tay Marley

    Synopsis   Sometimes you have to run away to find yourself. Reeling from the sudden loss of her older sister―her only family―Addie May flees Los Angeles without a plan or a destination, and ends up in Georgetown, Texas. Lost and alone, she’s taken in by some kind local ranchers, and there she meets […]

Review & Excerpt – Man-Killer by Lawrence Kelter

    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 […]

Review & Excerpt – Beyond Conviction by C.J. Watson

    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 […]

Review – Wild Conviction by Mary Dezember

    Synopsis 1858. Magic and danger surround Twilight Wild Adams, but she doesn’t really notice—until her 16th birthday. Upon reading her special birthday letter filled with secrets from her beloved GrandMama—abolitionist and champion of a covert mystical sisterhood—everything changes. Opening her eyes, Twilight speaks out against slavery. But almost everyone around her wants her […]

Review – Stuck in Her Head by Kylie Wang and Liana Tang #YA

    Synopsis     15-year-old Emma Chan is an aspiring musician with her eyes aimed at the stars. Sure, she might not have won any notable competitions, but she isn’t “bad” by any means… unless you’ve met her easygoing and charming best friend, Naomi Lin, who seems to have the unique ability to accelerate […]

Review – A Living Hope by E. C. Jackson #inspirational #romance #excerpt #PUYB

        Synopsis   It was a match made in heaven. Or so everyone thought. Sadie Mae Cummings is all set to marry her childhood sweetheart, Kyle, when she is assigned to tutor Lincoln, the new college football running back. This sophomore phenomenon has all the girls on campus knocking on his door. […]