Feels Like the First Time By Kimberly Packard Romance / Time-Slip / RomCom Publisher: Abalos Publishing Publication Date: June 16, 2026 Synopsis Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally? College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a […]
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Review & Excerpt – Lead Me Home by Catherine Bybee
Synopsis When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, […]
Review – Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack
Synopsis On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there’s […]
Review & Giveaway – On the Bayou by Sean Bridges
On the Bayou By Sean Bridges Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: 25 May 2026 Synopsis A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do […]
Review – A Thousand Cuts by Gregory Poirier
Synopsis Meet Max Starkey—disgraced CIA operative turned underworld fixer—whose past loves, rivals, and indiscretions close in on him in the jungles of Southeast Asia. Seven years after a CIA mission in Laos went sideways, Max lives in the gray spaces between criminals and justice, recovering stolen goods for villains who don’t ask questions. But […]
Synopsis Dawn Smith, a veterinary tech living in rural South Carolina, catches her boyfriend in a series of lies and abruptly ends the relationship. Rather than accepting the break-up, he begins to stalk and harass her, forcing Dawn to seek a restraining order. Undeterred, he launches a deeply personal attack—suing for guardianship and conservatorship […]
Synopsis He promised to help her reclaim the memories she lost—no matter what they found. Until she remembered another man. Cornwall, 1913 For three years, Merryn has lived without a past—no family, no history, no home that’s truly hers. When the threat of being locked away for her own “protection” looms, she takes a […]
Review – The Route 9 Stalker by Kelli A. Wilkins
Synopsis It started with a body in the woods — and turned into a hunt for a deranged stalker. Late one evening, Megan Graystone enters a police station and reports that she witnessed a man dumping a woman’s body in the woods. But with no concrete proof and no sign of foul play, […]
Review – A Friend for Hope by Amie White
Synopsis Nine-year-old Zoe Meadows is the new kid in Ivy Creek. For homeschooled Zoe, every day starts the same: breakfast, then to the living room where Miss Ellis awaits. Only today, Zoe can’t focus—not when she notices neighborhood children playing outside, children she’s yet to meet. Watching all this unfold, Zoe’s parents decide it’s […]
Synopsis Crime writer Olivia Cruz is drawn into the dark secrets of a missing friend in a terrifying novel of suspense by #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh. On the three-year anniversary of true crime writer Olivia Cruz’s horrific kidnapping, she’s scheduled to walk her podcaster friend Zoe March through the crime scene, but […]