Category: 5 paws

Review – Impossible Choices by Lara Martin

  Synopsis Romancing the Stone meets The Mountain Between Us in an enemies to lovers, grumpy sunshine romantic adventure set in the mountains of Nepal. After losing his fiancée in a tragedy he can neither forgive nor forget, Luke Caldwell has spent years turning grief into vengeance. Now the hunter has become the hunted, forced […]

Review – The Truth Lies at the Edge by Melissa Roos

  Synopsis Lexi’s spent years surviving—two jobs, mounting bills, a one-room apartment —and love isn’t even an option. Until Collin W. Radcliff walks in. He’s powerful, charming, and impossibly out of her league — a man who could have anyone, yet somehow wants her. One glance. One choice. Collin might be her chance at a […]

Review & Giveaway – The Wedding Week by Aisha Saeed

  Synopsis Long-buried secrets resurface when a woman returns home for her sister’s lavish resort wedding in the Everglades, where gossiping aunties and Burmese pythons aren’t the only threats, in this suspense novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Matchmaker. It’s been three years since Hena Mirza saw her family. Three years since her fiancé […]

Review & Giveaway – The Long Way Home by Renee Curtis

  Synopsis Cody Lynch spent 18 years serving in covert military roles, living a life built on movement, discipline, and the constant reality that he could be deployed at a moment’s notice. Serious relationships were something he admired from afar but never allowed himself to have. After an op goes bad and he’s medically discharged, […]

Review & Giveaway – Feels Like the First Time by Kimberly Packard

  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 […]

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 […]

Review & Giveaway – Dawn Before Darkness by Liz Lazarus

  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 […]