Category: Book Release

Guest Post & New Release – Massawa by Pam Webber

  Synopsis For fans of novels featuring strong, smart female protagonists, the first in a series about the novice female American spies in North Africa and the Mediterranean that changed the tide of World War II. In 1942, during the height of World War II, Wild Bill Donovan, the director of the United States’ first […]

New Release & Interview – A Treason of Magic by Melissa Marr

  Synopsis In a world where magic, desire, and duty collide, it is beauty who is fated to kill the beast in a lush historical fantasy of secrets and star-crossed love by New York Times bestselling author Melissa Marr. Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary burdens. Yet bound by a monstrous threat to […]

Review & Excerpt – Love on the Shelf by Sheila Roberts

    Synopsis The battle lines are drawn—between a romance-loving bookseller and the shock jock determined to tear happily-ever-afters apart. Alice Willoughby and her mom run HEA Books, a cozy shop devoted to love stories and the people who crave them. Alice is great at matching customers with their perfect happily-ever-after…she just can’t seem to […]

Excerpt – Dear Missing Friend by Susan McGuirk

  Synopsis One Woman. Two Men. One Dream. It’s 1845, and Catherine McGuirk has left Ireland and a shipboard proposal behind, determined to forge a new life in America. Amid the bustling height of the whaling era, she marries a dashing sailor who vows to give up life on the sea. But when he vanishes […]

New Release – The Emilys by Heather Abel

  Synopsis A mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities in a changing world. “And if we weren’t afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?” Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom by Talya Jankovits

    Synopsis In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and motherhood. So, when Etty Greenberger, a headstrong redhead and the only child of Holocaust survivors, commits […]

Guest Post – Like Snow Before Sun by Marianne Rabalais Sulser

  Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES Which will you sacrifice—the father that raised you, or the nation you adore? Acadia, 1755. Jeanne LeJeune has always lived between worlds—the fierce daughter of a French merchant and a Mi’kmaw woman, she is torn between the quiet rhythms of village life and the wild heartbeats of her mother’s […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Death of a Proper Bostonian by Anne Louise Bannion

    Death of a Proper Bostonian (Old Los Angeles) Historical Mystery 6th in Series Setting – Boston, 1873 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Healcroft House, Publishers Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2026 Synopsis A deadly homecoming It’s August 1873, and at long last, physician and winemaker Maddie Franklin Wilcox makes the journey home […]

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, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

  Synopsis A few days before Thanksgiving, Sailor Cassidy is running an amateur stakeout she has no business conducting. She’s nursing a bad breakup, following a plan that’s half-baked in more ways than one, and reckless enough not to care. What could go wrong? Across town, Officer Tuscaloosa “Tusk” Knight is working an off-the-books job […]