Category: Book Release

Guest Post & Giveaway – Crime Quiz by TJ Stanley

      Crime Quiz: Cosy Mystery on a Cruise Cosy (Cozy) Mystery Setting – On a cruise from Sydney to Hobart in Australia Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stanley Press Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2025 Paperback Print length ‏ : ‎ 198 pages Synopsis Molly should be on her honeymoon, but her […]

Excerpt – Forever Cowboy by Nan Reinhardt

  Synopsis It was supposed to be just a vacation fling… 43-year-old Beth Dykeman’s life is spiraling—her 20-year marriage is over as is her career in Nashville’s Chamber of Commerce. Now back home in River’s Edge, Indiana, she’s grieving the end of her dream to have a family. Hoping to restart her life, she books a relaxing […]

New Release – Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby

  Synopsis Seoul, present day. Antiques dealer Alys’s task is nearly complete. She has at last secured Elizabeth, the final anatomical Venus in a dangerously intertwined trio. Crafted in eighteenth-century London and modeled after real-life sex workers to entice male medical students to study female anatomy, these eerie wax figures, known as slashed beauties, carry unsavory lore. Legend […]

Excerpt – Maria La Divina by Jerome Charyn

  Synopsis An intimate portrait of the world’s most iconic opera singer Maria Callas, called La Divina, is widely recognized as the greatest diva who ever lived. Jerome Charyn’s Callas springs to life as the headstrong, mercurial, and charismatic artist who captivated generations of fans, thrilling audiences with her brilliant performances and defiant personality. Callas, […]

New Release – Murder Pays a Call by Nancy J. Cohen

    Synopsis When personal concierge Keri Armstrong swings by her favorite client’s mansion to drop off groceries, she expects a heartfelt chat along with a cup of tea—not Fiona Sullivan dead in bed and her room ransacked. Though police chalk it up to a botched robbery, Keri isn’t so sure. Whispers around town suggest […]

Q&A with Simon Tolkein, author of The Room of Lost Steps

  Synopsis An American boy with impossible dreams is thrust into the cauldron of the Spanish Civil War in an arresting and thrilling historical coming-of-age epic by the author of The Palace at the End of the Sea. Barcelona 1936. Theo helps the Anarchist workers defeat the army that is trying to overthrow the democratically elected […]

Review & Giveaway – Queen of Cotton by Laurie Moore-Moore

  QUEEN OF COTTON By Laurie Moore-Moore   Historical Fiction Publisher: Goat Mountain Press Publication Date: September 9, 2025     Synopsis 1861: The Civil War is raging. The men have gone to fight, leaving the women behind to cope.  Cotton is the lifeblood of the South. Sara, a young wife, risks her life and […]

Review – Play Nice by Rachel Harrison

  Synopsis Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy veneer she harbors a not-so glamorous secret: she grew up in a haunted house. Well, not haunted. Possessed. After Clio’s parent’s messy divorce, her mother, Alex, moved Clio and her sisters into a house occupied by a demon. […]

Review – Bees in June by Elizabeth Bass Parman

  Synopsis Set against the optimism and excitement of the first moon landing in the summer of 1969, a feat many said was impossible, one woman struggles to achieve something she thinks is impossible–living a happy and fulfilling life. Rennie King’s world isn’t at all what she expected when she married the hotshot baseball player […]

Excerpt – While the Getting is Good by Matthew Riordan

  Synopsis Based partly on family lore, Matt Riordan’s follow-up to The North Line is for readers of Jeannette Wall’s Hang the Moon and S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed. Eld should’ve known better. Hell, he did know better. But watching lesser men hit big paydays—men who didn’t fight in Europe—grew unbearable. So, when the opportunity arises, he reaches for a little something extra […]