Category: excerpt

Review & Excerpt – A Dream in the Wilderness by Jean Hackensmith

    Synopsis Unable to find a teaching position in the flooded job market that is New York City, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Bentley accepts the position of nanny to Caleb Wachsmann’s three children after the farmer’s wife, parents, and infant son die in the Cholera epidemic of 1834. The twist? The job is in Superior, Wisconsin […]

New Release – The Department by Jacqueline Farber

  Synopsis Some secrets we keep even from ourselves Philosophy professor Neil Weber can’ t think of one good reason to get up in the morning. His wife has left him, his academic research has sputtered, and the prospect of tenure is more remote than ever. Until Lucia Vanotti disappears. A college student at the […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Wheels and Dirty Deals by Trixie Silvertale

    Wheels and Dirty Deals: Paranormal Cozy Mystery (Harper and Moon Investigations) Paranormal Cozy Mystery 6th in Series Setting – Pin Cherry Harbor – also known as “almost-Canada.” Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sittin’ On A Goldmine Productions LLC (February 18, 2025) Number of Pages – 250 Synopsis A cryptic murder. A complete lack of […]

New Release & Excerpt – Pride by Samantha Ryan

  Synopsis Ben Bennett treasures the cozy rhythm of his running his beloved bookstore, curling up with his sassy cat Ziggy, and putting up with his spirited sister Mal. He’s not exactly searching for love—despite the occasional swipe on Grindr—and he’s definitely not interested in anyone messing with his hard-won peace, even if he could […]

Review & Excerpt – Artificial Agent by J.W. Jarvis

  Synopsis Captured, tortured, and left for dead. Pieced back together with experimental tech, can this courageous soldier prevent a cataclysmic war? Loyalty runs through Michael Cooling’s veins. Abandoned by his father as a kid and devoted to his mother, the highly decorated Navy SEAL gladly leads a mission to extract two Ukrainian generals held […]

Excerpt – The Northern Pacific Railroad by Tim Piper

  Synopsis The thrilling newest installment in award winning Jubilee Walker series In 1872, six hundred miles between Bismarck and Bozeman remain to be surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad. But Sitting Bull is gathering strength to resist this incursion into the tribes’ hunting grounds. Citizens and politicians question the need for the rail line […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – The Death of the Kremlin Czar by Joerg H. Trauboth

    Synopsis Russian President and new Czar Ivan Pavlenko suddenly shows his true colors during the war in Ukraine. He wants the old Soviet Union back. The world is on the brink. The influential oligarch Alexei Sokolov wants to prevent Ivan’s megalomaniacal plans and is planning a fundamental new beginning for Russia. To achieve […]

New Release & Excerpt – Stone of Hope by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis Only through hope can one find true love. In a twist of fate, he’s shown her beauty through the Eye of Ra. Trying to save his niece and nephew from evil Fae powers, he’s sucked into the past and dumped in the middle of her Egyptian archaeology dig. She fears the attractive man […]

Excerpt – 2028 Tomorrow is the Day by L.R. O’Brien

    Synopsis In the frigid isolation of the Arctic, an Inuit elder stumbles upon an otherworldly artifact, triggering a series of events that will forever change the trajectory of human history. The discovery captures the clandestine interest of B-613, a covert division of the Five Eyes alliance, which recognizes the alien symbols etched into […]

Excerpt – Beneath the Poet’s House by Christa Carmen

  Synopsis For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Daughters of Block Island. Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of […]