Synopsis When Defending the Homeland Means Defending Your Heart. Siberia 1581. When Umey, a young outcast woman, stumbles on a ravaged village, she uncovers a plot that threatens to devastate her beloved homeland. It’s furs—soft gold—the invading Cossacks crave, and the greediest of them is Yermak, the man […]
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Synopsis Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group. Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC forced into sexual slavery by a commander thirty-four years her […]
Review & Excerpt – Beyond Conviction by C.J. Watson
January 26, 2024
Synopsis Alien swarms. Ceaseless wars. Hive worlds, pirates and conflict without end. For hundreds of years, the Conviction has kept these threats at bay. So why now are its forces suddenly disappearing? Adroa is a bleak, backwater world on the edge of known civilisation, with every day a struggle to survive for […]
Excerpt – Haiku Seasons by Jim Bates
January 25, 2024
Synopsis Nature speaks to us in many ways. In this collection of haiku written over the course of one year, Jim Bates has chosen the 5-7-5 syllable format to share his feelings for the natural world. He hopes you enjoy them. After the snowstorm Winter’s soft gentle beauty Snow on evergreens. […]
Guest Review, Excerpt & #Giveaway – HER: The Flame Tree by Khanh Ha
January 23, 2024
Synopsis If the fate of unrequited love survives fifty-one years, nine months, and four days in Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera, it leads the way for HER: The Flame Tree, a spare, remorseless love triptych that sweeps through the rich panorama of two generations of colonial […]
Excerpt – Something Better by Jim Bates
January 18, 2024
Synopsis For Quinn and his young family, life in 2220 in the aftermath of global warming was a depressing dead-end existence with no future past the mandatory forty-year life span at which point you were unceremoniously put to death and turned into compost. But only if you lived that long. One day […]
Excerpt & #Giveaway – Keeping Pepper by Scott Brody
January 16, 2024
Synopsis Beneath the weight of four long years in confinement, a story of liberation unfolds, igniting a whirlwind of love, fear, and even hope. When Ed and Stacey go to Las Vegas to visit their friend Pepper, they realize his dementia has gotten worse. They decide to take him with them […]
Excerpt – The Powell Expeditions by Tim Piper
January 15, 2024
Synopsis After his mother’s death, seventeen-year-old Jubilee Walker asks to join a scientific expedition led by Major John Wesley Powell, a family friend. Powell initially refuses, but Jubil’s persistence and resourcefulness eventually win him a place on Powell’s crew. However, Jubil’s plans for a life of adventure are complicated by his deepening […]
Review – Overflow with Hope by E.C. Jackson #romance #excerpt #PUYB
January 10, 2024
Synopsis Two men. One wrong choice. Tempia Wade’s life had jumped the rails. One fateful night, she believed a stranger’s lie rather than the assurance of a trusted friend. For her lapse in judgment, she paid an agonizing price. Her now-bankrupt life featured shattered dreams, ruined friendships, and the […]
Synopsis Is there hope for this love between friends? Pamela Hayes is a smart, successful business owner with a supportive family and a thriving bakery. She should be the happiest girl in the world. But she can’t shake the melancholy that accompanies every conversation she has with her best […]