Category: excerpt

Excerpt – Frost on the Bloom by Sally Handley

  Synopsis In Frost on the Bloom, the second book in the Holly & Ivy mystery series, one of Holly’s former students, Becky Powell, asks the look-alike sisters for help when they all spend Christmas at Skyview Manor, and Becky becomes the prime suspect in the attempted murder of her manipulative grandmother, Lyla Powell. Once […]

Excerpt – The Dream Lives On by Valeriya Goffe

  Synopsis When the war starts in Ukraine, a finance professor Viktor Yurchenko decides to flee to the US together with his elderly mother and three young kids (his wife passed away). They miraculously escape out of their small town, Irpin’, under the raining Russian missiles and through the improvised bridge across the freezing river. […]

Excerpt – They Ain’t Gonna Get Any Deader by Greg Dorchak

  Synopsis THEY AIN’T GONNA GET ANY DEADER is a collection of humorous personal essays drawn from the author’s high school, college, and young adult years. It offers vivid storytelling capturing the essence of coming of age in high school and college, as well as figuring out adulting. Whether it is getting hired and fired […]

Excerpt – Scandalous in Huntington Beach by Melody DeBlois

    Synopsis Bennett Browning has spent his life planning for success, but nothing prepares him for fatherhood—especially when he learns of his daughter’s existence only after his ex’s tragic passing. A politician on the rise, Bennett’s carefully curated life is thrown into chaos as he struggles to care for an infant he never knew […]

Trilogy Spotlight & Excerpt – Riftsiders series by Paul DeStefano

  Synopsis The lead couple meets at a support group for the possessed. Enrique Marin wants a quiet life after the death of his wife. Just one problem stands in the way—he’s possessed by the misanthropic English demon, Tzazin. A violent night under demonic influence accidentally leads Enrique to love, and it’s anything but quiet. […]

Excerpt – The Pythagorean by Alexander Morpheigh

  Synopsis The protagonist, a young man named Theodore, is about 36 years old and resides in Athens. Following a car accident, he finds himself in the body of a young man from Ancient Greece who attempted suicide. Confused about his whereabouts, Theodore sets out to find people and seeks guidance from the Delphic Oracle […]

Excerpt – Second Bloom by Sally Handley

  Synopsis A BLOOMING GOOD MYSTERY! Holly Donnelly, an adjunct English professor, and her younger sister, Ivy Donnelly, a recently widowed, retired nurse, are reluctantly drawn into the investigation of an elderly neighbor’s murder when Juan Alvarez, Holly’s trusted gardener, is accused of the crime. Holly fears police detective Nick Manelli assumes Juan is guilty […]

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 […]