Category: excerpt

Excerpt – At the Island’s Edge by C.I. Jerez

  Synopsis An Iraq War veteran returns to Puerto Rico to reconnect with—and confront—the past in a heart-wrenching novel about duty, motherhood, and the healing power of home. As a combat medic, Lina LaSalle went to Iraq to save the lives of fellow soldiers. But when her convoy is attacked, she must set aside her […]

New Release & Excerpt – Stone of Doubt by Margaret Izard

  Synopsis In the absence of doubt, only faith is found. A human with Fae powers living like an oddball has its ups and downs until Evie MacDougall’s dream Fae boy pops back into her life after she thought another was “the one.” One dark and devilish, the other her long-lost love. Evil forces trap […]

Review & Excerpt – Timeless by Kathryn Amurra

  Synopsis Erin Dovetree cannot forgive her father for cheating on her mother years ago and has sworn off men altogether. That is until destiny leads her to her grandmother’s incredibly attractive and mysterious landlord. William Abbott has lived for over a hundred years, cursed with a static and unnatural existence as punishment for his […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – High Tea and Misdemeanors by Laura Childs

    High Tea and Misdemeanors (A Tea Shop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 29th in Series Setting – South Carolina Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (March 4, 2025) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages Synopsis When a wedding is tragically averted by the death of the bridesmaid, Theodosia is determined to prove that it was murder […]

Review & Excerpt – Dragged Down Deep by Michael Okon

    Synopsis Logan Osborne has spent his life chasing the shadows of the past. As a child, he watched helplessly as his father was snatched from a fishing boat by what he swore was a mermaid. No one believed him then. No one believes him now. Determined to prove that mythical creatures exist, Logan […]

New Release – John Lennon’s Glasses by Jim Ocean with Kathy Ocean

  Synopsis What if the story of John Lennon didn’t end in 1980? What if his spirit lived on? Jimmy Drake, struggling songwriter, is on the brink of giving up . . . until an unlikely encounter with a late Beatle alters his path. During a soul-crushing meeting with a jaded music executive, a bizarre […]

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 […]