Category: excerpt

New Release & Excerpt – To the Nines by Kes Trester

  Synopsis Hidden truths are revealed and loyalties questioned in the third book of The Nine series. When eighteen-year-old clairvoyant Blake Wilder unwittingly stumbles upon a secret that should have stayed buried, her discovery sets off a chain reaction she won’t fully comprehend until fellow Nines try to frighten her into silence—and a friend turns […]

Excerpt – The Stargazer by Jim Bates

  Synopsis In this collection of stories, Jim shares with the reader the lives of ordinary people who each have a unique story to tell. Mitch’s life is enhanced immeasurably when he meets fellow stargazer Loren and his daughter. Doug and Evie form an unlikely friendship while riding the bus to work. Dan and Tim […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Donor 73101 by Nancy Lynn Jarvis

    Donor 73101: A PIP Inc. Mystery Cozy Mystery 5th in Series Setting – California Publisher ‏ : ‎ Good Read Mysteries (August 15, 2024) Paperback ‏ : ‎ 243 pages Synopsis Aiden O’Rourke needed cash to help pay for college so he made money by selling his sperm. He was young, attractive, smart…and […]

Excerpt & Guest Post – How Soon is Now? by Paul Carnahan

    Synopsis A troubled ex-journalist launches a perilous mission into his own past after being recruited by a mysterious group of time travelers. Luke Seymour uncovers the secrets of the eccentric Nostalgia Club as he battles to solve the riddle of their missing leader, honing his newly discovered – and dangerously addictive – talent […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Accidental Sisterhood by Julie Edelman

  Synopsis Jules Malone has sworn off love after two failed relationships: one with an abusive fiancé she calls her white knight-mare, and the other with a nice-but-boring ex with whom she co-parents their son, Max. But then one fateful Christmas Eve, Jules meets Sean, a twinkly-eyed charmer with a captivating smile and an unexpected […]

Excerpt – What Was Lost by Melissa Connelly

  Synopsis Reminiscent of Hello Beautiful and The Lying Life of Adults, this powerful narrative delves into social changes from 1970 to 2000 and captures a woman’s journey in a pre-#MeToo era via the tale of a mother who returns to her hometown to face the perpetrator of her childhood abuse. When a young girl feels complicit in […]

Excerpt – Secret Sky by T. Alan Horne

    Synopsis The stars speak in a language of secrets, yet their stories cannot remain hidden forever. Billions of years ago, on one of the first-ever Earths, a boy named Skylar will walk away from his home for the last time. Beset by dreams where he flies through the early universe as a sentient […]

Excerpt – The Merry Matchmaker by Sheila Roberts

    Synopsis Frankie Lane knows what’s best for just about everyone but herself. Her divorced sister, Stef, who is too young to give up on love; her shy employee, Elinor; and her daughter, Natalie, who works in Frankie’s shop, Holiday Happiness, and really needs to start her own business selling the delectable chocolates she […]

New Release & Excerpt – Blindspot in America by Elom K. Akoto

  Synopsis Kamao is the son of a prominent Ghanaian academic and incumbent minister of health and is devoted to all that America symbolizes. After immigrating to the United States in pursuit of higher education and the American Dream, he becomes unwittingly entangled with American politics when he meets Lindsey McAdams, the daughter of an […]

Excerpt – Pushing Back the Desert by Gordon Zuckerman

  Synopsis During the turbulent late 1950s (Eisenhower Era), the New Sentinels are called upon to reveal a hidden plot (Operation Ajax) to topple Iran’s Parliamentary Government, reinstate the exiled Shah, and take over Iran’s oil industry, the fourth-largest in the world. When British and American oil interests secretly orchestrate a coup to seize control […]