Category: excerpt

Excerpt & New Release – Talking to Strangers by Fiona Barton

  Synopsis Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who insists on doing her own investigation in this nail-biting mystery from the author of Local Gone Missing. When Karen Simmons is murdered on Valentine’s Day, Detective Elise King wonders if she was killed by a man she met […]

Excerpt – Head Fake by Scott Gordon

    Synopsis Mikey makes everything a joke, even the clinical depression he’s struggled with for years. After a run of failed jobs, he becomes the unlikely basketball coach at a high school for high-risk offenders who are experiencing mental illness. The position becomes suddenly available after the team tried to strangle their last coach. […]

Excerpt – Rise and Divine by Lana Harper

  Synopsis To save both her town and the woman who loves her against all odds, a witch haunted by loss must reckon with her turbulent past, in the next magical romance in the Witches of Thistle Grove series by New York Times bestselling author Lana Harper. Even in a family of chaotic necromancers, Daria […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – Peach Tea Smash by Laura Childs

    Peach Tea Smash (A Tea Shop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 28th in Series Setting – South Carolina Publisher ‏ : ‎ Berkley (August 6, 2024) Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages Murder at an Alice in Wonderland–themed event threatens to send Theodosia Browning through the looking glass in the latest entry in this New York Times bestselling […]

Excerpt – Dear Hanna by Zoje Stage

  Synopsis Zoje Stage delivers another knockout with a blood-chilling follow-up to international sensation Baby Teeth, taking readers back into the unsteady world of a young sociopath who’s all grown up. Hanna is no stranger to dark thoughts: as a young child, she tried to murder her own mother. But that was more than sixteen […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Buried Too Deep by Karen Rose

  Synopsis From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose comes another explosive novel in the New Orleans series, where some secrets are worth dying for—or killing to keep. Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead. Working as the nighttime security guard of Broussard Private Investigations, Phineas Bishop has been working through […]

Review & Excerpt – Make It Real by Nan Reinhardt

  Synopsis They were only faking it…. A landscape designer for his family’s construction firm, Joe Walker, is nearing completion on one of the most important projects of his career—gardens for spec homes that if they wow, Walker Construction will survive. When a freak accident sidelines him with a broken leg, the firm hires a competitor. […]

New Release & Excerpt – Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe

  Synopsis She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her. After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small […]

Excerpt – Hidden in Her Heart by Thomas Dellenbusch

  Synopsis Summer of 1963 in Bavaria: Thoughtful and literary mobbing drama about an attractive stranger with a secret past. Translated Version from the popular German book series of Movie-Length-Stories: A young, attractive single mother moves into a small Lower Bavarian village in the Summer of 1963. She is not looking for a job, nor […]

Excerpt – Vermilion Harvest by Reenita M. Hora

  Synopsis In a politically tense Amritsar in 1919, an Anglo-Indian schoolteacher and a feisty Muslim stu-dent activist fall in love, but find that courting openly is easier said than done — not only are they from different communities but his political activism comes at the cost of their romance. Against the deadline of a […]