Category: excerpt

Excerpt – The Two Tribes by Jim Bates

  Synopsis After the escape of another group of orphans, Supreme Commander Botta blows up and vows revenge. When an underground tunnel is discovered leading to the Sage Mountains and the Earth’s surface, he knows exactly what to do. He will use it to stage a surprise attack on the tracliodytes and humans. He can’t […]

Excerpt – Blind Trust by Rachael Eckles

  Synopsis In Blind Trust, the third installment in Eckles’s series featuring financier and complex heroine Celeste Donovan, Celeste is mourning the death of loved ones while trying to conjure newlywed bliss. As one of the richest self-made women in the world, she appears to have it all—a penthouse apartment, meteoric business success, and a supermodel’s […]

Excerpt – Risky Assets by Rachael Eckles

  Synopsis Risky Assets, the sequel to Trading Secrets in Eckles’s series featuring financier Celeste Donovan, is brimming with mystery and failed alliances. Celeste appears to have everything a modern woman dreams of—a doting fiancé, a penthouse apartment, and a supermodel’s physique with a mathematician’s mind. But all that glitters is not gold. A high-powered […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – Fighter Pilot’s Daughter by Mary Lawlor

    Synopsis FIGHTER PILOT’S DAUGHTER tells the story of the author as a young woman coming of age in an Irish Catholic, military family. Her father, an aviator in the Marines and later the Army, was transferred more than a dozen times to posts from Miami to California to Germany as the government demanded. […]

Guest Post & Giveaway – Murder Most Eastern by Nellie H. Steele

    Murder Most Eastern (Great Maine Mysteries) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Maine Publisher ‏ : ‎ A Novel Idea Publishing, LLC Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages Synopsis A seaside Victorian. A skeptical artist. A cat with secrets. And a murder that […]

Excerpt – While the Getting is Good by Matthew Riordan

  Synopsis Based partly on family lore, Matt Riordan’s follow-up to The North Line is for readers of Jeannette Wall’s Hang the Moon and S.A. Cosby’s All the Sinners Bleed. Eld should’ve known better. Hell, he did know better. But watching lesser men hit big paydays—men who didn’t fight in Europe—grew unbearable. So, when the opportunity arises, he reaches for a little something extra […]

Excerpt – Murder in Retrograde by Greg Hickey

  Synopsis A steadfast private detective. A case that would cover all his debts. When the first body drops, can he catch a killer before he’s cashed out? In a litigious future America, detective Marcus Carver sticks to civil cases. When a space tech CEO wants him to investigate a business rival for illegal hydrocarbon […]

Excerpt – Madman by M.F. Gross

    Some true stories come with sharp edges—stories we try not to remember, and that history quietly lets slip away. Madman by M.F. Gross is one of those stories, and this haunting, immersive account brings it back with startling clarity. Set in postwar Florida, Madman unearths a 1949 murder that once transfixed the Gulf […]

Excerpt – My Twin in Budapest by Kim Cano

  Synopsis An uplifting women’s fiction novel full of romance, intrigue, and a vacation that shapes destiny. After being dumped by her fiancé, heartbroken Morgan spends time with her best friend, Amanda, hoping to forget her troubles. While looking through old family photographs together, Morgan notices a picture of Amanda’s grandmother, Veronika. The woman looks […]

Excerpt – The Housekeeper’s Secret by Sandra Schnakenburg

  Synopsis A powerful memoir of love, secrets, and survival. When Lee Metoyer is hired to be the new housekeeper, she has no idea that she’s about to become the anchor to a family in an abusive patriarch’s home, setting a mystery in motion that will take decades to uncover. At the age of seventy-two, […]