Category: fiction

New Release & Excerpt – Red Seal by Rosa Kwon Easton

  Synopsis A Korean mother and son navigate wars, displacement, and identity across decades and borders in a moving multigenerational saga by the author of White Mulberry. In 1943 Japan, the Pacific War rages on. Miyoung, a Korean-born single mother and nurse, defies an order to serve in the Imperial Japanese Army and instead flees […]

Review – Narcissi by Babette Fraser Hale

Narcissi: A Novel By Babette Fraser Hale   Women’s Fiction / Texas Fiction Publisher: Winedale Publishing Publication Date: October 15, 2026   Synopsis Ten women fall for Cole Burnett, a traveling Texas writer. He is the kind of man whose need for freedom should send lovers running in the opposite direction. But he has a […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tristan 4 America by Bruce Overby

  Synopsis One man. Zero chance of winning. Nothing left to lose.   After the pandemic costs him his career—and his sense of purpose—Tristan Heller makes an unthinkable decision: he runs for president of the United States. Not to win, but to say what no one else will. Backed by a scrappy crew of Silicon […]

Review – Evie Walters Takes the Wheel by Kathleen Fox

    Synopsis In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender―and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives an anonymous […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Nurse at Baker Hospital by Jocelyn Cullity

  Synopsis A new nurse at America’s famous cancer-cure hospital becomes caught in one of the Ozarks’ greatest scams in this mystery based on a true story set in 1939. After her father’s death, nurse Della King is on the brink of homelessness—until she lands a job at the prestigious Baker Hospital in Eureka Springs, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dark Messiah by Sara Z. Carson

  Synopsis A riveting debut novel telling the story of a teenage girl and her mother caught in the web of a sinister cult leader whose optimistic vision of hope descends into apocalyptic horror in the jungles of South America. In 1975 San Francisco, 15-year-old Nell’s world has been ripped apart by her younger sister’s […]

New Release & Excerpt – Rough Cuts by Glenn R. Miller

  Synopsis It’s 1926, and the world of film is about to change forever. On the cusp of “talkies,” directors and actors fear their greatest days might soon be behind them. Patrick J. Shepard, a director at the end of his career, has just completed his masterpiece, his vehicle for eternal fame. But there’s one […]

Review & Giveaway – Vacancy by Jann Alexander

  VACANCY: Secrets and Second Chances in Small-Town Texas By Jann Alexander   Women’s Fiction / Mystery and Crime Publisher: Black Rose Writing Publication Date: September 24, 2026     Synopsis A struggling single mother and a suspicious widow, at odds. Both have a habit of hiding from hard truths. INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS Helen […]

New Release & Excerpt – Every Room Remembers by Tara Badstubner

  Synopsis After losing her husband Wyatt to a sudden accident, interior designer SJ believes she is alone with her crushing grief. Meanwhile, Wyatt, trapped in a liminal state, must watch in silence as the woman he loves mourns all that remained unresolved in their marriage – the children they never had, the depression that […]

New Release & Review – The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi

  Synopsis The new novel from acclaimed, three-time instant #1 New York Times–bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi blends shocking contemporary storytelling with a sinister dark academic flair to create a blockbuster about rage, longing, and a woman’s darkness that will leave readers breathless. Nothing is more intoxicating than power. . . When Emery steps foot onto […]