Category: fiction

Guest Post & New Release – Massawa by Pam Webber

  Synopsis For fans of novels featuring strong, smart female protagonists, the first in a series about the novice female American spies in North Africa and the Mediterranean that changed the tide of World War II. In 1942, during the height of World War II, Wild Bill Donovan, the director of the United States’ first […]

Guest Post & Excerpt – A Change in Plans by Mike Martin

    Synopsis RCMP officer Winston Windflower’s rare afternoon off gets interrupted when a hit and run turns into murder and he must pull together a team of Mounties from Newfoundland to resolve the crime. Following the money and fentanyl— and bodies—Windflower and his team join forces with police officers in southern Ontario to take […]

Review & Excerpt – Be Well by Sarah Flocken

  Synopsis Summer 2009: Brand-new college graduate Ann Ward has sent out nearly three hundred job applications, but nobody will employ her. The last thing she wants to do is leave Los Angeles, return to her desert hometown, and live in the shadow of her fame-hungry televangelist father–and it’s starting to look like that’s her […]

Excerpt – Dear Missing Friend by Susan McGuirk

  Synopsis One Woman. Two Men. One Dream. It’s 1845, and Catherine McGuirk has left Ireland and a shipboard proposal behind, determined to forge a new life in America. Amid the bustling height of the whaling era, she marries a dashing sailor who vows to give up life on the sea. But when he vanishes […]

New Release – The Emilys by Heather Abel

  Synopsis A mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities in a changing world. “And if we weren’t afraid of the darkness? What world would we make then?” Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Very Unremarkable Life of Mrs. Etty Bloom by Talya Jankovits

    Synopsis In the insulated Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, tradition and cultural norms are as sacred as religion. Childhood friendships are cultivated to climb social ladders, matchmakers dictate futures, and young girls are primed for marriage and motherhood. So, when Etty Greenberger, a headstrong redhead and the only child of Holocaust survivors, commits […]

Guest Post – Like Snow Before Sun by Marianne Rabalais Sulser

  Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES Which will you sacrifice—the father that raised you, or the nation you adore? Acadia, 1755. Jeanne LeJeune has always lived between worlds—the fierce daughter of a French merchant and a Mi’kmaw woman, she is torn between the quiet rhythms of village life and the wild heartbeats of her mother’s […]

Review & Excerpt – Lead Me Home by Catherine Bybee

  Synopsis When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

  Synopsis A few days before Thanksgiving, Sailor Cassidy is running an amateur stakeout she has no business conducting. She’s nursing a bad breakup, following a plan that’s half-baked in more ways than one, and reckless enough not to care. What could go wrong? Across town, Officer Tuscaloosa “Tusk” Knight is working an off-the-books job […]

New Release & Excerpt – San Quentin Exodus by Bill Smoot

  Synopsis James grows up as a still-water-runs-deep boy struggling to navigate the barbed streets of Oakland, California. His only true friend is Spike, a pit bull he rescues from dog fighting. On the cusp of entering college, James commits a crime that results in a prison term of thirty to life. Allison, a young […]