Category: fiction

Excerpt – An American Patriot: A Revolutionary War Soldier’s Fight for Liberty and Love by Keith Smith

  Synopsis Inspired by the true life of the author’s fifth great-grandfather, An American Patriot is a historically grounded novel that brings to life the story of Thomas Elwell, a Revolutionary War soldier whose legacy survived only through fragments of military records until years of genealogical research helped uncover his remarkable journey. The narrative unfolds […]

Excerpt – They All Fall In Love in the End by Haili Blassingame

  Synopsis Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she’s in an open relationship. But she didn’t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend’s best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them […]

Review & New Release – The Man by Laura Sims

  Synopsis From the highly acclaimed author of How Can I Help You, a New York Times Best Thriller of the a singular take on the domestic suspense novel that follows a 1960s housewife turned amateur photographer who begins to fear for her life when she notices the dark silhouette of a man in the background of her […]

Excerpt – The Room Already There by Gerry Cota

  Synopsis In a small town in the mountains of Washington State, there is a creative space that shouldn’t work. No business model. No marketing. People travel hours to visit it without being able to explain why. At its center is a man no one can categorize — not a teacher, not a guru, not […]

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 […]