Category: fiction

Excerpt – Dreamers by James Bates

    Synopsis Overlapping memories, overlapping lives, wide open spaces, and soft but sometimes heart-breaking reminiscences, with the mighty Mississippi running through it all — let Jim Bates take you on rich, human, intertwining journeys into a landscape of souls where you can glimpse beauty and peace, longing and contentment, the burden of past decisions […]

Review & #Giveaway – To Rescue a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott

      TO RESCUE A WITCH   by   Lisa A. Traugott     Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure / Witch Trials Page Count: 398 pages Publication Date: March 1, 2024         It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft must be defended by a man married to an actual […]

New Release – Pierce by Patrick B. Simpson

    Synopsis   When janitor Truman Pierce isn’t listening to his classical jazz records, he stays under the radar and keeps to himself. Nothing much happens in his world until popular college instructor Danielle Hutchins asks him out. The day after their first date, Pierce finds Danielle murdered in her classroom. With only a […]

Review – Rag Lady by Susie Black

    Synopsis   Recent college graduate Holly Schlivnik dreams of being a writer, but fate has other plans. A family crisis throws her into an improbable situation, and her life will never be the same. Determined to make her own luck when things don’t happen the way she plans, the irrepressible young woman takes […]

Excerpt – After Camus by Jay Neugeboren

    Synopsis   A troubled marriage and love story set against the background of the AIDS pandemic and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq lie at the heart of After Camus. Saul Davidoff and Tolle Riordan, who meet during a protest against the Vietnam War, marry, live through the Plague Years of the […]

Review & #Giveaway – Roses in December by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Jimmy Hamilton overcame childhood tragedy to become a hero in Vietnam, only to die there in 1967. All but forgotten, Jimmy leaves behind a young wife, an infant son, and a man wracked by guilt. Circumstances allow Becca, his young widow, to be manipulated into an abusive, loveless union […]

Review & #Giveaway – A Song That Never Ends by Mark A. Gibson

        Synopsis   Home. For over three hundred years, that’s what the Hamilton family has called a shrinking swath of farmland in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Home. That’s the failing tobacco farm where Walter and Maggie Hamilton choose to raise their three children. Walter has big plans to make the […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Dead Letters by P.J. Murphy

        Synopsis   “If you want to find me, search within these pages.” Bestselling author Richard Debden is missing. The only clue: a copy of his unpublished final novel delivered to his ex-girlfriend, Amy. When those closest to Richard reunite for his memorial, Amy turns to Chris, his former best friend, to […]

Excerpt – Perestroika by Joao Cerqueira

    Synopsis   Perestroika overthrows communist regimes in Europe. In the People’s Republic of Slavia, the former leaders are trying to survive the new times while their victims seek revenge. Former President Alfred Ionescu is placed in an asylum he himself built. Zut Zdanov, the head of culture, is confronted with his child abuse. […]