Category: fiction

Review & #Giveaway – This Time Around by Kimberly Packard

  THIS TIME AROUND by Kimberly Packard   Time Travel Romance / Contemporary Women’s Fiction / Romantic Comedy Publisher: Abalos Publishing Date of Publication: June 11, 2024 Number of Pages: 286 pages   Scroll down for Giveaway!   Synopsis Most of us would jump at a chance for a do-over of our teenage years…but what […]

Review – Flat Water by Jeremy Broyles

  Synopsis On a road trip to Flat Water, the home he fled years before, Monty Marinnis must confront the complex and painful loss that drove him away and now demands his return: family. Called back to California for his sister’s wedding, Monty’s journey from the Midwest to the California Coast is also a journey […]

Review – Dad Camp by Evan S. Porter

  Synopsis A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter week” at a remote summer camp—their last chance to bond before he loses her to teenage girlhood entirely. After his daughter, Avery, was born, John gave it all up—hobbies, friends, a dream job—to be something a super dad. Since […]

Excerpt – Holliday by Matthew Di Paoli

  Synopsis Holliday follows the infamous 1880s gambler, dentist, and gunslinger, Doc Holliday. From the outset, Doc has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is told to head to drier climates and imbibe to prolong his life. He has also heard of a spring located somewhere along the frontier that could cure him—what he believes to […]

Review – Goyhood by Reuven Fenton

  Synopsis Thirty years after leaving Georgia, Mayer Belkin, a Talmud scholar married into a prestigious Brooklyn rabbinical family, faces a shocking revelation after his mother’s death: he and his twin brother aren’t actually Jewish. Traumatized, Mayer decides to convert, facing a week-long wait for the earliest appointment. In the interim, the twins embark on […]

Review – Eye of the Beholder by Jim Bates

  Synopsis When Jena’s new boyfriend Herm announces that he is traveling the Northshore of Lake Superior to meet Commander Donner, she is skeptical. After all, Herm is convinced that he is an alien from the planet Xylan who has been sent to Earth to search for rare minerals. As far as Jena is concerned, […]

Guest Review & Excerpt – Kent and Katcha by Larry and Rosemary Mild

    Synopsis Larry and Rosemary breach deep cover to bring you a novel of high intrigue drawn from Larry’s former association with secret operatives and their spook agencies. The year is 1992. The Soviet Union has collapsed, but danger persists. Young Kent Brukner, a freshly trained American spy, arrives in Moscow for a high-risk […]

Review – A Song of Silence by Steve N. Lee

  Synopsis War thrust them together. Love will tear them apart. Inspired by a true story… When the Nazis invade his sleepy Polish town, Mirek swears to keep everyone in his orphanage safe at all costs. Yet, despite his struggles and sacrifices, the war drags him and his children deeper and deeper into its violent nightmare. […]

Excerpt – Finding Fran by Nancy Christie

      Synopsis   Once a best-selling romance novelist, 55-year-old Fran Carter is now dealing with a slow but steady drop in book sales and a major case of writer’s block, complicated by the knowledge that her lover, a professional photographer, has been on the wrong side of the camera (so to speak) with […]

Excerpt & #Giveaway – A Lighthouse Snapshot by Jennifer Faye

          A Lighthouse Snapshot: A Secret Identity, Opposites Attract Romance (The Turner Family of Bluestar Island) Small Town Romance 4th in Series Setting – Bluestar Island (a fictional island off the coast of Massachusetts) Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lazy Dazy Press (April 15, 2024) Number of Pages – 269 pages   […]