Category: fiction

Excerpt – Satan’s Glove by Cousin Vinny Agnello & Carolyn Rae @Bookgal #fiction

    Synopsis   In 1991, Eddie Romano, an undersized, unconfident kid, finds an antique baseball glove while on a treasure hunt of the ruins of the old Comiskey Park in Chicago. Instantly that glove becomes his obsession. While sleeping at night, he’s transported to a dreary, decrepit ballpark where he learns the game of […]

Guest Post – The American Outsider by Homa Pourasgari @homapourasgari @BookReviewTours #ContemporaryFiction #TheAmericanOutsider

        Synopsis   When a California veterinarian, a Japanese-American tour-guide and the son of a well-known Tokyoite businessman get together to help save the Taiji dolphins, trouble brews in a society where conformity is favored over individuality. Tessa Walker sticks out in Japan’s homogeneous society. Akira Nakano has to tread lightly if […]

Excerpt – Monet and Oscar by Joe Byrd @joembyrd #historical #fiction #art

    Synopsis   At the end of WWI, Oscar, an American soldier, decides to remain in France and sets out to find his father, an impressionist painter whose identity he never knew. Through a twist of fate, Oscar is offered a job working in Monet’s world-famous garden at Giverny. Thus begins a beautiful story […]

Review – Will There Be Wine? by Whitney Cubbison #paris #romance #newrelease

    Synopsis   Austen Keller was living her dream. She landed a career-defining job which moved her and her husband to Paris. <Swoon!> Shortly thereafter, she was divorced. This wasn’t the plan. Yet there she was—pushing 40 and starting over. A decade after she’d last been single, Austen enters the dating scene playing by […]

#NewRelease – The Things We Do To Our Friends by Heather Darwent @HeatherDarwent #debutnovel

    Synopsis She’s an outsider desperate to belong, but the cost of entry might be her darkest secret in this intoxicating debut of literary suspense following a clique of dangerously ambitious students at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history; the ultimate destination for […]

Review – A Wingman for Christmas by Barbara Barth #romance #holiday #fiction

    Synopsis   The annual Sweet Water, Georgia, Christmas parade is nearing but relationships are fractured on Wild Rose Lane. Antique dealer Cheryl Calloway’s holiday spirit has tanked. It’s been a horrible year with her divorce, her ex marrying younger and perkier Miriam across the street, and Mama moving into Cheryl’s Victorian cottage with […]