Category: fiction

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 […]

Review – Filthy Rich Lawyers by Brian Felgoise & David Tabatsky #fiction #satire #humor #comedy

    Synopsis   “Award-Winning Finalist in the Humor/Comedy/Satire category of the 2022 American Fiction Awards” Inspired by real-life class-action lawyers, The Education of Ryan Coleman begins in a Texas courtroom, where an ambitious attorney from Philadelphia chases his share of a lawsuit and gets his ass reamed by the judge. During this “trial-by-fire,” Coleman […]