Category: fiction

Review – Twenty Something Else by Stephanie Mack

  Synopsis On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice. Sutton Layne is almost-forty and fabulous, with a happy marriage, three beautiful children, and a successful interior design business. But there’s […]

Review & Giveaway – On the Bayou by Sean Bridges

  On the Bayou By Sean Bridges   Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Publication Date: 25 May 2026     Synopsis A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do […]

Review & Giveaway – Up From Hell by Joan Moran

  UP FROM HELL Echoes of the Past: Crimes in Central Texas, Book 1 By Joan Moran   Crime Thriller Publisher: Next Chapter Publication Date: April 7, 2026     Synopsis Growing up in Las Vegas, Neil Dixon’s future looked bleak. The son of a drug-addicted mother, he didn’t have a lot of options until […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Two Lives With You by Lauren Ho

  Synopsis “Who knew flirting with your husband who doesn’t know he’s your husband could be this romantic?” —Mindy Kaling What if they never married? For an overwhelmed husband and wife, that what-if wish comes true in an emotional and bittersweet novel about choices, sacrifice, and the love that they might lose forever. When Dana […]

Excerpt – Crossing the Bronx by David Hirshberg

  Synopsis Set in the gritty, working-class streets of The Bronx in the 1950s, Crossing the Bronx is a modern retelling of the Biblical story of rival brothers Jacob and Esau. It blends crime and a love story with an uncompromising sense of realism and explores themes of family division, political corruption, and clashing cultures. […]

New Release & Excerpt – The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya

  Synopsis In a city on the brink of revolution, science and passion offer their own strains of violence. Petrograd, 1916 After her aristocratic family’s fall from fortune, Mariya is desperate to survive – and to support her widowed mother and sisters. Matters alleviate when she finds work as an assistant to Dr. Nikolas Rodin, […]

New Release – A New Fatherland by Natalie Bright and Manuela

  A New Fatherland: Peache Treaties & Shattered Hopes By Natalie Bright & Manuela Schneider   Historical Fiction/ Immigrant Fiction Book 2 Publisher: EK-2 Publishing Publication Date: April 30, 2026     Synopsis Texas, 1840s: Drawn by the promise of land and freedom, German settlers venture into the New World—only to find themselves ensnared in […]

Review – The Life She Forgot by Joanna Davidson Politano

  Synopsis He promised to help her reclaim the memories she lost—no matter what they found. Until she remembered another man. Cornwall, 1913 For three years, Merryn has lived without a past—no family, no history, no home that’s truly hers. When the threat of being locked away for her own “protection” looms, she takes a […]

Excerpt – The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew by Denise Heinze

  Synopsis Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew-the wife of Virginia’s first two governors-puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. When she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609, Temperance Flowerdew […]

Excerpt & Giveaway – Out of the Crash by Susan Poole

  Synopsis When tragedy strikes two neighboring families, can forgiveness mend what blame and loss have torn apart? A fatal hit-and-run ripples through a close-knit community, testing the bonds of love and the limits of compassion. Author Caroline Beasley’s world unravels when her son, Kyle, is arrested for vehicular manslaughter. As her family faces public […]