Category: fiction

New Release & Guest Post – The Antique Picker’s Daughter by Melanie Dugan

  Synopsis “The first thing you need to know: They’re not antiques. The second thing you need to know: I’m not his daughter.” Abandoned first by her father, and then by her mother, Frankie has been left in the care of her deeply religious grandmother. When her grandmother’s religious convictions tip into delusion, Frankie decides […]

New Release & Excerpt – Bad Girls Go Everywhere by Ellen Sherman

  Synopsis London 1968-The capital of cool. Against her parents’ wishes, Rin, a naïve but determined American 21-year-old, is off to study acting at an unconventional London drama school. So far Rin’s done everything right. This is her one chance to do something daring. London, electric and unpredictable, is full of characters who are as […]

New Release & Excerpt – Tabitha, Stay Up by Lee Upton

  Synopsis After a shattering disappointment, Tabitha must find new ways to get up—and stay up. In this sequel to Tabitha, Get Up, she faces a determined antagonist and a possible new love, or the return of what appeared to be lost love. She must save the world’s best bar, contend with diabolical twins and a […]

Review – 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 – The Wild & Bittersweet by Ranae LaFerney

  Synopsis In 1984, Melody Baumann’s future is set—a summer trip to Europe, UC-Davis in the fall. She hopes to become a veterinarian like her father. But while abroad, she falls in love with British artist Michael Henley, then receives news that shatters everything: her father is dead. Back home, grief and years of tension […]

Review & Giveaway – And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by WM Gunn

  And The Walls Came Tumbling Down By W.M. Gunn   Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family Saga Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: September 15, 2026   Synopsis And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American […]

Review – 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 & Excerpt – When Paris Whispers by Marianne Bohr

  Synopsis Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person […]

New Release – The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann Aguirre

  Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a cozy fae fantasy romance featuring a sunshine-shadow slow burn, a grumpy-butsecretly-tender love interest, an unforgettable found family, and a world lush with wildcraft magic. Thea Winter didn’t choose to be a changeling ― stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in […]

Excerpt – The Long Way by L.B. Phillips

  Synopsis Some places are worth the long way around. Miles Donovan notices things. It’s a harmless habit — until a stranger presses a fifteen-year-old postcard into his hand and points him toward the vanishing Florida the rest of the world keeps paving over: the fish camps and tiki bars, the hand-painted motels and one-of-a-kind […]