Category: fiction

Guest Post – Like Snow Before Sun by Marianne Rabalais Sulser

  Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE STORIES Which will you sacrifice—the father that raised you, or the nation you adore? Acadia, 1755. Jeanne LeJeune has always lived between worlds—the fierce daughter of a French merchant and a Mi’kmaw woman, she is torn between the quiet rhythms of village life and the wild heartbeats of her mother’s […]

Review & Excerpt – Lead Me Home by Catherine Bybee

  Synopsis When spreadsheets are safer than people, falling in love becomes the ultimate risk in this powerful novel of trauma, healing, and unexpected courage from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bybee. Luna Canning trusts numbers more than people—and for good reason. As a forensic accountant who specializes in exposing fraud, […]

New Release & Excerpt – Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible

  Synopsis A few days before Thanksgiving, Sailor Cassidy is running an amateur stakeout she has no business conducting. She’s nursing a bad breakup, following a plan that’s half-baked in more ways than one, and reckless enough not to care. What could go wrong? Across town, Officer Tuscaloosa “Tusk” Knight is working an off-the-books job […]

New Release & Excerpt – San Quentin Exodus by Bill Smoot

  Synopsis James grows up as a still-water-runs-deep boy struggling to navigate the barbed streets of Oakland, California. His only true friend is Spike, a pit bull he rescues from dog fighting. On the cusp of entering college, James commits a crime that results in a prison term of thirty to life. Allison, a young […]

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, […]