Category: fiction

Review – Beneath the Broken Oak by Lori Altebaumer

  BENEATH THE BROKEN OAK By Lori Altebaumer   Mystery / Romance Publisher: One Thousand Hills Publishing Pages: 400 Publication Date: February 22, 2025   Synopsis Trees don’t heal. They seal. But Forester Jodee Trevaine isn’t a tree. The wounds of abandonment she’s spent years denying will be ripped open the night she witnesses a […]

Fiction Spotlight – The Border Between Us by Rudy Ruiz

  THE BORDER BETWEEN US By Rudy Ruiz   Literary Fiction Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 27, 2024   Synopsis The Border Between Us is a poignant coming-of-age novel from one of the most exciting voices in fiction. Ramón López was born along the US–Mexico border but is determined to get out […]

Review – The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy

    Synopsis The Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble in this page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads. Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their “separate but together” partnership is running […]

Review & New Release – All The Terrible Things by Lara Martin

  Synopsis In this heart-stopping story of love, hate, and redemption, four strangers are drawn together in the dangerous world of animal rights activism. Perfect for fans of Catherine Cowles, All the Terrible Things is a race-against-the-clock romantic thriller that will keep you hooked until the final page. Pampered socialite Amy Hutchinson has spent years […]

Review & Giveaway – The Two Terrors of Tulelake by WM Gunn

  The Two Terrors of Tulelake By WM Gunn   Historical Fiction / Science Fiction / Thriller Pages: 320 Publication Date: October 15, 2024   Synopsis The horrors of World War II shocked the world. Americans believed it could never happen here in our own borders…until it did. Ichiro Hisakawa and his family were part […]

Excerpt – The Northern Pacific Railroad by Tim Piper

  Synopsis The thrilling newest installment in award winning Jubilee Walker series In 1872, six hundred miles between Bismarck and Bozeman remain to be surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railroad. But Sitting Bull is gathering strength to resist this incursion into the tribes’ hunting grounds. Citizens and politicians question the need for the rail line […]

Review – Trust Issues by Elizabeth McCullough Keenan & Greg Wands

  Synopsis A fresh take on the classic conman chase novel following two adult siblings forced to play nice in hopes of tracking down the man they believe killed their mother and ran off with their sizable inheritance. Siblings Hazel and Kagan Bailey haven’t been close for a long time, but when their mother passes […]

New Release – The Magic Maker by Mickey Dubrow

  Synopsis In 1917 on New York City’s Lower East Side, Baruch Rosenfeld, following Jewish tradition, invites a beggar to join his family for the Passover Seder. Baruch’s good deed backfires. He and his wife Rebekah and their children Nathan, Jacob, and Sadie are trapped in time. They don’t age, they can’t leave their three-room […]

Excerpt – Beneath the Poet’s House by Christa Carmen

  Synopsis For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Daughters of Block Island. Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of […]

Review – The Last Toll Collector by S.S. Turner

  Synopsis What would you do if AI outcompeted you so completely that it negated your role in society? Welcome to Valerie Tobruk’s life. Her job as a toll collector on the Golden Gate Bridge was made redundant when toll collection was automated in 2013. Since then, she’s struggled to find a job which AI […]