Category: fiction

Excerpt – Soothsayer by Katheryn Amurra #historical #fiction

  Synopsis   Aurelia has always valued love and happiness over titles and power. Though her kind-hearted father has allowed her to turn away suitor after suitor in pursuit of a love she cannot yet define, when he dies her choices die with him. Knowing that marrying the elderly governor of a neighboring province can […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Kelegeen by Eileen O’Finlan #historical #fiction @eileenofinlan

          Kelegeen Historical Fiction Publisher: BWL Publishing Inc. (March 1, 2018) Paperback: 433 pages   Synopsis   Ireland 1846   Meg O’Connor, daughter of poor Irish cottiers, eagerly anticipates her wedding to Rory Quinn.  Her dreams of marriage and family vanish along with Ireland’s potato crop when Kelegeen’s inhabitants awaken one […]

Guest Post & #Giveaway – Storms of Malhado by Maria Elena Sandovici @SandoviciME #LSBBT #GalvestonHurricanes #TexasAuthor #TexasBook #TexasHistory

    Storms of Malhado   by   Maria Elena Sandovici     Genre: Historical Fiction / Ghosts Publisher: Independently Published Date of Publication: March 26, 2020 Number of Pages: 252     Scroll down for the giveaway!         Galveston Island, Texas, September 2008 Katie doesn’t believe in ghosts. And she certainly doesn’t […]

Review – Tangled in Ivy by Ashley Farley #5paws @AshleyWFarley #WomensLit #Netgalley

  Synopsis   From the bestselling author of Sweet Tea Tuesdays comes a story of true love that spans decades. Lillian Alexander’s father is dying of cancer. When he rambles on in a morphine-delirium, Lillian can’t ignore the feeling he’s trying to tell her something. At his funeral days later, she encounters ghosts from her […]

Review & #Giveaway – Mom Genes by Hilary Grossman #womensfiction @feelingbeachie

    Synopsis   The meddling moms of Forest River live for a good scandal. Speculation surrounding Claire Conroy’s sex life has fueled the rumor mill for years. Now, when Claire returns home from a trip to Italy separated from her husband of thirteen years, the imaginations of the Lululemon-clad ladies who lunch spins into […]

Spotlight – Clearing in the Woods by Phyllis M. Newman #psychological @phyllismnewman2 #crimefiction

    Clearing in the Woods Women’s Psychological/Crime Fiction Publisher: Independently published (October 31, 2019) Paperback: 321 pages   Synopsis   Roberta escapes her humdrum middle-class existence and the persistent ache of her dead mother’s secrets by fleeing to Alaska. Having abandoned everything she’d spent her life building, Roberta remakes herself in another place, doing […]