Category: fiction

Guest Post & Excerpt – Soul Matters by Yolonda Tonette Sanders

    Synopsis With a successful husband, a fulfilling teaching career, and a baby on the way, Wendy Phillips seems to have it all. She’s certain God is on her side. After all, the woman she’s become wouldn’t exist without the strength of her close-knit family or her own determination to be a model daughter, […]

Review – The Wondrous Life and Loves of Nella Carter by Brionni Nwosu

  Synopsis When Death comes to claim Nella May Carter, she catches His interest with her capacity to find beauty and love even amidst the hell of slavery. So Death – bored, disgusted by humanity, and believing the Earth would be greatly improved should humans no longer exist – lures Nella into a Faustian bargain: […]

Review – A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Cheating Death by Maxie Dara

  Synopsis When a determined killer targets her brother, a grim reaper risks everything to save him in this delightful cozy mystery. Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E., which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is. But ever since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she’s been […]

Review & New Release – Snake-Eater by T. Kingfisher

  Synopsis With only a few dollars to her name and her beloved dog Copper by her side, Selena flees her past in the city to claim her late aunt’s house in the desert town of Quartz Creek. The scorpions and spiders are better than what she left behind. Because in Quartz Creek, there’s a […]

Review – On a Sundown Sea by Jill G. Hall

  Synopsis Set at the turn of the 20th century, a mystical, tantalizing novel about a visionary’s journey toward her destiny. In 1888, Katherine Tingley, a medium and clairvoyant, continues to have a childhood vision of a white city on a sundown sea. While serving the poor at her Do-Good Mission on Manhattan’s East Side, […]

Review – Class Action by Gail Ward Olmsted

  Synopsis R U in? Need $ now Third year law student Lennon Gallagher’s life turns from complicated to overwhelming when she receives a message meant for someone else. The text offers an advance copy of a final exam—a guaranteed “A”—but accepting it will violate the honors code she refuses to break. When Lennon declines, […]

New Release – Hemlock Lane by Marshall Fine

  Synopsis In this riveting story of family bonds and buried truths, a young woman’s homecoming becomes a reckoning as four days together threaten to shatter the comfortable lies that have held her family together. In the summer of 1967, the Levitsky family convenes for a long weekend at their home in the suburbs—an idyllic […]

Review – The Devil Take the Blues by Ariel Slick

  Synopsis During the 1920s, Beatrice Corbin just wants to keep her general store afloat and keep an eye on her younger, newly married sister, Agnes, in the small town of Azoma, Louisiana. Until, she is approached by the Devil, Frank Charbonneau, and learns that her sister will be murdered. At first, she doesn’t believe […]

New Release – The Last Love Song by Lucinda Riley

  Synopsis Penniless in London, young lovers Sorcha O’Donovan and Con Daly realize you can’t live on dreams alone. But then Con finally gets his big musical break, and their lives change beyond all recognition. But as fame and fortune begins to take its toll, Con and Sorcha must try to hold on to who […]

Excerpt & New Release – Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski

  Synopsis Venice, 1710 Poinsettia Girl is based on the story of Agata de la Pieta, an orphan musician of the Ospedale de la Pieta. Ten-year-old Agata’s world is shaken at the sudden death of her mother. Left only with her egregious father, a working musician in Venice, her ailing grandmother sends her to the well-known […]