Category: fiction

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 […]

Spotlight & #Giveaway – In An Instant by Suzanne Redfearn @SuzanneRedfearn #thriller

      In An Instant Thriller/Women’s Fiction Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 1, 2020) Paperback: 331 pages Synopsis   A deeply moving story of carrying on even when it seems impossible. Life is over in an instant for sixteen-year-old Finn Miller when a devastating car accident tumbles her and ten others over the side […]

#NewRelease – Her Quiet Revolution by Marianne Monson #historicalfiction @ShadowMountn

    Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon by Marianne Monson Publication Date: 2/18/19 Hardcover Fiction / Historical Book Design: © Shadow Mountain Cover Art: Magdalena Zyzniewska/Trevillion Images; City and County Building, Salt Lake City, used by permission, Utah Historical Society; CSA Images/Getty Images Art Direction: Richard Erickson Design: Heather G. Ward […]

Excerpt – Born Slippy by Tom Lutz @tomlutz22 #fiction #political #satire

  Synopsis Frank Baltimore is a bit of a loser, struggling by as a carpenter and handyman in rural New England when he gets his big break, building a mansion in the executive suburbs of Hartford. One of his workers is a charismatic eighteen-year-old kid from Liverpool, Dmitry, spending his summer before university in the […]