Blog Tour Schedule Jeremy’s Promise by A.R. Talley The trip that was meant to save Annie and Jeremy’s marriage brought it to near ruin. Now Annie has returned home, frightened and confused. Jeremy, too, is frightened—and angry. What will it take to save their marriage? It’s clear. Jeremy needs to forgive—Annie needs to forget. A […]
Category: fiction
Spotlight: Swimming Home by Ruth Mancini @RuthMancini1
January 17, 2015
Today I am spotlighting Ruth Mancini’s second book, Swimming Home. I reviewed her first book, Swimming Upstream, last year. Synopsis Lizzie’s life hasn’t exactly gone to plan. Eighteen years ago, she made the difficult decision to leave London for Paris to escape her best friend’s fiancé, the man who’d attacked her and turned her world […]
Spotlight: Is This What I Want? by Patricia Mann @PatriciaMann11
January 16, 2015
Synopsis Is This What I Want? by Patricia Mann, is the sequel to Is This All There Is? Four difficult months have passed since Beth’s husband Rick discovered her affair with a former student. The couple has worked hard in therapy to salvage their marriage and understand their roles in everything that happened. Things […]
Passing through Perfect by Bette Lee Crosby It’s 1946. The war is over. Millions of American soldiers are coming home and Benjamin Church is one of them. After four years of being away he thought things in Alabama would have changed, but they haven’t. Grinder’s Corner is as it’s always been—a hardscrabble burp in the […]
Spotlight: Boardinghouse Stew by E.E. Smith
January 11, 2015
Boardinghouse Stew by E.E. Smith Synopsis “Times like these are about as unpredictable as boardinghouse stew!” observes Teddy, one of the six boarders in Mrs. Mumson’s seedy, down-at-the-heel boardinghouse in Sacramento. It was certainly an apt description of the early days of World War II when no one knew what was going to happen. In […]
Spotlight: The Passion Thief by Anne McCarthy Strauss @annestr
January 10, 2015
I have read one of Anne’s books last year and really enjoyed it. Hopefully I will be able to read this one sometime in the near future! You can see what I thought about her last book, A Medical Affair, here. The Passion Thief by Ann McCarthy Strauss Synopsis The tumble between the sheets can […]
Mid Century Mayhem by Bella Street Modern day Nashville and 1950s Detroit clash worse than an IKEA futon and a plaid Barcalounger when a free-spirited interior designer and a strait-laced automotive engineer find themselves in another time. TOMS-wearing Olivia Haugen and Madras-shirted Kyle Daniels have no idea why they’ve ended up in 1954 Michigan, but […]
Real Santa by William Hazelgrove George Kronenfeldt is an unemployed engineer with one shot to keep his daughters belief in Santa intact. When Megan tells him the only way she will believe in Santa is if she can videotape him and then tells her fourth grade class she will prove the existence of Santa Claus […]
Spotlight: The Girl from Long Guyland by Lara Reznik
November 29, 2014
Synopsis Set against a 1969 psychedelic love-in backdrop, The Girl From Long Guyland is a psychological thriller shared through the eyes of Laila Levin when decades later, an unsolved murder pulls her reluctantly into her past. A dramatic collision of then and now entwining family, marriage, profession and ethics. Laila enjoys a successful marriage […]
Interview with Allen Wyler about Deadly Odds @AstorandBlue
November 26, 2014
Synopsis Twenty-three year old Arnold Gold is a Seattle-based odds-maker and local computer genius. Described as a “part-time hacker and full-time virgin” by his friends, the awkward young shut-in flies to Vegas to try and get lucky–in more ways than one. But his high stakes activity on the Net inadvertently thrusts him into a […]