Category: fiction

Spotlight: The Passion Thief by Anne McCarthy Strauss @annestr

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 […]

Spotlight & #Giveaway – Mid Century Mayhem by Bella Street @toobusyreading @bellastreet

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 […]

Spotlight: The Girl from Long Guyland by Lara Reznik

  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

  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 […]

Spotlight: An Imaginary House by the Sea by Cecily Gates @cecilywrites

  Synopsis “Love is a messy thing. That hopelessly devoted, deep-in-your-bones kind of love we used to dream about when we were kids—it turns out that it’s hard. It aches. It takes time. Like a house that weathers the ages, it must be built, brick by brick.” Snarky and ambitious Dawn Campbell almost had it […]

Blog Tour & #Giveaway : I, James by Mike Hartner @MHartnerAuthor #PUYB

  Title: I, James Author: Mike Hartner Publisher: Eternity4Popsicle Publishing Pages: 293 Genre: Historical Fiction/Romance Format: Kindle   James Crofter was ripped from his family at age 11. Within a year the prince was a pauper in a foreign land. Is nature stronger than nurture? And even if it is, can James find the happiness […]

Blast & #Giveaway : Return to Chelsey Falls by Marianne Gowers @toobusyreading

Return to Chelsey Falls After the death of his mother, fourteen year old, Wyatt Barnes was sent to live with his grandparents in Chelsey Falls, Washington. That summer was filled with new friends and new adventures until his life was turned upside down for a second time. Almost ten years later, an offer to teach […]

Spotlight: The Vineyard by Michael Hurley

Title: The Vineyard Author: Michael Hurley Genre: Literary fiction; Fiction general Pages: 384 Publisher: Ragbagger Press (November 25, 2014) Language: English ISBN-10: 0976127563 ISBN-13: 978-0976127567 Synopsis From Michael Hurley, winner of the Somerset Prize for his debut novel, THE PRODIGAL, comes a complex and ambitious, allegorical tale of old money, young passion and ancient mystery […]

Spotlight: Eternal Vigilance by Gabrielle Faust @Gabrielle_Faust

  Synopsis After a century-long Sleep, Tynan Llywelyn has awoken to find the world he once knew utterly obliterated by a brutal war of epic proportions. In a new apocalyptic society bitterly divided by magic and technology, the Tyst Empire has found that a hundred years of global domination is not enough to sate their […]