Synopsis Paul’s teachers say he’s distracted, and they’re not wrong. With the demands of a struggling farm, Allied boots in Europe, and secrets surrounding his mother’s death, who can blame him? And the expectations of his father are seemingly unachievable. When a financial windfall sparks a rags-to-riches transformation, […]
Category: fiction
Review – All We Were Promised by Ashton Lattimore
April 7, 2024
Synopsis The paths of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia unexpectedly—and dangerously—collide in this debut novel inspired by the explosive history of a divided city. Philadelphia, 1837. After Charlotte escaped from the crumbling White Oaks plantation down South, she’d expected freedom to feel different from her former life as […]
SHAHRAZAD’S GIFT by Gretchen McCullough Contemporary Fiction / Linked Short Stories / Humor Publisher: Cune Press Date of Publication: February 20, 2024 Number of Pages: 198 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! Shahrazad’s Gift is a collection of linked short stories set in contemporary […]
Excerpt – Dreamers by James Bates
April 1, 2024
Synopsis Overlapping memories, overlapping lives, wide open spaces, and soft but sometimes heart-breaking reminiscences, with the mighty Mississippi running through it all — let Jim Bates take you on rich, human, intertwining journeys into a landscape of souls where you can glimpse beauty and peace, longing and contentment, the burden of past decisions […]
Review & #Giveaway – To Rescue a Witch by Lisa A. Traugott
March 25, 2024
TO RESCUE A WITCH by Lisa A. Traugott Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure / Witch Trials Page Count: 398 pages Publication Date: March 1, 2024 It’s 1739. An abused girl accused of witchcraft must be defended by a man married to an actual […]
Synopsis In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges, the death of her grandmother brings a young woman home, where she must face the past in order to become the heir of not just the family restaurant, but her own destiny. Violeta […]
New Release – Pierce by Patrick B. Simpson
March 11, 2024
Synopsis When janitor Truman Pierce isn’t listening to his classical jazz records, he stays under the radar and keeps to himself. Nothing much happens in his world until popular college instructor Danielle Hutchins asks him out. The day after their first date, Pierce finds Danielle murdered in her classroom. With only a […]
Review – Rag Lady by Susie Black
March 10, 2024
Synopsis Recent college graduate Holly Schlivnik dreams of being a writer, but fate has other plans. A family crisis throws her into an improbable situation, and her life will never be the same. Determined to make her own luck when things don’t happen the way she plans, the irrepressible young woman takes […]
Excerpt – After Camus by Jay Neugeboren
February 21, 2024
Synopsis A troubled marriage and love story set against the background of the AIDS pandemic and the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq lie at the heart of After Camus. Saul Davidoff and Tolle Riordan, who meet during a protest against the Vietnam War, marry, live through the Plague Years of the […]
Review & #Giveaway – Roses in December by Mark A. Gibson
February 16, 2024
Synopsis Jimmy Hamilton overcame childhood tragedy to become a hero in Vietnam, only to die there in 1967. All but forgotten, Jimmy leaves behind a young wife, an infant son, and a man wracked by guilt. Circumstances allow Becca, his young widow, to be manipulated into an abusive, loveless union […]