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: […]
Category: Historical
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, […]
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 & Giveaway – Parade of Secrets by Kimberly Fish
PARADE OF SECRETS A Lane Hayes Mystery By Kimberly Fish Historical Mystery / Female Sleuth Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing Publication Date: October 31, 2025 Pages: 341 Synopsis Layers of history, suspense, and emotion. March, 1948. Lane Mercer Hayes, and her husband, Zeke, have that post-war life that everyone envies. His winning […]
Guest Post & Giveaway – Zachary by Shirley Miller Kamada
Synopsis Zachary Whitlock knows sheep. He knows farming and knows what it’s like to have his best friend forced into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. What he does not know much about is goats and traveling by sea on cargo ships, yet he makes a decision to go with a group of volunteers […]
Guest Post & Excerpt – One Foot in the Ether by Kayleigh Kavanagh
Synopsis Demdike and Chattox, famed witches of Pendle Forest, might be dead, but they’re not gone. Bound to their bloodline, they’ve spent the past two and a half centuries watching over their descendants, waiting for when they’ll be needed. When 14 year old Yana comes into her psychic abilities and inherits the ‘eyes […]
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 […]
Review – These Heathens by Mia McKenzie
Synopsis From the “razor-sharp and outrageously funny” (Taylor Jenkins Reid) mind of Mia McKenzie comes a vibrant novel exploring how one weekend can change your whole life. Dear Lord, please forgive me for the sins I’ve committed. And for the one I’m still planning to commit tomorrow. Amen. Where do you get an abortion […]
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 […]
Review – Orphans of the Living by Kathy Watson
Synopsis A debut historical fiction for fans of Kristin Hannah and John Steinbeck, Orphans of the Living follows the Stovall family’s early 20th-century quest for home and redemption as they confront racism, poverty, and inequality across the American South and West. In the shadow of the Great Depression and Jim Crow south of the […]