Category: Review

Review – Narcissi by Babette Fraser Hale

Narcissi: A Novel By Babette Fraser Hale   Women’s Fiction / Texas Fiction Publisher: Winedale Publishing Publication Date: October 15, 2026   Synopsis Ten women fall for Cole Burnett, a traveling Texas writer. He is the kind of man whose need for freedom should send lovers running in the opposite direction. But he has a […]

Review – Evie Walters Takes the Wheel by Kathleen Fox

    Synopsis In this warmhearted and witty debut, a mysterious gift spurs a widow to take a cross-country journey to find its sender―and along the way, she rediscovers herself. Evie Walters has lived most of her seventy-one years according to others’ expectations. But on the day of her husband’s funeral, she receives an anonymous […]

Review – The Salt Widow by Teresa Crowe

  Synopsis Truth is a tide. You can’t keep it from coming in. When Janessa “Nessa” Douglas inherits her grandmother’s house in Mystic Beach on the Chesapeake Bay, she intends to sell it and never look back. The locals still whisper about her grandmother, Elspeth, who wrote strange fairy tales about women who kept dangerous […]

Review & Giveaway – Vacancy by Jann Alexander

  VACANCY: Secrets and Second Chances in Small-Town Texas By Jann Alexander   Women’s Fiction / Mystery and Crime Publisher: Black Rose Writing Publication Date: September 24, 2026     Synopsis A struggling single mother and a suspicious widow, at odds. Both have a habit of hiding from hard truths. INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS Helen […]

New Release & Review – The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi

  Synopsis The new novel from acclaimed, three-time instant #1 New York Times–bestselling author Tomi Adeyemi blends shocking contemporary storytelling with a sinister dark academic flair to create a blockbuster about rage, longing, and a woman’s darkness that will leave readers breathless. Nothing is more intoxicating than power. . . When Emery steps foot onto […]

New Release & Review – Sugar Sand Land by Patricia Leavy

  Synopsis For fans of Ashley Poston and Abby Jimenez, a contemporary romance—with a twist—about a media-savvy reality television star and a canceled country singer. Twenty-eight-year-old beauty Emerson Blue is the second most followed celebrity on social media. A self-proclaimed “living piece of art” who rose to fame as a reality star and then parlayed […]

Review – The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew by Denise Heinze

  Synopsis Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew-the wife of Virginia’s first two governors-puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. When she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609, Temperance Flowerdew […]

Review & Giveaway – And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by WM Gunn

  And The Walls Came Tumbling Down By W.M. Gunn   Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family Saga Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: September 15, 2026   Synopsis And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American […]

Review & Excerpt – The Parliament of Crows by Elliot Wren

  Synopsis In Castres, France, Lucie Archambault has come home to begin again. A respected art conservator and recent widow, she has traded the pace of Paris for the quieter rhythms of the Goya Museum, the Saturday market, and a town she once thought she knew. But when Émile Bonnafous, a beloved antiques dealer and […]

Review – The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya

  Synopsis In a city on the brink of revolution, science and passion offer their own strains of violence. Petrograd, 1916 After her aristocratic family’s fall from fortune, Mariya is desperate to survive – and to support her widowed mother and sisters. Matters alleviate when she finds work as an assistant to Dr. Nikolas Rodin, […]