Category: Review

Review & #Giveaway – Lethal Standoff by DiAnn Mills

  LETHAL STANDOFF By DiAnn Mills   Contemporary Fiction / Christian Mystery & Suspense / Christian Romance Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pages: 368 Publication Date: September 3, 2024   Synopsis Hostage negotiator Carrington Reed faces her most dangerous challenge yet in Lethal Standoff. Called to a tense situation in South Texas, Carrington must save fifteen […]

New Release – Mysterious Ways by Wendy Wunder

  Synopsis A “sharp, hilarious, heartfelt” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon) coming-of-age tale about a girl who believes she’s God from award-winning author Wendy Wunder. Seventeen-year-old Maya knows things. When she looks at someone, she instantly knows everything about them: their history, their private thoughts, their secret desires, their most tragic failures. She walks […]

Review – Hidden in Her Heart by Thomas Dellenbusch

  Synopsis Summer of 1963 in Bavaria: Thoughtful and literary mobbing drama about an attractive stranger with a secret past. Translated Version from the popular German book series of Movie-Length-Stories: A young, attractive single mother moves into a small Lower Bavarian village in the Summer of 1963. She is not looking for a job, nor […]

Review – Rewrites of the Heart by Terry Newman

  Synopsis JJ Spritely, romance author, writes characters that jump off the page. Figuratively, that is. She never expects them to make a literal leap off the page and smack dab into her world. But Alex Zurich and Blake Teesdale do just that. And they’re on a mission to help JJ write her own personal […]

Review – The Divide by Morgan Richter

  Synopsis A failed actress turned grifting psychic searches for her missing doppelgänger and is plunged into a web of murder and corruption among Hollywood A-listers. When Jenny St. John was eighteen, she moved to Los Angeles from her rural midwestern hometown and scored the lead role in an independent film called The Divide. She […]

Review – Paths Not Yet Taken by Philip Rennett

  Synopsis Paths Not Yet Taken is a satirical contemporary fiction, encompassing political, military and religious themes alongside human relationships, the importance of pets and the inestimable value of a game of golf. In a Midlands food warehouse, a ministerial visit goes wrong when the prime minister disappears. The consequent nationwide search creates major issues […]

Excerpt & Guest Review – Sunny Gale by Jamie Lisa Forbes

  Synopsis When Hannah Brandt, who comes from a hardscrabble background in Ohio and Nebraska, first gets to ride a horse in 1895 at the age of 14, she realizes that there is no going back. . . Her destiny is to be a rodeo star and break new ground as a female bronco rider. […]

Review & #Giveaway – Hallow by M.R. Dimond

  HALLOW: A FRACTURED FAMILY TALE A Black Orchid Enterprises Mystery, Book #5 By M.R. Dimond Mystery / Cozy Mystery / Lawyers & Criminals Humor Publisher: Rock Rose Press Pages: 321 Publication Date: May 30, 2024 Synopsis Family: What you don’t know can kill you. Young Texas attorney JD Thompson enjoys his life in a […]

Review – Katharine’s Remarkable Road Trip by Gail Ward Olmsted

  Synopsis In the fall of 1907, Katharine decides to drive from Newport, Rhode Island to her new home in Jackson, New Hampshire. Despite the concerns of her family and friends that, at the age of 77, she lacks the stamina for the nearly 300-mile journey, Katharine sets out alone. Over the next six days, […]

Review & Excerpt – Make It Real by Nan Reinhardt

  Synopsis They were only faking it…. A landscape designer for his family’s construction firm, Joe Walker, is nearing completion on one of the most important projects of his career—gardens for spec homes that if they wow, Walker Construction will survive. When a freak accident sidelines him with a broken leg, the firm hires a competitor. […]