Category: Spotlight

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Turning Towards Eden by Cate Touryan

    Turning Toward Eden Young Adult Mystery/General Fiction: Coming of Age, Historical Mystery, Literary Setting – California 1971 Publisher ‏ : ‎ Winged Publications Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 6, 2025 Print length ‏ : ‎ 350 pages Synopsis “Chasing the truth, huh? Sure you’re not running from it?” Hollis might be her […]

Excerpt – Where the Heart Is and Other Stories by Jim Bates

  Synopsis The uneventful lives of everyday people? Look again. Captivating characters entertain and delight us as we read their stories that are deep, rich and interesting. The reader is introduced to everyday people whose lives are seemingly uneventful on the outside but are captivating and colourful nevertheless. You will certainly find the heart in […]

Time Travel Spotlight – The Winding Road by John A. Heldt

  Synopsis Southeast Pennsylvania, November 1777. For Noah and Jake Maclean, the saga gets real. One year after the brothers entered a time portal and traded the computer age for the colonial age, they rush headlong into the American Revolution. Noah, 23, rides off to war. Against the wishes of his fiancée, Abigail Ward, he […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Murder on the Books by T.C. Lotempio

    Murder on the Books (A Cozy Bookshop Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Pennsylvania Publisher ‏ : ‎ Severn House Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 1, 2025 Hardcover Print length ‏ : ‎ 240 pages Synopsis Newly retired mystery writer Charley James returns to her small hometown only to find […]

Fiction Spotlight – Trespassers and Other Stories by Aine Greaney

  Synopsis From coastal Massachusetts to rural Ireland, the characters in Trespassers struggle to reconcile past and present, place and displacement, loss and hope. A woman travels from her Massachusetts home to her native Irish village to care for her estranged and sick father. Back in her childhood home, she comes face-to-face with previously unspoken […]

Spotlight – Cupid on the Loose by John J. Jacobson

  Synopsis From the author of All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone and California Fever comes a romantic comedy about the exuberant intoxication of amore and its often hilarious antics. Aspiring author Billy Spiers tends to fall passionately in love, but soon, finding something missing, fall quickly out again. His grandmother, who raised him, thinks he […]

Mystery Spotlight & Giveaway – Murder Movie Club by Marcy Blesy

    Murder Movie Club: Murder on a Monday (Monthly Murder Movie Club Cozy Mystery) Cozy Mystery 1st in Series Setting – Michigan Independently Published (February 21, 2025) Print length ‏ : ‎ 119 pages Synopsis Murder: best served with popcorn. That’s the mantra for the members of the Monthly Murder Movie Club at The […]

Short Story New Release – The River Keeper and Other Tales by Nancy Joie Wilkie

    Synopsis This collection of seven short stories takes the reader to the Kingdom of Imlay, a coastal realm still filled with magic and mythical creatures great and small. Characters such as the inquisitive Ya, the precocious Aurora, and an ambitious, future-seeking King face monumental decisions that will affect those they hold dear. Along […]

Fiction Spotlight – The Border Between Us by Rudy Ruiz

  THE BORDER BETWEEN US By Rudy Ruiz   Literary Fiction Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Pages: 256 Publication Date: August 27, 2024   Synopsis The Border Between Us is a poignant coming-of-age novel from one of the most exciting voices in fiction. Ramón López was born along the US–Mexico border but is determined to get out […]