Category: Texas

New Release & Excerpt – Mother May I by Harry Hunsicker

  Synopsis She lost everything. Except the will to fight. When former CIA operative Meg Dalton learns a shocking clue suggests her long-missing daughter might still be alive, she’s forced into a desperate, high-stakes search for the truth. Fifteen years after little Ivy vanished without a trace at a Texas fair, Meg has built a […]

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 & 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 […]

Review & Giveaway – Sinister Remnants by Anita Dickason

    Sinister Remnants: (A Tori Winters Mystery) Cozy Mystery 4th in Series Setting – Texas Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mystic Circle Books Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 26, 2026 Print length ‏ : ‎ 380 pages Synopsis The Past Leaves Traces! Some Turn Deadly! Ambushed during a press tour of the new Red […]

Spotlight – Mirage by Tony Burnett

    Synopsis Mirage is a gritty crime thriller set in South Texas, where the desert sun burns the truth into the earth and the shadows hide what official reports never dare to tell. The story plunges readers into the seedy and violent underworld of human smuggling, cartel influence, corrupt government officials, and the hidden systems that allow […]

Excerpt – Frantic by Brent Bradley

      The growing power of AI—and the veiled forces advancing it—drives the tension in FRANTIC by Brent Bradley. What begins as an unsettling session inside a prison quickly expands into a high-stakes chase across Texas, where psychological insight becomes a weapon and every new discovery intensifies the countdown. Dr. Brian Heiser dismisses most […]

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 […]

Excerpt – The Big Dry by Patrick Dearen

  Synopsis In this standalone sequel to The Big Drift—winner of five awards including the Spur Award of Western Writers of America—Patrick Dearen explores race relations against the backdrop of the Big Dry, a devastating drought in the 1880s in Texas. Zeke Boles, a black cowhand, awaits hanging in North Texas for a murder he didn’t […]

New Release & Excerpt – Unspoken by Jann Alexander

  Synopsis A farm devastated. A dream destroyed. A family scattered. And one Texas girl determined to salvage the wreckage. Ruby Lee Becker can’t breathe. It’s 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl, and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. […]

Excerpt – Snow Much Love by Donna Snow King

  Synopsis The roads Donna has traveled throughout her life – some boring and some not so boring – have formed the person she is today. Each road had a side trail that led her to many adventures, resulting in life-changing experiences. Growing up a house mover’s daughter had its challenges. The hardest one to […]