Category: women

Review – The Midwives’ Escape by Maggie Anton

  Synopsis An Egyptian mother and daughter, Asenet and Shifra, a midwife and her apprentice, wake up on the morning of the tenth plague to find Asenet’s husband and son, both firstborns, dead. Asenet’s sister Pua, married to a Hebrew, urges Asenet’s family to leave Egypt with them, which they reluctantly do, along with Asenet’s […]

Review – And They Had a Great Fall by Shelby Saville

  Synopsis For fans of Robinne Lee’s The Idea of You, a debut contemporary romance about a celebrity and a single mother who push and pull against each other as they teeter between a carrying on a secret affair and living an authentic life. If Jake Laurent is the “human equivalent of Friday,” Kat Green is […]

Excerpt – The Dream Lives On by Valeriya Goffe

  Synopsis When the war starts in Ukraine, a finance professor Viktor Yurchenko decides to flee to the US together with his elderly mother and three young kids (his wife passed away). They miraculously escape out of their small town, Irpin’, under the raining Russian missiles and through the improvised bridge across the freezing river. […]

Excerpt – North Country by Sarah Branson

    Synopsis Four women, each with a secret. None will return from the North Country unchanged. North Country takes place in the year 2372, a time when Earth is recovering from floods, fires, pandemics, and war. Amidst this post-apocalyptic world, the pirate nation of Bosch is thriving—but not without its complications. The focus is […]

Excerpt – Scandalous in Huntington Beach by Melody DeBlois

    Synopsis Bennett Browning has spent his life planning for success, but nothing prepares him for fatherhood—especially when he learns of his daughter’s existence only after his ex’s tragic passing. A politician on the rise, Bennett’s carefully curated life is thrown into chaos as he struggles to care for an infant he never knew […]

Review & Excerpt – Goddess Game by Sheila Lee Brown

    Synopsis What if you always knew the safest path—until suddenly, you didn’t? Bethany Hart has spent her life using a secret superpower: the ability to see possible futures and choose the least risky path through any social situation. For decades, she’s avoided conflict, surprises, and heartbreak, crafting a quiet, predictable life. But when […]

Review & Giveaway – Home to Comfort by Kimberly Fish

  HOME TO COMFORT By Kimberly Fish   Women’s Fiction / Contemporary / Cozy Mystery Publisher: Fish Tales Publishing Pages: 382 Publication Date: October 10, 2024   Synopsis Gloria Bachman has pivoted so many times this year she has whiplash. Now, in the middle of winter and drenched in Mexican sunshine at a five-star resort, […]

Review – Three Days in June by Anne Tyler

  Synopsis A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant an inept mother of the bride attempts to navigate the days before and after her daughter’s wedding. Gail Baines is long divorced from her husband, Max, and not especially close to her grown daughter, Debbie. Today is the day before Debbie’s wedding. To […]

Review – The Snowbirds by Christina Clancy

    Synopsis The Last Thing He Told Me meets Fleishman Is in Trouble in this page-turning story of a couple who flee winter in the Midwest for Palm Springs, where they find their relationship at a crossroads. Kim and Grant are at a turning point. A couple for thirty years, their “separate but together” partnership is running […]

Review – The Space Between Secrets by Sheri Langer

  Synopsis In her forties and desperately yearning to be a mother, Rachel Sutton is devastated each month by a negative pregnancy test. Her marriage is on the rocks, but she believes a child will fill the hole in her heart. Life seems bitterly unfair until Rachel is presented with an opportunity to adopt a […]