Category: women

Guest Post – Unearthed by Chanchal Garg

  Synopsis In this searing memoir, Chanchal Garg reveals the spiritual and sexual abuse that shattered her sense of self and forced her to question a life defined by duty and sacrifice. Raised as a devoted Indian daughter, she was taught never to question authority-until a transformative moment during a yoga class, while pregnant with […]

Review & Giveaway – Higher Love by Joanne Kukanza Easley

  Higher Love By Joanne Kukanza Easley   Women’s Literary Fiction Publisher: Red Boots Press Pages: 380 Publication Date: May 12, 2025     Synopsis Higher Love – the new release from Joanne Kukanza Easley, the multi-award-winning author of Sweet Jane, Just One Look, and I’ll Be Seeing You. In 1986 Austin, Texas, sixteen-year-old Stephanie […]

Excerpt – Smoke on the Wind by Kelli Estes

  Synopsis In the magnificent Scottish Highlands, two devoted mothers separated by centuries discover a haunting connection in a gripping novel by the USA Today bestselling author of The Girl Who Wrote in Silk. Struggling with the tragic end of her marriage, Keaka Denney is on a bittersweet adventure in Scotland with her son, Colin. […]

Review – Confessions of a Grammar Queen by Eliza Knight

  Synopsis There are no female publishing CEOs in 1960s New York. And that is exactly what savvy, ambitious Bernadette Swift plans to change. Bernadette Swift, a young copyeditor at Lenox & Park Publishing, is determined to become the first female CEO in the publishing industry. But first, she needs to take the next step […]

Review & Giveaway – The Sun’s Shadow by Sejal Badani

  Synopsis “A captivating story… richly woven narrative with vivid characters. A perfect story.” From the bestselling author of The Storyteller’s Secret comes an unflinching exploration of betrayal, forgiveness, and the healing power of a second chance. Celine’s life is spiraling out of control. She’s in danger of losing the beloved equestrian farm that was her childhood […]

Excerpt – A Stone’s Throw by Alida Winternheimer

  Synopsis Two women who never meet, a motherless child and childless mother, are brought together to discover the real magic of creation. Simona Casale, a Minneapolis artist, learns she’s pregnant the same day she lands a major mural installation at a new women’s center. No problem; she can take on a surprise pregnancy and […]

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 […]

Excerpt & Guest Post – Raising the Dead by Jayne Lisbeth

    Synopsis Emeline Upswatch, a naive 20-year-old bride, is grief-stricken after the deaths of both of her beloved parents. Now, Emeline believes she has made a grave error in moving with her husband, Randy, from her California Delta childhood home to unknown Charles Town, Virginia. She questions her marriage and herself. Marooned in grief […]

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 […]