Category: women

Review – Weyward by Emilia Hart @EmiliaHartBooks #netgalley #newrelease

    Synopsis   I am a Weyward, and wild inside. 2019: Under cover of darkness, Kate flees London for ramshackle Weyward Cottage, inherited from a great aunt she barely remembers. With its tumbling ivy and overgrown garden, the cottage is worlds away from the abusive partner who tormented Kate. But she begins to suspect […]

Review – Will There Be Wine? by Whitney Cubbison #paris #romance #newrelease

    Synopsis   Austen Keller was living her dream. She landed a career-defining job which moved her and her husband to Paris. <Swoon!> Shortly thereafter, she was divorced. This wasn’t the plan. Yet there she was—pushing 40 and starting over. A decade after she’d last been single, Austen enters the dating scene playing by […]

Excerpt – The Key to Circus-Mom Highway by Allyson Rice @CircusMomHwy #PUYB #womensfiction

        Synopsis   In an attempt to secure an unexpected inheritance—and hopefully find a few answers—two estranged sisters and their newly discovered brother embark on a comically surreal trip through the Deep South to retrace the life of the mother who abandoned them as infants. On a Tuesday afternoon, sisters Jesse Chasen […]

Review – Exit Wounds by Annie O’Neill Stein #fiction #literary

    Synopsis   Born to shanty Irish on one side and Park Avenue privilege on the other, Laura navigates a turbulent childhood filled with the alcohol-fueled abuse of her volatile father and her mother’s excessive drinking. As the middle child of three girls, she assigns herself the role of her mother’s protector, who dies […]