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Excerpt – What Was Lost by Melissa Connelly

  Synopsis Reminiscent of Hello Beautiful and The Lying Life of Adults, this powerful narrative delves into social changes from 1970 to 2000 and captures a woman’s journey in a pre-#MeToo era via the tale of a mother who returns to her hometown to face the perpetrator of her childhood abuse. When a young girl feels complicit in […]

Excerpt – Secret Sky by T. Alan Horne

    Synopsis The stars speak in a language of secrets, yet their stories cannot remain hidden forever. Billions of years ago, on one of the first-ever Earths, a boy named Skylar will walk away from his home for the last time. Beset by dreams where he flies through the early universe as a sentient […]

Review – The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

  Synopsis It’s never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist Augusta Stern is adrift. When she relocates to Rallentando Springs—an active senior community in southern Florida—she unexpectedly crosses paths with Irving Rivkin, the delivery boy from her father’s old pharmacy—and the man who broke her heart sixty […]

Spotlight & Giveaway – The Duchess of Kokora by Nikhil Prabala

  The Duchess of Kokora By Nikhil Prabala LGBTQ+ / YA / Humorous Fantasy / Romantasy Publisher: Grand Press Pages: 442 Publication Date: August 8, 2024   Synopsis The Duchess of Kokora, Phera Ylir Mdana, has entered the marriage games of the neighboring kingdom of Ryene. But she’s not there to woo the dashing Prince […]

Guest Review & Giveaway – That Day and What Came After by Rebecca Daniels

    Synopsis What if you came home one day and found your husband dead in his favorite chair? This grief memoir explores the author’s experience of the unexpected death of her husband from sudden cardiac arrest a mere three months after his doctors had pronounced him hale and healthy. The author shares her experiences […]

Review – My Year of Casual Acquaintances by Ruth F. Stevens

    Synopsis When Mar Meyer’s husband divorces her for another woman, she reacts by abandoning everything in her past: her home, her friends, even her name. Though it’s not easy to start over, Mar is young-looking, fit, and ready for new adventures – as long as she can keep things casual. With each passing […]

New Release & Interview – A Wolff in the Family by Francine Falk-Allen

  Synopsis Based on a true story, A Wolff in the Family is a riveting saga of prejudice, passion, and revenge, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Four Winds. What mysterious scandals led a father to abandon the youngest of his children—and for the elder siblings to keep their shame a secret for eighty […]

Review – Not What She Seems by Yasmin Angoe

  Synopsis She left home as the local pariah at twenty-two, but when a family tragedy brings her back, she must confront her tortured past—and a new danger in town that no one seems to understand but her. After years of self-exile, Jacinda “Jac” Brodie is back in Brook Haven, South Carolina. But the small […]

Excerpt – The Merry Matchmaker by Sheila Roberts

    Synopsis Frankie Lane knows what’s best for just about everyone but herself. Her divorced sister, Stef, who is too young to give up on love; her shy employee, Elinor; and her daughter, Natalie, who works in Frankie’s shop, Holiday Happiness, and really needs to start her own business selling the delectable chocolates she […]

Giveaway – In the Mad Mountains by Joe R. Lansdale

    IN THE MAD MOUNTAINS By Joe R. Lansdale Fiction / Horror Publisher: Tachyon Publications Pages: 256 Publication Date: October 15, 2024   Synopsis Eleven-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Joe R. Lansdale (Bubba Ho-tep) returns with this wicked short story collection of his irreverent Lovecraftian tributes. Lansdale is terrifyingly down-home while merging his classic gonzo […]