Ada and her friends are playing games at the neighborhood club and watching the kids play in the water off the Turkish shoreline. This has been their daily routine for as long as any of them can remember, but Ada knows it won’t last much longer – they are all growing up and starting lives … Continue reading Holiday Country
It was a call Alma never wanted to get, but always thought would come – her sister was dead. The officer who called was short on details other than Alma’s teenaged niece was there at the scene and saw her mother dead on the ground. Alma makes quick plans to come home to deal with … Continue reading The Home Place
Maggie’s whole world is falling apart. The guy she’s been dating is hiding something, the Big Apple restaurant job she loves isn’t quite living up to expectations, and now her mom and grandma have been in a horrible accident. Mom’s OK, but the matriarch of the family is in a coma and she is called … Continue reading My Magnolia Summer
Thank you NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Arliss Cutter has a reputation for tracking fugitives in the Alaskan wilderness. He can tell the direction of travel, determine if there are any injuries, and more just by observing their footfall and the surroundings. But when … Continue reading Bad River
Adair Colley is sitting in a damp, dark prison cell. Her family was ripped apart by the Civil War: her father beaten and taken away for being an enemy sympathizer, her brother fighting for one side, and Adair was separated from her sisters when another refugee family gave false testimony against her in return for … Continue reading Enemy Women
In a unique choice, this book will be releasing on Thursday instead of the usual Tuesday this week. Check out our review of Ladies' Day and grab your copy Thursday! Thank you NetGalley and CamCat Books for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Sky is a golf phenom – she’s … Continue reading RELEASING THURSDAY: Ladies’ Day
In 2019, journalist Ben Raines made international headlines for a story he didn’t just investigate and report, but for the mystery he solved. The Last Slave Ship to offload its human cargo onto American soil was the Clotilda in 1860 in the Mobile River delta. The importation of slaves had been an international crime for … Continue reading The Last Slave Ship
James Madison was a statesman well before his election as the fourth President of the United States. Kevin R.C .Gutzman’s biography James Madison and the Making of America recounts the personal turmoil and strength of character behind the early days of our country. Between his part in writing The Federalist Papers and his work in … Continue reading James Madison and the Making of America
Two men in love with the same woman. A man coming to terms with his wife and daughter moving on and moving away from him. A family grieving so many losses but finding purpose in their pain. These are the three stories contained in Jim Harrison’s Legends of the Fall, a collection of novellas about … Continue reading Legends of the Fall
Thank you NetGalley and Make Waves Press for sending this book for review consideration. All opinions are my own. Katie just got a whole new start to life – her daughter started her freshman year of college and, instead of having an empty nest, she’s starting life as a newly married woman in Florida with … Continue reading The Cicada Spring
