Barbara Oliverio’s Passports and Plum Blossoms is delightfully funny. Meet Annalise Fontana, known by her father as the “gypsy.” Surrounded by family and friends, Annalise sits as an outsider at a wedding. Wallowing in self-pity, she pronounces deep within her soul, the bride...

In an extremely promising start to a series, Pam of Babylon, by author Suzanne Jenkins, the reader is introduced to quite an interesting scenario. When Pam's husband Jack dies suddenly from a massive heart attack, the secrets he's been keeping come to the surface. Finding...

Lizz Lund brings back the cooking addicted Mina Kitchen for yet another kooky adventure in Perfectly Pickled. This time Mina decides to give up cooking for a full-time job where she is literally surrounded by dead people. She fights to reorganize her life around the...

Hot, fun, and in parts, heartbreaking. Those are the words I would use to describe Promise to Love, the recent release by author Melissa Silvey. Follow the story of 19-year-old student Heather as she does all she can to support herself and pay for college...

Praise Her, Praise Diana by Anne Rothman-Hicks and Ken Hicks is a book which has two realities, one of the anti-hero Diana and the second of her creator Maggie Edwards. Maggie Edwards is sitting in a business meeting where she is being pressured for a...

We are introduced to the heroine, Anna-Kate, on possibly the worst day of her young life. After receiving a brief but to the point text ending a four-year relationship, Anna-Kate feels dejected, even though she knew Jared wasn’t the man for her. Sarahbeth Caplin describes...

Maggie makes assumptions based on a glimpse of an interaction and changes the course of her life as well as her views on love and relationships. She abruptly leaves her first love, Thomas, behind and for the most part, gives up on love altogether. That...

Petty Cash by Kimberly Vargas gives us a glimpse of what goes on in the corporate world. On her 5th anniversary as an assistant at Blue Chip Financial, Rebecca Blake thinks that she will be promoted to Project Manager. However, Dr. Albert Noble, her boss,...

"Patchwork of Me" by Gregory G. Allen begins with Sara’s odd dream, in which she was married to Carol and they had a child that died from a shark attack. The recurring dream caused her to question her sexuality although she was very sexually active....

Pairs focuses on the lives of four individuals who meet and have their own personal problems they are contending with, all the while living in the shadow of a grown-up fairy tale looking toward the happily-ever-after: a single mother eking out a meager living at...