A banged up former Pro Rodeo bull rider inherits a ranch in Texas and meets a friendly diner waitress, two wounded hearts cross paths in this first in series small town contemporary romance sprinkled with some indigenous magical realism. I was introduced to Sharon Sala’s writing when I began reading her Blessings, Georgia series and […]
A company lab tech knows something she shouldn’t about the crash of the company’s new prototype ship and this lands her a one-way ticket into a war zone between the Regals and Tech-wavers and a conspiracy that leads straight to the throne. Jennifer Estep is a long-time established author of urban fantasy, fantasy, and sci-fi […]
I’m a long time fan of this author for their exceptional wordcraft. The word choices evoke senses and emotions. It’s a sensory feast to read their stories. If I Told You, I’d Have to Kiss You is a F/F romance. It is a stand alone in a group of standalones in this genre. The descriptions […]
The first book I ever read by Jojo Moyes left me a snot-sobbing mess. Now, whenever I pick up one of her novels, I am just a little fearful that I’m going to be put through the emotional wringer. So when my sister suggested I read We All Live Here, I’d prepared myself for anything. […]
Her First Mistake starts a new Noelle Marshall series in the same world as at least two other series. She works with Evan Bolton from the Columbia River series, which is a mix of stories utilizing characters from some of the author’s other series or supporting characters. She was in a book as a side […]
I have really been enjoying the Mossa & Pleiti series with two women normally in an academic setting mystery. Mossa is an investigator who is good at her work, but very uncertain in social circumstance. I’d almost say she is autistic but Pleiti also has the hesitation about things in their relationship. Pleiti is an […]
I read the trilogy which started the Kingmaker Chronicles series. Cat and Griffin were the main characters there. Now we are getting stories from the rest of Team Alpha. I enjoyed the mythology, gods and creatures. I wanted to see what happened with the characters. In the novella, Of Fate & Fire, we learn about […]
An anonymous piece of mail containing a picture of a woman dressed in the jewels recovered from the famous Troy archeological dig herald a new Christmas time adventure for Vicky Bliss. Elizabeth Peters continues the fun mystery series with the wise-cracking, gorgeous, but very clever Art Historian, her eccentric German boss, and a gentleman thief […]
Nora Roberts and January LaVoy are a favorite combination of excellent work. Romantic suspense is a favorite genre with the multiple emotional pulls from the romance and the suspense and thrill of the mystery. Hidden Nature has many other great themes with families, home renovation work, good cooking, gardening, natural resource law enforcement and dogs. […]
A story set in a world where some live in a land floating through the sky, others live on the mortal plane and then some live in darkness, in the underworld. All these worlds collide in The Floating World when, Ren, girl in hiding from those who would kill her in the Float City, uses […]