A generation later, Legend of the Great Dragon picks up and delivers the series finale when the prophecy hinted and stated throughout the series finally comes to pass. Mikko, the granddaughter of the pair in book one, Legend of the Oceina Dragon and daughter of the pair in book four, Legend of […]
What’s a guy to do when his husband of many years ups and leaves? Ted’s about to find out and goes on one reflective and startling heartwarming journey along the way. The Secret Life of Albert Entwhistle caught my eye when it published and I thought I would enjoy Matt Cain’s writing, but not until […]
As war rages across Europe, North Africa, and the Pacific, a married woman with her husband overseas tries to keep the home fires burning for herself and her children all while a serial killer is taking out the women Rosies working the factories of Seattle. Kevin O’Brien is a known mystery writer to me for […]
A researcher and her coworkers take a DNA test and a sister she never knew she had messages her from Puerto Rico. Familia is part women’s fiction and part mystery and I was all intrigued for a mystery story set in Puerto Rico. Lauren Rico introduces her book with an explanation of how it came […]
A story based on a real life woman writer, Irmgard Keun, who dared to stand against the Nazis? I couldn’t not enthusiastically take up The Novelist From Berlin by a new to me author about her own original heroine, Marie ‘Niki’ Rittenhaus. The Novelist From Berlin opens with a prologue from a seventy-one year old […]
A house full of ghosts and old, dark family secrets and a woman who realizes the answers are locked inside her shadowy memories of the past. Dark and ominous, my first bout with Shannon Morgan’s Gothic Fiction will not be my last. Her Little Flowers is a ghost story that is seated in a fifty […]
Always alpha, protective, and hot for a woman unlike any he has met before, Kristen Ashley’s dark Knight might be just the man for a good, hardworking woman who can’t see her own beauty and worth. The first of the Unfinished Hero series was one I’ve been wanting to read for a while. Anya Gage […]
Eight brief letters, amounting to less than a thousand words, doing little more than introduce a handful of characters that make up the piece of Jane Austen Juvenilia upon which this delightful romp of a tale is based. The author gleaned what details might be had and expanded them into a full amusing story. This […]
The Oysterville Sewing Circle came to my attention in a review. I’m sorry I can’t remember where. So I entered a Goodreads giveaway for a paperback copy. Because of my personal rules, this meant I needed to read it and write a review. What a gift it was to me! I couldn’t remember if this […]
I finally managed to read this book I won in a giveaway earlier in the year. Fallen Mountains follows a few old friends since childhood in a small town when one goes missing. I love the way the characters are developed with none being perfect; they all have their human failings. It has a very […]