Category: contemporary

Book Review: Sophie’s Path by Catherine Lanigan

Book Review: Sophie’s Path by Catherine Lanigan

Posted July 8, 2016 / 2 Comments

Nurse Sophie Mattuchi has seen a lot of angry patients in the ER, but no one’s ever rattled her like Jack Carter. He has no right to blame her for his friend’s death. Sophie did everything she could. Didn’t she? Yet his accusations sting, and that sets off all kinds […]


Book Review: Under an Adirondack Sky by Karen Rock

Book Review: Under an Adirondack Sky by Karen Rock

Posted July 7, 2016 / 10 Comments

Can he juggle everything…including her? After raising his siblings and running the family pub for more than a decade, Aiden Walsh has set his own dreams aside. Until the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen stumbles into his bar, and his arms. Too bad Rebecca Day is the school psychologist […]


Book Review: Seek and Find by Dana Mentink

Book Review: Seek and Find by Dana Mentink

Posted July 6, 2016 / 10 Comments

Reporter Madison Coles wants to write an exposé on the crime spree rocking Desert Valley, Arizona—but the small town’s residents and police are tight-lipped. Even when Madison herself is attacked, the only help she can get is protection from rookie K-9 officer James Harrison and his trusty bloodhound. Suspicious of […]


Book Review: The Things We Knew by Catherine West

Book Review: The Things We Knew by Catherine West

Posted July 5, 2016 / 25 Comments

After her mother’s death twelve years ago, Lynette Carlisle watched her close-knit family unravel. One by one, her four older siblings left their Nantucket home and never returned. All seem to harbor animosity toward their father, silently blaming him for their mother’s death. Nobody will talk about that dreadful day, […]


Book Review: Seaside Secrets by Dana Mentink

Book Review: Seaside Secrets by Dana Mentink

Posted July 5, 2016 / 2 Comments

Navy chaplain Angela Gallagher wants to put the past behind her, but she’s still haunted by the wartime death of her assistant. So when his brother claims he’s in danger and pleads for her to use her family’s private detective company’s resources to help him stay alive, she can’t turn […]


Book Review: Emergency Response by Susan Sleeman

Book Review: Emergency Response by Susan Sleeman

Posted July 3, 2016 / 2 Comments

On her way to visit a little girl she recently helped save, paramedic Darcie Stephens is attacked by a stranger dead-set on killing her. She escapes unscathed when detective Noah Lockhart comes to her rescue, but an officer finds a hit list dropped by the assailant—and Darcie’s name is next. […]


Book Review: Love, Lace, and Minor Alterations by V. Joy Palmer

Book Review: Love, Lace, and Minor Alterations by V. Joy Palmer

Posted July 1, 2016 / 18 Comments

Isabel “Izze” Vez, bridal consultant extraordinaire, has been helping brides find The Dress for years. She loves nothing more than helping make wedding dreams come true…but sometimes the happy endings grate on her. How many times can a girl discover someone else’s gown without dreaming of the day it’ll be […]


Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Jilted by Varina Denman

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Jilted by Varina Denman

Posted June 30, 2016 / 27 Comments

Lynda Turner has struggled with depression since her husband abandoned her and their young daughter fifteen years ago. Yet unexpected hope awakens when a local ex-convict shows interest. As long-hidden secrets resurface, Lynda must fight for her emotional stability and for a life where the shadow of shame is replaced […]


Book Review: The Girl He Used to Love by Amy Vastine

Book Review: The Girl He Used to Love by Amy Vastine

Posted June 30, 2016 / 8 Comments

The past will always be between them He swore he’d never return home. Then a flat tire lands Dean Presley back in Grass Lake, Tennessee, and he’s forced to confront the woman he left behind. Faith Stratton was once the love of his life. Now her gifted brother could be […]


Book Review: When I Found You by Kate James

Book Review: When I Found You by Kate James

Posted June 29, 2016 / 19 Comments

Is she part of the solution…or the problem? It could be a terrorist threat. Or is it some other sinister plot? An unprecedented rash of security breaches at San Diego’s international airport is putting passengers at risk and bringing the competence of the airport’s chief of security, Ariana Atkins, into […]


Book Review: Devil’s Island by Ron Hall

Book Review: Devil’s Island by Ron Hall

Posted June 27, 2016 / 1 Comment

30-something medical equipment salesman Ray Feldman and the rest of his colleagues have just been laid off thanks to a business restructuring.  He’s not sure what he’ll do next, but he trusts that God has a plan which He will reveal to Ray in due time. Nineteen-year-old Joe Ryan hates […]


Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Ante Up by Chautona Havig

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Ante Up by Chautona Havig

Posted June 27, 2016 / 36 Comments

Out with Murphy and in with O’Reilly! O’Reilly’s Law: Murphy was an optimist! Marriage has been good to Aggie. After a few years and a baby under her belt, she’s confident that she can take on anything–including adding child number ten to the home! Blessings aren’t always easy, and Aggie […]



Book Review: The Space Between Sisters by Mary McNear

Book Review: The Space Between Sisters by Mary McNear

Posted June 22, 2016 / 12 Comments

Return to Butternut Lake with New York Times  bestselling author Mary McNear in a story where the complicated bonds of sisterhood are tested. They are two sisters who couldn’t be more different. Win, organized and responsible, plans her life with care. Poppy, impulsive and undependable, leaves others to pick up the […]


Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Fixin to Die by Tonya Kappes

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Fixin to Die by Tonya Kappes

Posted June 20, 2016 / 11 Comments

Sheriff Kenni Lowry likes to think the zero crime rate in her small town in Kentucky is due to her being sheriff, but quickly discovers her grandfather’s ghost, who happened to be the town’s retired sheriff, has been scaring off any would be crime. Poppa has come back from the […]


Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Medical Judgment by Richard L. Mabry

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Medical Judgment by Richard L. Mabry

Posted June 18, 2016 / 4 Comments

Just what the doctor ordered: heart-thumping suspense and intrigue, courtesy of Richard Mabry’s new medical drama, Medical Judgment. Someone is after Dr. Sarah Gordon. They’ve stalked her and set a fire at her home. Trying to recover from the traumatic deaths of her husband and infant daughter is tough enough, but […]



Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon

Book Review (and a Giveaway!): Mystic Summer by Hannah McKinnon

Posted June 15, 2016 / 30 Comments

A chance run-in with a college boyfriend puts a young woman’s picture-perfect life in perspective in this warm-hearted and lyrical novel—from the author of The Lake Season. Since finishing graduate school, Maggie Griffin has worked hard to build an enviable life in Boston. She’s an elementary school teacher in a tony […]


Most Anticipated Book Releases Summer 2016: Contemporary Fiction

Most Anticipated Book Releases Summer 2016: Contemporary Fiction

Posted June 13, 2016 / 35 Comments

This week I’m spotlighting my most anticipated books releasing this summer. Today I’m going to focus on contemporary fiction! Throughout the week, I will also be looking at historical, suspense, collections, and nonfiction. As always, I know I will inevitably (and unintentionally) omit a book from this list because there are so many great books […]


Book Spotlight: From Winter’s Ashes by Amy Leigh Simpson

Book Spotlight: From Winter’s Ashes by Amy Leigh Simpson

Posted June 13, 2016 / 17 Comments

I am delighted today to give y’all a peek into a fantastic romantic suspense series by Amy Leigh Simpson! I haven’t had time to officially review them yet but I didn’t want my lack of hours in a day to keep you from finding out about these books!! The first novel […]