This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.
Kate Porter has had one true passion, even as a young girl: writing. Poetry and short stories were her pleasure and her escape while growing up on a small farm approximately fifty miles south of Indianapolis. From her first short story printed in her high school newspaper at the age of fifteen, until the publication of her debut novel, SECRETS IN BETHLEHEM, in the summer of 2012 she has dreamed of being an author. As a two time winner of the Indie Book of the Day award, Kate has explored different genres in her writing career and has an eclectic taste in her own reading material. She has studied fiction writing at Greenville Tech, in Greenville, SC and traveled to Georgia for a writing workshop with her best friend. Kate has been profiled in her hometown newspaper, in Spencer, Indiana and in 2013, she was featured in WOMAN'S DAY magazine and again in the Greenville News. In September 2013. she held her first author event at a local book store in Greenville.
Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
Black Harvest is the first book in Kate Porter's Black Harvest Trilogy. Rose Bradigan's husband, Ben, agreed to a plea bargain that gave him a prison term of life without a chance of parole. At his request, Rose initiated divorce proceedings against him; a move that turned her teenage daughter, Lily, against her. Two years later, Lily's still convinced that her father is innocent of the charges leveled against him, and she believes her mother abandoned him when he needed her. Rose hasn't wanted to tell Lily that Ben felt that the divorce was the best way to protect his wife and daughter from his enemies. When Lily is brought back by policemen after being found at a late-night party, Rose and her ex-husband decide that she and Lily should go on a trip and try to bridge their differences. As they head down to Disney World, the unthinkable happens. Rose is found stumbling along a road in South Carolina by a county sheriff, and she has no idea what happened to her.
Kate Porter's novel, Black Harvest, is an exciting and well-plotted story that is both a police procedural and a romance. I enjoyed following Sheriff Lucas Manning's investigation into the disappearance of Lily and watching how he attempts, rather unsuccessfully, to keep a professional detachment about the case. There's also a psychological thriller element to Black Harvest as Rose has to reconcile her feelings for both Ben, the ex-husband, and Lucas, the man who's promised to find her daughter, while trying to regain her memory. Porter's characters are fully developed and quickly seem like real people. Her story-line is marvelous and reads like a first-rate mystery while including enough romance to satisfy fans of romantic suspense novels. Black Harvest is fast-paced and entertaining, and it's highly recommended.
