Punk is a title that might normally put me off, but I was taken by the back cover blurb on Amy Q Barker’s latest novel. I started reading, harboring some reservations, but the first few pages raised questions that kept me interested, so I persevered....

“Was Fate happy? No. It was not. Fate was only happy once it set me up and then ripped the carpet out from under my feet so that I fell flat on my face. I’m Tilly Lockhart, and this is my story.” Thus begins Matilda’s...

You Don’t Want to Get Married by Latesha Kellam is a romance novel that will appeal to young adults. It follows the life of Jasmine, a smart IT consultant, who fell in love with Denzel, a single father. Their shared passion was clear, but his...

Chad’s mentor sent him to Serenity Hills, a mind and body healing retreat, to relax. He was a billionaire who worked too hard, and he deserved a break, which he grudgingly took. At the retreat, he met Heidi, the resident health coach and herbalist. She...

Paige Porter wants to find just the right guy to model the new line of western clothes for her latest client. And she has finally convinced this client that it needs to be a cowboy. So Paige, along with her sister, is headed off to the...

Brit vs Scot by Anna Durand is part love story and part an epic battle of man vs. man. The book’s setting is a wedding at a nudist resort. The female protagonist, Jessica O’Connor, broke up with her boyfriend, Domhnall Sterling, but he’ll stop at...

Let It Be Me by Laura Chapman is a funny, quirky romance that works. James Mitchell fell in love with a fellow student in the history department at his English university. So smitten was he that he followed Becca back to small-town Lincoln, Nebraska where...

This fun romp continues in Marrying Mr. Darcy by Kate O’Keeffe. After having surprised the whole world over with her Mr. Darcy win off-screen, a.k.a. Sebastian Huntington-Ross, Emma Brady is head over heels in love with her fiancé and ready to start a new life...

Sandi Cramer loved to cook, and she ran her show on her uncle’s TV station, KANT. All went well until her uncle went bankrupt and had to sell the station. The new management kept her on because her show had high ratings. Then things started...

If given the choice, do money and success outweigh love? Roxanne D. Howard eloquently presents these options in When You Close Your Eyes. Lark is engaged to Charles but keeps having lucid sex dreams of a mysterious man with an Irish accent. She receives a...