The Magic of Cape Disappointment is a contemporary fiction novel written by Julie Manthey. Kay Baker had escaped Cape Disappointment and the expectations that her family lineage had placed upon her. Yes, she was the great-great-great-granddaughter of Kehlok, the daughter of adventurer Meriwether Lewis and...

Jack Bennett is a private investigator. He really doesn’t like Christmas and all the fuss people go to, trying to make it a special time of the year. So, when he’s sent to Christmas Town on assignment, Jack is overwhelmed with Christmas everywhere he goes,...

Melanie Abbot, the self proclaimed “it” girl of Abbot Bay, is a successful real estate agent and compulsive dispenser of her own brand of social and personal wisdom. When she helps a new girl in town, Hannah, change her image, the imagination of the...

Niamh is a contemporary romance novel written by Gary Hope. Mark McCarty found his true home an entire ocean’s span away from his North Carolina roots. When Paul Alfred left North Carolina the year before, he was reeling from his failed marriage, the greatly exaggerated...

The main character, Jessica Snow, in Accidental Lawyer by Kim Hamilton, is an ambulance chaser (website WANNASU) and not proud of it. Her advertisement photo is glued to the buses in town so she becomes a bit of a celebrity. Sometimes that’s not so bad....

Prancing Around With Sleeping Beauty: A Storybook Valley Sweet Romantic Comedy by Stacy Juba had me by the title. I’m a Disney princess fanatic (and I have the Halloween costumes to prove it, and not just as a little girl) so I was looking forward...

In The Event the Flower Girl Explodes is a contemporary new adult fiction novel written by Abby Rosmarin. Nicole had kept on putting off asking for time off for her brother’s wedding, knowing that she had to do it, but hating the fact that taking...

Jaxson Malone was mending his broken heart after the humiliating rejection of his marriage proposal. He was the featured bachelor on the popular reality program, Date Me, Then Marry Me, when Dixie Lane turned down his proposal in front of millions of viewers. Being an...

Melissa Baldwin and Kate O’Keeffe are two chick lit authors I’m very familiar with, so when I saw their names together on One Way Ticket: A Romantic Comedy, you bet I got excited to read this. The blurb sounded promising; I loved the cover and...

What do you name a daughter whose family name is Polis? Well, Anna, of course. Then she becomes AnnaPolis. It might be cute, but children bear the burden of the name they’re given at birth. And, when the name comes attached to a position of...