The Wilderness Between Us, by award-winning author Penny Haw, is a strong, moving work of women's fiction that you can't forget. Set in the mountains of South Africa, a group of couples, family, and friends go on a hike and get stranded, but this is...

The Christmas Coat by Kathleen Shoop delivers on so many levels, from the narrative to the pitch-perfect realistic dialogue throughout and the message of being generous in the end. In my mind, The Christmas Coat comes across as a modern retelling of A Christmas Carol,...

Daughter of Hades by Mack Little is a 17th-century story set in France, Jamaica, and Barbados. In Barbados, the Admiral’s son, Owen Craig, raped Geraldine Obosi, a slave. She escaped with her twin brother, Jimmie, to a pirate ship (Hades), where she met Lei. The...

Of Ripeness & The River by Mary F. Burns tells the parallel stories of two women in alternating chapters with date headings. Mary Ferguson was the daughter of a wealthy banking family, happily married to a young carpenter. Her story is told from 1893, when...

Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman is an epic tale that we don’t expect but definitely need. This is the story of Ruth Miner, who lives during the high period of voyages and discovery. It is also a time when superstition and blind...

A Debt of War by Michael Ringering is a World War II novel quite unlike any war book I have ever read. When Paul Bacca and his siblings attend their mother’s funeral in 2009, Paul is shocked and surprised to be approached by an elderly...

In The Legend of Father Time: A Modern Legend by Apolonkia, Father Time is busy maintaining every element of order related to the movement of the earth and its seasons. When Father Time meets with Mother Nature and discovers that humankind is so self-absorbed they...

Sheri Humphreys has kicked off her new series with a real gem in Never a Viscount! A beautiful slow-burn romance sizzles between our heroine, Anne Albright, and Peter Jennett, Vicount Easterbrook, almost from the start. The only problem? Someone’s out to kill the Viscount, and...

Slaves of Men and Gods by Jacqueline Smith tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl named Krisi Bodan who is forced by her parents to travel from Scotland to Ghana with her father, Samuel. Samuel is a homeopath who has to go to Ghana to...

When a woman suddenly dies, she finds the afterlife to be unlike anything she imagined in the outstanding fantasy novel How To Be Dead: A Love Story by Laurel Schmidt. Frances Beacon is a former social worker, best-selling author, and noted longevity guru. After living...