Proof of Virtue by Leila Snow is a historical romance set in Manchester, 1848. Emma Belden has a monumental task on her hands; an orphaned young woman herself and penniless to boot, she has to take care of her four-year-old siblings. Master Seeley’s poorhouse is...

This is the first novel I have read by Katie O’Rourke, and I’ll be sure Blood & Water is not the last. At first I started to worry about how well I could connect with the story, since we do get to follow five different...

Santiago Tales by Terry Tumbler is a brilliant, refreshing, and gripping collection of tales crafted around a group of retired people on a pilgrimage to Santiago, a contemporary kind of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Led by an ex-detective, readers are introduced to a...

Erin Murphy is your typical Washington mum, trying to balance her job with her husband’s needs and her children’s requirements. Erin is a life-long Democrat and works in PR for an environmental lobby group. When the Democrats get trounced at the mid-term elections, Erin’s job...

From The Shadows by David Carter introduces us to thirty-one-year-old Bobby Blaise (or Blaze as he prefers to be known). Blaze was the black sheep of his family and left the small, rural New Zealand town of Glendale, where his mother was the principal of...

Where to begin reviewing a book as near perfect as All the Tomorrows by Nillu Nasser? Given this is literary fiction, which is character rather than plot driven, perhaps one should start there, with Jaya, the protagonist, and her husband, Akash, who love each other,...

First of all, the cover of Guardians' Betrayal by Johanna Van Zanten is very powerful. The novel brings a very relevant message to readers in telling the story of a family that is broken, but desperately trying to stay together. The story follows Shayla and...

Who We Were by Puiyin Labial is a story about destiny and the incredible truth that people could be bound together by threads that are mysterious and intangible. With an international setting in China and the US, the reader follows the lives of two compelling...

In the world of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, there is never a dull moment. Mr. Darcy’s sister, Georgiana, recently married, has commissioned a portrait to be painted by her cousin Anne’s husband. Anne, estranged from her mother, Aunt Catherine, is in her final months of...

Arms of Grace by Eleanor Chance is a soul-searching story that explores the power of unconditional love, following a woman who will do everything to protect the life of a helpless little baby, even risking her career. When a baby is abandoned at the hospital,...