When Cara Michaels discovers she is pregnant with her first child, she and her husband, Joel, are thrilled in Amelia’s Hope by Candis Vargo. Having put things in a proper order, they’d managed through their early 20s, finishing their education, and even purchasing their own...

An Enlightening Quiche by Eva Pasco is, to shamelessly promote a theme, superbly rich and delicious. One cannot know if such writing comes naturally to the author, or if she suffers from the agony of meticulousness required to produce such an exquisite work. The end...

Mr. Bennet is still recovering from his illness, but the new and very young, very handsome physician, Hodges, has assured the family that he will make a full recovery. Mrs. Bennet has her eyes set on this handsome physician. What a fine husband Hodges would...

An Air that Kills by Morgana Somerville is told from Emma Hendry, a lowly chamber maid’s point of view. The story initially shows the class divide between Emma and her young Edwardian mistress, Miss Alicia, and accurately portrays each in their given roles. However, this...

What does it feel like to be in constant contact with the pain and misery of others, to touch the brokenness and fragility of another human being — the strangers, the homeless people brought straight from the gutters of life, the ones glued to their...

A Silver Medallion (A Crystal Moore Suspense Book 2) by James R. Callan is the thrilling sequel to A Ton of Gold. Crystal Moore finds a runaway slave in an old shed while visiting her grandmother. She is outraged at the suffering and abuse the...

Anonymous by Christine Benedict reminds me somewhat of those Saturday night made for TV movies my husband and I like to watch: it grabs us in the first few minutes, then slows down a bit making us wonder if we should stick with it, and...

Alta Vista (Sage Country Book Two) by Dan Arnold is a fascinating story about the Old West, just as it was turning into the New West at the end of the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth. The titular character, Sheriff John Sage,...

Unseen, unaware, a seed lies deep within the soil. A Story of Becoming by Ayn Cates Sullivan PhD is a seed’s journey of self-discovery. The seed reaches toward the light and breaks the surface into a beautiful majestic world of wonder. Observing the world creates...

A Certain Connection by Zoey Kinsman follows the challenged love story of Mel, a forty-something psychiatrist, and Asher, a thirty-something aspiring actor who is on the verge of making it big. A chance meeting at a book store kicks off their romance, which spans more...