Em's Awful Good Fortune by Marcie Maxfield is a dark comedy-drama novel depicting the dysfunctional marriage of a 'tagalong' wife. Em is a writer who had to leave her profession to support her husband, Gee, and the kids. They traverse the globe, moving from one...

The question of whether the horrors of the Holocaust are over for the next generation is a pressing and haunting theme in Ruth Rotkowitz’s Escaping the Whale. Set in 1980, Brooklyn, this is the story of 28-year-old Marcia Gold, a high school guidance counselor who...

Eventually Evie is a chick lit novel written by Cat Lavoie. Evie is seeing life in brilliant color flashing all around her. Her cousin’s toddler son is funny and committed to pranking each and every doting relative at Evie’s Aunt Pina’s family dinners. Her cousin...

Although the introduction and opening to Emotionally Broken telegraph the plot, the story paints an effective picture of what it’s like to enter into a romantic relationship with a narcissist. While some readers may find Jonathan to be an extreme character, if you’ve ever known...

Linda Stewart Henley's historical fiction story Estelle is based on the real-life visit to New Orleans in 1872-1873 by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist painter. The novel has two interwoven storylines. One storyline is about Degas's time in New Orleans with his relatives, the Degas-Musson...

Jim West and Melissa Riggio’s Echo tells the story of a young man, Ted, who loses his teaching job, followed by his wife leaving him and taking their son with her. He sinks into a deep depression and only holds down his job on a...

The first thing that caught my attention in Enduring Times by Betty Godfrey is the opening that reminded me of my village and the sound of crowing in the morning. For five years, Jennifer has been married to Bill, against the wishes of her domineering...

Earl of Exile is the third book in the Lords of Scandal series by Tammy Andresen. The tale continues with Lady Diana Chase and the Earl of Exmouth, Callum. Known as Exile by his friends, the Scottish earl knew he could not keep away from...

In Excerpts from the Imperial Diary, the newest book in the Country Girl Empress series by A. Piper Burgi, we find an older Sisi that has remained on the go despite her natural aging. Sisi still goes about her life as she always had. Rudi...

Elizabeth: Obstinate, Headstrong Girl by Tessa Dare, Joana Starnes, Amy D'Orazio, et al. is a collection of short stories that retell, in part, Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Written by ten different authors, the stories place Elizabeth Bennet and her friends and family in various...