If you enjoy Victorian-era romances with engaging characters and a well-paced narrative, The Winter Companion (Book 4 of the Parish Orphans of Devon series) by Mimi Matthews is for you. Where better to introduce a tall, blond and handsome though speech-impeded “Sir Galahad” to a...

Malia Zaidi's mystery and historical fiction novel, The Golden Hour: A Lady Evelyn Mystery, is set in Scotland in 1927. Malmo Manor is Evelyn Carlisle's Scottish family home of her aunts Iris and Agnes. Evelyn is at Malmo Manor for the upcoming wedding of her...

The Waratah Inn in Cabarita Beach was run down and neglected as Nan didn’t want to update it and take away all of the memories it held for her over so many years. The sisters - Reeda, Kate and Bindi - each had their own...

Too Wicked to Woo is the first book in the Chronicles of a Bluestocking series by Tammy Andresen. Miss Penny Clearwater is a sensible woman who knows her bounds and how to get out of sticky situations that life decides to put her in at...

Thin Ice is the second novel in the Heart & Endurance Series by J.S. Marlo. This is the story of a mother who is trying to find her only son. Julie Lavoie faced tragedy all her life. Trouble seemed to find her wherever she went,...

Abigail is an almost 40-year-old author whose husband has recently died and for her, the world has stopped. As she comes out of her year-long hibernation from everyone and everything, she decides to start life again. Sight unseen, she buys a small cottage in a...

Leslie-Anne Farrandon, a former journalist, is living comfortably and safely as Anne Pierson, an archeologist in Karakuyu, Turkey. In her attempt to escape a sordid past and find peace in a strange land of rigid social beliefs, Anne finds herself instead enveloped in accusations of...

In The Warrior’s Whisper (Windy City Nights 1) by Dania Voss, flashbacks brought on by PTSD plagued Heath Jackson. His time in Sangin, Afghanistan had left him riddled with nightmares and almost completely deaf. Heath’s best friend Jake was getting married and trying to encourage...

Character-driven and cleverly plotted, The Studio by Judith Erwin is a suspenseful romance that follows two rock-solid characters as they encounter each other, each of the two carrying a hidden pain. Kaci is still disturbed by the tragedy that spoiled her career and now she...

When I pick up a novel, the first thing I look for is how well the author develops motivation in the protagonist. The central question is: what drives the protagonist and how does the author allow it to move the plot forward? In The Book...