The Overlay by Mercedes Blanche is a very well-written short story that blends romance and drama. When I say short, I really mean short – just 19 pages. The cover is very nicely done and sets the scene for what you expect the book to...

When stay-at-home mother Holly exhausts a seemingly never-ending collection of self-help manuals, she is content to spend her days indulging in long, gossipy, alcohol-infused lunches with her gang of gal pal friends. Every day brings the same challenges and anticlimactic events. That is until she...

The More Things Change by Elle Nora is a women’s fiction story about Joya Alexander. Readers were first introduced to Joya in Better Choices, and The More Things Change continues that story. Joya is a successful businesswoman. But, for all of her financial successes, she...

The Point of Love is a short story by Monique Mulligan, set in Rockingham, Australia. Lexie is a journalist at the local newspaper. Her latest article covers the upcoming Mangles Bay Marina – a project which is long overdue, according to some of the locals....

Inside The Paris Effect, readers will find a woman who is not smooth around the edges, but is rough and a little frayed. Amy and her friend Kat take up much of the novel. In everything Amy does, she either has her husband William telling...

Life changed dramatically for Dana Montgomery, the main character in The Glass Ball, after her father died. Her mother succumbed to the offer of help from his brother, who moved into their home to help support them. This was a dramatic life changer for little...

Diana Paul’s novel, Things Unsaid, examines the dynamics of the family. It’s tough getting old — for you and those around you. As an elderly parent, how much do you have the right to expect from your children? As a child of an elderly parent,...

Tainted Love by Erin Cawood is a story that touches on domestic violence shared by the protagonist — Faith McKenzie — through letters to her younger brother. In her letters, Faith describes the slow decay of her marriage as her beloved psychiatrist husband, Calvin, ten...

The Uninvited Guest by Debi Graham-Leard is a murder mystery with a bit of amateur sleuthing thrown in for good measure. Gwen Andrews lost her husband, Parker, two years ago and, after retiring from the school, she takes up teaching music students in her home....

Rebecca Bryn’s The Silence of the Stones opens with Alana, a city girl who has given up her job to concentrate on painting. Told she has inherited a cottage in West Wales, she packs her worldly goods in her ancient Mini and sets out; this...