Long Temple’s When the Chat Paused follows the four women of the Ebony M. Elite, a friendship held together through a group chat built into the rhythm of their lives. Their time together moves easily from messages into nights out, where one video of them...

In Carole Wolfe’s Run Around, attorney Angela Laing seems to have a perfect life and career as a partner in a Texas law firm and as a devoted volunteer for CASA until her past catches up with her. While in law school, she and her...

In Jennifer Hardman's What Remains of Grace, Jenna returns home after ten years. Jenna ran away from Tarpon Springs after losing her brother and built a successful company and a new life in Alpharetta. For the next ten years, Grace handled every responsibility alone, keeping...

The Steal is Book 1 of Sunset City Secrets by Ella Kane, and a great start to the series. Bella is a Reiki practitioner with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. Jason is the son of Lewis Hall, who embodies the stereotypes of the domineering father...

E. Masson and Julie G. Henry’s Selecting My Soulmate centers around Amber, a hard-working mom who is doing everything she can to raise her son, Lucas, after a difficult divorce. Between her long hours and focusing on her household, finding a partner is the last...

Clown Car Cassie: Her Life and Loves by Irene Woodbury follows Cassie Nolan as she tries to celebrate her 25th birthday. Arriving in Las Vegas for the celebrations, Cassie discovers her boyfriend in bed with her best friend, Bailey. And it’s not a one-off, either;...

Helyn Dunn’s Valor is the riveting and well-crafted story of Ena, a young Druid, and her quest to find purpose and meaning in her life. This is Book 2 of The Evensong Enchantments Trilogy, and many details of Book 1, Sacrifice, are interwoven. The story...

Catherine Meyrick’s And the Women Watch and Wait is a historical novel set in Australia during World War I. Kate Burke moves to Melbourne to help her Aunty Mary run the family shop while her cousins serve overseas. Before long, Kate’s sweetheart, Jack Sheehan, leaves...

In Twisted Flip, we meet Katelyn again, the star of the Home Renovator Mystery series by M. E. Bakos. Newly married and somewhat at a loose end in the mansion she now shares with her husband, Don, and Boots the cat, Katelyn decides to buy...

Kennedy and her mother-in-law, Cora, have just learned that their husbands, Geoff and George Taylor, committed gambling fraud, hoping a family trust would pay out to cover millions of dollars in debt from their losses. In Not My Hero by Michelle Bolanger, Kennedy has just...