When a story begins with large circus animals spread across a Midwestern highway as Tiger Hunting does, you know that author Tracy Million Simmons has one heck of a tale in store for the reader. Jeni is on her way back home to Kansas from...

Meet Ella Boudreaux, a self-confessed nag. By no means –- as Ella herself insisted –- is she a negative person. Persistent might be a better word; she is the kind of person you'd ask for directions if you were lost, or provides you with a...

Sleeper by Sophia Frazier is really a rather unique book. As written, a young woman awakes to find the power had gone off overnight, so her alarm clock failed to wake her. Jumping out of bed, she ran to the shower, only to discover there...

In For the Love of Honey, C.G. Morgan creates a compelling character that is impossible to forget. Born on the mountain and raised by her mother and grandmother, Honey Giles finds the courage to face the town people who treat her unfairly. She does not...

The Rose Ring by Anne Faye is certainly a book with a pretty cover, but the story that unfolds is emotionally charged, keeping me riveted until the end. Julia Manning has carried the hurt of being left at the altar ten years ago by her...

That Crazy Little Thing by Kate Bracy is a love story of friendship between friends, mother and daughter, sister and brother, mother and son. And it is so much more. It takes the painful journey of cancer and makes it a beautiful story of...

When Melinda Dawson found out she was pregnant, her parents promptly packed her up and shipped her off to a home for unwed mothers. Forced to give up the child she nearly died to deliver and without any sign from her boyfriend Greg Hart, Melinda...

Katlynn Brooke’s novel Talk to the Moon is a story that spans two generations and is set in Africa. Gabe Blanchard grew up believing that his father died at the hands of a disgruntled farm employee. The whole truth is revealed to him when he...

Carrie has finally ended her marriage to a no-good man, but her soon-to-be ex, Dave, isn’t going away quietly. Someone is calling her at all hours of the night and Dave’s ominous words constantly ring in her ears. After a rather tumultuous beginning, Carrie and...

In Jenna Brooks's October Snow, a woman who was a battered wife witnesses the death of one too many battered wives, murdered by her husband. May, Josie’s friend, dies in her arms and the moment changes Josie forever. She steels herself to putting an end...