California Sister by Gloria Mattioni is a touching novel about sororal love. It’s an immediate audience-grabber as you learn from the opening chapter about the close relationship between Claire Waters and her sister Ondina, who was in Italy. Claire, a mystery writer based in Los...

Best Years of Your Life by Jen Craven is a women’s novel with realistic characters living relatable lives. Christine and Joss have everything they could wish for. They are in love, married to each other, have great jobs, and have a daughter whom they adore....

The Holding: Prequel to The Healing by Lynda Faye Schmidt is a work of literary fiction based on real-life events, set in North America in a time of Escape to Witch Mountain and Nancy Drew books. Cate is the central character and the novel is...

I loved Return to Autumn: Part 1 of the 2-part sequel to The Perils of Autumn by Rusty Blackwood and once again spending time with my friends at the Landon Lawns Stables. Cyril and Autumn are the owners of the stable and immediately pull you...

The Hoarder’s Wife: A Novel by Deborah Greenhut is the painful, sometimes dramatic story of Grace Berg who lost herself and her purpose in life while being a wife. Grace was married to Professor Ludwig “Luddy” Berg for 35 years. While Grace gave up her...

The Decompression Palms by Anna Alexis Michel is an intriguing novel set in Florida. The story opens with a poignant scene as Antoine and Line have breakfast together in the kitchen. They sit side by side, facing the palm trees like most Sundays. This time,...

Love and Impediments by Stefka Marinova-Todd is a delicious novel that makes you feel like you're enjoying a bowl of fruit salad with its diverse characterization and settings. Marta Aneva is a successful university professor. What she achieves in her career is directly opposite to...

The Key to Circus-Mom Highway is a comedy-drama novel by Allyson Rice. Lives have turned out very differently for sisters Jennifer McMahon and Jesse Chasen. While Jennifer is a suburban wife and mom of two kids, Jesse struggles to make ends meet as a bartender...

Fearless is a work of fiction in the women’s fiction and socio-political issues subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Paula Dáil. In this astute and heartfelt examination of the role of women in the patriarchal...

Addiction is a terrible beast that was all-consuming during Georgette’s childhood. Dianne C. Braley’s The Silence in the Sound features Georgette’s point of view of growing up in a home with an alcoholic father, sharing her memories of Martha’s Vineyard. Later estranged from her family...