Carrie Kabak’s Shibby Magee unfolds in two timelines, following the identical twins Isabelle “Shibby” and Isadorah “Dorah” Magee, who are like chalk and cheese. The story starts in the 1970s when the kids are abandoned by their Traveler mother, Vera Coffey. They are raised by...

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...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

Cat Dreaming by Stephanie Schorow is an engaging story set in June 1989. It opens with a gloriously chaotic scene: three friends, Elektra, Maureen, and Tina, sneak a cat into a hospital, desperate to use it to rouse their friend, Sarah, from a coma. The...

Linda Dindzans’s novel, A Certain Mercy (A Certain Future series), is a profoundly moving and inspiring Christian historical story set in Judea in the first century AD, in the time of Yeshua of Nazareth. Zara is a young Judean Jew from a wealthy family....

That Mesmerizing Kiss by Tamara Ferguson starts when sixteen-year-old Dan Callahan decides to support a childhood friend during a heartbreaking community event. Up on the local cliffs of Crystal Rock, he crosses paths with a young, grieving newcomer named Maria Santos and does his best...

Deborah J. Brasket’s This Sea Within follows Lena, a young journalist who goes to San Balanque to connect with her heritage and to follow a story. What begins as a chance to learn more about the country soon brings her inside the world of the...

Justine and Becca, mother and daughter, have been close for the past nine years. Becca is the eldest daughter, and her mother expected her to help raise her two younger sisters. However, by her teenage years, Becca began to feel as if her mother was...

Chris Wind’s This Is What Happens is a rare gem. A fifty-five-year-old woman feels stuck, wasted, and wounded. All she wants is to return to a cabin on a lakeside one final September to go through journals written for thirty-five years and unravel the mystery...