Leah fears she has ruined her career after a meltdown on her positive affirmation podcast, the only thing helping her cope since her husband’s death nine months ago. In Eat the Cake by Annie Cathryn, Leah takes a ninety-day leave to regroup, starting with cleaning...

There is a sense of loneliness when reading Ana’s words as Confessions of a Female Dominant opens. Every page and every word reveals it in a multitude of ways. She is a woman desperate for something, which she cannot name, not while in Russia and...

Widows & Children by Dori Ann Dupre is an intriguing tale of a matriarchal line spanning four different generations. Betty Clark meets and falls in love with Pino near the end of World War II. Years later, Pino unexpectedly dies, leaving Betty widowed with three...

The Music Room by Margaret Farrell Kirby centers on Cath, a fifty-two-year-old nurse who starts to feel like something in her life just isn’t working anymore. After losing her mother at a young age, she pushed aside her dream of becoming a writer, and now...

Melissa “Mel” Noblett, a journalist and environmental activist, is in Milan gathering information from a whistleblower about a new bee virus, but is disappointed by the lack of progress. To salvage the trip, her editor sends her to Bologna to interview Dr. Daniel Woodruff, a...

Kerry Blaisdell’s A Lamentation of Swans: Wicked Portland #1 is a terrifying and suspenseful murder mystery. The story is set in turn-of-the-20th-century Portland, Oregon. The story was inspired by real historical figures, like the American Lola Greene Baldwin (1860 – 1957), who was one of...

In Mountain Destiny by Jane Catherine Rozek, Kate is raising her children with Dave on an isolated ranch deep in the Chilcotin backcountry, nearly a hundred miles from town, where the winter cold and distance make every ordinary problem dangerous. The family lives first in...

Clarissa’s Mancunian dance troupe heads to Paris for a prestigious competition, with one performer already missing in action. A series of terrible and comical disasters turns the journey into a nightmare for the group of women. Some have left their problems at home, others carry...

In Love Across Time, Beth Ford tells a heartfelt story about a woman named Ashley who is yanked out of her modern life and dropped into the middle of 14th-century England. She wakes up in 1377 Wiltshire and has to figure out how to survive...

Lenna Adler's hope drew her to Verona, Kansas, in Home on the Range by Taryn Oakley. It’s 1891, and she is trying to escape a dangerous situation in Chicago when she boards a westbound train. With only a newspaper advertisement and a promise to her...