We’re Survivors by Mona Risk opens with a gut punch. Angely Carlisle stands at the altar in her wedding dress, bouquet in hand, but the groom never comes. He sends his brother, Dr. Chris Tanner, instead. It is a beginning that tastes bitter before the...

In Mona Risk’s Her Cozy House, after Chicago resident surgeon Niles Wolf rents a basement apartment from widowed grandmother Carmen Eden, he becomes closely connected to Carmen’s granddaughter Jessica, a seventeen-year-old student planning a medical career while grieving her father’s death. Years later, Jessica completes...

Cruise Fling is the story of Andrea, who has been a single parent since losing her husband three years ago. She needs a vacation and books one, but when her family backs out, she decides to go anyway. She’s been stuck in grieving for so...

Royal Rebel, Holly Kerr’s fifth Love in Laandia novel, is built on a very particular kind of heartbreak that comes not from losing something, but from watching it walk away. Princess Lyra Erickson, who’s been in the background of every book in this series, signs...

Some love stories end with a kiss. Others end with a suitcase and eight years of silence. Royal Reluctance, the fourth book in Holly Kerr's Love in Laandia series, belongs firmly in the second camp. Prince Bo Erickson and Hettie Crow eloped in secret, only...

Icing on the Cake by Amanda Uhl follows restaurant owner, Bethany Parker. She is determined to save the family business, Grandma Lou’s, after learning that actor Hank Haverill has bought the building. Bethany enters a national baking contest, hoping to secure the funds to keep...

Life throws a curveball at a savvy beach bar owner when a large corporation threatens her business and her relationships in Palms on the Cape by Jenn Bouchard. Rachel Sinclair is proud of what she has accomplished despite having a neglectful and spiteful mother. Rachel...

Alive and Kicking by Kathryn R. Biel is book four in the Boston Buzzards series. Readers follow Rachel Cramer, who is grieving over her sister’s death, as her life takes on loss and obligations all at once. After her sister passes from glioblastoma, Rachel is...

Dog Days of Summer Love by Steven F. Freeman follows neurologist Allan Shaffer, who works at Melgen Therapeutics. He’s trying to navigate pressures from corporate science and conduct his secret genetic experiment with an enhanced dog named Louie. As if his life isn’t already busy,...

Wingman by Michael S. Vassel is the story of a recently divorced man in search of love. Jay McGraw is no longer married. Seeking to take his mind off his divorce with his now ex-wife Kate, Jay joins his happy-go-lucky friend Shawn, a musician, for...