Step by Step is the second book in the Desperate Hearts series by Twila Mason. The story follows Chrissy as she is ready to take control of her life and fight for the future she always wanted. Landing the opportunity to paint a mural for...

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...

In Yarrow Bend, a rural Canadian town, Sergeant Lena Malone of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and her junior, Constable Fincher, have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of nine-year-old Elise, the daughter of Gustav “Goose” and Therese Deschamps. The more they dig...

In Gripped (Part 6: The Dunkin Legacy) by Stacy A. Padula, Taylor Dunkin’s life is in turmoil, and it’s hard to see a clear way out. He used to be a college football star with everything going for him, but a knee injury ended it...

In Larry Weindruch and Richard A Yach’s Get Maggie, Nicolas Pavlovich leaves Chicago with a large sum of stolen cash and his daughter Maggie, hoping distance will keep them out of reach of the men hunting him. Miami offers only a brief pause. Old grievances...

In Alexandria Prescott’s Maelstrom of Innocence, book one of The Maelstrom Trilogy, on the night of 7 December 1941, Harper Miller attends an embassy reception in Tokyo with her father, Ambassador William Henry Miller, expecting only a diplomatic ceremony. By morning, news of Pearl Harbor...

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...

Bless Me Father FOR YOU Have Sinned by Bruce Lewis is a thrilling drama that follows Chuck Grayson, a crime reporter who has just been told that he only has a few more months to live. He begins to reminisce about his childhood, especially about...

Angel Giacomo’s The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: Broken Valor puts readers straight into the aftermath of war as Major Harry Russell awakens in a Hawaiian military hospital with only a scant memory of how he arrived there. Among Harry’s first conscious thoughts is his closest friend,...

In Tinker by Jennifer M. Lane, the main character, Caroline, wrestles with her beliefs and the fear of acting on them. The story begins in 1794. She is the daughter of the local tax collector. She finds herself caught in a growing dispute between the...