For Long Islander Pam Smith, keeping house and staying beautiful dominate her daily routine as she awaits the return of her husband, Jack, every Friday evening. When he suffers a fatal heart attack on the train home from Manhattan, Pam's exquisitely arranged life is catapulted into turmoil as she is forced to face the realization that her marriage is nothing more than a black hole plagued with cruel infidelity, abuse, and sexual deviance. Witness Pam as she graciously and gracefully … [Read more...] about Pam of Babylon by Suzanne Jenkins @suzannejenkins3
Actress by Keith Dixon @keithyd6
As a young actress in a long-running TV show, Mai Rose’s career path seemed clear. But she wants more. Already she’s dumped the show and landed a role in a serious play, with serious actors and a more-than-serious director. And now another opportunity has arisen – a major fantasy film with a role that seems tailor-made for her. The only problem being that she’s in competition with four other scheming actresses to win the role. Can she win the part? Does she want to win the part? She has to … [Read more...] about Actress by Keith Dixon @keithyd6
Turn Back Time by Lisa Kay Hauser and Philip Dale Smith
Turn Back Time has 46 Amazon reviews: 41 are 5-star, 5 are 4-star. This Depression Era historical-fiction novel blends romance, adventure, and mystery. A young widow with two small children, against her better judgment, hires an out-of-work miner with a questionable past to complete tasks left unfinished by the untimely death of her husband. The book realistically underscores the vital part family, faith, and community played in the struggles for survival during this challenging period … [Read more...] about Turn Back Time by Lisa Kay Hauser and Philip Dale Smith
Pompomberry House by Rosen Trevithick by Rosen Trevithick
A writer's retreat seemed the perfect chance for Dee Whittaker to take her mind off her marital difficulties. However, she meets five of the most hideous writers ever to have mastered a QWERTY keyboard, and her problems quickly multiply. Things escalate further when the handyman winds up dead. After fleeing from the island, Dee attempts to get her life back on track but begins to notice that something strange is going on. The stories written on the island are coming true and hers is … [Read more...] about Pompomberry House by Rosen Trevithick by Rosen Trevithick
Seems Like Old Times by Joanne Pence
Growing up, Lisa Reynolds was expected to be "perfect" in everything she did from grades to career to the calibre of the men in her life. She denied her own nature, her own heart, to be what everyone else wanted her to be. But despite the perfection Lisa protrayed to outsiders, the state of her home life was ugly. Tony Santos had been a major league baseball player but now finds his days of glory are gone. He's back home to raise his son as a single dad. As a teenager, he loved Lisa, … [Read more...] about Seems Like Old Times by Joanne Pence
Release the Ashes
As the characters of Release the Ashes discover, life has other paths for us to travel other than the ones that we are walking. By making one tiny step off our current path, we find the path we should or could be on. Grace Michem and her son Chase are on a journey from New York City to Spearfish, South Dakota. They have no details on what they are looking for and no directions on where to go. While wandering South Dakota, they find themselves at the mercy of an irate rancher. Will … [Read more...] about Release the Ashes
New Orleans Mourning
It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies. Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former … [Read more...] about New Orleans Mourning
An Embarrassment of Riches by Gerald Hansen
When Ursula Barnett and her husband Jed win the Irish lottery, they think their troubles are over. But they are just beginning. Ursula coerces her Yank husband to retire in her hometown of Derry, Northern Ireland, hoping to atone for her youthful sins as a collaborator with the IRA in the 1970s. At the first sniff of Ursula s lotto win, however, her chronically greedy sister-in-law Fionnuala Flood rallies the family against Ursula. Fionnuala's life is a misery. She is married to a boozing … [Read more...] about An Embarrassment of Riches by Gerald Hansen
When Girlfriends Break Hearts by Savannah Page
A novel about the bonds of friendship, the power of forgiveness, and the lessons you learn when you let go. Sophie Wharton doesn’t like losing control, especially of her life. She’s always been the girl who’s kept it together—the girl with a charming boyfriend, a lively social life, and plans to start her own bakery. Life is great for Sophie a few years out of college in Seattle…or so she thinks. Then a series of events start to turn Sophie’s perfectly ordered world upside … [Read more...] about When Girlfriends Break Hearts by Savannah Page
Emotional Moments
#1 AMAZON KINDLE BESTSELLER IN "U.K. Short Stories" *KINDLE Top 100 Free List BESTSELLER* ''Emotional Moments'' features 23 short stories written during the last 13 years. Each of them represents its unique shape of emotion. Each of them tries to reach your soul. Stories reflect life in different shades of colors. All of them evoke feelings or provoke thoughts. Some do both at the same time. The short story called ''Stars'' features in Paulo Coelho's blog. I have been writing … [Read more...] about Emotional Moments
Saving Grace by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
If you're at all inclined to be swept away to the U.S. Virgin Islands to fall in love with a rainforest jumbie house and a lead character who's as much a threat to herself as the bad guys on the island are, you'll love this book. It's funny, touching, and exciting. Officially, it's summarized like this: Texas attorney Katie Connell escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and her Bloody Mary-habit when she runs to the island of St. Marcos to investigate the suspicious deaths of her … [Read more...] about Saving Grace by Pamela Fagan Hutchins
Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
The story takes place in Northern California in the spring of 2000, when the dot-com boom was at its peak. Elizabeth Reilly-Hayden is a successful executive in her late fifties and a divorced mother of two. Emotionally armored and living alone, she wants only to maintain the status quo: her long-term significant other, her job, and her trusted friends—five feisty women whose high school friendship has carried them through multiple marriages, dramatic divorces, and maddening menopause. Yet in a … [Read more...] about Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever by Judith Marshall
