The Color of Frost by Kasey Rogers is a delightful novel exploring themes relevant to modern life. It follows Nina DeMarco, a twenty-seven-year-old woman, as she contemplates the futility of her life. After almost five years of being happily married, her husband informs Nina that...

Although the adage “history repeats itself” isn’t usually applied to fiction novels rooted even loosely in fact, it most definitely applies to the characters and plot of DF Kennedy’s The Whole Truth. This novel is the sequel to Kennedy’s previous book, The Truth, in which...

Chrysteen Braun does it again with The Girls in Cabin Number Three, a fantastic addition to The Guest Book Trilogy. Carrie Davis enlists the help of interior designer and fellow cabin owner Annie Parker in updating the log home that she has just inherited from...

The Undines is the second volume in Laura Albu's cruise ship adventures. Carla was transferred to another ship and torn from her love, Adnan. They promise their love can handle a year's separation, but Carla has doubts after Adnan's email responses slow down to a...

Trudy by Cynthia Ulmer is Christian fiction and the fourth book in The Cedar Cove Chronicles, preceded by book one, Todd, book two, Clyde and Wanda, and book three, Cella. This installment revolves around the titular character who with her very young son are the...

In The Reading by Barbara Monier, we meet Esme, an established writer in her early sixties. Her lover Gino has asked her to live with him but she is reluctant to disrupt her carefully constructed cocoon. She subsequently suffers from writer’s block. As she performs...

When Alice succumbed to cancer, her final request to her friends entailed spreading her ashes in the Ghost Ranch of New Mexico. To fulfill this wish, Cathy, Linda, and Betsy decide to take a road trip in an RV. Driving an RV might be a...

The Lapone Sisters is a work of fiction in the impersonal drama and nostalgia subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by Barry Wilker. In this charming and highly enjoyable drama set largely in the summer of 1976, Wilker...

The Duchess of Sydney (The Lady Amelia Saga Book 1) by Dawn Knox sees Georgiana Aylwood board the Lady Amelia bound for New South Wales. Georgiana has accepted the blame for her cousin’s petty thieving, but her innocence doesn’t reduce the penalty or the risks...

The Color of Acceptance by Carol Siyahi Hicks is the compelling narrative of a young woman’s journey toward self-knowledge. It is also a time trip through the sixties and early seventies, and I felt Gabrielle’s hopes, her dreams, her successes and failures, and her eventual...