Before I read Just a Name, I had never heard of author Becky Monson. However, after reading this cute, fun and witty novel, I don't think I will ever forget her or the novel's protagonist. The story follows Holly Murphy, a straight up sort of...

Katie and the Marshal: A Montana Women Novella by Nancy Pirri is a short tale of a young man who buries his feelings of mistrust deep inside. As the Marshal of a Montana town, the young man protects women from vile cowboys and their evil...

Peace and Disquiet by Helen Laycock is a collection of short stories that range from death to hope. The author uses vivid language, giving birth to a variety of emotions for the reader: sadness, longing, despair, tenderness, fear, rejection, hate and many more. Each story,...

Movember by Beth Loure is a short but powerfully assertive story of a young woman (Sabrina Lawson) who is in college and easily identifies and feels more comfortable with the elderly. Sabrina has already had an unpleasant experience with the lifeguard but is determined not...

Lady Catherine’s Lover by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a short story about a love affair that takes place very quickly after the death of Hubert de Bourgh’s wife, Maria. Hubert sends for Catherine to join him in London. Elizabeth and Darcy, Catherine’s niece-in-law and nephew,...

How do you start over when you’re almost halfway through your life? In Twyla Turner’s His Muse, we meet Taryn Reid. She’s forty-four, divorced, and ready to start her new business in Nice, France. Sounds pretty risky to her daughter Kari, her ex-husband and his...

Two love stories are explored in Pleasure and Power: sibling and romantic love. The siblings are Maddie and Ruby, who live in “darktown” in this age of segregation. When Maddie is hit on the head by a baseball, the sisters’ mother and their own lives...

There’s a certain political figurehead, who shall remain nameless, but who never fails to make the evening news reports. When he begins bragging, I either put my hands over my ears or grab the remote to press “mute”. I can’t stand the sound of this...

In A Different Kind of Fire by Suanne Schafer, a young artist in Texas in the late 1800s is betrothed to a man she has loved since childhood. Women's rights were barely heard of, let alone spoken about, during this time. Ever the wayward...

Emily never lived in Seattle’s Blue Diamond apartments but now she’s packing up her parent’s unit following the death of her abusive, alcoholic mother. An awkward misfit who aspires to be an artist, Emily is stuck working for her famous father in a job she...