One of the things I love in a good story is the narrative voice. When it grabs my attention and rings through my ears powerfully, I keep reading, and Rowena Portch’s voice comes across as compelling and unique in Fate Be, a contemporary romance that...

Kellion S. Mocking is on a journey. One step at a time, on foot from town to town, he walks alone. He endures physical pain, and searches for forgiveness from emotional pain that rose from a life filled with tragedy, bad choices and mistakes. One...

New Beginnings by Iris Blobel is a very sweet romance about Sophie, a young woman struggling to take care of her little sister after the pair of them are orphaned. Inheriting a house from a mysterious benefactor seems like a gift from God for Sophie,...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Deceiving Bella: Book Eleven in the Bodyguards of L.A. County Series by author Cate Beauman. This book grabbed me from the very start and kept me reading obsessively all the way through to...

Coming Home by Maryann Jordan is a stunning entry in the Baytown Boys series, a perfect book for fans of romance and suspense. Readers are introduced to compelling characters, military men who come home to their roots, to rediscover the tranquility of their seaside town....

Hayden and Briar meet in a most unlikely place to find love – a hospice center. Hayden Crewe is the pianist, singer and composer in the popular Australian rock band, Jackaroo. He receives a phone call that his mother, from whom he is estranged and...

Meaningful Omissions by Anne McNeely is a romance novel. I loved it. I loved it because it didn't read like I expected a romance novel to read. There were no exaggerated cliché characters. Romance didn't dominate the narrative. Life dominated the narrative. The life of...

Mitch and Sandi had the perfect life: gorgeous city apartment, two pretty children, a lucrative income, and the world in their hands. And then Mitch’s law firm went belly up and his father died. As Mitch reflects on his life, he realizes that neither of...

The Merchant’s Pearl tells the story of Sarai, an opinionated young daughter of missionaries. She thought the world was her oyster, at her disposal to bend and shape at will. But tragic circumstances convene to change Sarai’s destiny from world changer to gift for a...

Secondhand Romance is a second-chances contemporary romance novel written by Jessica Stevens. Rita and her identical twin sister, Annabelle, did everything together, so those who knew and loved them weren't all that surprised when they announced their plan to have a double wedding. Annabelle was...