The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand Little, Brown and Company (June 14, 2022)   Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she’s named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she … More BOOK REVIEW: The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

  You Get What You Give by Karen Grey Carolina Classics (book 1) Home Cooked Books (June 29, 2022) 246 pages Friendship/1990s Beach Town/Retro RomCom New 1990’s TV-themed beach town Carolina Classics series. From insta-lover to insta-enemy. All that, and a bag of chips. In a sleepy southern coastal town crowned the Hollywood of the … More Book Review: You Get What You Give by Karen Grey

I’ll Stand By You by Karen Grey Carolina Classics Prequel novella Home Cooked Books (May 18, 2022) 73 pages Friendship/1990s Beach Town Can five friends grow up without growing apart? Summer, 1991: Working at a beachfront hotel in their sleepy southern coastal town gives life-long friends Violet, Danielle, Whitney, Ford and Sully the chance to spend … More Book Review: I’ll Stand By You by Karen Grey

  A Very Grumpy Christmas by Jerica MacMillan November 22, 2021 Holiday Fiction/Holiday Romance/Christmas/Small Town Romance   My neighbor is a Grinch. Since I run the Christmas Emporium and sometimes moonlight as an elf, that’s kind of a problem for me. No surprise, though. When I brought over cookies to welcome him to the neighborhood … More Book Review: A Very Grumpy Christmas by Jerica MacMillan

  A Family Forever by Donna Fasano A Family Forever Series, (Books 1,2 & 3) Family Life/Clean,Sweet Romance 2106 & 2017   Many people say family is everything. There is nothing more beautiful than two people coming together for the sake of a child, finding love, and forming A Family Forever. From marriage-of-convenience to second-chance-at-love … More Bookset Review: A Family Forever by Donna Fasano

  The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde Northodox Press (June 16, 2022)     The Past Never Dies When his beloved little brother is stolen away, five-year-old Tommy Farrier is left alone with his alcoholic mam, his violent step-dad and his guilt. Too young to understand what has really happened, Tommy is sure … More Book Review: The Silent Brother by Simon Van der Velde

  Flirting with Fifty by Jane Porter Berkley (May 24, 2022) Womens Fiction   A sexy and sparkling later-in-life contemporary romance about a woman who leaps out of her comfort zone and takes a chance on love by New York Times bestselling author Jane Porter. Paige Newsom is finally at a place in her life where she’s … More Book Review: Flirting with Fifty by Jane Porter

Breath to Bear by Paula Dombrowiak Blood and Bone Series, Book 2 A Friends-to-Lovers, Rockstar Romance November 30, 2021 BLURB These chains that weigh me down, my guilt I wear like a crown, SHE is my Breath to Bear Jack O’Donnell I thought telling my story would purge my demons, but it didn’t. If anything, … More Book Review: Breath to Bear by Paula Dombrowiak

    The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick Park Row (May 31, 2022) Fiction   The house cleaner of a famous author must carry out her employer’s shocking last wish in this delightful new novel from beloved author Phaedra Patrick Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid to make … More Book Review: The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick

  BRENDA NOVAK’S SUMMER ON THE ISLAND BOOK TOUR Brenda Novak recently went on a book tour promoting her new release, SUMMER ON THE ISLAND. She had 13 stops in 16 days. She partnered with Independent Bookstores. I attended her stop in Delaware at Bethany Beach Books which was steps away from the ocean. Read … More Brenda Novak’s Summer on the Island Book Tour