Contemporary Fiction

Release Blitz w/Review: The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay

October 23, 2018

The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay St. Martin’s Press (October 23, 2018) Contemporary Fiction/Family Life/Sagas The first new novel in four years from the beloved superstar author of Sarah’s Key, a heartbreaking and uplifting story of family secrets and devastating disaster, set against a Paris backdrop, fraught with revelations, and resolutions. Linden … More Release Blitz w/Review: The Rain Watcher by Tatiana De Rosnay

Release Blitz with Review: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

May 29, 2018

The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable St. Martin’s Press (May 29, 2018) 528 pages Women’s Fiction/Contemporary Fiction New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful … More Release Blitz with Review: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

Upcoming Release with Review: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

March 9, 2018

The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable St. Martin’s Press (May 29, 2018) 528 pages Women’s Fiction/Contemporary Fiction New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between John F. Kennedy and Alicia Corning Clark – and the child they may have had. Based on a real story – in 1950, a young, beautiful … More Upcoming Release with Review: The Summer I Met Jack by Michelle Gable

Book Review: All is Bright AND Love, Accidentally by Sarah Pekkanen

February 14, 2018

ALL IS BRIGHT and the follow up LOVE, ACCIDENTALLY are two linked short e-stories by Sarah Pekkanen Two sides to the story: The old girlfriend and the new girlfriend. All Is Bright by Sarah Pekkanen (Elise’s point of view) Washington Square Press (December 21, 2010) 47 pages Kindle Short Reads/Contemporary Fiction/Women’s Fiction/Family Life Thirty-year-old … More Book Review: All is Bright AND Love, Accidentally by Sarah Pekkanen

PreOrder and Review: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

June 7, 2017

Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornack Berkley (October 17, 2017) Woman’s Fiction/Contemporary BLURB A warm, wry, sharply observed debut novel about what happens when a family is forced to spend a week together in quarantine over the holidays… It’s Christmas, and for the first time in years the entire Birch family will be under … More PreOrder and Review: Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak

Book Review: Serpents and Doves by G. Lloyd Helm

August 14, 2016

SERPENTS AND DOVES – G. LLOYD HELM A naïve college freshman’s introduction to the segregated South. MY REVIEW: Coming of age story where Stephen Mitchell, a naïve Californian, encounters betrayal, murder, bigotry, segregation, suicide, among other things during his first year at a small church college in Tennessee. Serpents and Doves is set in the … More Book Review: Serpents and Doves by G. Lloyd Helm

Book Review: The French War Bride by Robin Wells

August 2, 2016

A story of a young girl trying to survive during occupied France and what led up to her being a war bride of someone else’s fiancée. My Review: The French War Bride is told by two narrators – Amélie and Kat. Amélie is the French War Bride of American Serviceman Dr. Jack O’Connor. Kat was … More Book Review: The French War Bride by Robin Wells

FIRST COMES LOVE – EMILY GIFFIN

July 5, 2016

REVIEW: First Comes Love by Emily Giffin MY REVIEW: First Comes Love is a book about family and the complicated relationship between two sisters. A family that has never gotten over the loss of a son and brother and what that death did to the family. His family is still reeling, regretting, and full of what … More FIRST COMES LOVE – EMILY GIFFIN

WHEN WE WERE SISTERS – EMILIE RICHARDS

June 1, 2016

When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards Love and loyalty made them sisters. Secrets could still destroy them. MY REVIEW: A moving and brilliantly written book. Emilie Richards portrays the foster system that tries, but often fails, to protect the children it serves. The two girls in book, Cecilia and Robin, vowed to be sisters that they … More WHEN WE WERE SISTERS – EMILIE RICHARDS