Dark Blue Waves by Kimberly Sullivan

Excerpt In her room, Janet sat at the window seat, watching the people wandering the narrow streets of Bath. She read a few pages of her book before giving in to her exhaustion and crawling into bed. After setting the alarm, she drifted off to a troubled sleep. A piano played in the distance. Mozart. Voi […]

The Scent of Gardenias by Lorraine Haas

I love novels based on true people and events. Margaret Rose is one of many children during a time when poverty and war was hitting most households across the US in the 1940’s. Being used to her fathers drunken moods and her mother continuing to put up with him and their poor lifestyle day after […]

The Secret Field by Susan Dennis

This novel was a tangled web of diverse characters that I would have never cast together, and a mess of finger pointing but it all fit together and made for a few laughs and the thriller of trying to figure out what is happening. Kari has a mess of a life she is trying to […]

Sunflowers Beneath the Snow by Teri M. Brown

With everything that is currently going on with Russia’s War on Ukraine – this was a very good read about the background of Ukraine over the last fifty years and why this war is so important for Ukraine to fight for everything they’ve worked for those last decades. This novel follows three generations of women […]

Until Next Sunday by Audry Fryer

~Personal Review~ I love reading novels that are based on true stories, people and places. Until Next Sunday is the story of two young adults learning what it means to trust and fall in love with someone when it seems the universe is working against them. Rosina has come to American for a better life, […]

The Seasons of Grace by Dave O. Dodge

Grace Metalious, novelist of the famous Peyton Place let quite an interesting and tumultuous life. She was ahead of her time with her writing and many thought it was scandalous yet thousand upon thousands of copies sold and kept selling. Grace had grown up poor but was also spoiled in that unlike most children, she […]

Waterbury Winter by Linda Stewart Henley

Barnaby Brown is a man who always seems down on his luck and all he wants is to head out west to California where the sun seems to always shine and the weather is warm year round. He can barley make ends meet, his car just died in a snow bank, his house will be […]

A Letter in the Wall by Eileen Brill

This novel follows Joan through the decades of her life, born in 1915 she saw a lot of changes in the United States. War, Spanish Flu, prohibition, Great Depression, WWII, the changes of women in the workforce, and yet another war in Vietnam. Women, families and the workforce had many changes because of these historical […]

Secrets of Rosenli Manor by Heidi Eljarbo

This was a quick, fun read and I am excited to see what happens next in Lilly’s life with Rosenli Manor. The Great-Aunt Agatha has died and everyone in the family thinks they are getting their hands on her riches and they can live like the elite and wealthy with plans in place for upgrades […]

Love That Lasts by Michelle Helen Fritz & E.A. Shanniak #bookblast

Love That Lasts by Michelle Helen Fritz & E.A. Shanniak Publication Date: April 14, 2022 Clear Spring Books LLC Genre: Regency Romance Series: Bramley Hall Regency Romance, Book Two Miss Isabelle Pembroke has spent most of her life doing as she pleases and she most certainly never wastes time on the suitors who call for […]