The Summer After by Chandra Hoffman

We’d all love to run away from life sometimes, off to a tropical island where time and things don’t matter anymore and whatever we’ve left behind can stay there…. That is the backdrop of this novel and it sucks you right in. Dean and Juliet are trying to figure out life now as single parents. […]

The Amber Crane by Malve von Hassell

Peter an amber guild is an apprentice during the Thirty Year’s War and is hoping to become a journeyman. That would give him a career as well as help his family out immensely. Things have been rough for them- lost their mother and brother and his sister is having a very hard time with it […]

The Family by Louise Jensen

This was a good psychological. Laura has just lost her husband to a horrible death, and both her and their daughter are grieving. She is not sure how to move forward and with lawsuits looming and her business failing she has no idea how she will be able to continue to support her and Tilly. […]

The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon

Creepy, goosebumps, ghosts… the past, a sisters bond and no one listening to the whispers of the truth of the springs. This novel as it all, and of course the cover! I love how Jennifer writes the creepy, but it is believable creepy but not so scary you cannot continue to read the story. I […]

The Mourning Report by Caitlin Garvey

This was a very eye opening novel on the different ways we can perceive death, and grief and loss. I found it intriguing how Caitlin tried to hang onto the memories of her mother by talking to others who had a hand in helping her mother during and after her passing of cancer. I would […]

The Golden Van Dorens by Nicole Strycharz

Personal Review: I loved this novel! It had everything in it; romance, greed, sisters, murder, gold and the author twisted it all together so perfectly! She did such a good job winding all of the characters together and bringing everything full circle. This novel is written through the view points of all three sisters and […]