Synopsis: Overlooking the Hudson River on the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point are 12 granite benches, each inscribed with a word representing a key leadership virtue: compassion, courage, dedication, determination, dignity, discipline, integrity, loyalty, perseverance, responsibility, service, and trust. These benches remind cadets of the qualities... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour: Military Wife
THE MILITARY WIFE by Laura Trentham A young widow embraces a second chance at life when she reconnects with those who understand the sacrifices made by American soldiers and their families in award-winning author Laura Trentham’s The Military Wife. Harper Lee Wilcox has been marking time in her hometown of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina... Continue Reading →
Review: The Blue Line
Synopsis: From the extraordinary Colombian French politician and activist Ingrid Betancourt, a stunning debut novel about freedom and fate Set against the backdrop of Argentina’s Dirty War and infused with magical realism, The Blue Line is a breathtaking story of love and betrayal by one of the world’s most renowned writers and activists. Ingrid... Continue Reading →
Review: With This Pledge
Synopsis: History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length installment of Tamera Alexander's new series, The Carnton Novels. On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Confederacy and nearly kills Captain Roland Ward Jones. A decorated Mississippi sharpshooter,... Continue Reading →
Review: Made for the Journey
Synopsis: In her first year as a missionary to a small group of native women in the Ecuadorian jungle, Elisabeth Elliot faced physical and spiritual trials. In Made for the Journey, Elliot captures the mysteries and stark realities surrounding the colorful and primitive world in which she ministered. More than just a... Continue Reading →
Review: A Seat by the Hearth
Synopsis: Priscilla Allgyer knows she cannot leave the past behind. But can love lead her toward the promise of healing? Priscilla Allgyer left the community to escape the expectations of Amish life. Now, years later, she is forced to return—along with her six-year-old son—to the place she thought she’d left... Continue Reading →
Review: Indivisible
Synopsis: Inspired by true events, Indivisible is a story of love, service, and finding each other all over again. Darren and Heather Turner share a passion for serving God, family, and country. When Darren is deployed to Iraq as an army chaplain, Heather vows to serve military families back home as she cares... Continue Reading →
Review: We Hope for Better Things
Synopsis: When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she look up a relative she didn't know she had in order to deliver an old camera and a box of photos--seems like it isn't worth her time. But when she loses her job after a... Continue Reading →
Review: The Distant Sound of Thunder
Synopsis: Katie Stuckey and Jonas Weaver are both romantics. Seventeen-year-old Katie is starry-eyed, in love with the idea of being in love, and does not want to wait to marry Jonas until she is eighteen, despite her parents' insistence. So much can happen in a year. Twenty-year-old Jonas is taken in... Continue Reading →
Review: Delayed Justice
Synopsis: She had long given up the desire to be loved. Now she only needed to be heard. Jaime Nichols went to law school to find the voice she never had as a child, and her determination to protect girls and women in the path of harm drives her in... Continue Reading →
Review: New
Synopsis: Found in a dying jungle, six strange babies ae spirited off to the United States where a fantastic discovery is made. Like us, they are hominids. They don't share our DNA but they're highly intelligent. So they're animals--less than slaves, but as smart as us. They are incredibly valuable... Continue Reading →
Review: The Healing by Linda Byler
Synopsis: A hopeful story of unexpected love in the midst of illness, pain, and family conflict John is the youngest of seven boys and is constantly overshadowed by his big brothers who seem to all be stronger, smarter, and better looking than he is. As a teenager, he knows he’s... Continue Reading →
Review: All We Ever Wanted was Everything by Janelle Brown
Synopsis: A smart, comic page-turner about a Silicon Valley family in free fall over the course of one eventful summer. When Paul Miller’s pharmaceutical company goes public, making his family IPO millionaires, his wife, Janice, is sure this is the windfall she’s been waiting years for — until she... Continue Reading →
Review: Formula of Deception by Carrie Stuart Parks
Synopsis: “I love Carrie Stuart Parks’s skill in writing characters with hysterical humor, unwitting courage and page-turning mystery. I hope my readers won’t abandon me completely when they learn about her!” —Terri Blackstock, USA TODAY bestselling author of If I Run, If I’m Found, and If I Live An... Continue Reading →
Review: The Orphan’s Wish by Melanie Dickerson
Synopsis: From the streets to an orphanage in a faraway kingdom, Aladdin has grown up alone. Until he meets Kirstyn. With a father who is the duke of Hagenheim and a mother who is the patroness of the orphanage where Aladdin lives, Kirstyn is a member... Continue Reading →
Review: Louisiana Catch by Sweta Vikram
Synopsis: A grieving daughter and abuse survivor must summon the courage to run a feminist conference, trust a man she meets over the Internet, and escape a catfishing stalker to find her power. Ahana, a wealthy thirty-three-year-old New Delhi woman, flees the pain of her mother's death,... Continue Reading →
Review: Against A Crimson Sky
Synopsis: The continuation of the sweeping story of young Countess Anna Maria, introduced in the epic PUSH NOT THE RIVER, as Poland picks up the pieces and joins forces with Napoleon in an attempt to bring down Russia. AGAINST A CRIMSON SKY tells the interrelated stories of four characters in the aftermath of the... Continue Reading →
Review: The Sweet Smell of Magnolias and Memories
Synopsis: Jacey met the man of her dreams a year ago—and hasn’t seen him since. Finally relocating him as the pastor at her best friend’s wedding was the very last thing she expected. A year ago, Jacey was trapped on a rooftop during a flood with perfect strangers, including a family and a man named... Continue Reading →
Review: Faery Sight
Synopsis: The realm of faery is breached and for the first time, Celeste comes face to face with a human. He strikes her as an extraordinary specimen and although they have yet to speak, her heart is racing. But Paloma, Celeste's mother, is on her deathbed and before she breathes her last, the gruesome circumstances... Continue Reading →
Review: A Sky Full of Stars
Synopsis: The stars are about to align in the newest Shaughnessy brothers romance! WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Brilliant astrophysicist Dr. Owen Shaughnessy feels more connected to the cosmos than to people. He's great with calculations, but when he leads a team of scientists to study a famous meteor shower, he doesn't factor in his free-spirited artist... Continue Reading →
Review: The Gay Preacher’s Wife
Synopsis: The deeply personal memoir of Lydia Meredith, a woman who spent almost thirty years married to a preacher—only to have her husband leave her for a MAN —and how her life becomes a testimony of tolerance and a theology of love and acceptance. After being married to Reverend Dennis A. Meredith for almost thirty... Continue Reading →
Review: The Ebb Tide
Synopsis: A Heartwarming Tale of Courage and Love from Amish Fiction's #1 Author When a well-to-do family asks Sallie Riehl to be their daughter's nanny for the summer at their Cape May, New Jersey, vacation home, she jumps at the chance to broaden her horizons beyond the Lancaster County Amish community where she grew up.... Continue Reading →
Review: Madame President
Synopsis: The harrowing, but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women’s movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history. When Ellen Johnson Sirleaf won the 2005 Liberian presidential election, she demolished a barrier few thought possible, obliterating centuries of patriarchal rule to... Continue Reading →
Review: Finding Sarah
Synopsis: Finding Sarah is an emotionally captivating story of love, life and everything in between. With her house sold from under her, Sarah finds herself moving to a small cottage in the country in order to make ends meet but soon befriends, Maggie, the matriarch of Nutt Hill, a Texan and hopeless romantic. But when... Continue Reading →
Review: A Love Made New
Synopsis: Abigail Schrock knows God can make all things new, but does that include her broken heart? It seems as if everyone is falling in love in Birch Creek, including Abigail Schrock. But when heartbreak descends on her already fragile world, she can’t help but feel that if she’d only been a little prettier, she... Continue Reading →
Review: A Tragic Kind of Wonderful
Synopsis: For sixteen-year-old Mel Hannigan, bipolar disorder makes life unpredictable. Her latest struggle is balancing her growing feelings in a new relationship with her instinct to keep everyone at arm's length. And when a former friend confronts Mel with the truth about the way their relationship ended, deeply buried secrets threaten to come out... Continue Reading →
Review: Good in Bed
Synopsis: For twenty-eight years, things have been tripping along nicely for Cannie Shapiro. Sure, her mother has come charging out of the closet, and her father has long since dropped out of her world. But she loves her friends, her rat terrier, Nifkin, and her job as pop culture reporter for The Philadelphia Examiner.... Continue Reading →
Review: Find Me In Heaven
Synopsis: Violet is a shy, introverted woman who hides behind her red hair and freckles. Xander is a strong, driven businessman who has no desire for romance. Living at opposite ends of the country, there isn't any chance the two will meet. Little do they know, they have guardian angels who are determined to... Continue Reading →
Review: You Know Me Well
Synopsis: Who knows you well? Your best friend? Your boyfriend or girlfriend? A stranger you meet on a crazy night? No one, really? Mark and Kate have sat next to each other for an entire year but have never spoken. For whatever reason, their paths outside of class have never crossed. That is until Kate... Continue Reading →
Review: A Transcendental Yogi Life (With Eternal Stories)
Synopsis: Spiritualism is one of the greatest mysteries in life. But what does it even mean, How do we access it? What power does it hold? What is your purpose on earth? What is God like?Who is a yogi? With A Transcendental Yogi Life, With Eternal Stories, you delve deep into the life of... Continue Reading →
Review: Kitty Hawk and The Curse of the Yukon Gold
Synopsis: Kitty Hawk and the Curse of the Yukon Gold is the thrilling first installment in a new series of adventure mystery stories that are one part travel, one part history and five parts adventure. This first book of the Kitty Hawk Flying Detective Agency Series introduces Kitty Hawk, an intrepid teenage pilot with... Continue Reading →
Review: Leaving Independence
Synopsis: Abigail Baldwyn might not be a widow after all… Ever since she received word that her husband, Robert, was killed in the Civil War, Abigail has struggled to keep her Tennessee home and family together. Then a letter arrives claiming that Robert isn’t dead, yet he has no plans to return. Desperate for... Continue Reading →
Review: Gullali of Panjshir Valley
Synopsis: A POWERFUL TALE OF ADVENTURE, ROMANCE, AND ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT AGAINST GENDER BIAS IN THE NAME OF CULTURE AND RELIGION. Panjshir Valley, eleven thousand feet above sea level north of Kabul--Afghanistan, is heaven on Earth. Gullali, an educated young Afghan woman, was raised by her liberal-minded family to believe women deserve the same rights as men,... Continue Reading →
Review: A Hero of France
Synopsis: From the bestselling master espionage writer, hailed by Vince Flynn as “the best in the business,” comes a riveting novel about the French Resistance in Nazi-occupied Paris. 1941. The City of Light is dark and silent at night. But in Paris and in the farmhouses, barns, and churches of the French countryside, small... Continue Reading →
Review: Midnight in Berlin
Synopsis: Berlin in the spring of 1939. Hitler is preparing for war. Colonel Noel Macrae, a British diplomat, plans the ultimate sacrifice to stop him. The West’s appeasement policies have failed. There is only one alternative: assassination. The Gestapo, aware of Macrae’s hostility, seeks to compromise him in their infamous brothel. There Macrae meets... Continue Reading →
Review: Fever at Dawn
Synopsis: In this improbably joyous novel about two recovering concentration camp survivors, love is the best medicine. July 1945. Miklos is a twenty-five-year-old Hungarian who has survived the camps and has been brought to Sweden to convalesce. His doctor has just given him a death sentence — his lungs are filled with fluid and... Continue Reading →
Review: The Great Leap
Synopsis: Mundu, an indigenous teenager from the Brazilian rainforest, is the best long jumper in the world-only no one knows it. That is, until idealistic botanist and power company scout Luis Moraes sees Mundu effortlessly launch himself across a wide stream. Luis convinces the power company to let him take Mundu to Rio de... Continue Reading →
Review: Harlem Heroine
Synopsis: Tonia Taylor's life changed forever on the night that her friend and brother Jermaine "Baby Jay" was murdered. But Jermaine was actually the last of a long line of real, smart, and handsome street dudes she encountered growing up in Harlem. In the early 80’s she became intrigued by the fast life despite... Continue Reading →
Review: Shunned No More
Synopsis: A Lady Shunned by All… Lady Viola Oberbrook only wanted to forget the ill-fated early morning duel that took the lives of two young, wealthy, promising men of the ton and sent her fleeing for her father’s country estate. Eight years later, she has her life in order: a fulfilling business, a... Continue Reading →
Review: Someone Like You
Synopsis: Single mom Julia Dare has a lot on her plate. A brand new Christian, she's busy trying to run her own business, spend time with her widowed mother, and raise her young son, Max, despite his father's less-than-ideal influence on him. When a big account from her event-planning business sends her to the... Continue Reading →
Review: Guardian of Paradise
Synopsis: In 1888, Kira Wall, surviving daughter of missionaries swept away in a tsunami, lives a primitive, but enjoyable life with natives on an isolated island in the South Pacific. But her serene world is turned upside down when an Australian merchant ship, commanded by the sinister Captain Darcy Coleman, arrives with an overabundance... Continue Reading →
Review: Meadow Creek
Synopsis: Sloan Bradshaw is a sassy but classy business woman of a multi-billion dollar company but has been unable to depend on anyone all her life. Losing her husband in Iraq wasn’t foreseen but like always she forged on. However, this time, she wasn’t the only one left behind. Her seven-year-old son Oliver has... Continue Reading →
Review: The Cavendon Luck
Synopsis: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries. It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have led the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from... Continue Reading →
Review: Niveus
Synopsis: Niveus is…perfectly peculiar. The silver-haired beauty with eyes the color of a dying rose is the only daughter of Ravan and Nicolette. She wanders the Wintergrave Realm like no other, unseen and unheard, sharing an extraordinary gift. The Wintergrave Dynasty’s strange daughter, she beloved by all and understood by none. Ravan’s realm seems... Continue Reading →
Review: The Damned of Petersburg
Synopsis: GLORY TURNED GRIM… …and warfare changed forever. As Grant pinned Lee to Petersburg and Richmond, the Confederacy’s stubborn Army of Northern Virginia struggled against a relentless Union behemoth, with breathtaking valor and sacrifice on both sides. That confrontation in the bloody summer and autumn of 1864 shaped the nation that we know today.... Continue Reading →
Review: The Customer Is Always Wrong
Synopsis: '90s grunge kid Conrad Jacoby is on the verge of graduating from Hiawatha High. Eager to leave the nest and his alcoholic Vietnam veteran father behind, Conrad joins the workforce where he tests his luck at minimum wage jobs in food service and retail, building his savings and his backbone with the goal... Continue Reading →
Review: Jump
Synopsis: In this book, Orsi invites you on a journey where she says good-bye to her 9 to 5 job and Jumps into the unknown. All she knows is that she can’t fail. Not because she is a super woman, but because she realises that failing is never trying. She decides to get out... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Win Me Over by Nicole Michaels
Win Me Over is a sensational read. Readers will automatically connect with the main characters and fall in love with this beautifully written novel. Family, friends, and some courage are just a few of the main themes found in Win Me Over. Nicole Michaels has done a brilliant job in bringing to life characters whose... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Affairytale by C.J. English
Affairytale by C.J. English is incredibly stunning and addictive to read. Beware readers, once you open up to that first page, you won't want to put the novel back down. An exciting tale of one woman's journey of her current marriage that lacks the passion and love she seeks. But early on, she finds the... Continue Reading →
Book Review: The Strange Maid by Tessa Gratton
The Strange Maid, is definitely an exciting read! A paranormal romance for young adults that triggers the senses and pulls at the heart. Decisions and sacrifices have to be made if Signy Valborn wants to be the next Valkyrie. Two others will help her get to where she needs to be. Ned has to teach... Continue Reading →