Sophie Potter’s job is helping people deal with the worst, because Sophie Potter knows what the worst feels like. An expert at keeping moving, with her trusty motorhome and faithful dog Muffin, Sophie has built her life around keeping her loves and loyalties to a minimum. Fabulous fifty-something Hattie Langford has kept her heart and… Continue reading Take Me Home by Beth Moran
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The Way to the Sea by Victoria Connelly
When Cate Rivers leaves her husband in the middle of the night with their young daughter, Eliza, she has no idea what the future holds. Taking a live-in position at Hollow House on the Dorset coast, she determines to make a new life for her and Eliza. But Cate’s new boss, fossil hunter Charles Thorner,… Continue reading The Way to the Sea by Victoria Connelly
Ten Thousand I Love Yous by Lisa Slabach
At sixteen, Kimberly Kirby thought the only thing she needed to be perfectly happy was to spend the rest of her life with Jay Braxton. Twenty years later, she still believes it. As they proudly watch their daughter, Haley, graduate from high school, she imagines her life is as perfect as anyone could reasonably expect.… Continue reading Ten Thousand I Love Yous by Lisa Slabach
Blue by L.E. DeLano
When Blue Mancini’s mother picked her name, it ended up being a self-fulfilling prophecy.A year ago, Blue’s brother, Jack, was involved in a car accident that killed the father of her classmate, Maya Rodriguez. Luckily for Jack, he got out of a manslaughter charge and into a plea bargain thanks to the top-notch lawyer hired by Blue’s… Continue reading Blue by L.E. DeLano
Red Velvet (Blackwood Cellars #2) by Carla Luna
Faking it has never been so much fun… In her ultra-competitive family, April Beckett is used to taking last place. For years, she’s put up with jabs about her modest job and her pathetic love life. Especially after she tried to impress her older sisters with a fake boyfriend in college and failed miserably. But… Continue reading Red Velvet (Blackwood Cellars #2) by Carla Luna
The Weight of the Sky by Caroline Schley
For every important decision in her life, fifteen-year-old Chris Miller relies on silence rather than courage. In her rough Bridgeport neighborhood, Chris bites her tongue when her best friend gets sent to juvenile detention for a crime she didn’t commit. As a scholarship kid at St. Catherine’s Prep, Chris acquiesces to ‘drinkstagram’ at tony sleepover parties. At… Continue reading The Weight of the Sky by Caroline Schley
The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith
It’s been three months since Lila lost her father to suicide. Since then, she’s learned to protect herself from pain by following two unbreakable rules:1. The only people who can truly hurt you are the ones you love. Therefore, love no one.2. Stay away from liars. Liars are the worst.But when Lila’s mother sends her to… Continue reading The Half-Orphan’s Handbook by Joan F. Smith
It’s Raining Men by Rich Amooi
On a dare, Faith Daniels tosses a coin into the infamous “Fountain of Love” and wishes for the perfect man, laughing it off as the dumbest thing she’s ever done. Like magic, her quiet life turns upside-down when men begin to appear out of nowhere. There’s a doctor, a lawyer, a firefighter, and a swimwear… Continue reading It’s Raining Men by Rich Amooi
The Last Resort by Emily Gallo
An old sixties musician and his trim mama run a pot farm in the Emerald Triangle of northern California and welcome an exonerated ex-con, a Las Vegas prostitute, a union organizer from the Bronx, an escapee of a sex slave cult, a retired carney with Parkinson’s Disease, and an old Mississippi blues guitarist down on… Continue reading The Last Resort by Emily Gallo
Heart Sister by Michael F. Stewart
After his twin sister, Minnie, dies in an accident, Emmitt’s world goes sideways. He’s lost his best friend and it feels like the family is falling apart without her. But Minnie was an organ donor and Emmitt soon receives an anonymous thank you letter from one of the transplant recipients. Inspiration strikes, and he decides to… Continue reading Heart Sister by Michael F. Stewart
A Place We Call Home by Faith Hogan
Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills... Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed mills have created the finest wool in all of Ireland. Run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and how the mills came to be the Corrigan's is one of them...… Continue reading A Place We Call Home by Faith Hogan
One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
After fleeing crumbling, volatile Venezuela, Yola Palacio wants nothing more than to settle into a peaceful new life in Trinidad with her family. And who cares if they’re there illegally—aren’t most of the people on the island? But life for the Palacios is far from quiet—and when Yola’s Aunt Celia dies, the family once again… Continue reading One Year of Ugly by Caroline Mackenzie
The F*ck-It List by John Niven
You are dying. Who do you kill? Set in a near-future America, an America that has borne two terms of Trump Presidency and is now in the first term of Donald’s daughter as president, Frank Brill, a retired small-town newspaper editor, lives in a world where the populist policies Trump is currently so keen to… Continue reading The F*ck-It List by John Niven
The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson
May is a survivor. But she doesn’t feel like one. She feels angry. And lost. And alone. Eleven months after the school shooting that killed her twin brother, May still doesn’t know why she was the only one to walk out of the band room that day. No one gets what she went through—no one… Continue reading The Lucky Ones by Liz Lawson
Prodigal by Samantha Sanchez
Lyric is 21 years old and bored with the inhibited lifestyle of endless church activities she’s been forced to participate in since childhood. When she is offered the opportunity to be on a reality show, she jumps at the chance to move in with five strangers under the premise of pursuing further education. However, a… Continue reading Prodigal by Samantha Sanchez
The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw
Welcome to the month-long mega tour for Charlie Laidlaw's newest book, The Space Between Time, due for release on June 20th! There will be fantastic bloggers participating, who will be posting interviews, excerpts, reviews, and other exclusive content! Additionally, there are loads of goodies being given away, so be sure to enter at the bottom!… Continue reading The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw
Bullet Wrecker by Alexander Salfiti
When Lee Jence gets a bullet to the spine while on tour in Afghanistan it isn’t just his own life that gets thrown into flux. While coming to terms with his new disability, his wife Laura, his best friend Stephen and his mother Rachel all have their lives turned upside down when a single bullet… Continue reading Bullet Wrecker by Alexander Salfiti
The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw
I'm delighted to be able to take part in the cover reveal blog splash for The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw and organized by R&R Book Tours. Expected Publication Date: June 20, 2019 Genre: Contemporary Fiction/ Dark Comedy There are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on Earth... Emma Maria Rossini… Continue reading The Space Between Time by Charlie Laidlaw
Drive-by Shouting by Mark Chase
Oh, how those girls had loved an artist; now, guitars were carried by buskers and out of touch wannabes, while guys who couldn't play a note, but called themselves DJs, got laid every night. Matt and Gram were down and out band members in England finally on there way to the top when they were… Continue reading Drive-by Shouting by Mark Chase
The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson
This book is an epistolary novel which means it is written in letters. The interesting part is that the letters are written by one person only. You would think this would make it difficult to follow how the other characters are feeling, but Ms. Robinson does an excellent job of letting the reader know. The… Continue reading The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson