Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Time for Destiny Author: Michelle Rae Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 196 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: When Daniel Wilson, oldest of five children in a troubled family, joined the military, he expected to see combat in Iraq. But it comes as quite a shock when a Rupee minted a century and a half... Continue Reading →
Title: Cold Feet Author: Jay Northcote Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 107 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Best friends snowed in together. When the heat rises, will they get cold feet? Getting snowed in at a remote cottage in Wales with someone he’d fancied for ages isn’t exactly how Sam expected to spend Christmas. His feelings... Continue Reading →
Title: Player vs Player Author: Amelia C. Gormley Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Pushing for change can be dangerous when change starts pushing back. Video game writer Niles River loves the work he does at Third Wave Studios: creating games with mass appeal that feature women, people of color,... Continue Reading →
Title: Spinning Gold Author: C. Margery Kempe Publisher: Tirgearr Publishing Pages/Word Count: 23 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: How long would it be before the prince discovered Freawine couldn't really spin straw into gold-or that this "peasant girl" was really a boy? Review: C. Margery Kempe fractures the fairy tale classic “Rumpelstiltskin” in her short... Continue Reading →
Title: Hummingbird House Author: Kenzie Cade Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 57 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: To honor his grandmother's final request, Trenton Appleton drops everything to visit the family’s ancestral home: Hummingbird House, where he experienced his first kiss and first heartbreak with Callum Eason. Eight years ago, confused by his attraction to... Continue Reading →
Title: The Virgin Miracle Author: Rob Rosen Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 22 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Two strangers on a plane, one heading to Paris, the other Barcelona, both trying to get to their families in time for the holidays. It’s Christmas Eve, and all they have in common is a connection through... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Title: Two Guys Walk Into an Apocalypse 3: He's a Lumberjack and He's Undead Author: V. L. Locey Publisher: Torquere Press, Inc. Pages/Word Count: 130 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Paul and Gordon aren't your typical zombie hunters. They're a loving couple of educators who might be infected by the virus that is turning the... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Three years ago today, I opened WordPress.com and created a new URL in my own little corner of the world wide web. My first review of Hayden Thorne’s Renfred’s Masquerade was one I’d written for Top2Bottom Reviews, and because the book was just that exquisite, I decided to import it and test it as my... Continue Reading →
Title: A Chaotic Range Author: Andrew Grey Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 200 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Most of the time ranch hand David rescues stray cattle, but this time he and his fellow cowboys Wally and Haven save a stranded motorist. David is surprised to find his former high school classmate nearly frozen... Continue Reading →
Title: Wait for Me Author: T.S. Morgan Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 21 Pages Rating: 2 Star Blurb: To fulfill his grandfather’s final request, TJ Barclay travels to Scotland over Christmas to bury his ashes next to his lost love, so they can be together at last. While there, he meets Jamie, the orphaned grandson... Continue Reading →
Title: Ordinary Heroes Author: Drew Zachary Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 65 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: These four tales by Drew Zachary celebrate the everyday hero. Whether it’s a midnight romp in a corn maze under the moonlight at Halloween, or a vet returning to his small hometown years after leaving for the big... Continue Reading →
Title: Tied Together (The Dark Angels: Book Two) Author: Z. Allora Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Pages/Word Count: 257 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Josh has loved Robin since the day they met, although he never dared to follow his heart. After the two are kicked out of their house, a night of despair turns into... Continue Reading →
Title: Conflicted Author: Louise Lyons Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 300 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Two competing gangs of car and drag racing enthusiasts with a shared history of pain and rivalry leading to outright hatred. Two men from opposite sides of the tracks, yet with more in common than they’d like to admit.... Continue Reading →
Title: Happy Holidays Series: The Dark Angels Publisher: Rocky Ridge Books Category: Holiday Romance/Erotica Cover Artist: PL Nunn Blurb: What do erotic sex toys and Hanukkah have to do with each other? Absolutely nothing unless you're a member of the famous rock band The Dark Angels and the shy but kinky Robin gives gifts that... Continue Reading →
Title: Springtime 1962, The Lawson YMCA Author: Owen Keehnen Publisher: Wilde City Press Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: A diary is found in a secondhand bookstore. The narrator opens the dusty cover and discovers that the book is the intimate diary of a man named Joseph. Reading the entries, the narrator is... Continue Reading →
Title: Smoky Mountain Dreams Author: Leta Blake Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 425 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes holding on means letting go. After giving up on his career as a country singer in Nashville, Christopher Ryder is happy enough performing at the Smoky Mountain Dreams theme park in Tennessee. But while his beloved Gran... Continue Reading →
Title: The Dream Alchemist (Somnus: Book One) Author: Joanna Chambers Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 223 Pages Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: When the sun goes down, their passion awakens…and so do their nightmares. Centuries ago, a man with Bryn Llewelyn’s dreamwalking ability would have been a shaman or a priest. In this time, he’s merely... Continue Reading →
Title: Outing the Quarterback Author: Tara Lain Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Pages/Word Count: 216 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Will Ashford lives in two closets. He meets his wealthy father’s goals as both the quarterback for the famous SCU football team and a business major, but secretly he attends art school and longs to live as... Continue Reading →
Title: Sleeping on the Job Author: Missouri Dalton Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 118 pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: At sixteen, Simon Murphy was an accomplished jewel thief, at eighteen he was released from a boy’s reform school and these days, he’s a detective with Chicago’s Night Shift. When a familiar killer strikes again, Simon... Continue Reading →
Title: The Walls of Troy Author: L.A. Witt Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 255 pages Rating: 4.5 stars Blurb: Just when the pieces begin to add up, danger blows them all apart… MA1 Iskander Ayhan’s orders are simple: stay with Admiral Dalton’s son as a plainclothes bodyguard while the kid attends university classes. So typical—a... Continue Reading →
Title: When One Door Opens Author: J.D. Ruskin Narrator:: K.C. Kelly Publisher: Dreamspinner Press Run Time: 8 Hours, 50 Minutes Rating: 4.5 Stars Blurb: Logan Sellers's parole officer has issued three commandments: stay sober, stay employed, and stay out of trouble. At first Logan thought those three simple rules would be easy to follow. But... Continue Reading →
Title: Dilemma Author: Noah Willoughby Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 195 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Though surrounded by people on a daily basis, Chuck is a miserably lonely man, desperately seeking companionship and affection. Not only does his shy personality make him reluctant to approach others, but he also harbors a secret side of himself... Continue Reading →
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