Category: book review

 In 1951, Frankie Chasing Bear is a Lakota caught between cultures. She wants to raise her son Harold to revere his Lakota heritage, but she knows he will need to become as a white man to succeed. After his father’s killed in a barroom brawl, Harold and Frankie move to Arizona, where she begins a… Continue reading “A Sky Without Stars” by Linda S. Clare

Rosa Garner is homeless.  Abandoned by her family and newly married, she must also leave her country after her husband and father-in-law die.  Traveling with her mother-in-law to her former home in Texas, they arrive only to find that the family homestead will be sold in three months’ if they don’t pay the back taxes… Continue reading “Sixty Acres and a Bride” by Regina Jennings

Meredith Hayes was rescued by Travis Archer as a young girl.  As a woman, she continues to dream of her cowboy in shining armor – until she overhears that his enemies want to steal his land.  Meredith can’t let down the man who helped her so many years before – but will the price be… Continue reading “Short Straw Bride” by Karen Witemeyer

   In the small Lake Erie township of Benning, someone is at work cultivating a supernatural garden . . .Andy Kemp’s young life has been as ravaged as his scarred face. Disfigured by an abusive father, the teenager hides behind his books and an impenetrable wall of cynicism and anger.As Andy’s mother struggles to reconnect… Continue reading “The Sinner’s Garden” by William Sirls

    With All the Evidence Against Him, Only a Sister’s Trust Can Save Him Now When her prodigal brother Reef’s return to Yancey, Alaska, is shattered by his arrest for murder, Piper McKenna is determined to protect him. Deputy Landon Grainger loves the McKennas like family, but he’s also sworn to find the truth. And he… Continue reading “Shattered” by Dani Pettrey

Carrie Carter has finally come to terms with her life.  Running away from an alcoholic mom and her abusive boyfriends as a teen, she took her young sister with her and made a home for them both.  Now seventeen years later, she’s a business owner and ready to move on to the next phase of… Continue reading ‘Shadows on the Sand’ by Gayle Roper

Having lost her career as an FBI agent but gained her sobriety, Dinah Harris is ready to begin her new career:  as a private consultant.  With the a shady senator keeping his eye on her while she tracks a serial killer, Dinah is challenged to stop the man killing society’s most undesirables – before his… Continue reading The Dinah Harris Trilogy: “The Shadowed Mind” by Julie Cave

     She found peace in a time of war.Desperate to save her dying mother, an American woman accepts her newspaper’s assignment to travel to Italy where she takes photographs dangerously close to the front lines during World War II. But Rachel’s real motive in this journey is to find the father she never knew,… Continue reading “Shadowed by Grace” by Cara C. Putnam

  Carny Sullivan, the child of carnival folk, found the stable life she’s always wanted in Serenity, a small town with a big heart.  She and her son settle in for the long haul and so are very upset when Logan Briscoe breezes through and promises to build a theme park. Claiming that Briscoe is… Continue reading “Shadow in Serenity” by Terri Blackstock

  Archeologist Jack Hawthorne has a lead on the Nehushtan, the pole topped with a bronze snake that Moses created at God’s command to heal the Israelites of a snake-punishing plague.  He’s not the only one who wants it, however, and the Israeli Mossad and the Libyan government are not likely to let a civilian walk… Continue reading “Serpent of Moses” by Don Hoesel