Bite the Dust

REVIEW OF BITE THE DUST BY CYNTHIA EDEN   New Orleans homicide detective Jane Hart is finding police work in the Big Easy to be more, oh, let’s say, more supernatural than her experience in other cities. Her first murdered corpse returns within hours as a vampire and is killed again, that’s twice in one…

Chapter 8: KNIGHT

 In chapter 8 of DUBY’S DOCTOR, Jean attends his first day of school, while Carinne remembers she once had a “knight in shining armor,” who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared.  Read for FREE this new chapter, posted today, on Wattpad.

HOW TO MANAGE A MARQUESS

REVIEW OF HOW TO MANAGE A MARQUESS by Sally MacKenzie Nate has postponed marrying and starting a family because he promised his dying mother he would always look after Marcus. You see, Marcus is cursed, like every Duke of Hart before him. If Marcus marries, he will die before his first child is born.  …

An Unwilling Mommy

Chapter 7 of DUBY’S DOCTOR has been posted on Wattpad for you to read for FREE! Agent Stone forces Mitchell into a role she never anticipated and certainly doesn’t want:  Jean’s surrogate mommy!  Wait until you see what happens when this working mom tries to enroll her 250-lb. “baby boy” in daycare! Get the paperback novel…

Where the Heart Is

REVIEW of WHERE THE HEART IS, Romance Collection: Love Is a Journey in Nine Historical Novellas  (a 2016 publication from Barbour Books) These charming frontier love stories take place on the American frontier in the 1860’s, just before, during, and after the Civil War. Men who have tired of war and its horrors have moved west to make a…

Tell the Wind and Fire

REVIEW OF TELL THE WIND AND FIRE BY SARAH REES BRENNAN   (5 stars on Goodreads) If A TALE OF TWO CITIES married ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, their offspring might resemble TELL THE WIND AND FIRE. This is a dramatic, emotionally evocative, finely drawn story of love, rebellion, and redemption set in a New York City…

No Safe Secret

Review of NO SAFE SECRET by Fern Michaels   (4 OUT OF 5 Stars ON GOODREADS) Fern Michaels once again demonstrates her mastery of the chick novel with No Safe Secret (2016, Kensington Books). The story spans more than two decades – linking the secrets of young Maddy Carmichael, 1964 rape victim, with the hidden…

Defiance Rising

REVIEW OF DEFIANCE RISING   Defiance Rising is Book 1 in the Rising Trilogy by Amy Miles. Fans of The Hunger Games and Divergent will love this series with its dystopian city, good and evil humanoid aliens, disadvantaged human guerilla fighters who are mysteriously acquiring odd powers, and a spellbinding love triangle. As in the…

Going Nuts Going Green

[reprint of the writer’s blog post of September 1, 2015] “Going Green” may be trendy in the secular world, but good stewardship of the world and its resources has been a major tenet of the Judeo-Christian faith since the first man was created in the Garden of Eden. I confess that my family has been…

Should We Think “Should”?

[reprinted of the writer’s blog post of August 18, 2015] Most adults take pride in being rational, informed, strong-minded people who accept the world as it is and cope with it accordingly.   We are wrong.   Our inner dialogue betrays us with a single word: “should.” It expresses indignance and proves that we expect the…