A Promise for Spring is a beautiful offering from Kim Vogel Sawyer. Set in the author’s home state of Kansas, I was swept back to 1874 from the first page. A Promise for Spring By Kim Vogel Sawyer England-born Emmaline Bradford pledged her life to Geoffrey Garrett and then bid him farewell when he sailed to America. Although Geoffrey anticipated …

I read Reluctant Cowgirl last week and loved it. I’ve heard great things about Christine’s writing, even had one of her books sitting in my TBR pile, but never quite got it to the top of the pile. Now I can’t wait to go back and read that one, too. In Reluctant Cowgirl, Crystal McCord has left her hometown in …

Elisha’s Bones By Don Hoesel Plans change for antiquities professor Jack Hawthorne when billionaire Gordon Reese hands him an irresistable offer to follow a rumor. Joined by colleague Esperanza Habilla, Jack searches for the prophet Elisha’s bones—believed to reverse death—and stumbles upon a shadowy organization with long-kept secrets. Will they uncover the truth before the society catches them? 352 pages, …

The Missionary By William Carmichael & David Lambert American missionaries David and Christie Eller run a clinic for homeless children in Caracas, Venezuela. But when an angry David publicly rails against the government, he falls into an unimaginable nightmare of espionage. Will his life-or-death gamble to escape the country with his wife and son succeed—or will the resources of a …

City of the Dead is a book that will sweep you back in time to ancient Egypt circa 2500 BC. Like T.L. Higley’s first book in the seven wonders series I let the book linger on my TBR stack a bit. Even though the Shadow of Colossus (SP) swept me back in time and captivated me, I wondered if the …

Miss Fortune and Miss Match by Sara Mills are delightful P.I books with a twist. Allie Fortune refuses to be called Miss Fortune; instead she is known around NYC in 1947 as the PI Princess. Likely the only female private investigator in the city she has a penchant for finding cases that involve intrigue and suspense. This series is frankly …

Before you pick up Shadows of Lancaster County, make sure you have a block of time to read it. This book is a delightful rush: the present twists into the past in a way that pulled me through from page one to the end, the pages flipping ever faster as the end neared. When Anna’s brother vanishes from the genetics …

I’m in the middle of a tight deadline this month, so my posts will likely be shorter. Jamie Carie is one of my local author friends. This week I picked up her latest book, Wind Dancer. I LOVED IT! She wrote a page-turner that whisked me away to the Revolutionary War but on the frontier. Wind Dancer is a dramatic, …

Today I want to tell you about two books I’ve read recently that are out of the ordinary for me. One is a vampire book without a vampire 🙂 and the other is a legal suspense/thriller by a relatively new author. I enjoyed both books but for very different reasons… Dean Man’s Rule, Rick Acker’s debut novel, is a fast-paced, …