He'll Be Waiting

 

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What would you do to remember? What would you give to forget?

When Tess Porter agrees to pick up her boyfriend’s college pal at the airport on a snowy December night, she has no idea she’s about to embark on the most dangerous ride of her life.

Two days later, the 17-year-old wakes up in a hospital with broken bones, unable to remember how she got there. Her parents are acting strange, and neither James, her boyfriend, nor her best friend, Izzy, has visited.

As she struggles to physically recover, Tess wrestles with haunting questions: What happened? Will her memory ever return? And what if she’s better off not recalling any of it?

Getting to Forever

 

 

KinkLink Series, Book Three

Steamy Romance / Romantic Comedy

Date Published: April 6, 2021

Amanda (Mandy) Gilchrist was just baffled by her colleague. One minute he was her rock and the next he couldn't get away from her fast enough...only to land himself in jail. Her bosses now hate him and wouldn't help him cross the street let alone post bail so it was up to her — except someone got to him first. What the heck was going on?

By now he must realize he needs her help… And it’s going to cost him because this time she’s not going to turn a blind eye. Mandy’s going to make sure David sees her skills as a PI and as a woman too — one he’s got ‘tied up inside and out’.

Because he may not know it yet but they’re both looking for exactly the same thing...

Lucky Cowboy

 

 

Small Town Romance, Western Romance

Date Published: April 6, 2021

Publisher: Heatherly Bell Books

Lincoln Carver is not worried about the lack of women in Stone Ridge, Texas. He’s content earning the occasional buckle as a rodeo champ and working his family’s cattle ranch. In fact, life was perfect until his matchmaking granny stuck her nose in his business. Now, he’s injured the new schoolteacher, and is spending more time with her than he’d like...

The Exit Strategy

 

 

Women's Fiction

Audio Book Release - February 2021

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press

Tech executive Carly can’t wait to marry the man of her dreams. But her world is turned upside down when she discovers her fiancé is already wed to Ryn — her company’s top investor! Can the two women overcome heartbreak together?

Silicon Valley investor Ryn Brennan is on the verge of achieving everything she dreamed. She’s succeeded in the sexist venture capital world, has a supportive husband, and is about to close the deal of her career. Everything is going exactly as planned, until she meets her husband’s mistress, across the negotiating table...

It All Started in Africa

Children’s African History, Children’s Books, Multicultural Biographies

Date Published: Jan 5, 2021

Publisher: Lucid Books Publishing

 

History comes to amazing life in this narrative based on true events. It All Started in Africa takes young children on a journey through generations of African Americans over the course of history. Children will gain a better understanding of African American history as they engage with discussion questions. They will be challenged to make life better for themselves and for the people around them. Join in with exciting, interactive experience all the way to its surprising finale!

My Review...

The first word that comes to my mind is “wow”. I think the first thought that came to my mind when I completed this was that it was most certainly not just for African American children. It’s for all children. Children who need to learn of all cultures and the ups and downs of all our lives.

This is so fun and easy to read. The illustrations are bright and colorful and fit right with the story. It’s in verse, making the reading flow so easy. Being a musician, I get very carried away with the “flow” of music, the rhythmic feel of reading. This has it all. This is also the perfect book for a parent or teacher to read to, or read  with, a child. It’s the perfect book to open more discussions than I could even begin to list here. I sound overwhelmed but utilizing this great book to explain history to all kids opens every opportunity for children to grow up with a very basic and beginning understanding of our past. Enough so at least to want to learn more.

Suzanne Bowman Williams write more books!

A Lifetime of Men

 

 

Literary Fiction

Date Published: August 26, 2020 (ebook); September 22, 2020 (print)

Publisher: Propertius Press

 

Tolan has always let her mother have one secret — how she got that scar on her face — playing along with her mother’s game of inventing outlandish tales to explain the wound away. But when she finds a manuscript on her mother’s computer that promises to reveal the true story, Tolan only hesitates for a moment before curiosity compels her to read on.

She’s hoping for answers, but instead, she finds more mysteries tucked away in her mother’s past. Her mother appears to be associated with Bo, a feisty photojournalist who flies to Cuba in pursuit of a story and becomes embedded with Castro’s rebels, but Tolan can’t quite work out their connection. She’s more clear about the relationship between her mother and Michael, a man twelve years her senior. They bond over their shared outcast status, and their friendship quickly becomes intimate, but the relationship antagonizes the self-appointed moral watchdogs in their small town, who start to convert their threats into action. Tolan is pretty sure that Michael is her father. Her mother told her he died years ago, but the book suggests their story had a different ending.

Almost overnight, everything Tolan thought she knew about herself and her family has changed. She wants answers, but to find them, she risks destroying her closest relationships.

Blood of the Dragonfly

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While dangling a fishing hook from his flat bottom skiff before dawn, former SEAL-turned-PI Craige Ingram spots grey-black smoke coiling above the treetops across the river in the direction of the Georgia bayous and Corpsewood Manor. Bayou or bogs, fire in the uncut cypress and pines bodes a sense that the river is no barrier to the fire that threatens his ancestral home, Moccasin Hollow. Neither are the bodies later found in the burned mansion of Corpsewood Manor. Craige wastes no time in helping his ex-SEAL buddy Lt. Graysen MacGerald who is now Head of Buckingham Homicide Investigations by unofficially investigating the bodies and an exquisite dragonfly brooch found in the mansion with a reputation for evil, hauntings, and mystery.

my review...

Although not listed online anywhere, the cover of this book says it is Book 5 of “The Moccasin Hollow mystery series”. This is another story of Craige Ingram and his navy seal buddies. While they might seem like friends and “good old boys” they kick into profoundly serious sophisticated navy professionals when danger is involved. I love them all. They have their faults just like we “other humans”, but they are definitely the good guys. I also love all the up to date almost futuristic equipment mentioned in the story. I could picture Craige’s room full of computers, trackers, satellite pictures, etc. He even has his own plane and hangar outside of little ole Moccasin Hollow.

I’ve read one other Hawk McKinney book and really enjoyed it too. Sometimes both books seemed to move a little slow in the beginning. I think the reason for this is the author trying to paint the setting and the character for us. Most importantly, don’t let this stop your reading because the story, the suspense, and the action really make the book worthwhile. Check out the other Moccasin Hollow series books here. https://amzn.to/3cvSEAF

Healing from Within

 

 

A Chakra and Ho’oponopono Healing Guidebook

Non-fiction/NewAge/Spiritual/Meditation

Date Published: March 3, 2021

Publisher: Healing Forward

Discover the Healing Power of Chakras and Ho’oponopono

Healing From Within is a powerful healing guidebook that teaches you how to connect your body, mind, and spirit at a deeper level using chakras, the ancient Hawaiian practice of Ho'oponopono, and journaling. When you implement these tools into your daily life, you will accelerate your emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual growth and healing.

Wendi shares her personal healing journey with multiple chronic illnesses and pain and how these three healing tools profoundly transformed her health and life. Through her experience, she created this book with simple and useful tools to empower you to optimize your own health and energy.

Each chapter focuses on one of the seven chakras and ways to nourish them for proper balance in all areas of your life. It also includes engaging self-reflective assignments, meditation, and when and how to use Ho’oponopono. With the combination of chakras, Ho'oponopono, and journaling, you can solve challenges in your life and health and find the answers you have been searching for.

Ellerslie

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Did you know author F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda lived in a haunted house?

It’s the Jazz Age, it’s Prohibition and aviator Charles Lindbergh is the most famous person in America. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald rents a mansion in Edgemoor, Delaware called Ellerslie hoping for a quiet retreat so that he can write his next novel following The Great Gatsby.

April Ross, the first and only female history major at the University of Delaware, is commissioned by the owner of Ellerslie to research the estate’s history for a potential sale. At least, that’s what April is told. In the days ahead, April’s historical research uncovers Ellerslie’s former owners dating back to 1810. She interacts with the Fitzgeralds, yet endures unexplained occurrences and visits by an unknown woman. Against her better judgement, April eventually accepts that the woman is a ghost and realizes that her true purpose is to find out who this woman is, or was, and what happened to her in real life.

my review...

This was an enjoyable story even without the enhancement of F. Scott Fitzgerald. What the addition of Fitzgerald , his wife and their friends and the Ellerslie setting did for me was to make it a good story with a lot of history. Francis gave a good picture of the times and of the way the Fitzgeralds and their friends lived. The way life was for the classes, the rich and the poor. I kept running to my computer to see how closely this historical fiction story followed F Scott Fitzgerald. In answer to that, I’m going to say that I thought William Francis took enough fictional “license” to make this an interesting read with a little bit of paranormal running all the way through. I never felt it was scary. I always seemed to feel at home with the Ellerslie ghost. A very unusual situation for me since I am such a black and white thinker. Somehow it all fit together to make a story that you won’t want to put down.

William Francis has many books published. Most all are of the historical fiction genre and all have good reviews.

Dogs of Devtown

 

Cyberpunk Science Fiction

Date Published: April 16, 2021

Welcome to DevTown.

In this city, holo ads lumber like neon giants seeking advertising targets. Men and women pop Oracle tabs in search of relief or enlightenment or both. Creatures of unknown origin stalk the darkest alleys. In the center of it all, NexDev Tower looms over the city, home to hundreds of floors of top-secret research.

And in its shadow, Shan Hayes kills people for money...