The Garden Girls by Jessica R. PatchSeries: FBI: Strange Crimes Unit book 3Publisher: Love Inspired Trade (April 23, 2024) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS Tiberius Granger is an FBI agent in the Strange Crimes Unit. The Unit investigates crimes with a religious nature–think cults, abusive megalomaniac preachers, stuff like that. Despite knowing the Bible and other... Continue Reading →
If the Boot Fits by Karen Witemeyer
If the Boot Fits by Karen WitemeyerSeries: Texas Ever After, Book 2Publisher: Bethany House Publishers (March 17, 2024) If the Boot Fits is the second fairytale retelling with a Texas twist in Karen Witemeyer's Texas Ever After series. The story opens when Samantha Dearing returns home from Finishing School to learn her father intends for... Continue Reading →
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom
The First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch AlbomSeries: StandalonePublisher: Harper, Reissue Edition (November 12, 2013)Review by Mae Clair Once again, Mitch Albom delivers a story overflowing with creativity and originality. I can always count on Albom to keep me entertained and guessing while challenging the way I think. In this case, several people from the tiny... Continue Reading →
Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Charles Martin
Chasing Fireflies: A Novel of Discovery by Charles MartinSeries: A StandalonePublisher: Thomas Nelson (February 10, 2008) REVIEW BY GWEN M. PLANO Chasing Fireflies is ultimately a journey of self-discovery. Through the struggles of the impoverished but proud Southern family of Willie McFarland and the skill of author Charles Martin, readers are drawn into the pain associated... Continue Reading →
The Choices She Made by Felicia Ferguson
The Choices She Made by Felicia FergusonSeries: A standalonePublisher: End Game Press (October 18, 2022) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS The Choices She Made is a dual-timeline, coming-of-age/women’s-fiction novel. In 1997, a teenager named Madeline is assaulted and becomes pregnant. The rest of the book follows the results of the choices she makes, some good, some... Continue Reading →
The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda Barratt
The Warsaw Sisters by Amanda BarrattSeries: Stand Alone NovelPublisher: Revell (November 3, 2023) REVIEW BY KELLY GOSHORN Amanda Barratt's The Warsaw Sisters is a captivating stand-alone novel that takes readers on a poignant journey through the travails of war-torn Warsaw. The story follows the lives of twin sisters, Antonina and Helena Dąbrowska, as they navigate the... Continue Reading →
Bitter Autumn by Lyn Cote
Bitter Autumn by Lyn CoteSeries: Northern Shore Intrigue Series, Book 2Publisher: Independently Published (May 15, 2020)Review by Gwen Plano In this Christian Romance Suspense novel, an unlikely hero arises that captures the attention of everyone in the town of Winfield on the Lake Superior shore. Grey Lawson returns home after serving seven years in prison for killing two... Continue Reading →
Last Light by Terri Blackstock
Last Light by Terri BlackstockSeries: Book 1 of The Restoration SeriesPublisher: Zondervan (Reprint Edition, May 18,2009)Review by Mae Clair This book has been sitting on my Kindle for a while. I’m not sure why I didn’t dive into it immediately, but once I did, it was almost impossible to put down. I found myself thinking about the... Continue Reading →
The Seven-Day Resurrection by Chevron Ross
The Seven-Day Resurrection by Chevron RossSeries: A StandalonePublisher: Chevron Ross (January 18, 2022) REVIEW BY PRISCILLA BETTIS Len Holder is 78 years old. A few years ago, his mother passed at age 96. So how can she be standing, alive and well, in his living room? I did not expect a ghost, zombie, or any... Continue Reading →