…Mystery abounds at the new Hell in town in “Gaming Hell Christmas”, written by Kathy L. Wheeler and Amanda McCabe, published by Chisel Imprint.
After
receiving a select invitation The Greensley Girls, life-long friends and
confidantes from school, gather at la Sous Rose, the newest gaming hall for an
evening of fun and perhaps a bit of mystery, only to discover the answer to
their dreams.
On a scale of 1-5, Gaming Hell Christmas deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
Two lonesome hearts find love at Christmas...
A veteran of the War of Aggression, John Sullivan lives
alone outside Harper Falls, trapping for a living and coping with horrific
memories of too much violence and death. When circumstance brings him to meet
the woman he’s been secretly helping, he doesn’t expect to find love once
again.
But he’ll risk his life more than once to finally hold her forever.
Our Review: This delightful Western romance is made that much better with author Turner’s flair for using the costumes, customs and speech patterns common to the time. Featuring two lonely people who have lost everything—only to find it again. This is the perfect solution to the rush and bother surrounding modern holiday celebrations. Treat yourself by taking time to sit by a glowing fire with a warm cup of tea, and perhaps a warm gingerbread cookie, and travel back in time to meet John and Hannah and follow their adventures in finding love again. It’ll warm your heart. Promise.
Based on a scale of 1-5, The Gingerbread Man
deserves a 5.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
. . . It’s Christmas on Florida’s lush west coast and two honeymooners, looking for sun, sea, and other adult activities are haunted by the ghosts of two immigrant children who continually plead for help . . .
. . . Three spirited women. One perilous past. And an unlikely heroine.
While the
naysayers and bullies only see Gemma’s limitations, her beloved grandmother
sees the heart of a genius—and a soul of divination. When Gemma’s longing to be
a mother collides with her grandmother’s hidden past, three generations of
Porter women are put in peril.
A harrowing
adventure unfolds into a heroic quest to save their lives. As Gemma’s bravery
is tested, she will need to prove that regardless of age or intellect, a
mother’s love knows no bounds.
Our Review: Rarely
have we read a book which brought us to our feet, cheering for three very
different, extremely brave characters. Each faces their own individual
challenges—for different though valid reasons. Each stands on their own and the
reader is better for knowing them. This is a truly exceptional book.
Based on a scale of 1-5, A River for Gemma
deserves an 8.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
. . . Three spirited women.
One perilous past. And an unlikely heroine.
Miracles abound in Sugar Creek, a small-town nestled near the horse trails and hazelnut orchards of Oregon’s lush countryside. It is here, where twenty-six-year old Gemma Porter lives a vibrant life chasing her dreams. But Gemma is underestimated by a world that pigeonholes her as “intellectually disabled.”
While the
naysayers and bullies only see Gemma’s limitations, her beloved grandmother
sees the heart of a genius—and a soul of divination. When Gemma’s longing to be
a mother collides with her grandmother’s hidden past, three generations of
Porter women are put in peril.
A harrowing
adventure unfolds into a heroic quest to save their lives. As Gemma’s bravery
is tested, she will need to prove that regardless of age or intellect, a
mother’s love knows no bounds.
A River for Gemma, written by Debra Whiting Alexander, was an August, 2021 release by the Wild Rose Press.
Our Review: Rarely
have we read a book which brought us to our feet, cheering for three very
different, extremely brave characters. Each faces their own individual
challenges—for different though valid reasons. Each stands on their own and the
reader is better for knowing them. This is a truly exceptional book.
Based on a scale of 1-5, A River for Gemma
deserves an 8.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
Valeni Pascual wants to be free to make a living hauling cargo with her spaceship and to understand the shapeshifting alien who presents sometimes as the steamy male Nik and other times as the blonde bombshell Nikki.
As a
rebel insurgence builds against the oppressive government known as the Agency,
Valeni and Nik/Nikki encounter a sexy Terran cowboy named Garrett Rawls. Since
being pulled into this region of space by another mysterious wormhole, Garrett
has looked for a way to return to Earth. After meeting Valeni and Nikki, he
might have found something worth staying for.
However,
dark forces may have a much bigger picture in mind for all of them. Valeni,
Nik/Nikki, and Garrett are pulled into a life and death fight that lays bare
all of their secrets and their desires. Will they lose everything as the battle
against the Agency rages around them or can love pull them through?
Kat
Henry Doran,
Wild Women Authors
. . . Step back in time for an unforgettable winter wedding . . .
After a chaotic year, executive Wes Harley settles into his family's
event venue, The Timeless Manor. His carefully structured world is shaken to
its core when Scarlett arrives for the Victorian Christmas wedding weekend. The
feelings he never quite erased flood to the surface.
When secrets are revealed, will a magical chateau and
a sprinkle of tinsel be enough to charm Scarlett?
. . .“Welcome to Christmasville where it’s Christmas all year long.”
He
turned to her. “Let me guess. I died and this is Hell.”. . .
Lucy Prescott is all alone in this world. She left college and abandoned her dream of running her own business to care for the ailing grandparents who raised her. Since they died, she has struggled to keep their Christmas novelty shop running in a dated, dying Christmas-themed tourist town. But she is running low on hope and it’s hard to feel the holiday spirit when you live it all day, every day.
After Jake appears in the tiny town in Northern New York, magic seems to fill the air. And what’s up with the enticing aroma of chocolate chip cookies that seems to follow everywhere he goes? For the first time in ages, life holds excitement and Lucy finds herself wondering what if?
Our Review: Author Nicole McCaffrey, known for unique settings, enchanting characters and snappy, laugh-out-loud dialogue, does not fail her readers with Chocolate Chip Christmas Wishes, a current release out of the Christmas Cookie series by the Wild Rose Press.
In
order to truly enjoy this terrific tale of an elf and a hard-working selfless
shop owner, one needs to get ready for one hoot after another. Jake is a
darling; Lucy owns a heart as big as all outdoors. Neither is about to give up
on their dreams. So take a visit to Christmasville, meet Lucy, Jake and the rest
of the gang who inhabit this delightful holiday-themed village, and prepare to
have your heart warmed like never before.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
Competitive, work-obsessed Bella Simonetti has just been fired from her high-paying job at a Manhattan law firm. At an all-time low, she returns home and helps her parents at their small-town gift shop, but the business is failing and may not make it past the Christmas holidays.
Successful
landscape architect Dean Jackson is like a son to Bella's parents. But he's a
persistent annoyance to her—he seems to have forgotten his unforgivable blunder
thirteen years earlier.
When
Bella transforms her parents' gift shop into a cookie cottage, Dean's
generosity and magnetic smile are hard to resist, and those feelings of
unrequited adolescent love come rushing back. But can Bella let go of the past
and accept Dean for the man he is today?
Our
Review:
Author Maria Imbalzano continually treats her many fans to another of her sweet,
contemporary romances. This one features Bella and Dean, two people who knew each
other as teenagers and now are thrown together when they attempt to help her
parents reinvent their gift shop into a cookie haven. In more ways than one, Red
Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles is a story of starting over,
putting the past in its proper spot: the past in order to forge a future filled
with love and promise and hope.
Based on
a scale of 1-5, Red Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles earns a 6.
Fireman Dustin Keith didn't realize women would be coming out of the woodwork after he posed for the local fundraiser calendar. But the one who catches his eye is a baker with trust issues. Can he scale the wall she's built around her heart, or is fate destined to extinguish the flames of desire before they engulf his heart?
Lauren
Badini came to Cedar Bend to lend a helping hand at her aunt's bakery, not fall
for Mr. July. The image on the calendar she received last Christmas fueled her
fantasies, but the in-person version is too hot to handle. But if life after
her ex has taught her anything, it's okay to look...but don't touch.
In Kisses and Lemon Snowflake
Cookies, author N. Jade Gray clearly demonstrates she learned the above
rules, puts them down on paper, and turns out a beauty of a story. It’s sweet,
simple and a total delight to read. Congratulations.
On a scale of 1-5, Kisses and Lemon Snowflake Cookies earns a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
She trusts everyone, he trusts no one. As danger closes in, can they trust each other?
Willow
Daniels has a heart of gold and is willing to help anyone who needs it, but
when she helps Ethan McCormick one snowy night, she may just have made the
biggest mistake of her life. Trapped by a winter storm in a tiny, North
Yorkshire village, Willow is forced to re-evaluate everything she believes in,
and wonders if anyone is truly who they seem.
Fate
may have brought her to Ethan, but as danger closes in around them, Willow must
draw on a strength she never knew she possessed in order to protect the man she
has grown to love, not only against his worst enemy, but also against himself.
Our Review: Set in a small Yorkshire village, Winter Storm is the story of a gentle, trusting woman who willingly tends to a wounded stranger because that’s her nature. Ethan McCormick is clearly on the run—but from whom he will not say. He cannot say—because it would put Willow, as well as himself, in greater danger. This is also a story of complete opposites. She is sweet, trusting, and kind to all. Ethan is rough, rugged and loathes Christmas and all it stands for. In the middle of a hard December storm, he’s trapped in a home that looks like something out of a Father Christmas catalogue. The culmination is an edge-of-your-seat chase through the twisting corridors, hidden nooks and crannies of a small rural school. An excellent work of sweet romance and brilliant danger.
Based on a scale of 1-5, Winter Storm deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
Adelaide Willowby is having a bad day. First, the madam of the Wylder County Social Club has kicked out the love of her life—for good this time. One of her best girls is getting married and her sister and daughter are barely speaking to her. Then, her long-lost brother-in-law shows up, claiming ownership of her business. What else can go wrong?
Russ Holt has relied on alcohol to quiet the ghosts from is
past for far too long. When his latest bender causes him to let down both Addie
and his son, he knows something has to change. When a stranger in town is found
dead and Miss Adelaide is arrested for murder, Russ smells a rat. Can he come
out of the bottle long enough to save Addie—and win back her heart?
With
the usual snappy colloquial dialogue authors McCaffrey and Turner are known
for, the descriptions of the causes and effects of long term alcohol use/abuse
are spot-on and detailed for a common sense approach to getting sober. Well
done, ladies!
After a serious on the job injury, LA cop Mel O’Rourke leaves the force battered both physically and mentally. Looking for a fresh start, she moves to a quiet mountain town and opens the Babbling Brook Inn. Excited for her new life, Mel decides to participate in the town’s holiday cookie contest, but her newfound joy crashes when one of her guests turns up dead in the Inn’s lobby.
Tempted to attribute the death to natural causes, Mel’s cop sense kicks in after a second guest dies. The local sheriff tells her to stand down, but with her own life in danger, Mel refuses to back off. With everything on the line, she has to push through her own fears to catch the killer before more bodies drop, perhaps even her own.
Our Review: In this fun, fast read, script writer turned author Marla White shows off her talent for writing crisp, snappy dialogue and creating unique, one-of-a-kind characters capable of invoking some laugh-out-loud moments. Just when things are running smoothly, another monkey lands on the pile of wrenches, sending B&B owner Mel O’Rourke off and running—literally if not figuratively. The Starlight Mint Murder Mystery is an homage to small rural communities and those who flock to them—as well as large, Irish families who pass down their traditions—flawed by accident, or maybe not. We hope this story is the beginning of even better stories to come.
On
a scale of 1-5, The Starlight Mint Murder Mystery deserves a 6.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
…in that moment she realized she didn’t know the man’s name but she put her life and trust in him, and willingly followed him through Hell…
The
man Meg follows through Hell is Tate Taylor, owner of the local mining supply
store. He rescues Meg and others after a violent train derailment outside Wylder
just weeks before Christmas. While caring for her and other victims of the
wreck, he searches for a shipment of explosives lost in the crash. If he fails,
the entire town is at risk for annihilation.
Ella
Fielding is instantly captivated by the man who carries both her and her boy to
safety. St. Nick or not, she'd like nothing better than to claim such a strong,
gentle man for her own. But Ella carries a secret she dares share with no one,
not even when Nick asks her to trust him with her heart.
On a scale of 1-5, A Wyld Night for St. Nick deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
During this busy season take a break to relax with Romancing the Holidays, Vol.2, a collection of 14 short romances released by the members of First Coast Romance Writers of Jacksonville, Fla.
* A warlock, dressed as Buzz
Lightyear, is confronted by a witch in a Little Red Riding Hood costume in Melody
Johnson’s paranormal, Fated by Fire and the fun begins.
* Sparks fly, in more ways
than one, when a busy OB-GYN battles a TV set designer for the last can of pumpkin
in Elise Darby’s Oh My Pumpkin Pie.
* Barbara Whitaker takes us
back to a different time and place in her World War II romance, Thanks for
the Doughnuts. There’s nothing like a little shellfire from enemy forces to
teach a timid Red Cross worker and a brash, pushy soldier lessons in life and love.
* Maggie Fitzroy uses an
historic lakeside lodge in Maine for the setting of Christmas Peril, featuring
a travel writer and a PI, who while posing as husband and wife, set out to get
the goods on a potential gold-digging fiancé and end up with a dead body on
their hands.
* San Diego is the setting for
a contemporary military romance by Leah Miles. Stolen Christmas features
a struggling widow with an intrepid five-year-old who steals the heart of their
landlord: a macho US Navy SEAL. Bring on the tissues.
* For those who enjoy a good attorney
bash joke, Karen Renee shows a new side of the law in Holiday Fixation.
Nothing brings out the hero in a group of hard-charging lawyers when one of
their own is threatened by a stalker.
* For a touching story of a family
reunited in post-Civil War Georgia, Sara Walker’s Miracle de Noel is the
one for you. War injures more than those who fought; the family left behind is
equally harmed—and Walker shows those injuries very well.
* Vickey Wollan displays an
obvious talent for snappy dialogue with The Secret Santa Surprise when two
teens, in need of community service hours in order to earn a college scholarship,
are forced to walk in each other’s shoes. The question ends up: which is more
fun, the ‘breaststroke babe’ sitting high on her pity pot or the dorky superhero
Inviso-Man? What a treat.
* Just Four Days offers
new meaning to wedding cruise from Hell when Maid of Honor Hailey runs slam bam
into Best Man Don. Author Gloria Ferguson poses the ultimate problem: can two
exes bury the hatchet long enough to see their best friends married without
shoving each other overboard?
* When Dustin Biggs tells his
ex-wife “I know you’d rather sled down a mountain on an ironing board than let
me in but it’s freezing in here!” we were hooked by Abigail Sharpe’s second
chance contemporary romance, New Year’s Ex-Pectations. A beauty of a fun
story.
* Laura Salas gives readers a
treat with an inside look into the celebration known as Three Kings Day in Love
on Calle Ocho. Set in Miami, Carlos Flores has moved on after a serious betrayal;
teacher Maddie Jones, also betrayed, has not. Together the two help each other
in remarkable ways.
* In True Love Found, P.K.
Brent brings enchantment fairy Marielle Charmaine face to face with her first crush,
electromancer Alan Corben. As teenagers they helped each other survive loneliness,
bigotry and misunderstanding. As adults, after finding each other again, new
possibilities come to fruition.
* Winding up the series is The
Matchmaker’s Valentine, a love story among shapeshifting werewolves. Jax is
looking for a mate but where to find one? Those inside his pack find him too
big, too broody, too crazy. And, as pack enforcer his reputation has gone out
of control. In the middle of a noisy bar he finds Cece, a matchmaker self-described
as ‘she’d walk through Hell with gasoline panties on before she ended up like
her mother’. Laugh out loud.
Crush, a contemporary romance written by Christina Strigas, recently released by The Wild Rose Press from their Fast Track line.
It was love at first sight when Maria met Jack on a beach all those years ago. But when Jack suddenly disappears, Maria is thrust closer to Hunter, their long-time friend, taking them on a journey that changes all three of their lives forever.
Maria is a lonely young woman who finds love and
acceptance with Jack, a free-spirited musician. In Maria, Jack finally has the
girl of his dreams by his side. When Jack introduces Maria to his best friend,
Hunter, he feels an instant connection to Maria, but he buries his
feelings—along with his secret that he's a vampire—for the love of his friend.
Set in Saint-Tropez, Crush is a vampire tale with a twist.
Spanning decades and delving into the past of each character in this thorny
love triangle, it is about a woman who must choose between the man she's in
love with and the man who is her soul mate. Adventure, love, romance, and
vampires all collide in this unique novel filled with powerful emotion,
heartbreak, and the question of undying love.
Three women. Three terrible secrets.
After the death of her husband, Clara flees a hanging judge and seeks refuge with her brother in Wylder, Wyoming. With secrets of her own and good reasons to flee, spoiled and vain Mary Rose joins Clara on the trek to Wyoming. Surely a suitable man exists somewhere.Emma is a mystery. A crack shot and expert horsewoman, her harrowing past seeps out in a steady drip. She’s on the run from something, but what? After the three women descend on Wylder, a budding romance leads to exposure of their pasts. As disaster looms, will any of them escape?
Our
Review: Each
time we read and review another creation by the talented Julie Howard, we come
away certain this one is the best of the lot—and each one has been terrific. In
‘Three Widows’ each character has her own individual personality, driven by
needs common to women of that time in history, with few resources and nowhere
to turn—until she takes matters into her own hands. And we are better for
having read it. Well done.
They have been the only one for each other since childhood. Has it lasted?
Research chemist Esmeralda Acosta is devoted to her father, and when he promises her in marriage to a wealthy businessman, as payment for an overdue loan, she feels she must honor him. Until everything goes horribly wrong and she goes on the run—only to be rescued by a man she’s not seen in years, but never forgot: Shane Fortunato.
Shane has loved Esme for what seems like all his life, never forgot her, never married because no woman could match her for beauty, brains and guts. Now, as an up and coming undercover narcotics agent, they two are thrown together after she is assaulted by the head of a notorious cocaine cartel. Working fast, Shane must convince Esme he can protect her—and her ailing father—if only.
Our Review: With her gifts for writing crisp, realistic dialogue and building suspense that feels effortless, author O’Shay has knocked her first attempt at independent publishing out of the park. We can’t wait for the next edition of the Fortunato Family Series. Well done and congratulations.
On a scale of 1-5, My Only One deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
Ellen Cahill, fresh off an ugly divorce from a manipulative jerk—who continues to phone and text her at the drop of a hat, just to ‘check in’—needs to come up with cash, and soon, in order to save Arborview, a treehouse in the back yard of her longtime home, a haven where she often retreats to pray and think and dream.
Just when things are beginning to look up and Ellen is
feeling more confident, a tug of ginormous proportions yanks the proverbial rug
from beneath her feet. Coming in the form of another betrayal, this one is even
more astounding than those committed by the aforementioned jerkoff ex-spouse. Enter
Rosa Escamilla, a young woman who reminds Ellen of herself at twenty, and who
compels her to look at life’s vagaries in a new light.
Two women. One driven by selfish desire, the other by selfless love.
Our Review:
And so begins an exciting romp through France for a woman trying her
best to regain a firm hold on both life and her professional future. The fates
have other ideas and toss a few wrenches into the works in the forms of a
lying, cheating spouse, an ambivalent graduate advisor, the typical rebellious
teenage daughter, and a nasty adolescent serial killer. But those are only
cracks in the sidewalk of life when it comes to Brit surviving the machinations
of a woman who wears two faces.
Author Dunn follows Murder
Unrehearsed, her first thriller for the Wild Rose Press, with a tightly
written, interesting murder-suspense set in the luscious south of France with a
cast of well-drawn, layered characters, a gutsy heroine and a really nasty bad
guy.
On a scale of 1-5, Murder Undetected
deserves a 7.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
New friends, a fresh start, a side order of romance—all with a nice cold pint.
After wallowing for months, aided by copious amounts of alcohol, she rises, albeit reluctantly, from the ashes and starts the slow, painful process of starting over. First in Denver, which leads to Grand Rapids and VanAnsel Distributors. As a side benefit, hunky James Burke of the infamous Burke Brothers brewery is one of her new clients. Attracted? Yes, by God she is. Still in mourning for all she’d lost? Of course. What Happens in Denver shows us how Andi triumphs over cheating spouses, misogynistic coworkers and desperate new best friends.
At their lowest point, with no relief in sight, two desperate people find the solution to their problems in a most unexpected way.
Hard working, devoted parent, Ben Grayson sees the only solution to protecting his children is to go on the run. Until he meets next door neighbor Jamie Garven who might be the answer to his prayers in a most unexpected manner.
Can she overcome her traumatic past and open her heart to love?
Up and coming entrepreneur Carly Redd has a lousy history with men. In fact, she’d rather devote her life improving her new business than spend her precious time off with a man who will only end up leaving her.
Firefighter Noah “Blaise” Harding comes from a strong, loving family whose bonds rewrote the book for lasting marriage. He’d looking for the forever type of woman—and is prepared to wait a lifetime for her.
They meet under unusual circumstances—she’s creating interesting titled beverages that combine her passion for ice cream with “adult” additives. In walk a group of hot looking firemen whom she has reason to believe are part of the “adult” entertainment for the event. She’s not about to think twice about a man who removes his clothes for pay—and lets him know immediately. Noah on the other hand is struck deaf, dumb and blind at the first meeting, and is willing to do anything and everything to win over the energetic Carly.
. . . A serial killer is on the prowl and psychic Jenna Langley is an ‘eye’ witness to each death. The one man she dares turn to is homicide detective Cole Rainwater. But the last time she saw him was when their teenage love affair ended in tragedy. Cole would give everything to forget he ever knew Jenna. Until she strolls back into his life after ten years and rapidly becomes the center of a horrific set of murders which have rocked the small town he calls home. With a maniac on the loose, and innocent lives at stake, Jenn must decide if helping Cole bring a killer to justice is worth exposing the secret she’s kept all these years. . .
Now,
ten years later, independent, successful businesswoman Jenna Langley ends up
the town she was forced to leave ten years ago. After she starts having vivid
dreams which involve the horrifying death of a woman, she goes to the police.
Only the hotshot detective assigned to talk to her doesn’t believe her. Worse,
she was the girl he once loved beyond all others; the one who deserted him at
the lowest point in his life; the one he never forgot. And she’s got a pip of
an unbelievable story to tell.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
Recently, we had the privilege to meet Luke Foster from Susan Payne’s An Unexpected Wife. Luke, a hard-working Nebraska rancher with a slew of younger brothers to ride herd on, rescues the town librarian Lorelei from desperate straits and thereby forges a deep and everlasting future for himself, the woman he comes to love, and starting a new branch of the Foster family tree.
One of those ‘branches’
was Luke’s younger brother Matthew who, after one look at Lorelei, knew he
needed make a life for himself—and that Nebraska was not the place to do it. Hence,
we found Matthew traveling to Alaska in the historical romance, In From the
Cold, written by Susan Payne, and released
by the Wild Rose Press.
. . . They make an unlikely trio: this grieving grandmother and her two young grandchildren. . .
Nora Mitchell just lost her husband of forty-one years. After the funeral, to help her cope with the brutal loneliness, her grandchildren opt to spend the summer with her on her rural, lakefront property. Little do they know the life-changing experience that will result from their decision when those gunmen burst through the front door, take them hostage and demand all of Nora’s money and valuables.
Contending with the physical and mental abuse inflicted by
their captors, this feisty older woman and two clever kids fight back, using
strengths none knew they possessed.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
“ . . .she put the spark back into his eyes. . .”
On a scale of 1-5, Kissed by Winter deserves a 6.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
When all roads lead home, choosing the right one is never easy…
When Tessa
Meadow's plans take the A Train to disaster, she lands back in her sleepy
hometown, in the middle of Pennsylvania's Amish Country, and meets Jonas Rishel whose ties to the land and his family's
Amish community grow strong and deep. Will Tessa continue her journey on the superhighway
to the future—or take a slow walk through the tight, close-knit culture she
never dreamed she'd glimpse from the inside?
Our Review: First, we have rarely
met such well-drawn characters who clearly and concisely meet the definitions
of polar opposites. It was a true delight to meet them both. Second, the
romance between Tessa and Jonas is almost heart breaking for its intensity as
well as star-struck quality. Third, we weren’t expecting the ending and man,
were we happy to have our socks knocked off. Well done, Ms. Stetson. Very well
done.
On
a scale of 1-5, Hometown deserves a solid 6.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
Ezra James used to be a big deal: Harvard grad, FBI agent and a beautiful wife. After allegations of fabricating evidence on a serial murder case, he finds himself suspended, on the verge of divorce, and working security at a posh Catholic school in suburban Chicago.
When a student teacher is attacked, then left for dead during
a school event, Ezra, along with an up-and- coming female police detective and
school chaplain, Fr. Remy Mbombo, must work fast before the culprit returns to
finish the job.
How Everything Turns Away, an Ezra James Mystery, written by Steven J. Kolbe and recently released by the Wild Rose Press.
Our Review: For an intriguing insider’s view of a posh private school, where everyone—including the enigmatic school chaplain with as many secrets as the confessional booth—has an agenda. Combine this with a wounded hero who refuses to let life’s vagaries keep him down, and the reader has him/herself with a honey of a fast-paced mystery.
How
Everything Turns Away is a story for that
reader who appreciates dry humor, busybody PTA members, and smart-mouthed
teenagers. Clearly this author is well acquainted with the ins and outs of an educational
system as well as the rigors of foreign missionary work. Well done!!
On a scale of 1-5, How Everything Turns Away deserves a 7.
When a tyrant in stilettos replaces her beloved boss, and her ex snags her coveted job, teacher Dana Narvana discovers there are worse things than getting dumped. Enter Dana's staunchest ally: Alex Bethany, hunky co-teacher, quipster, and cooking genius. But when after-hours smooching goes nowhere, she wonders why this grown man can’t seem to make up his mind—about anyone or anything.
Our Review: Eat Your Heart Out
is filled with a wealth of relatable characters whom anyone whose been through
an ugly break-up, is contemplating getting on the dating wheel after decades,
or simply starting over after a major life-changing event. We were hooked from
the first page by Dana’s smart mouth and in-your-face attitude—when we weren’t
laughing out loud.
On a scale of 1-5, Eat Your Heart Out deserves
a 4.5.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews