July 28, 2026
Margie Benedict’s delightful novel, Not My Job Anymore, explores the complex relationship between a woman named Viola and her late mother, Rosemary, and how the relationship shapes Viola’s life.
After her mother’s sudden death, 63-year-old Viola returns to her childhood home. There, she discovers a shocking letter that leads her to question the past.
Viola […]
February 24, 2026
In Evan Marks’s novel, Manhattan serves as the backdrop for the dating woes and existential dread of a privileged Gen Z woman determined to protect her heart—until a surprising connection challenges her plans.
For 20-something Vesper Elsegood, romance is a futile state of delirium that happens to other people. After Vesper’s college boyfriend cheated on […]
September 16, 2025
Former MGM assistant Christine Stringer draws on personal experience for this delightful novel blending nostalgia for the 1990s, chick lit, and red-carpet Hollywood.
Charity Trickett is killing it as assistant to the director of the year’s biggest blockbuster film, even if her love life just blew up. So when she’s invited to LA to finish […]
September 2, 2025
Metamorphosis is a faith-infused novel that examines the collision between logic and emotion.
Set against the stark beauty of Arizona’s Black Canyon, it follows Ronald Duncan, an emotionally detached attorney, as he embarks on a month‑long journey with his preteen son, Daniel. Daniel’s mother walked out on them seven years prior, giving full custody to […]
July 22, 2025
In The Sweetest Getaway, two roommates who embark on a high-stakes heist, find themselves immersed in an adventure that calls for daring and nerve, but also promises reward and even romance.
As the story opens, Jennifer and Nari sneak into an elite social event hoping to win some well-heeled customers for Nari’s money-making scheme. But […]
May 6, 2025
Award-winning author MaryAnn Clarke’s novel concerns a young woman grappling with romantic travails and family secrets while spending a summer abroad in England.
Part of Clarke’s Life is a Journey series, the story features 23-year-old Canadian Sophie Groenveld, who is touring England with her boyfriend Marc-Antoine prior to starting graduate school. Eager to escape tensions […]
October 29, 2024
Giorgi Lebanidze’s novel centers on protagonist Hina and her quest for finding a career path.
The book begins with Hina’s disastrous interview for a corporate job and subsequent idea to pursue entrepreneurship instead. She thinks of “transforming vintage lingerie into wearable art” and selling it online. But, she writes, “a ghost still haunted me – […]
October 22, 2024
Novelist L. C. Maxie creates a real world interwoven with myth and magic in this intimate portrait of a middle-aged woman who moves from tragedy to revelation and, ultimately, resurgence.
Harper Wood is recently widowed, and although she mourns her husband’s loss, she also acknowledges, with characteristic rationality, that he was uncaring and unfaithful. The […]
January 11, 2024
Blending science fiction and romance, author Norah Woodsey offers an intriguing premise: Can dreams guide reality?
Set in the near future, the story focuses on Matilda (Tildy) Sullivan. Plain compared to her beautiful sisters, she has never fit in well with her family or her millionaire father Patrick, whose once-successful cosmetics company is struggling.
During […]
April 25, 2023
Author Shawna Holly depicts the pressures of motherhood in her novel, The Stories We Keep.
Jenna is a young, stay-at-home mother with a husband and three small children living near San Antonio, Texas. By her own account, she has a good marriage and is financially comfortable. Yet she has a history of depression and struggles […]