Altered in an Instant – BLIND TURN

Author Cara Sue Achterberg explores how one mistake can change lives forever. Mothers fear for our children’s safety and futures. Invincible kids have a hard time believing that one stupid,…

Review of The Imperfects by Amy Meyerson

Diamonds, Dysfunction, and Family Legacy The fragmented Miller family is far from perfect — they’ve never been able to get their act together. But when the family matriarch dies and…

Review of In The Shadow of 10,000 Hills by Jennifer Haupt

In this gracefully written literary novel, Jennifer Haupt explores the lives of three women which intersect at an orphanage in Rwanda. This tale, centered around the Rwandan genocide, screams to…

Review of Stranger, Father, Beloved by Taylor Larsen

esIn Stranger, Father, Beloved, Taylor Larsen weaves a family tapestry depicting the slow unraveling of the James family. The story begins with a party thrown by Michael James and his…

Review of Summer Secrets by Jennifer Levine…

Everyone has secrets.  Some are big and some are small, but they’re there.  In Summer Secrets, Jennifer Levine takes us through a tumultuous summer in the life of Lauren Breckenridge.…

Review of The Opposite of Everyone by Joshilyn Jackson

This book is a genre kaleidoscope – a mystery, hiding inside a courtroom drama, hiding inside a domestic thriller, hiding inside a literary novel. The composite of these elements is…

Review of The Good Goodbye by Carla Buckley

The Good Goodbye is labeled a domestic thriller. And it is that. A murder investigation interwoven with a family drama. Two cousins, Arden and Rory, are more like sisters, sharing…

Book Review: Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave

It takes 800 grapes to make a bottle of wine. But what does it take to make a family? And keep it? Laura Dave’s Eight Hundred Grapes is a wonderful…