Leona Harper has no identity of her own. She’s been a small town pastor’s wife for almost thirty years. She’s poured everything into being the best helpmeet for her husband, until the day JD drops dead in the pulpit. When the well-meaning parishioners (and some not so well-meaning) gather round, her caustic mother comes to…
Agnes Sparrow is too large (at over 600 pounds) to get around the town of Bright’s Pond any more, but she can still do one thing and do it well: pray. And when Agnes prays, miracles happen. The town is so in awe of Agnes that they decide to get a new sign for the…
A review on a Monday? When you know I have my own story to tell? You’ll have to come back Wednesday to find out why the sky is falling. Grace Graham has more problems than most people I know. A young single mother living in California, far from her family, she struggles to make the…
Hats off to Gina Holmes for a spectacular debut novel! I picked up Crossing Oceans when it was a Kindle freebie in November and read the whole story in one day, almost unheard of for me in recent years. What’s so special about this book? It is the first person present tense story of Jenny…
Charlotte Figg takes over more than Paradise in this second novel by Joyce Magnin. Charlotte’s longtime marriage to a top Fuller Brush salesman ends with Herman’s sudden death. At loose ends, Charlotte decides to sell their home and purchase, sight unseen, a cute trailer she sees in an ad. When she pulls into Paradise Trailer…
How does somebody search for their bliss? Indie Moore finds daily guidance in her horoscope, just as her flower child mother, Harmony (once mundanely named Ann), taught her. At 21, Indie needs to find her own path. In her words: “I’m desperate to get out of Rabbit Hole, Kansas, with its tornadoes, dusty roads, and,…