Book Review | Seeing Jess by Jenny Glazebrook

Dienece Darling here today, offering a book review of Aussie author Jenny Glazebrook’s contemporary YA romance Seeing Jess. Book Blurb Jess Cardelle likes to fix people. She’s used to being the helper, the dependable one. But losing her brother Toby in an accident was never part of the plan. Why didn’t God give her a chance …

Fiction Friday | The Christmas Catch by Toni Shiloh

Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my Christmas book recommendation for The Christmas Catch by Toni Shiloh that’s releasing on September 24. When two high school sweethearts reunite, will they take another chance at love or let life sideline them at Christmas?Benched with a career-ending injury, NFL wide receiver Jahleel Walker is forced to return …

Book Review | The Love Script by Toni Shiloh

Dienece Darling offers a Book Review of Toni Shiloh’s contemporary romance The Love Script. Book Blurb A Hollywood hair stylist.Nevaeh Richards loves making those in the spotlight shine but prefers the anonymity of staying behind her stylist chair, where no one notices her. But when a photo of Nevaeh and Hollywood A-lister Lamont Booker goes …

The Benefits and Necessity of the Pause

I’ve been using the word pause often after recently experiencing the sudden loss of my mother. Over the Christmas holiday, I gathered with my family to make funeral arrangements, and I entered the new year surrounded by the struggle of bereavement. Because of this, January brought the need for a pause from work, socializing, and …

Fiction Friday | Rocky Road by Becky Wade

Today for Fiction Friday I’m sharing my book recommendation for Rocky Road by Becky Wade, book 2 in her Sons of Scandal Romance series that’s releasing on February 14, 2024. Here’s the book description for Rocky Road: Christy Award Hall of Fame Author FBI Agent Jude Camden handles every aspect of his job with by-the-book …

Book Review | Iola Goulton’s Always by My Side

Book Blurb A hardworking introvert meets a handsome adventurer longing to settle down. Tabitha Thomas longs to leave Trinity Lakes and travel the world in honor of the beloved grandmother who raised her and her siblings. But she’s needed at home—she’s the responsible triplet, the one who stayed home to run the family inn while …

Fiction Friday | What’s the deal with Celebrity books?

Lights, camera, action! I recently heard my new release Muskoka Spotlight being described as a celebrity romance book. I suppose it is, as it’s about a famous Hollywood actor hiding out in Muskoka, Canada where he meets an aged care nurse, and sparks fly, etc. It’s just I hadn’t really thought about it in that …

Book Review of Melissa Tagg’s Wedding At Sea

Today, Dienece Darling is reviewing her favourite (and recently released) book in a contemporary romance series with strong mystery elements Wedding at Sea by Melissa Tagg. Book Blurb Two enemies. One wedding. And a seaside mystery decades in the making. Lilian doesn’t remember anything about her life before the day Maggie Muir found her on her …

Fiction Friday | What Makes a Strong Heroine?

Today I am talking about What Makes a Strong Heroine? It takes a special kind of woman to cope with all the flak, so it was interesting to consider what kind of qualities a woman might need to deal with situations where she could face anything from misogynistic remarks to having hot dogs thrown at …

Friday Fiction | Love Somebody Like You

A few years ago I approached Aussie author friend Narelle Atkins about the possibility of doing a multi-author Christian contemporary romance series. We brainstormed ideas, authors we knew who wrote in a similar genre (or planned to), and settled on the concept of a fictional town set in east Washington state called Trinity Lakes. The …