Narcissi: A NovelBy Babette Fraser Hale Women’s Fiction / Texas FictionPublisher: Winedale PublishingPublication Date: October 15, 2026 *** SYNOPSIS *** Ten women fall for Cole Burnett, a traveling Texas writer. He is the kind of man whose need for freedom should send lovers running in the opposite direction. But he has a lanky charisma and
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VACANCY: Secrets and Second Chances in Small-Town TexasBy Jann Alexander Women’s Fiction / Mystery and CrimePublisher: Black Rose WritingPublication Date: September 24, 2026 *** SYNOPSIS *** A struggling single mother and a suspicious widow, at odds. Both have a habit of hiding from hard truths. INSPIRED BY REAL EVENTS Helen is childless and widowed after
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AND THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWNBy W.M. Gunn Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family SagaPublisher: Atmosphere PressPublication Date: August 11, 2025 *** SYNOPSIS *** And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American and one German, collide
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With the rapid pace of AI becoming a part of our daily lives, I thought about the time long before Alexa or Siri, when the company my husband worked for wanted to launch a home computer that would act much like the modern systems do. He was a software engineer and came home from work
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FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIMEBy Kimberly Packard Romance / Time-Slip / RomComPublisher: Abalos PublishingPublication Date: 16 June 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally? College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a rebellious relationship with
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A NEW FATHERLAND: PEACE TREATIES & SHATTERED HOPES BOOK TWO By Natalie Bright & Manuela SchneiderHistorical Fiction/ Immigrant Fiction Publisher: EK-2 PublishingPublication Date: April 30, 2026 *** SYNOPSIS *** Texas, 1840s: Drawn by the promise of land and freedom, German settlers venture into the New World—only to find themselves ensnared in deception, power struggles, and
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UP FROM HELLEchoes of the Past: Crimes in Central Texas, Book 1 By Joan MoranCrime ThrillerPublisher: Next ChapterPublication Date: April 7, 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Growing up in Las Vegas, Neil Dixon’s future looked bleak. The son of a drug-addicted mother, he didn’t have a lot of options until a police officer, Sergeant Finch,
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ON THE BAYOU By Sean Bridges Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose PressPublication Date: 25 May 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS*** A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do is accompany an
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I thought it would be fun to share some interesting slang words I recently saw on the Word Smarts Website. There are just a few here on the blog, but you can find more on the Word Smarts site, as well as more detailed information about them. “Wicked” is a word common to the northeast,
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This blog post starts with a plea to elected officials to STOP using rhetoric that in any way supports political violence across party lines. We are not enemies, so it’s time to stop acting like we are. My second plea is to the media to STOP using words like adversary, revenge, anger, retaliation, and payback.
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