by michelle | Mar 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Author T.I. Lowe combines a story of loss with a home improvement setting as the characters in Lowcountry Lost work to resurrect both a ghost town and a broken marriage. Told from the viewpoint of Avalee Elvis, a renovation expert whose company — which shares the same...
by michelle | Mar 11, 2025 | Uncategorized
What would you do if your nosy neighbor nemesis across the street suddenly showed up on your doorstep, assuming she could stay with you while her home is being repaired? If you’re Finlay Donovan, you give into the guilt and grudgingly accept your bossy new housemate....
by michelle | Mar 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
Queen Elizabeth II reigned large my entire life, but I rarely considered what it must have been like for her in the early years following her coronation. In the historical fiction novel Christmas with the Queen by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, readers get an...
by michelle | Jan 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
As the fourth book in the Elle Cosimano Finlay Donovan series, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice picks up right where our heroines left off at the end of the previous story. It opens with a hilarious scene which sets the stage for a crazy adventure to New Jersey. When...
by michelle | Jan 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Every once in a while, a book comes along to challenge cultural norms and speak truth in an easily accessible way. She Believed HE Could, So She Did: Trading Culture’s Lies for Christ-Centered Empowerment by Becky Beresford is one of those books. It was written to...
by michelle | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
Finlay Donovan fans requested and received a story all about Vero! In the short story Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank, considered book 3.5 in Elle Cosimano’s comedy/mystery series, the readers finally learn about the events that lead up to the fated meeting between...
by michelle | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
In Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun, the third book in Elle Cosimano’s comedy/mystery series, Finlay and Vero once again find themselves in a series of ever-increasingly wild scenarios. This time, the pair has been roped into attending a citizen’s police academy,...
by michelle | Jan 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
Elle Cosimano has done it again with Finlay Donovan Knocks ‘Em Dead, her sequel to Finlay Donovan is Killing It. The first book had me laughing out loud from the first line.This one picks up where the last book left off, and it draws the reader into the action right...
by michelle | Jan 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
My longtime friend and writing buddy TLC Nielsen has interviewed me for her blog Extraordinary Ordinary. Check it out here!
by michelle | Dec 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
When I am choosing a holiday book to read, I typically want a cozy, feel-good read. I don’t want to encounter loss and grief, especially not in the first few chapters. Therefore, I never would have picked up A Home for the Holidays by Taylor Hahn, if I’d been choosing...