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Monday, January 17, 2022
New Romance and Fiction
Saturday, January 08, 2022
A New Year and New Releases from The Wild Rose Press!
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Monday, January 03, 2022
The Witch of Rathborne Castle by Virginia Barlow
In the middle of a dark,
twisted forest in Cumbria England, Lady Jane Lenwood lives at Rathborne Castle,
alone and penniless, blaming her misfortunes on the current Duke of Rathborne. But
Lady Jane has a secret, voices inside her head that warn her of a dark and
dangerous future, and foretells the arrival of an unwanted visitor to her gates.
Gravely wounded, Max
Radley is found inside the gates of Rathborne and begs her help. He is intrigued
and drawn to the beautiful red-haired woman whom the locals fear is a witch.
After spending the winter snowed in, Max must resume his search for a traitor to
the Crown but finds he cannot forget Lady Jane.
As treason, enemies,
lies and deception surround them, Jane must give up everything to save both
their lives and their future.
Kat Henry Doran,
Wild Women Reviews
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
The Gingerbread Man by Kim Turner
Hannah Tate is raising her children alone after her
husband's death. It hasn’t been easy but after chores get done which she nor
her adolescent son completed, she wonders who her mysterious helper might be. While
her daughter insists it’s The Gingerbread Man who comes late at night, Hannah
has no time for such nonsense.
A veteran of the War of Aggression, John Sullivan lives
alone outside Harper Falls, trapping for a living and coping with horrific
memories of too much violence and death. When circumstance brings him to meet
the woman he’s been secretly helping, he doesn’t expect to find love once
again.
But he’ll risk his life more than once to finally hold her
forever.
Our Review: This
delightful Western romance is made that much better with author Turner’s flair
for using the costumes, customs and speech patterns common to the time.
Featuring two lonely people who have lost everything—only to find it again.
This is the perfect solution to the rush and bother surrounding modern holiday
celebrations. Treat yourself by taking time to sit by a glowing fire with a warm
cup of tea, and perhaps a warm gingerbread cookie, and travel back in time to meet
John and Hannah and follow their adventures in finding love again. It’ll warm
your heart. Promise.
Based on a scale of 1-5, The Gingerbread Man
deserves a 5.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
Monday, December 20, 2021
Scarlet at Crystal River
. . . It’s Christmas on Florida’s lush west coast and two honeymooners, looking for sun, sea, and other adult activities are haunted by the ghosts of two immigrant children who continually plead for help . . .
Happy Holidays from The Wild Rose Press
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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
A River for Gemma by Deborah Whiting Alexander
. . . Three spirited women. One perilous past. And an unlikely heroine.
Miracles abound in
Sugar Creek, a small-town nestled near the horse trails and hazelnut orchards
of Oregon’s lush countryside. It is here, where twenty-six-year old Gemma
Porter lives a vibrant life chasing her dreams. But Gemma is underestimated by
a world that pigeonholes her as “intellectually disabled.”
While the
naysayers and bullies only see Gemma’s limitations, her beloved grandmother
sees the heart of a genius—and a soul of divination. When Gemma’s longing to be
a mother collides with her grandmother’s hidden past, three generations of
Porter women are put in peril.
A harrowing
adventure unfolds into a heroic quest to save their lives. As Gemma’s bravery
is tested, she will need to prove that regardless of age or intellect, a
mother’s love knows no bounds.
Our Review: Rarely
have we read a book which brought us to our feet, cheering for three very
different, extremely brave characters. Each faces their own individual
challenges—for different though valid reasons. Each stands on their own and the
reader is better for knowing them. This is a truly exceptional book.
Based on a scale of 1-5, A River for Gemma
deserves an 8.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews.
Red Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles by Maria Imbalzano
Competitive,
work-obsessed Bella Simonetti has just been fired from her high-paying job at a
Manhattan law firm. At an all-time low, she returns home and helps her parents
at their small-town gift shop, but the business is failing and may not make it
past the Christmas holidays.
Successful
landscape architect Dean Jackson is like a son to Bella's parents. But he's a
persistent annoyance to her—he seems to have forgotten his unforgivable blunder
thirteen years earlier.
When
Bella transforms her parents' gift shop into a cookie cottage, Dean's
generosity and magnetic smile are hard to resist, and those feelings of
unrequited adolescent love come rushing back. But can Bella let go of the past
and accept Dean for the man he is today?
Our
Review:
Author Maria Imbalzano continually treats her many fans to another of her sweet,
contemporary romances. This one features Bella and Dean, two people who knew each
other as teenagers and now are thrown together when they attempt to help her
parents reinvent their gift shop into a cookie haven. In more ways than one, Red
Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles is a story of starting over,
putting the past in its proper spot: the past in order to forge a future filled
with love and promise and hope.
Based on
a scale of 1-5, Red Velvet Crinkles and Christmas Sprinkles earns a 6.
Christmas in Wylder by Sarita Leone
…in that moment she realized she didn’t know the man’s name but she put her life and trust in him, and willingly followed him through Hell…
And
so describes the plight of Margaret Channing, a young Boston woman who escaped
brutality and ran—somewhere, anywhere—in order to be free of one man’s power
and abuse. Meg is brilliantly portrayed in Christmas in Wylder, a short
historical romance by Sarita Leone, and part of the Wylder West series out of
the Wild Rose Press.
The
man Meg follows through Hell is Tate Taylor, owner of the local mining supply
store. He rescues Meg and others after a violent train derailment outside Wylder
just weeks before Christmas. While caring for her and other victims of the
wreck, he searches for a shipment of explosives lost in the crash. If he fails,
the entire town is at risk for annihilation.
The Starlight Mint Murder Mystery by Marla White
After
a serious on the job injury, LA cop Mel O’Rourke leaves the force battered both
physically and mentally. Looking for a fresh start, she moves to a quiet
mountain town and opens the Babbling Brook Inn. Excited for her new life, Mel
decides to participate in the town’s holiday cookie contest, but her newfound
joy crashes when one of her guests turns up dead in the Inn’s lobby.
Tempted
to attribute the death to natural causes, Mel’s cop sense kicks in after a
second guest dies. The local sheriff tells her to stand down, but with her own
life in danger, Mel refuses to back off. With everything on the line, she has
to push through her own fears to catch the killer before more bodies drop,
perhaps even her own.
Our
Review: In this fun, fast read, script writer turned author
Marla White shows off her talent for writing crisp, snappy dialogue and
creating unique, one-of-a-kind characters capable of invoking laugh out loud
moments. Just when things are running smoothly, another monkey lands on the
pile of wrenches, sending B&B owner Mel O’Rourke off and running—literally
if not figuratively. The Starlight Mint Murder Mystery is an homage to
small rural communities and those who flock to them—as well as large, Irish
families who pass down their traditions—flawed by accident, or maybe not. We
hope this story is the beginning of even better stories to come.
On
a scale of 1-5, The Starlight Mint Murder Mystery deserves a 6.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews
Monday, December 13, 2021
Winter Storm
. . . She trusts everyone, he trusts no-one. As danger closes in, can they trust each other?
Willow
Daniels has a heart of gold and is willing to help anyone who needs it, but
when she helps Ethan McCormick one snowy night, she may just have made the
biggest mistake of her life. Trapped by a winter storm in a tiny, North
Yorkshire village, Willow is forced to re-evaluate everything she believes in,
and wonders if anyone is truly who they seem.
Fate
may have brought her to Ethan, but as danger closes in around them, Willow must
draw on a strength she never knew she possessed in order to protect the man she
has grown to love, not only against his worst enemy, but also against himself.
Christmas in the Wylder County Jail
Adelaide Willowby is having a bad day. First, the madam of the Wylder County Social Club has kicked out the love of her life—for good this time. One of her best girls is getting married and her sister and daughter are barely speaking to her. Then, her long-lost brother-in-law shows up, claiming ownership of her business. What else can go wrong?
Russ Holt has relied on alcohol to quiet the ghosts from is
past for far too long. When his latest bender causes him to let down both Addie
and his son, he knows something has to change. When a stranger in town is found
dead and Miss Adelaide is arrested for murder, Russ smells a rat. Can he come
out of the bottle long enough to save Addie—and win back her heart?
With
the usual snappy colloquial dialogue authors, Nicole McCaffrey and Kim Turner are known
for, the descriptions of the causes and effects of long term alcohol use/abuse
are spot-on and detailed for a common sense approach to getting sober. Well
done, ladies!
A Wyld Night for St. Nick
Ella
Fielding is instantly captivated by the man who carries both her and her boy to
safety. St. Nick or not, she'd like nothing better than to claim such a strong,
gentle man for her own. But Ella carries a secret she dares share with no one,
not even when Nick asks her to trust him with her heart.
Kat Henry Doran, Wild Women Reviews