Read On! January 27, 2021, Vol. 27

We now have a special Monthly Highlights shelf on Goodreads, where you can get full information on the books listed below. Thanks for reading, reviewing, and sharing with your friends!

The Brass Queen

by Elizabeth Chatsworth

In a steampunk England, eccentric aristocrat and secret arms-dealer, Miss Constance Haltwhistle, must marry or lose her ancestral estate. But when villains kidnap her scientist friends, she’s forced to team up with a handsome but annoying cowboy-spy to retrieve them. Soon, she’s on a madcap mission to save civilization as she knows it.

For more information, please visit Elizabeth's website.

All That We Carried

by Erin Bartels

Estranged sisters embark on a hiking trip on the tenth anniversary of their parents' deaths in an attempt to reconnect. In the wilderness of Michigan's Upper Peninsula they'll face their deepest fears, question their most dearly held beliefs, and begin to see that perhaps the best way to move forward is the one way they had never considered.

For more information, please visit Erin's website.

Face Down in the Rising Sun

by K.D. Allbaugh

Clara Olson was a small-town girl who longed for more than growing up on a farm. She aspired to see the world and experience the thrills of the Roaring Twenties. A fated meeting with Erdman Olson who lived in the underground world of speakeasies and bootlegging would change that forever. What happened next would shock the world and leave her family searching for answers.

For more information, please visit K.D.'s website.

Standing Tall

by Debora De Farias

Although she amazed her country as the first woman to become a doctor, Cecilia is haunted by dreams. She believes she left those past traumas behind, but when Destiny brings her first love back to her life, she wants closure. Will she look for a revenge, ignore the emotional battles, or have the courage to learn who she truly is besides an exceptional physician?

For more information, please visit Debora's website.

Women's Fiction: Time Travel/Passage of Time

Too little time or too much? What would you do if you could travel through it? Or simply kick back and enjoy its passing? Spend a bit enjoying these reads that highlight time.

If She Had Stayed

by Diane Byington

Neverending Beginnings

by Mary Chris Escobar

The Renaissance Club

by Rachel Dacus

Start at the Beginning

by Judy Mollen Walters

Life Before

by K.L. Romo

Forever Beach

by Shelley Noble

Curse of the Chosen One

by Patricia Rae

The Lemoncholy Life of Anne Aster

by Scott Wilbanks

How to Make a Life

by Florence Reiss Kraut

The Girls of Tonsil Lake

by Liz Flaherty

Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcast

A.H. Kim is an immigrant, practicing attorney, cancer survivor, community volunteer, and proud mother of two sons. She lives in San Francisco with her husband. A Good Family is her first novel. Excerpts, interviews, and more (including blog entries about the ups, downs, and in-betweens of being a debut author) can be found on her website: www.ahkim.net.

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