Read ON! Volume 36, October 2021

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!

A Boundless Place

by Pamela Stockwell

In 1969, in South Carolina, Violet moves to a quiet street to hide from grief over her husband’s death. But when she’s enlisted by a small girl in the rescue of an elderly neighbor, she is drawn into the lives her quirky neighbors and must decide whether to retreat or recover.

For more information, please visit Pamela's website.

Marika's Best Laid Plan

by Judy Staingar

Marika is a social worker trying to heal her drug addict clients, but she can't seem to mend her damaged self. She avoids love because love sits too close to death. Her choices have left her carefully ordered life a lonely, disconnected one. Everything is about to change. Big-hearted, quirky, emotionally walled-off Marika embarks on a plan that ultimately forces her to confront the very thing she's spent her life avoiding: love. For more information, please visit Judy's website.

Partner Pursuit

by Kathy Strobos

Workaholic lawyer Audrey Willems is determined to become a law firm partner. Until she bumps into Jake-her new neighbor. But Jake’s father was a workaholic lawyer with little time for family. Audrey is determined to juggle work and romance. When making partner is a game of musical chairs and the last seat is business-class alone, which partnership will she choose? For more information, please visit Kathy's website.

A Scarcity of Virgins

by JoAnn Catania

Eighteen years of being a stay-at-home wife and mother have turned Rita into a borderline agoraphobic. If she is stuck in an emotionally abusive marriage, she is not aware of it. An unexpected confrontation with Valentin, a handsome Spanish immigrant from Barcelona, shakes up her life both physically and emotionally forcing her to make some hard decisions in order to save herself and her children. For more information, please visit JoAnn's website.

After Perfect

by Maan Gabriel

Gabriella Stevens is a devoted housewife to Simon–just as her traditional Filipino mother has always told her to do-when, after sixteen years of marriage, he wants a divorce. Gabby faces unfamiliar reality with determination. But when she unexpectedly falls in love with mysterious Colt, she learns he is battling a tragic past that may have made him incapable of love. Is Gabby destined for another heartbreak or will Colt be what unbreaks her? For more information, please visit Maan's website.

Three Coins

by Kimberly Sullivan

One Eternal City. Three women. Three wishes. Three coins. Emma, Tiffany and Annarita all meet up by chance at a 1950s movie night while on a restorative holiday at an Italian beach resort off-season. The triumphs and hardships of these three very different women become intertwined as they form an unlikely friendship and work to better their messy lives.

For more information, please visit Kimberly's website.

Women's Fiction: Paranormal/Magical Realism/Fantasy

It's October! The days are dwindling, the leaves are falling, and ghosts and goblins are gearing up to knock on your door. Celebrate the season of make-believe with a book that will transport you through the veil of reality.

Bibliointuitive

by Amy Q. Barker

She Wouldn't Change a Thing

by Sarah Adlakha

Cooking for Ghosts

by Patricia V. Davis

The Brass Queen

by Elizabeth Chatsworth

The Invisibles

by Rachel Dacus

A Flood of Posies

by Tiffany Meuret

The Lost Apothecary

by Sarah Penner

Guesthouse for Ganesha

by Judith Teitelman

The First Lie

by Virginia King

Over the Hills of Green

by E.V. Svetova

Hear Us Roar! Debut Author Podcast

Christina Consolino is a scientist turned writer and editor whose work has appeared in multiple online and print outlets. Her debut novel, Rewrite the Stars, was named one of ten finalists for the Ohio Writers' Association Great Novel Contest 2020, and she is the co-author of Historic Photos of University of Michigan.

She serves as senior editor at the online journal Literary Mama and contributing editor for Shelf Unbound, freelance edits both fiction and nonfiction, and teaches writing classes at Word's Worth Writing Connections. Christina loves to connect with writers of all stages and lives in Kettering, Ohio, with her family and rotating cast of pets. Her website is https://christinaconsolino.com/

Listen to the interview with Christina

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