Reviews - Contemporary

LATE 20TH CENTURY: Nurse Josephine “Josie” Donovan is asked to check on Merrill Reynolds who is not her patient. Josie has heard many horrible things about him, yet manages to make it through unscathed. Merrill then unaccountably asks Josie to act in “Gunslingers”, his television show.

Palm Springs King
Claire Marti

Austin Michaels, former rock star, is now the general manager of the soon to be reopened Monroe resort in Palm Springs. Learning how to run a hotel and manage all of the remodeling is very different than rocking out on a stage, but it’s the change he needs to get his life straight again.

Fiona Hamilton wants a happily ever after, but she also wants her website to be a success – and this comes true thanks to the attention and hard work she puts into it. When she meets Caleb Zeno, there is sexual tension – and a lot of other tension she doesn’t need to be dealing with.

Nature is just what Sophie loves, it’s her vocation. She is at home in the national forest that is filled with wildlife and botany she loves. When she finds out the handsome man who flirted with her after a failed first date has a travel channel on YouTube, she’s determined to get him out of town as quickly as possible.

Hyphenated Relations
Daniel Maunz

Family dynamics always make for good fiction. Sam’s life in interrupted by a surprise visit from her former father-in-law’s invitation to his engagement party. He and Sam were united by the tragedy of her husband and his wife being killed in a car accident. Though Sam reluctantly attended the party, what she found was family who raised dysfunction to a new level.

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