In serious need of a new job, Davis signs on with a Biloxi casino, little suspecting why she’s really been hired. The Ophelia Prophecy is an exciting story as well as a complicated look at uncontrolled biological experimentation run amok, with a romance for good measure.ĭouble Whammy, by Gretchen Archer, is a very funny and very entertaining mystery, first in a series featuring Davis Way, ex-cop from Pine Apple, Alabama (where her dad is the police chief and her twice-ex husband’s family lives). Their travels in Pax’s sentient scout ship, complicated by Pax’s much more mantis-like sister Iris, lead them first to another pocket of humanity and then to the Manti capital in Granada, torn by factions within the Manti. Neither of them remembers how they came to be there, and both of them have to protect and to unravel. The heroine, Asha, is a member of the isolated human community of Sanctuary, until the day she wakes up along the lake shore near a Manti male called Pax. The world is now controlled by the Manti, the largely (but not always) humanoid results of those experiments. The Ophelia Prophecy is completely different, set on Earth after humanity has nearly been destroyed by the results of genetic engineering gone wildly out of control.

Sharon Lynn Fisher’s first novel, Ghost Planet, was a colony planet story with a twist.

It’s a short, easy read, but it includes some thought-provoking insights from its two authors on problems most women will identify with: self esteem, defending boundaries, and female friendship. The subtitle is The Grown-Up Woman’s Guide to Claiming Happiness and Getting the Life You Deserve. Ratzlaff was one of the featured speakers at the conference, speaking on author platforms and online resources, but this book is not about that. I brought Queen of Your Own Life, by Kathy Kinney and Cindy Ratzlaff, home from the recent RWA conference in San Antonio. Here are a few I’ve liked recently: nonfiction, science fiction, mystery and, of course, romance.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to catch up on reading and reviewing books. Half Price Books is having a holiday weekend sale, and so far I’ve managed to not set foot in the place, although I did download two books to my Kindle this morning.

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