Hey to all the Story Empire readers and welcome to our latest Friday post. Today, I’m combining a couple of the features we run on Friday’s for a heaping helping of books. We don’t normally do much to toot our horns about our books on this site, but I wanted to make everyone aware of some new releases both recent and upcoming from our group. Please take a look and share the post or the individual titles as you like and feel free to leave comments with your reactions.

First up is Joan Hall. She released a book in May, the third in her Driscoll Lake series entitled, Unclear Purposes. Here’s the blurb:

Three years after her husband’s murder, Christine Lawrence still struggles for balance. She has a rewarding career and a close circle of friends but feels oddly unfulfilled. Worse, the close relationship she once had with her teenage…