Audiobook Review: The Voice We Find by Nicole Deese
The Voice We Find: A Fog Harbor Romance
Series: Fog Harbor #3
Author: Nicole Deese
Narrators:
Stephanie Cozart
Nick Mills
Taylor Meskimen
Published: April 15, 2025
Audiobook: 14 hours 26 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 15-23, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Two voices. One story. A chance to rewrite their future.
Sophie Wilder returns home to California with nothing more than a failed Broadway career and a geriatric cat. Stuck working at the family winery with her egotistical brother and desperate for a way to revive her acting dreams, she takes a side gig as an audiobook narrator with Fog Harbor Books. But getting mixed up in the life of her reluctant sound engineer was never a part of her plans.
August Tate is still reeling from taking on guardianship of his teen sister. Determined to find a solution to her degenerative hearing loss and to prevent his private recording studio from going under, he agrees to produce audiobooks part-time. When Sophie breathes new life into his creativity and forms an unexpected bond with his sister rooted in their common faith, he must confront the reasons he turned away from his own or risk losing the second chance he’s only just started to believe in.
The Voice We Find is the third book in Nicole Deese’s Fog Harbor Romance Series for fans of clean, faith-based stories, deaf and hard of hearing representation, workplace romance, books about books, found family, and sibling bonds.
Jessica’s Review:
The Voice We Find is a contemporary Christian Fiction novel that deals with some deep themes. All three of our characters: Sophie, August, and Gabby all have growth over the course of the novel. The reader also experiences the character’s traumas and the aftermath of family loss, family tension, struggles with faith, and as the title suggests: The characters finding their voice in the ways that they are meant to. In addition to these themes, we have God and He is also a central part of the story. There is also a little bit of a mystery with Sophie’s past..
In addition to the three main characters we also have Phantom, who is Sophie’s ‘geriatric’ cat. He is his own character as I saw my own cat Curry in Phantom. All my love to stubborn, older cats! Curry can be his own ‘stubborn old man’!
My favorite parts of this novel are the ASL and the hard of hearing/ deaf community representation! Disability representation is needed more of in books and it is a significant part of the novel due to Gabby’s degenerative hearing loss and eventual deafness.
The reader also gets some insight in theater performance and audiobook narration. I enjoyed getting a brief look at what working in those ‘worlds’ consist of. We also get a sweet romance that progresses slowly. We also get another form of love that is the sibling love between August and Gabby. They may not be ‘blood relatives’, but they are family and their love is definitely there!
You can’t help but grow to care about all of these characters in all of their realities. They are all far from perfect, but again we experience their growth over the course of the novel.
All of the narrators brought August, Sophie, and Gabby to life with perfection. They all enhanced the story. The Voice We Find is the third in the series, but each novel can be treated as a standalone. This one was a book club selection for February, and I enjoyed it and hope to experience the other two in the series soon.
Cover Reveal: The Freshman Parents by Ko Porteous
Today I am helping in the cover reveal for The Freshman Parents by Ko Porteous. This is the first novel in The Empty Nesters Series. It releases on July 10th and sounds like it will be a fun one to read, especially if you have a child leaving for college!
Book Description:
Single parent Heather isn’t neurotic (honest!) – she’s simply dreading the day her only child leaves for university – so her meticulous checklists grow longer by the hour. When she seeks advice on a parents’ forum, she clashes with Scott, a single dad whose “helpful” statistics and assertions about “helicopter parenting” leave her fuming.
Move-in day delivers the ultimate surprise: their daughters aren’t just roommates – they are self-declared “besties for life”. Suddenly, Heather and Scott are thrown into a begrudging alliance.
As they navigate the new status quo, Heather’s instinct to organise meets Scott’s philosophy of letting go. Their practical text messages about mattress toppers and emergency supplies evolve into conversations about dream jobs and bucket list aspirations. Despite their intentions to avoid relationships at all costs, unpredictable events keep throwing them together, meaning Heather and Scott find it increasingly difficult to ignore each other…
Now….. What does the cover look like?????? Keep scrolling to find out!!
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Here it is:
Pre-Order Your Copy Here:
Amazon US
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About the Author:
Ko Porteous lived in a tiny fishing village in the north of Scotland before moving to Edinburgh aged 10.
Ko loves meeting people with interesting stories to tell and is constantly on the lookout for knotty story themes, particularly involving women navigating the messiness of life. She has worked as a Research Chemist, Assistant Chef, Teacher and School Leader.
As well as writing, Ko works as a Business Manager and provides listening services for a mental health charity aiming to reduce the number of deaths caused by suicide.
In her free time Ko loves to run, meditate and travel; preferably all on the same day.
Ko has been married for 25 years, has 2 children of her own and is now navigating her own empty nest.
The Freshman Parents is Ko’s debut novel and is the first in ‘The Empty Nesters’ series.
Contact Ko:
Instagram @koporteousauthor
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Audiobook Review: Without a Clue by Melissa Ferguson
Without a Clue
Author: Melissa Ferguson
Narrator: Karissa Vacker
Published: February 17, 2026
Audiobook: 8 hours 43 minutes
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: February 24-28, 2026
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
When a mystery writer mysteriously dies on a cruise filled with rabid fans, his protégé (and personal assistant) teams up with a rugged cowboy and fellow writer to crack the case. One part Only Murders in the Building, one part Book Lovers, and a whole lot of laughs, Without a Clue will keep readers guessing and swooning until the very end.
If there’s one thing Penelope Mae Dupont prizes most, it’s her composure–her ability to stay calm in the face of stress. It’s a vital trait in her job as a personal assistant to renowned mystery author Hugh Griffin. But when Pip organizes a book cruise featuring The Fabulous Seven–seven celebrated authors from different genres who have supported each other through thick and thin–her famed composure is in danger of sailing away. One boat, hundreds of devoted readers, and seven Big Personalities. What could possibly go wrong?
Disaster strikes when, on the second day of the cruise, Hugh is found murdered. And, in the face of gross incompetence by the on-board security force, Pip realizes she’ll need to be the one to discover who did it. With the ship stranded in the middle of the Atlantic and no help on the horizon, it’s up to her to unravel the mystery. Along with her friend Nash–a dreamy Western author who’s just as rugged as the cowboys he writes about. As Pip’s composure starts to sink faster than a leaky dinghy, Nash becomes her anchor in a storm of clues and red herrings.
With Nash at her side, Penelope dives into the murky depths of the mystery, navigating treacherous waters filled with unexpected twists and turns. No one, not even a desperately hopeful mystery sleuth named Pip, could anticipate the wild ride ahead. Whether she likes it or not, she is on the adventure of a lifetime . . . and maybe, just maybe, she’ll find love along the way.
In this laugh-out-loud funny Clue-meets-Emily-Henry rom-com, Penelope Mae Dupont is about to find out that in the world of mystery and romance, you have to risk going overboard to find the truth.
Jessica’s Review:
This was such a fun novel to listen to! And Karissa Vacker narrated it: She is a narrator I look out for, so when I saw this one, I had to listen to it!
We have Penelope (Pip) who has organized a book cruise (that would be so much fun to go on!) featuring The Fabulous Seven and the cruise is seemingly going well until… we have a murder of one of the seven! And it was committed by another one of the seven! On board security is useless so Pip finds herself having to ‘catch’ the killer… without harm coming to anyone else. And along the journey comes a possible love connection… or is it?
Again, Without a Clue was so much fun! The listener gets a little bit of everything: mystery intrigue, murder, and maybe a love connection! Come on this cruise and follow Pip figure out just what is going on! You’ll be in for an adventure all the way unto the end! I was not expecting the novel to go the way it did!
If you need a fun read with some murder and intrigue, give Without a Clue a read or listen! Many thanks to the publisher for granting me an audio copy to listen and review. I enjoyed this one!
Purchase Links:
Amazon US
Amazon UK