The 1900 Galveston (Texas) Hurricane was the deadliest natural disaster in the history of the United States, although it’s much more distant than events like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. Lucy Davila Hakemack, in her novel, Remembering the Storm, shows the Galveston tragedy through a human-interest...

It had been a decade since Sir Lyle, a knight from North Tetain, had left his homeland for the land of Aeguin, hoping never to go back. When the ailing Crown Prince of North Tetain, Prince Larrson, summons him, his orders are to deliver messages...

Death in the Long Shadows by Francis M. Flavin is about Paul Thayer, a middle-aged American hunter who goes to Namibia’s Caprivi Strip for a dangerous safari. Still grieving his wife, he hopes the hunt will give him something to focus on and a sense...

Fraud, Gluttony & Greed in the second book of We Are Legion - One Supernatural Day in Thacker Pass by J.A. Kampton. Wiley Gomez is wandering about in a lithium mine with his father, his girlfriend Rebecca, and a tight little group, as unexplained explosions...

Dark Days by Lorel Clayton is set after a divine conquest reduces a city to ash, and a boy named Ralen is branded and enslaved under Dinah, a fallen enforcer of the Last God. Bound by a mark that prevents his escape, Ralen is transferred...

Pinocchio’s Final String by C. Fulster starts with Pinocchio in a deep forest where he meets the White Rabbit. She tells him his dead father created him from a magical juniper tree and warns him some people will want a piece of him for their...

Big Lies by Stephen Wayne is a conspiracy thriller set in the near future. Astronomer Thomas Jeffries discovers that a huge asteroid is on a collision course with Earth right before it disappears into the sun’s blind spot. His discovery grabs the attention of the...

Cincher's Waltz by Joslyn Chase captivated me with its intrigue and suspense. Riley Forte loses her entire family in a fire, an event that almost upends her life. She is training at a secret spy camp in Bavaria. Perhaps this is the only way to...

Heroless by Antoine Monks begins with Carp, a former supervillain who helped Alexander Corman and the New Order defeat Earth’s heroes and assume control of the United States. Fifteen years later, Carp is summoned to investigate a superhuman detected moving across the Kansas Blight, a...

Battle for Crossroads by J.P. Coffman follows Bourdain of Ikvia, whose parents died during an expedition tied to forgotten ruins. Carrying his mother’s journal and his father’s sword, he leaves the city to seek records in Sovaran and hires on as a guard with Garron’s...