Portia is comfortable in her life as a college admissions recruiter at Princeton University. Her longtime love, Mark, their house, their friends...heck, their whole life together is predictable and wonderfully routine. Her life has not always been this way. In fact, it was a series...

"Brimstone" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is the 5th book in the 'Pendergast series'. From the first time I met him in Relic I was hooked on Pendergast. In this installment Jeremy Grove is found murdered in his attic. His body is burned to...

"The Guardian" by Nicholas Sparks is one of his best tales. Before Julie Barenson’s husband passed away, he gave her a Great Dane puppy named Singer and a promise to always watch over her. After four years Julie was ready to move on with...

Alex and Leslie Twisden had it all except a child. They had tried everything they could think of except adoption. Leslie had had enough and so she wanted to stop trying. She wanted to adopt a child but Alex would not hear of it. When...

"Bird" McIntyre is a Washington DC lobbyist who works on the nation's most secret goings-on. Married to a gold-digging Equestrian Olympic hopeful who lives at their ranch (not in D.C.), Bird seems to have two lives. One life is the underbelly of the government while...

Reports of animal attacks are on the rise. Suddenly animal behavior is erratic and unpredictable. Jackson Oz has a theory called HAC (Human-Animal Conflict), but no one will take him seriously. When he hears of an incident in Africa he leaves behind his girlfriend...

Fans of Maximum Ride will be sad to know "Nevermore" is the last installment of the series. Book 8 finds Max torn between Dylan and Fang; she has feelings for each of them. There is still plenty of action in this book but there is...

"By Starlight" by Dorothy Garlock takes place during the depression era in the Big Sky country of Montana. Maddy Aldridge has one thing on her mind, to keep the family store from going under. With her father bed ridden and a younger sister to take...

Emily, 4, and her widow mother, Honor, have lived on their own since Eddy was killed in a car accident. Their house is remote by most standards and they live a simple life. All of this changes in an instant when the little girl discovers...

"What in God’s Name" by Simon Rich is a humorous book dealing with God and angels trying to save the world. When God gets upset he is about to destroy the earth and all that is in it unless two angels can find some good...