The consequences of substance addictions – opioids, prescribed medications, alcohol – are well-portrayed in this contemporary novel. The focus is on how these addictions affect the Wasson family – father, Emmitt; mother, Maggie; and their daughter, Lindsay. On baby Lindsay’s Baptism day in 1994, Emmitt...

In Lorna Peel’s A Summer of Secrets, the heroine, Sophia, daughter of a former coal miner, has returned from London to her hometown in Yorkshire to take up the job as a tour guide at Heaton Abbey House, formerly a Cistercian monastery. The hero, Lord...

A Prison In The Sun is a work of mystery fiction with plenty of intrigue and was penned by author Isobel Blackthorn. Forming the third book of the Canary Islands Mysteries series, this installment focuses on the difficulties facing ghostwriter Trevor Moore. Desperate to find...

Newman Riplan is a bohemian British troubleshooter dreaming of a great life while getting wasted in Amsterdam with a couple of friends. The trip to Amsterdam is just a business one and it’s only by chance that he meets his old friends there. After a...

Anna: Waiting for Redemption by Gail K. Bell is the story of a child brought into the world unexpectedly, only to face a harsh life. William, Anna’s father, is a mechanic who leaves his wife and child in search of a better job with better...

A Time to Reflect by Joanna Warrington is a family saga that spans three generations. Pandora and her brother Jules are brought up on a farm, their father commuting to work weekly and their mother in the shadow of her domineering husband. Pandora is a...

A Year in the Life of Leah Brand is a psychological thriller from the pen of author Lucinda E. Clarke. Leah Brand is a middle-aged woman who has suffered many of life’s vicissitudes along her journey. When her husband and two children are tragically killed...

A Trick of Fate by Stella Riley will delight its readers as Lord Max Brandon and Lady Frances Pendleton trek through the country, all the way to Scotland, following the scoundrel who has slandered his name and stole her grandfather’s watch. A note in one...

How do you tell a story of love, lust, and finding yourself in as few words as possible and in a way with which your readers, if they are honest with themselves, can identify? You write it honestly from the gut, as Emmalyn Danvers has...

Autonomously Yours is K. N. Parker’s science fiction account of the development of an artificial human named Sally, made to be indistinguishable from an actual female and adjustable in its physical attributes. Set in the year 2116, Doctor Harold Okamura has been contracted by a...