Escape of the Grand Duchess by Susan Appleyard follows Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna, who is trapped in a marriage to Prince Peter of Oldenburg, who has made his preference for men known. Olga requests a divorce, which both Peter and her brother, Nicholas II, refuse....

A tangled web of deception and intrigue awaits in Escalate, a novel by Ray Chan. At first glance, the book presents three separate stories and reads like an anthology. The first story revolves around two would-be thieves who find themselves in trouble with a crime...

Bikers, bimbos, and a man named Walter collide in Evacuation Route, a novel by Chris Dungey. The year is 2008, the place is Florida, and Walter is a man who drifts through life without much of a plan. Struggling to get by, he works with...

Jordan Carpenter, a wealthy federal judge from New Jersey, and his beautiful wife, Diane, easily pass for a happy couple to the public. But nothing was further from the truth. It had been eleven years since their marriage hit a snag. For the sake of...

Ivy, Jill, Kendra, Mariam, and Vanessa formed a group called the Curiosity Club. Whenever they encounter unusual occurrences in their quiet town, they set aside time to sit down, share snacks, and compare their findings about the anomaly. On this particular occasion, a chance meeting...

In 1749, fifteen-year-old Lillian ‘Lilly’ Robinson, the daughter of a plantation farmer, was beginning to learn about the harsh realities of her wealthy family’s privileged life at Ironwood Manor, Virginia. Her father was a ruthless slave owner, and her mother was an arrogant, obsessive classist....

In Executive Bone Yard by Michael A. Sisti, Harold Payne acquired a new identity through the assistance of Diego Santos, known as the Brazilian. Taking on the name Gerard Morbus, he anticipated a fresh start in São Paulo. Gerard met Salete, Diego's sister, who taught...

Imagine if you could rewind time—would you be able to escape your fate, or would you be destined to repeat it? This idea is explored in Echo, a novel by Kenneth James Allen. The story follows Eli, a brilliant hacker and a bit of a...

Ernest McCloskey is a boy with a dream. Not content to remain in school, he envisages building an empire. In Ernest, author Andre Durivage has created a character whose vision is to run his own construction company, and as he gains a little success, he...

Estate: To My Once Dear Child by J. Andrew Shelley is a darkly comic literary novel that digs deep into the emotional mess that comes with inheritance. We're with Timothy as he inherits his late mother’s estate. He thinks it’s going to be a simple...