After a decade away from his hometown of Philadelphia, thirty-five-year-old Evan is back to bury his recently murdered grandfather. During the funeral, the family learns from the press that Evan’s uncle, Michael O’Brien, is running for mayor. Apparently, after the death of the incumbent Republican...

Debora Masterson’s Freedom Quest: A Love Story begins with musician Michael Griffin and his band performing before a roaring crowd in San Diego, their song climbing the charts, and their future suddenly filled with possibility. From there, the novel moves backward to the San Fernando...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

In Finding Sutton's Choice by Brenda Haas, Charlotte Sutton returns to Lakeside, Ohio, after a phone call reveals her estranged father, former baseball writer Chuck Sutton, is developing Alzheimer’s disease. Charlotte plans to stay only long enough to help manage his medical appointments before returning...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

Vicky Oliver’s Firebrands takes place in 1908 Manhattan, where suffragist Helena James begins investigating Derrick Dupré, the wealthy fiancé of her younger sister Summer, after overhearing him discuss bomb construction shortly following an explosion in Union Square Park. Helena discovers that Derrick operates a labor...

Fractured Valor is an action-packed, romantic thriller by AA DaSilva. Xavier Mastroanni is a former US Army veteran. For two years, Xavier has carried the guilt of failing to complete his assigned mission of assassinating a cartel drug lord. He finally finds a path to...

Fated Rebirth is the first book in the Heretical Gods series by Reno R. Mist. The story follows Violet, an independent young woman who is haunted by her past life. She gets flashes of a life in which she was kidnapped and then murdered. Being...

The real life of an airline pilot is often far removed from the public image of a glamorous superhero. Vesa Turpeinen suggests that most of the time they are just human, but sketches an unconventional and highly amusing scenario in FunkyPilot Journals. The author describes...

Richard Robbins’ First Lady of the New World is about Felicite St. Maxent, a young woman trying to make her way in colonial New Orleans. After her husband dies young, she has to manage her life while politics and society around her are constantly evolving....