Anne Moose opens House of Fragile Dreams with a brief chapter in which the protagonist, Rachel, is sitting in a police interrogation room, desperate to talk to someone to ‘explain her actions’. We get well into the story before we learn why she was there,...

A doctor leaves her job and family behind to rescue her oldest daughter from a prison camp in the thrilling dystopian novel, Hope Ignites by E.A. Chance. Two years ago, a solar flare brought the world to a halt, and the power-hungry vice president took...

Surrogacy. It’s a hot topic in our world, opening a multitude of attached debates. The laws vary from state to state. The stigma stains every incident differently. When Maggie finds herself drowning in bills and unfulfilled as the unmarried mother of infant Wyatt, she is...

Lady Cassandra had already lived through one scandal years earlier when her fiancé died in an accident on the way to their wedding. As the result of a pre-wedding night together, she had their baby daughter Penelope nine months later. In high society in England...

Set in 1529 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Heart of the Highlands: The Raven by April Holthaus follows the experiences of Adelyn Scott, a descendant of Roland de Velville, as she seeks refuge from her cousin, King James V of Scotland. Pursued by powerful men for the...

Headlines, Deadlines, and Lies by Stephanie LaVigne is the first book in the Sunshine State: Cozy + Crime series. Life on Florida's Gulf Coast comes with a few surprises. Piper is a single mom of two small children and has just started a job at...

In Heavenly by Thomas Duffy, forty-three-year-old John Robinson leads a lonely existence in New York with seemingly no purpose in his life. He struggles to find love, and his relationship with his family is distant. When John is killed on the platform of Times Square...

Reading Holiday Shorts: Flash Fiction is like dipping into a Christmas stocking. Each story is a tasty morsel, easy to digest, and makes you eager to reach for the next. Barbara Venkataraman takes on the usual suspects of the holiday season and gives each the...

Jamika is a beauty, but can't seem to find a guy that sees her potential. All the guys want to get together with her, but she isn't considered wife material. As a young girl, she witnesses a brutal crime, causing her to view life through...

When Tess wakes up in the hospital, she has no memory of how she got there or why she is in so much pain with so many broken bones. The police are waiting to talk to her, her parents are barely speaking to each other,...