What do you do when you wake up in a small box, in a small room, with no idea who and where you are. After some disorientation, you discover that your name (at least part of your name) is Al Clark. But really, who...

Esme was trapped, locked in a room with a number of very different versions of herself, none of whom seemed to have the faintest idea what was happening. There was but one constant, they were all her, and yet each one was different. When released...

It had been an accident; how could a youngster of four be expected to control her powers? But her father had not seen it that way. In his eyes, like any parent of a nymph, she was just a product to be sold when she came...

These are fairy tales and fables with bite! And They Lived by Sabrina Zbasnik is a deliciously wicked collection of nine short stories. Each tale turns familiar parables on their ear, twisting them in dark and devious directions. These damsels are rarely in distress. Take,...

Annals of the Five Moon Fleet: The Largoan War by Charles Remington is an exciting sci fi novel set on a spectacular habitable planet named Margareta (the Pearl) with five moons. It is endowed with oceans of fresh water, and a slightly denser atmosphere set...

The mystical city of A’lara has been lost to myth and legend for centuries, but the time has come for it to be unbound. Larin, a young woman in a strange land, is sold as a slave, but escapes with Jorn the dragon handler before...

Told in an absorbing first person narrative voice, Awoke is a gripping entry in the Want Series by K.T. Conte, a great read for young adult fans of the paranormal. As the story begins, readers are introduced to Katya, a young girl preparing for a...

Every life has a story. Even the secondary characters in a fictional novel have a story to tell. Albina is one of these secondary characters, but her story is worth telling, too. And what better way to tell Albina’s story than in her own words,...

A Confabulated Compendium of Anecdotes by Melissa H North starts off with the story of a bizarre and intriguing murder that leads to Scotland Yard requesting the help of bio science professor Geneviève. The case takes a sudden twist when Geneviève learns the true identity...

‘Some birds cannot be caged, and I’m one of them,’ says the title character in Ameerah by Rebekkah Ford. Ameerah is an eighteen-year-old young woman living in the heyday of Prohibition, living her life by her rules instead of those of her upper class, snobbish...