In Ion Parreah’s The Cost of Knowing, after the death of his childhood friend Karen O’Neil and a public declaration that unsettles his parish, Father David Callaghan leaves Newcastle West and travels to Namibia in search of an answer to a question that has begun...

Wings of Light by Ellen V. Woods follows Irissa, an immortal woman who is determined to prove herself by joining the Golden Sphere and becoming a Messenger of the Gods like her sister. To do this, she must survive a series of dangerous and demanding...

The Infernal Twins: A Series of Divine Miscommunications by Steve Goldsmith is the tale of two immortal twins tasked with keeping track of everything there was, is, and will be. Styx and Stonez are the twin sons of Satan. In the afterlife, their father has...

Elba Kramer: The True Autobiography of a Pathological Liar by Steve Goldsmith follows the true story of a youth from his early childhood to his late teenage years. Elba Kramer didn't have the most ideal childhood. His father was an Air Force pilot who met...

The Chinese thinker Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and that sentiment is echoed in Kaci Curtis's Along the Trail. Winnifred “Winnie” Hayes and her family take that first step as they leave their home and...

Ellen Rachlin’s Enheduanna’s Song From the Sands is set in Mesopotamia during the late third millennium BCE, where Enheduanna, born Ana, is sent by her brother King Rimush to take power as the high priestess in Ur, a city shaped by unrest and resistance to...

Luxuries and Lies by Long Temple is a thought-provoking story about the invisible labor and emotional endurance that often go unseen in the workplace. Mercedes is a hardworking woman whose work is taken for granted. When the company's leaders try to erase her name from...

The Seekers: Hilo Dome by Jack Bartley is an adventurous and suspenseful story with several excellent reasons to read it. The main antagonist is a volcano that is threatening to erupt. It is the driving force that pushes a group of men and women to...

In Emily Camp’s book, Torn, the main characters, Sierra and Luke, struggle to rekindle a relationship torn apart by Luke’s father four years earlier. Their interest in each other rekindles when Sierra reappears in Luke’s life, burdened with marital issues and a three-year-old child in...

In King Herod's Treasure by Mark Akst, Mark Cohn is a retired hotel manager who has spent many years caring for his elderly mother. During this time, he had done little socializing as he mostly stayed indoors. He also developed an interest in Jewish history...