In Jingle Bell Justice by Nancy Basile, web traffic analyst Robin Pearce finds herself in a tight spot after moving back to her small West Virginia hometown, River Sutton. She is trying to get a digital marketing business off the ground and is seeing her...

It is September 1990. Sixty-four-year-old Kenneth ‘Ken’ Pugh, an artist, is reporting to Woodrow Wilson High School in Asbury, New Jersey, as a senior for the forty-sixth time. He hopes this is the year he finally graduates. However, he has no idea how much trouble...

It is the summer of 1940. The SS President Jackson has arrived in Shanghai, and aboard is Paul Obermann, a man fleeing law enforcement after an insurance-fraud scheme in San Francisco. It is bad enough that he is flat broke, as his partners made off...

My Island Secret by Bernard Harris centers on Brian Phillips, a correctional officer whose life is imploding. His eighteen-year marriage to Stacey is ice-cold, causing him so much panic that he ends up in the emergency room with a serious heart condition called A-Fib. While...

What the Dead Learned by Hwee Peng Tan is a zombie apocalypse novel with a fascinating twist. The original idea of the “cure” was to save humanity from the overarching surveillance of the government. The “cure” would effectively make people invisible to all forms of...

Last Alive by David B Seaburn is a bittersweet tale of love and devastating loss. Leon Miltenson and his wife Emma have been together for over fifty years. Their life is simple, straightforward, well-structured, and comfortable. Leon is playing pool with his old friend and...

In D J Colbert’s If That Was Lunch, We’ve Had It, two friends, Will and Rodney, hatch a plan on a beach as teenagers: write a book to dodge regular jobs. They spend decades avoiding traditional labor, bouncing between high-country sheep farming, hospital shifts, retail...

Linda Dooks’ Land of Opportunity, Book Three begins in New York in 1914, when war in Europe sends desperate mothers and their children through Ellis Island. Rose Blackwood has spent years helping newcomers establish themselves in America, but the numbers now overwhelm the charitable houses...

Gordon MacKinney’s Memory Mine hooks you immediately with a wonderfully unsettling premise. Dalton, an aerospace engineering washout, initially signs up for the Mars mission just to reunite with Anna, his lover and sole driving motivation on the red planet. He expects nothing more than a...

In Slow Burn by Alison Sweeney, Lesley, Metrix's marketing manager, is happy with her life and her job. Lesley enjoys her freedom and has no interest in a lasting relationship. When Alex Crewe arrives as the company’s new Sales Manager, Lesley’s carefully maintained boundaries begin...