TE Scott’s The Song Journey is a fascinating and well-written story about the unique transformative power of music that transports the heroine into past events. Julia MacAllistair, with her talent for singing, is the image of her great-grandmother Jules MacAllistair - a famous singer who...

Wow! When you pick up Mindy S. Halleck’s debut novel, Return to Sender, be sure you have enough time to devote to it, because you won’t want to put it down! A gorgeous read featuring our protagonist, Theo Riley, a Catholic priest wrestling with demons...

Metal: A Treasure Hunt is a contemporary fiction novel written by Java Davis. The underlying story, however, has historical roots that date back to the 1700s. Shaker Falls Park was located on land that had been in dispute since colonial times, and the land figured...

“Ahhhh…” That’s the sound I made when I finished reading Bhajan, the debut work by author Tim Garvin. That’s the sound I make when a book satisfies me, not just for entertainment purposes, but for emotional and spiritual reasons as well. The novel follows the...

What a fun beach read! Spoiled Brats Romance Diaries Presents My Amnesia Girl by author Marissa Marchan is the sweet and romantic little tale of Vanessa Grandeville, a spoiled socialite from Beverly Hills. Well known in her community of wealthy and privileged young people, Vanessa...

Amina: The Silent One by Fiza Pathan is a compelling, realistic, and sometimes stark read. Amina is essentially a social commentary in the form of fiction. It is the story of Amina, a young Muslim girl born and raised as an unwanted girl child in...

Oh my, oh my! I just finished reading Hysterical Love, the newest novel by Lorraine Devon Wilke, and I must say, I simply adored it! It follows the story of Dan McDowell, a 33-year-old photographer who is happily engaged to be married to his adored...

World War II. Oslo, Vienna, Berlin. Two creatives from different countries, Norwegian pianist Ellen and German violinist Friedrich meet, fall in love, and are nearly torn apart by war. That’s the premise of Vanished in Berlin, the newest novel by author Gry Finsnes. When Friedrich...

AJ Aaron’s The Hawk, or Other Worlds is an entertaining science fiction mystery novel. Dave leads an unexciting life with an unexciting but stable job and not much money. He’d like things to be better, and wonders if he should have worked harder at school...

Soul Caller by Ana Peters initially appeared to me to probably be some obscure story about some obscure country. Then, as I turned the pages, the story grew to the stature of a colossus straddling the world, and slowly gripped the very core of my...