Nick was extremely likeable and could charm anyone despite his shy and guarded demeanor, so why was he murdered? In Death in the Old Rectory by Kathie Deviny, Mrs. Adele Evans, President of the Ladies Auxiliary, Directress of the Altar Guild, and the Chair of...

Centered around the theme of homelessness, Losing it All by Marsha Cornelius tells the hard luck stories of two main characters. Frank hides a lifetime of pain and mostly bad memories behind the grimy disguise of a street person. Chloe's delicate veneer of domestic respectability...

Celeste Chaney's In Absence of Fear takes readers into a safer future. Marus Winde is a senior algorithm architect working for the State on the Isle. He is married to Shey Vanguard and they have a son, Cade. The Isle is a sanctuary which has...

After eighty years of conflict, the War of the Roses is nearing its end. Edward IV made a disastrous mistake when he married Elizabeth Woodville. Her ambitious family did everything to increase their power and suspicions were aroused when Edward died mysteriously at the age...

Second Chances by Lincoln Cole is a story about journeys of self-discovery. It opens with a meeting held at a school in a white suburb that a judge has ruled must accept children bused in from a black neighbourhood. Lakeisha, a black widowed mother of...

In The Mardi Gras Chase (True Girls) (Volume 1) by Maggie M Larche, Melanie, Kate and Faye are attending one of the many Mardi Gras parades in Mobile, Alabama that usually lasts for several weeks. Melanie is bored and can’t see what all of the...

Life. Love. Romance. Adventure. What do all of these terms have in common? They are the words of expression that the authors used in telling their stories in Rocky Romance: A Serenity Romance Anthology by Serenity Press. Exactly what inspired this type of book? Rocky...

Savages: A Triptych is a trilogy of interconnected short stories written by Brendan Ball. In Long Live the King, the aging leader of a tribe contemplates his inevitable fall from power and will sacrifice even those he cares about in his need to survive. The...

Susan Appleyard’s epic novel, This Sun of York, begins with Richard of York’s unsuccessful challenge to the House of Lancaster at Blackheath and ends with his son’s triumphant victory at Towton nine years later. Today, we know the conflict as the War of the...

A body is found in the Arboretum of Cold Creek College and Faculty Sleuth Dr Sheridan Hendley swings into action. The victim died of bullet wounds to the head and the local police charge a college gardener with murder. Sheridan is horrified. The evidence is...