Faithful Traitor by Samantha Wilcoxson follows the story of Margaret Pole, one of the last of the royal Plantagenet dynasty, who lived through the reigns of Henry VII and his son Henry VIII of England. We first meet her when she’s already married and soon...

In Stormfront by James Tacy Cozad, Finn Dalton, 32 years old and an army veteran, lives a pretty boring life as a ranchers' consultant in New Mexico until he comes upon a random discovery in the wild that sends him running for dear life, while...

One reader of Eric Peterson’s novel, The Dining Car, describes perfectly the nature of its central character Horace Button - a celebrity editorialist on all things cultural but specifically gastronomical - as Falstaffian. Physically huge and attitudinally challenged, a drinker par excellence, Horace provides the...

A father slowly loses his mind in Emergence by R.H. Dixon - or at least he thinks he does. He is used to his daughter talking to her imaginary friend, but what he did not expect was that there was more than just a creative...

No, Step Crazy isn't about being crazy about climbing steps. Step Crazy is about not being too crazy about becoming a step-parent. Or more accurately, feeling like you're crazy once you become a step-mother, which is what happens to Josie when she marries Tom after...

Summer of Love is a sweet romance novel by prolific British author Katie Fforde. After a disastrous try at putting her young son Rory in a London school, Sian Bishop lets her friend Richard convince her to relocate to the country, where his sister runs...

Children of Eden by Michael Beeney takes us into the world of Harry Lester from London. Harry, like many others, took part in visiting unregulated infertility clinics when he was a medical student. Harry easily donated his genetic material to allow couples who were infertile...

In Keith Ward's 99 Days, proxying is a barbaric act practiced in Slypht where one person is sacrificed so another gets to live longer. The best proxies are considered to be kids below one year as they still have a longer and better life left....

Romance, 50’s Style by Margaret Lynette Sharp is a set of two nostalgic stories of romance in the 1950s. Whatever it Takes is the first story, set in both Sydney and in London. Lisa is studying in London and finds herself falling hard for Liam,...

From the moment the heroine, Lark Chadwick, in Bullet in the Chamber by John DeDakis, took the wrong front row seat in her first ever press conference representing Associated Press in the White House, I was hooked. She’s a heroine you can’t help liking. She...