The best feeling a reader and reviewer can experience comes from knowing in the first few paragraphs of a book that one is in the sure hands of a professional and skillful writer about to tell a rip-roaringly good yarn. Seamus Beirne is an exceptionally...

Keep the Flame: Early Christianity Comes to Life by Susan Preston is book four in The Apostle John Series, a great novel that showcases the challenges of early Christianity, the collision of religious traditions, and the spiritual path — seen from an alternative world, beyond...

Where Dew Drops Shine Bright: A Dramatized Family History (Tall Cotton Rising) by Reginald C. Holmes is a fictionalized memoir of Reginald’s own family and ancestors, ranging back to three or more generations. Where Dew Drops Shine Bright begins with an introduction by Reginald of...

When Peck O’Brien sets off for the office one morning, he is not prepared for the hailstorm that greets him. Peck O’Brien must apply the perfect salve for the terrible wrong for which he feels he is responsible. With client Scott Quiggly fighting for his...

A Devil of a Time by Gretchen Jeannette is fiction with powerful characters that are capable of seducing readers and owning their hearts. Yes, I mean just that! Captain Niall McLane might think he has survived the worst that could happen to any man, but...

The hidden journal of Michael Brandon Kohler is the story of Apalachicola Pearl. I was pulled back into the late 1860s and into the Civil War in Apalachicola, Florida. Pearl, a young child, is the heroine, though we don’t learn her real, surprising mission until...

Wow! Just, wow! That’s exactly what I thought when I finished reading Reign of the Marionettes, the first published novel by author Sheena Macleod. This book hooked me from the very first pages and kept me up all night, obsessively reading until the very end!...

Savage by Stan C. Smith is an exciting adventure that takes place in 1868, Dutch New Guinea. Samuel Inwood is a naturalist and is fascinated with the research of Alfred Russell Wallace on the Papuan cultures. After meeting Wallace, Samuel executes his dream and makes...

Wow! Just, wow! That's exactly what I thought when I finished reading the debut book by author Gretchen Jeannette, The Devil Take Tomorrow. This book is a roller coaster ride of a read, full of action, adventure, historical intrigue, and yes, even a bit of...

This is the first book I have read by this author, but it will not be my last. I plan to go back and read the book just prior to this one, How to Train Your Knight. Not that it is necessary ... this can...