House of Refuge is a nice military fiction by Michael DiBaggio. Justin Agnarsson is the lone station-keeper at House of Refuge #49, a floating sanctuary for mariners in the Plata Raft region. He gives shelter to a man and his daughter after an Argentine warship...

The Outhouse is an historical coming of age debut novel written by David W. Gordon. Jeffrey and his older brother, Jason, had always pondered the mystery of the grandfather they never met. Their father refused to talk about him, save for telling them that the...

Touching the Wire by Rebecca Bryn is a story of all the women of the Holocaust. Miriam, a Jewish nurse, steps down from a cattle wagon and into the heart of Chuck, a young doctor, but saving her from the gas chamber exposes her to...

Kass Ghayouri’s An Era of Error chronicles the life of Kay, and events that unveiled the ugly face of apartheid in South Africa, in a tale that will undoubtedly remind readers of Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton and A Dry White Season by...

The empty feeling of not belonging to a group is timeless, as Orfeo demonstrates clearly in The Sword of Telemon: The Orfeo Saga Book 1 by Murray Lee Eiland, Jr. Born as the second son of King Kiros, Orfeo was sent to the foreign city...

The Coercion Game: Umbra Sumus, Book 1 is an international thriller written by Magnus Booth. Chris Lee hasn't seen his university friend, Anna Von de Pahl, for some years since they both were students at Cambridge. While he was freelancing as a fixer and problem...

Wolf Wood (Part One The Gathering Storm) by Mike Dixon is an excellent period piece set in 1436-1437 in late medieval England. The story is based upon the conflict over ownership and use of a baptismal font, with the two sides being All Hallows Church,...

Toru: Wayfarer Returns by Stephanie Sorensen is book one in the Sakura Steam series. Set in the late 1800s, the story follows a young man named Toro, who returns to his homeland of Japan. Toro was shipwrecked and taken to America, and returns to Japan,...

The End of Time: A Fabulous Narrative (Volume I: From Waterloo to Meridian) by T.S. Creager is the first in a historical series. Historical time travel to be precise. Dhlara and Jylling are minding their own business, living their lives in a perfectly ordinary modern...

Calvus by Darryl Greer is an amazing story spanning two thousand years and many miles. As a young legionary, Calvus experiences the crucifixion of Jesus in Jerusalem and is profoundly moved by the feelings of love and brotherhood he perceives as they join glances. Later...