J Bradley Van Tighem’s novel Puha, Master of the Wild, Volume 1, unravels in the late 1700s, when wolves, buffaloes, and grizzly bears freely wandered the southern plains of Texas. This was also the time when Comanche Indians roamed the land with their horses, spears,...

Redeeming Love by Sophie Dawson and George McVey takes readers on an adventure to Cottonwood. Deputy U.S. Marshal Timothy Dillion is haunted by the fact that love has been ripped out of his grasp twice by Diamond Dale and his band of outlaws. He plans...

Cooper by Tell Cotten opens in 1872 in New Mexico Territory. There are a few stories going on within the pages of this book. The author transitions so smoothly and ties them together so expertly that I was left satisfied, but his knack for storytelling...

Michael Costello’s war novel, A Long Time From Home, is a gripping story about love, friendship, courage, violence, murder, and treachery. Sgt. Harry Pitts comes from a family of soldiers and enlists in the US Army at the outbreak of the Vietnam War. Leaving his...

Elly Hays is a story that takes place in the early 1800s. The book opens with a speech from Tecumseh urging the Creek Village that lives in the Mississippi Territory where Tafv and his son live to join forces and go to war against the...

The first book in MaryLu Tyndale’s series, Forsaken Dreams takes us on a journey with a group of southerners as they sail across the ocean to Brazil to start over, after their losses caused by the Civil War. In Elusive Hope, the story continues with...

Sadie’s Secret is the third book in Kathleen Y’Barbo’s The Secret Lives of Will Tucker series, and as with the first two books, this one is filled with southern romance secret identities and hidden agendas! Will Tucker is on the run again and taking things...

I thought this would be a fascinating read and it was. I thought that it must be extremely difficult to tell a story about prehistoric people of whom we have very little knowledge upon which to base dialogue, habits, beliefs, etc. We have theories based...

Accursed Women, a collection of short stories by Luciana Cavallaro, is a unique and interesting take on Greek myths with five stories (each with 'curse' somewhere in the title) told from the perspective of five different women. You don't have to know much about Greek...

The Little Bastards is a coming of age novel written by Jim Lindsay. It's set in Willamette, a small town in Oregon, during the 1950s. The reader first encounters the narrator, Sonny Mitchell, when he's just turned fourteen and it's late summer. He and his...