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...

Birds of a feather… or perhaps cougars of a feather come together in Terms of Temptation, a continuation of the lives of the Cantrell family by Lorrie Farrelly. Kinley Cantrell has a heart for taking on wild animals which are injured or sick, but she...

Nostalgia ain't what it used to to be, or so they say. Young Americans in the 1960s experimented with new lifestyles and drugs, and challenged ideas about love, sex, war, and peace. And Patrick Golden was in the middle of it all at bohemian, liberal...