Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

V for Victory by John McKay is a most interesting story set during the occupation of Paris by the Germans from June 1940 to July 1944. Events are seen through the eyes of a young Parisian boy, Charles Mercier, who is 13 years old and...

Mercy Leroux’s We Are Not Strangers follows two warriors engaged on opposite sides of the American Revolution in 1775 Boston. Matthew Wilcox is a British grenadier concealing his social identity, and Josiah Cairn is a young American patriot struggling to prove his worth and masculinity...

Filip Cvetkovic’s Mars And Venus: Veni, Vidi, Vici is a riveting historical and character-driven story set in the ancient Roman Empire. The story begins with the early months of the Roman conquest of Britannia. Marcus Gaius Severus Treius leads ten thousand Roman soldiers deep into...

No Man’s Land: This Hallowed Ground Book Three by Donna E. Lane is a continuation of the generational saga of the MacAlister family, set in the early 1900s. Fin, Buck, and Ian have emigrated to New Zealand along with their parents. A deliberately set, tragic...

In A Walk Among Heroes by James McDevitt, T.J. Montgomery had loved Magdalyn for as long as he could remember. When T.J. saw Magdalyn standing beside another man, smiling in a way he thought belonged only to him, his world shattered. T.J. searched for something...

The Time Between by Bryna Hellmann-Gillson looks at several young Jewish women and how they responded to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. Hannah, like Anne Frank, spent her early years in Germany, but her family moved to the Netherlands after the...

The Return of the Flying Boat is a historical drama by Dale Morton. It's the late 1990s. The Russian government has ramped up attacks on shipping corridors all over the Arctic and Atlantic with covert, cutting-edge technology-equipped stealth submarines. Among them, the USS Buffalo is...

Qarsoon by David C. Jeffrey, Space Unbound book four, is set in the 23rd century. Book one sees Earth’s decline, and a failed Martian settlement threatens humanity. The discovery of a living planet becomes central to human continuity through Aiden Macallan’s direct linkage. In book...

“The fight didn't end when Harrison died. It started.” No, it isn't a fight that starts in The Shadow Gentleman, a novel by Robin Alden Howard; it's nothing less than a full-blown war. The story begins when Eli Mercer, a brooding individual, takes control of...