It is early spring, 2017. Three twenty-two-year-old seniors at MIT—Charlie, Jack, and Nik—are due to graduate in a few months. Charlie wants to build something that makes a difference and believes it is the right time to act. Lately, he has been following digital finance...

Jessa White's Liked introduces Jersey Mau, a clever yet depressed seventeen-year-old Beverly Hills teen who has never felt chosen. It is a story about mental illness and internet fame. Jersey’s mother abandons the family for a new life in China. Sherman, her father, runs the...

In Disposable, Susan McAdam introduces Lilah Black, a twenty-four-year-old scholarship student who arrives at Augustine College with the baggage of a brutal childhood. She is raised by a Bible-thumping grandmother and a bitter mother who give more value to her late brother, whom they consider...

In Sedona by J.F. McCarney, the two main characters are Randall Jenkins III, known as Colt, and Meredith Slayton. Colt used to be a bronc rider, but after a riding accident, he started working with abused and feral horses. Meredith is the breadwinner in her...

Sometimes the hardest battles are the ones no one else can see. Gr8_Nate by Christina R Adams opens as Nate is about to graduate high school. Instead of being excited, he's overwhelmed by anxiety, self-doubt, and a deep sense of isolation. To make matters worse,...

Jeff Beamish’s Sneaker Wave centers on Brady Joseph, a Deception Pass teenager whose life has been affected by his father’s death from the bridge above the strait. At seventeen, Brady is drawn into Sarah Roberts’s wealthy circle, even as his closest friends, Sam Sullivan and...

Yesterday's Shadows by David R. Beshears shares six stories that he wrote when he first started on the path to becoming an author and journalist. Each story is complete in its own right and leaves the reader wondering what a full-length book would bring. Most...

Royal Replacement by Holly Kerr is book 6 in the Love in Laandia series, where the reader sees what happens to the characters Abigail Locke, Prince Bo, and Hettie, along with Tema, their daughter, who married in the previous book. Abigail is asked to be...

“Over generations, the original idealism has been perverted and evolved into what we have now.” Idealism and lofty goals often become twisted, and Dystopian Paradise, a novella by Marvin Cook, is a perfect example of utopianism corrupted. The story begins simply enough, with 12-year-old Pilar...

Kira McCloud sells herself as a brilliant and successful decluttering guru with her “sunshine test” in Jenny Hogan's How to Clean Your Life with Sunshine, but her personal life and spaces are far from organized. On her plate are an unfinished book deal, a threatening...