“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...

Mind of Moore: The Chadwick Legacy by C. M. Willowcraft follows Ziva Moore, a teen girl just trying to survive high school while hiding the fact that she can read minds and shatter glass with her thoughts. When a disturbing flash of the future makes...

When Catalina Kennedy and her brother Robby are sent to Ireland to train to be Masters of Blades, they expect to be back home in Peru in a short while. Fifteen years later, and still not called back home, the pair is curious about why...

A Song I Used to Know by Genalea Barker is the story of Stevie Rae Parker, a 21-year-old college student trying to piece her life together after her uncle and guardian, Gene, dies. Having lost her parents in a car crash at the tender age...

To H1-B or Not To Be by Hitesh Dev is a timely and powerful book. Amit Khanna is a young Indian student who pursues his dreams and ambitions, like many others of his generation, through higher education in the U.S. The foreign student experience, the...

Sweet Ridge Hearts by Susan Bagby is a story of human frailty, prejudice, heartbreak, strength found within, determination, hope, and love. It is a romance between two souls that need to make peace with what life has thrown at them and to forgive not only...

After six years of college, Princess Liliana “Lily” Rubyserpent returns home to her clan of hybrids. Awaiting her are a string of parties, including one for a huge family reunion and her twenty-fifth birthday. But that’s not all. She also learns that her childhood friends,...

In The Birds of Prey by River Davis, Cimarron “Caracara” Miramonte leads a Phoenix motorcycle club bound by blood oath and shapeshifting lineage when her mother, Cassandra “Kestrel” Miramonte, is murdered in a ritual desert ambush. As rival leaders Saachi “Scorpiana” Banerjee and Fayola “Fanuel”...

Colm O'Connor's Ballyloo's Finest: A Tale of Chaos and Charm is a delightful, eccentric journey into the fictional Irish village of Ballyloo, where chaos reigns. The story centers on Guard Ollie Berry, a well-meaning but often hapless officer tasked with maintaining order in a town...