If The Art of Love (& Loathing) by Stephen Daniel Ruiz were an academic treatise, it might be called: A Study in Cynicism. But it is not. Nor, as might be suggested by this inauspicious opening, is it gratuitously heavy-handed in its mordacity. Quite the...

Tsavo: Oddball Researchers Use Data and Guns to Save African Elephants by Daniel B. Botkin is an engaging story that highlights the plight of elephant conservation efforts amidst a backdrop of foreign intervention, danger, violence, local cultural norms, and scientific investigation. Told from numerous character...

Treasure Seekers by Roberta Seret is a gripping thriller that explores espionage, terrorism, and political intrigue at its best. The narrative is set in contemporary times. High-level politicians in Washington are involved in a clandestine money laundering scheme, and it goes right up to the...

The Crest is the first book in The Prophecy trilogy by Jerena Tobiasen. It was the year 1914 when it all began for Gerhard Lange. At the time, he was excited to fight for his country against France with his friend Otto Schmidt. However, they...

The Sound Between the Notes: A Novel by Barbara Linn Probst is a great story that had me turning the pages nonstop, a tale of passion, identity, and art. It has been almost sixteen years since Susannah Lewis stopped pursuing a career as a pianist,...

The Kiminee Dream is a work of fiction in the magical realism, family saga, and small-town drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Laura McHale Holland. Mixing the everyday humdrum life of a family beset by tragedy with the incredible magical events that happen in...

The Way to Remember is a work of fiction in the women’s fiction, interpersonal drama, and slice of life sub-genres, and was penned by Martha Reynolds. In this bold and emotive coming of age novel, we are introduced to life in America in the mid-1970s,...

William Freeman isn’t really a free man in C.S. Talbott’s The Appeal of Stalking. William (a.k.a. Billy) wants to foster a bond with his children. He is supportive of his daughter Faith and loves her son Trystan. Due to some of Faith’s indiscretions, her mother...

The Salty Rose: Alchemists, Witches & a Tapper in New Amsterdam by Beth M Caruso is a historical fiction novel that follows the lives of Marie du Trieux and John Tinker in the colonies. Marie narrates the novel in the first person and in a...

The Elegant Out by Elizabeth Bartasius follows thirty-six-year-old Elizabeth as she juggles between her obsession with having another child and finally writing a novel. Once upon a time, she had dreamed of becoming a writer, but now, when she could actually work toward that dream,...