The setting of the novel Ticket by Charles Logan is the Las Vegas Strip and it revolves around the lives of a drifter, a stripper, an affluent widow, and a petty drug dealer. Narrated through these different and alternating points of view, Logan ushers his...

Goin' Through the Motions: Last Renderin's from a Quester and Rounder by Moony McNelly is the story of John Shields, a war veteran whose memories of conflict and his childhood continue to haunt him. His father played a huge role in shaping his future and...

Someone’s Kid by Patti Carpenter opens with Jesse in the throes of an overdose. The description is as real as it gets. Patti knows what she is talking about. I would be surprised if the first few pages do not grab you. From the opening...

In Global Vice: A COMSEC Thriller by Andrew Rafkin, Ben Alexander is a highly trained security operative who owns the security firm COMSEC with his best friend Nickolas Zelenko, who is intelligent and knows a lot about computers. He has created an advanced Artificial Intelligence,...

As kids, people always tell us to dream big but, growing up, some of us leave our childish dreams behind by bursting those bubbles. Not Harry Dunkoff, Sam Wade’s main character in Dunkoff. Harry Dunkoff is a 90s kid with dreams of making it big...

Saltwater and Driftwood by Anna J. Walner is a historical fiction drama that follows a young girl and her family's ordeal during one of the worst natural disasters on US soil, The Great Galveston Hurricane of 1900. While rummaging through her grandmother Clara's stuff after...

A mother who religiously sticks to her stringent personal morning routine. A jogger running away from herself. Three fresh graduates meet an untimely fate. A girl has an accident after taking a dare to impress her crush. These are some of the fascinating scenarios in...

The Light in the Labyrinth: The Last Days of Anne Boleyn by Wendy J. Dunn starts with Kate, who is unhappy with her life and angry because her brother, Henry is at Court. She has to stay with her mother and stepfather and her two...

Call My Name by Jenni Ogden is an impressive and complex novel, especially concerning friendship, motherhood, and grief. It follows Olivia Newman, an orphaned girl who is raised by her mother's best friend, Cathie Tulloch, and her husband. Now aged 22 and a newly graduated...

Finding Grace: A Novel by Maren Cooper is an emotional story of a broken family. Charles “Charlie” Booker grew up in foster homes, and when he met Caroline Tate in college, he felt he finally had a home. Before they knew it, the couple fell...