Emis Rindar is an experienced diplomat from the Dras Rindar clan. He arrives at Dras Sayve, another clan on Knyadrea, the moon of the planet Axis. Emis hopes to choose a student among the juvenile Dras Sayve's knyads, as he is a skilled tutor and...

Immerse yourself in an eclectic collection of poems with Roderick Makim's The Jungle Waits. The book opens with the thought-provoking poem 'Close is the Jungle,' an allegory showing how human civilization is just a step away from delving into chaos. 'Remains' is a moving reminder...

Darla Nagel's The Sisterhood of Motherhood follows a young woman's experience with surrogacy. In her early thirties, Bethany Harding has a promising career in publishing. She has her life back on track after recovering from a traumatic brain injury caused by an accident seven years...

Tarnished Dreams is an anthology of sixteen short and interconnected stories by Anthony Pond. In a French hospital, as he recovers from war wounds in 1945, David Jordan thinks about his dream boat that he hopes to build with his brother, Frank. Once David is...

Two Hearts’ Rendezvous (Two Hearts Wounded Warrior Romance Book 20) by Tamara Ferguson is her latest iteration of this wonderfully sweet and romantic series. Zane, Lex, and little six-year-old Caleb have been on the run since they escaped from the sex traffickers who kidnapped them...

The First Day is the first story in The First Ever After Series by Keelan Powell. The city of Perth is isolated from the rest of the world by what appears to be a scientific anomaly. Twelve-year-old Enivwenaye is on a plane with her parents...

Short fiction is not hard to come by, but impactful short fiction is. Danila Botha's Things That Cause Inappropriate Happiness is a collection of slice-of-life stories around themes of diversity, wonder, and femininity. My favorite story is Don't Look Back. It follows a young artist...

In the year 79 AD, a family was celebrating a union when Mount Vesuvius erupted, resulting in the deaths of thousands of people. However, some members of the family survived and went on to thrive in the distant future, with the help of ancestors like Grandmother Angelina,...

Can a truly good person commit an act of unforgivable evil? Do humans always use their best reasoning skills? Do people always do things that are in their best interest? Bahr Burr considers these questions in Tranquility Bight. Tranquility Bight is one of the many...

The Ill-Fitting Skin by Shannon Robinson is a collection of twelve short stories featuring women navigating extraordinary situations. A mother struggles to control the wild tendencies of her son, a lycanthrope, only to realize they have much in common. A woman gains notoriety when she...