The scene is set in Manhattan, New York, the city that never sleeps. Simone Herron seems to have her life all together, a job she loves with a successful real estate firm, and a loving fiancé who fits the title of her soul mate. When...

Southern Passage by Jim Yonker is set in the 1960s and opens with 18-year-old Buster, who has just graduated from a high school in St. Louis, seeking employment during the summer months as he needs the income to subsidise his college tuition, which starts in...

Old buddies, Lawton Gibbs and Roy LaHood, have much in common. Both have troubled relationships. Both have daughters ― in Roy's case a self-serving, manipulative, smart-mouthed teenager with a lead foot. Both, in the first chapters of the story, are released after long terms in...

I really enjoyed reading Someone Always Loved You by Brooke Williams. When Jay accidentally runs over Jordan with an ambulance on his first day of work, he is absolutely shattered. The story then goes on to tell how Jordan and Jay’s lives came to be...

Spirit Woman by Debra Shiveley Welch is a magnificent combination of fiction and reality. Nickie, tormented by her troubled childhood, shuts herself down to her surroundings. She does not share the details of her past with anyone. Her low self-esteem forces her to believe that...

Sacrifice is the second instalment of The Chronicles of Servitude by J.S. Bailey. With Graham Willard’s contract being so unceremoniously terminated by the evil Nate, Jack Willard takes the reins. Sitting in a bar, Jack notices a woman, Adrian Pollard, enter and sit down beside...

Shoe Fetish 2: Grown Into High Heels by Sharon Bennett and Beatrice Moore is the second installment in the highly intriguing Shoe Fetish series. Carmen Robertson, a dermatologist, is a widow living with her kids. She has also adopted Keon, the son of her murdered...

Adam MacDonnel is a social worker who tries his best to do good. He deals with a very troubled young boy, Dylan, who goes through several foster homes until he is eventually adopted aged five. He then leaves his position and life moves on. Ten...

Shattered Lies by S.J. Francis is the story of Kate Thayer, a simple girl who runs her family’s horse farm. She is content with her life. She is a veterinarian and she loves her grandmother who raised her. However, when a series of lies come...

Second Chances by Lincoln Cole is a story about journeys of self-discovery. It opens with a meeting held at a school in a white suburb that a judge has ruled must accept children bused in from a black neighbourhood. Lakeisha, a black widowed mother of...