You Were Always There by Stephen Russell Payne is a romance novel set in the time of the Vietnam War. A coming-of-age story of two young souls, Luke and Sarah crossed paths and nothing was ever the same for either of them. With his draft...

Because Jack Higgins wants to avoid being recruited to fight in the Vietnam War and the career-oriented job his father recommends he interview for, he accepts an invitation from a college friend, Bill Markus. Bill had offered for Jack to live with him in his...

The Anarchist's Wife is based on one of the gross miscarriages of justice in 20th-century America when anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were falsely accused of the murder of two men in a shoe factory in 1920. Written by Margo Laurie, this is a...

In The Reading by Barbara Monier, we meet Esme, an established writer in her early sixties. Her lover Gino has asked her to live with him but she is reluctant to disrupt her carefully constructed cocoon. She subsequently suffers from writer’s block. As she performs...

The Black Queen by Jumata Emil commences with a confrontation between Nova Albright and Tinsley McArthur over the homecoming queen campaign. Tinsley feels it is unfair because the school has introduced “quotas” and attempts to perpetuate white privilege by bribing Nova to withdraw. Ironically, it...

I’ll be honest here: I like thrillers but not every thriller, especially conspiracy thrillers, are easy to follow. So many are description-heavy when it comes to settings or they are overloaded with backstories on too many characters. The result? A plot that gets bogged down...

The Wallace House of Pain: A Novelette centers around Xander and his estranged father, Jim. S.M. Stevens uses this short story to introduce us to Xander and his uncomfortable dinners with his father and his second wife, Kathy. Xander and Jim don’t seem to see...

Jean Joannis’ family has lived for generations in an ancient, small country tucked away in the corner of western Europe. Jean Joannis, son of Jean-Bernard and Marie Lachane, became the immigrant of the family and the first to be known as Bastarache dit Le Basque....

Who’s Afraid of the Chair? is an intriguing and eye-opening crime novel by E.C. O’Reilly. Audrey McNally is a counselor with a dream. She wishes to supervise the construction and operation of accessible mental health clinics for the disabled. This proves difficult for her to...

Mind the Gap by Thomas Maurstad is a novel with plenty of drama and action that will keep you entertained for hours. Justin Mayhaps was not over the death of his wife and the constant dreams about her being just out of his reach were...