Mariposa Oracle: The Mirror by Trisha Barry is the sequel to Queen City Licensed Massage Therapist, and it is a spellbinding story that explores the world of alternative medicine. In the first book, the author describes, in a fascinating and humorous manner, Mariposa Oracle’s adventure...

For a debut novel, So Happy Together by Deborah K. Shepherd is a mesmerizing tale with memorable characters and a gripping plot, a tale with an immense appeal to fans of strong and multilayered female protagonists. Caro Tanner’s marriage lost its spark in 1987. The...

Violating the Calm is an action-packed drama novel written by R. W. Saunders. Kyle Chalmers, a fifteen-year-old, creates a BMX biking track on his neighborhood's hillside, naively naming it Kyle's Killer Kourse (KKK). The name understandably catches the attention of a black citizen named Lorenzo...

When the sexual orientation of an eminent poet becomes the subject in fiction, you can expect it to spark a discussion. In The Wasteland, authors Harper H. Jameson and W.A.W. Parker give you T.S. Eliot up close, and bring out a fresh side of his...

Ladybird Adrift by Alison Downs will romance the reader with unexpected love between Claudia "Ladybird" Johnson and Victor Raines. As an unskilled worker, Claudia finds a job at The Met after many months of searching. Winning a raffle at work, she finally gets to sit...

Stupid Real Estate: A Novel by Will Speary is an entertaining story filled with powerful lessons on real estate. It follows Bill Ehrlich, a novice investor, who finds a unique opportunity to make it big in the real estate business. He has been through a...

Katie, Bar the Door: A Novel by Ruth Hull Chatlien is a story filled with realism and humanity, following a young woman on her journey to find a foothold in a world that has mercilessly broken her. Yes, Katie is broken. She has suffered a...

Whereabouts is a coming-of-age story set in the rural south during the 70s. Seventeen-year-old Missy Belue's life turns upside down when her father dies of a massive heart attack, leading to her mother marrying the town mortician. Feeling emancipated in her humdrum life, Missy sees...

Flash Fiction Stories on Life and Death by Theodore Jerome Cohen is an anthology of brilliantly composed short and longish pieces for a contest. Each story is inspired by a captioned photograph. The author compares them to M&Ms or peanuts in that the reader won’t...

A found diary whose entries are turned into a whimsical story of love, dreams, and self-discovery -- that's what McKenzie Truscott's Love Rhymes is all about. Teenage Sarah Jane Stein writes as she pursues Michael Harrison, falls in love, and grows with him. It's an...