Perhaps you know a girl like Nicki Valentine. She might be a classmate. Or your best friend’s daughter. Or even your daughter. She’s one of those girls whose language and appearance offend most adults, and about whom classmates gossip and teachers despair. But as is...

Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series: Reunited by Karen Wiesner is book 5 in this paranormal series. Twyla Kotter is in an abusive marriage, and her husband Dominic is cruel, bordering on the insane. When he dies, she feels released and can start her life over. Erie...

Return to Bloodmoon Manor by Karen Wiesner is book 4 of the Bloodmoon Cove Spirits Series. Hannah has married Daniel and they have a baby on the way, not long after Hannah barely escaped from Bloodmoon Manor with her life. Suddenly a letter arrives from...

In Bad Soul by Bussell and Stott, Erin Banks, an assassin and private investigator with arcane tattoos, is suddenly released from a Brighton jail after six months of a three-year sentence. A demon known as the Long Man wants Erin to hunt down a man...

Dr. Elena Vargas is the director of an archaeological field school in Arizona where she supervises students excavating sites on the Taylor Ranch. While working to put in a new irrigation system on the ranch, Norm Taylor uncovers human bones which require the project be...

Boston Metaphysical Society: A Storm of Secrets is a work of steampunk fiction by author Madeleine Holly-Rosing, and is the prequel to the graphic novel collection, Boston Metaphysical Society: The Complete Series. Set in an alternate American history, as many steampunk tales are, Holly-Rosing takes...

Michael Elliot is an investigative journalist working on an article about the abuse of opioids. He has made appointments to meet some officials in Canada's capital city, Ottawa. Because his meetings coincided with Ottawa's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary celebration, Michael had made reservations at...

A woman found murdered in the local cemetery shocks a small Montana town in the suspenseful murder mystery, Bitter End (A Bitter Roots Mystery) by CJ Carmichael. Justin Pittman, a lawyer in the small town of Lost Trail, is preparing for a stem-cell transplant. In...

Bright Moon Ridge: A Search in China by Linus Treefoot is a beautiful romance mixed with adventure, a tale of interracial love with an international setting in Santa Cruz, California and China. In 1978, Bartooth was beaten and left for death by thugs in China....

It takes a really good writer to keep this reviewer interested in a 400-plus page novel. The fact that Borrowed Memories by J.R. Torbic is a psychological thriller helps. But sometimes those have such shallow characterization that as much as they keep you flipping pages...