What makes you decide on your next read? Is it the book’s description? Do you follow favorite authors or preferred genres? For me, the final decision to select a book rests on what I read in that opening chapter. If it hooks me within the...

Blackout Trail by Linda Naughton is a dystopian novel set in the future where the world as we know it is lost. Doctor Anna Hastings was used to treating people in the thick of disaster and chaos, but nothing could have prepared her for what...

Set in Mondak, Montana, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Invitation To A Hanging is a suspense drama novel by Karin Rathert. All Adam wants is to be free of his mundane life working for the town thug Jake and go some place where...

Linda Viljoen’s The Wager: His to Love is the first installment in the When a Bet Goes Wrong series and features Daniel Beckett. Daniel is the managing director of the most reputable cybersecurity company in the world. His painful childhood taught him that relationships only...

Alessa Kelly introduces Cassidy Winter and Sam Kelleher in Her Unbreakable Protector. Cassidy is a divorced 27-year-old bar manager. She met Sam, an ex-Navy Seal, and has since started an unofficial relationship. Sam works with his partner, Mark Connor, for Red Mark. Together, the two...

Chasing Liberty by Isabella is an engaging novel where the main characters identify as LGBTQ. Liberty “Libby” Chase, an uncompromising cop, witnesses a car accident and goes to the aid of the victim, Morgan Pierce, an attractive and successful corporate lawyer. Further investigation reveals that...

Day 305 by Nicole Thomas starts with Paul cutting his arm on a broken glass. His wife, Brenda, fixed the wound with a towel while they rushed home from the beach where the accident had happened. They were visibly stressed and in fear. But when...

The year is 1863, and Britain is at loggerheads with France over the construction of the Suez Canal. Yet someone is infuriating the English further by selling their naval secrets to the French. All efforts to uncover the identity of this person proved abortive -...

The Secret of Matterdale Hall by Marianne Ratcliffe is a slow-burn gothic historical novel set in a secluded Yorkshire boarding school. After having grown up in relative comfort, Susan Mottram finds herself thrust into poverty upon her father's death. With her mother and sister to...

Smokescreen is a work of fiction in the spy thriller, international drama, and suspense subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Khaled Talib. In this sensational and thrillingly intricate work, we find ourselves embroiled in a...