TJ, a smart high school student with the potential to go to college but lacking motivation, wants to be a singer like his idol R Kelly. Looking at his life in The Boy Scout: A Novella by D. Bryant Simmons, nothing in his environment indicates...

Intense dreams leave Gary Foreman with terrible headaches and vague feelings that he should remember something. Gary has spent the past ten years living in California after relocation in the witness protection program, but hearing an old song triggers an increasingly persistent headache. The Ghost...

Ralph Pincus, Occultist Extraordinaire by Marcus Lambert is a fantastical tale about a group of evangelical sorcerers on a crusade to cleanse humanity of evil zombies. Ralph is recruited to the foul mouthed and perverse ring of hunters that includes a vampire, a pastor, and...

In His Frozen Heart (Brewers Brothers Book 1) by Nancy Straight, Candy and Libby are two young women who have been friends for a very long time, sharing all of their secrets and dreams with each other. When Candy’s parents move away, Libby is thrilled...

High Cotton Country by Leta McCurry is an intriguing and endearing contemporary fiction read. A line from the book summary states: “Secrets. Hidden they can destroy from within. Revealed they can explode her world.” The story revolves around a woman named Cazzie Randle, who seeks...

The Blue Garou is a police procedural mystery written by H. Max Hiller. Cooter Holland is a police officer assigned to the Louisiana State Highway Patrol, but on an informal loan arrangement with the New Orleans Police Department. While he was born and raised in...

Never Again...No More II: Getting Back to Me by Untamed is the second book in a trilogy detailing the lives of LaMeka, Trinity, Clarice and Lucinda. LaMeka is stuck with her violent husband Tony and wants out; Lucinda is suffering from abuse at the...

Family Tree: The Novel by Andrea N. Carr is a deep and meaningful story about family, getting second chances, and finding your way out of tragedy. Angel makes one mistake that lands her in jail. From behind bars, she is forced to watch and listen...

This Nearly Was Mine by Nancy Farkas relates the life of Annie, a social worker who goes to Spain in 1980 after a broken engagement. She meets Francisco, a handsome local musician, and the two have a brief relationship. Annie returns to the United States,...

American Blues may be the saddest book I’ve ever read. It’s also damned poetic. The overwhelming sense of stark, but understandable, tragedy in Evan Guilford-Blake’s short stories produce real emotion in a way that even most books written to encompass a certain emotional state rarely...