In Callisto 2.0 by Susan English, Callisto Collins is a 31-year-old physicist still looking for permanent employment. A mysterious figure named Diana offers her a place onboard Shambhala, a space-based lab orbiting the Moon. She joins the all-female crew who each specializes in a different...

Only Sofia-Elisabete by Robin Elizabeth Kobayashi keeps you guessing as to what Sofia will say or do next. She lived with her noble father for the first five years of her life in England. Living with her mother in Spain made Sofia miss her father's...

Out of Time is the second book in the Wrinkly Bits series by Gail Cushman, an enthralling romance with exceptionally written characters, a great plot, and enticing prose. Mainstream romances often feature characters who are young and in the bloom of youth or in mid-life...

Athena was the daughter of the renowned archeologist Hamish Duncan. She lived a sheltered life cocooned in the love and luxury that her parents gave her. As a Master’s degree holder following in her father’s footsteps, she went to every dig site and formal parties...

Two Hearts' Christmas Promise is a work of fiction in the romance genre and is the latest installment in the Two Hearts Wounded Warrior Romance series. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Tamara Ferguson. The book follows the...

Mr. R: A Rock and Roll Romance is a work of fiction in the romance category. It is aimed at older readers and was penned by Tracy Neis. The story is a retelling of the classic novel Jane Eyre but through the lens of the...

When We’re Thirty by Casey Dembowski is a story about the intricate yet unique love story of Hannah Abbott and her college best friend, Will Thorne, who made a marriage pact on graduation night. This love story transcends typical romantic chick-lit; it is still a...

The question of whether the horrors of the Holocaust are over for the next generation is a pressing and haunting theme in Ruth Rotkowitz’s Escaping the Whale. Set in 1980, Brooklyn, this is the story of 28-year-old Marcia Gold, a high school guidance counselor who...

Lady Cassandra had already lived through one scandal years earlier when her fiancé died in an accident on the way to their wedding. As the result of a pre-wedding night together, she had their baby daughter Penelope nine months later. In high society in England...

Imelda’s Secret by Liza Gino is a story of buried pain and suffering by the young women who were raped repeatedly by the Japanese invaders during WWII all over Asia. Euphemistically referred to as “comfort women”, these young Asian girls from China, Korea, the Philippines,...