The Beast Within by Liz Cowan is a wonderful rendition of Beauty and the Beast. This is a second such novel that I have read and this one is by far the more modern and approachable story line. It is more believable and enjoyable because...

The Keeper: A Poignant Story of Love and Redemption by Kay Chandler is described as a contemporary romance and rightly so; a tale of love and redemption with a powerful emotional conflict and characters that are real and appealing. Mandy Gafford doesn’t enjoy her life....

The Paper Shepherd is the first book in the Grace Everlasting series by Olivia Landis - a powerful meld of Christian romance and coming of age with a great exploration of the emotional and personal development of the characters. Max and Tiar meet in very...

From page one, the reader discovers this is not a typical romantic novel. Annealing is not a common word in the English language, and the author includes the definition: to heat and cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle; to...

The Tribulations of August Barton is a new adult coming of age book written by Jennifer LeBlanc. Augie was a somewhat geeky and introverted creature of habit, who, at the lofty age of eighteen, was convinced that he would absolutely hate his college experience. As...

Then & Now by Karen A. Leppert is the first book in the author's Then & Now series, which follows the young, intelligent Sarah Matthews and her wayward classmate, Seth Mathis. After an encounter in the Mathis home that almost literally left Sarah with egg...

Heart of Crystal: Trust Me, Book One is a new adult contemporary fiction novel written by Obelia Akanke. Crystal still wore her hair long in front to hide the scars left by her controlling and sadistic ex-boyfriend, Derrick. It had been some time since that...

Told mostly through the form of a journal, The Chimera of Prague: Gap Year 1998, Part I by Rick Pryll is the first in a series that follows the life of a Joey, a young man living in Prague, Czech Republic. After his divorce from...

The Internship of Pippa Darling: The Summer Abroad Series, Book 1 is my first Gemma McKay novel and most definitely not my last one! The fact that this takes place in Ireland was enough to hook me alone. But, once I sat down and opened...

Tangled Like Music: More Than a Love Story by Patricia Steele is a romance that takes the reader on a journey and makes them realize that this is more than just a romance. This is, at times, a reflection of human psychology and sometimes it...