“I glory in thy courage; I tremble with thy sorrow. Both are seeds. Plant them with me in soil that barters not with truth.” In Sergio Melicio de Bel’s The Gospel of Poetic Frolic, life is a mirage of pain and sorrow, shadow and light,...

The Doll House Brides: Soleil is a fantasy romance novella by S.M. Webb. Soleil and her sisters grew up in the Northern Nymph Lands, raised by their adopted father, Cherub, a wizard. Cherub arranged marriages for his daughters. One of them is Soleil, who married...

The Magic of Robola by Effie Kammenou is an emotionally-driven story of loss, love, and homecoming. New York event planner Eleni Pangalos left Kefalonia, Greece, thirteen years ago, severing every tie and promising herself never to return after she lost her parents and brother in...

In Bound By Love, Faith and Hope, the first volume in Maurius Muze's Two Hearts Within One Soul series, after Queen Gelsomina’s death, King Marici’O rules from Turin under the shadow of grief, moving through palace halls and gardens still shaped by her presence. On...

The Angel by Ellen Wood is a second-chance love story. The novel opens with an almost cinematic scene. Carlene Jae, a woman admired for her grace and poise, is publicly served divorce papers by her powerful husband, Joshua Sendis, at the Philharmonic in front of...

Angela E. Johnson’s The Duke I Despise starts with a moment that is accidental but fateful. At a stuffy Mayfair ball, a sudden blackout throws Miss Juliana Astley straight into the arms of Lucian Montrose, the Duke of Windsor. He is amused and is fascinated...

Sydney Hughes goes to Dickens, New England, to help her Aunt Irma recover from hip surgery. Sydney works as an insurance actuary and lives a very structured life, so she figures the trip to her aunt’s place will be calm and uneventful. However, that plan...

The Name and the Key by Kristina Elyse Butke is about Lily Bellamy, a teenage girl whose world slowly falls apart after her mother vanishes and is later found drowned in the marshlands near their home. Lily has grown up in the shadow of her...

J. Rose Black brings us sporty romance fiction in The Real Ones: Chasing Victory. It’s Valentine’s Day, and Maddox McBride is participating in the Charity Flag Football Game. The weather fits his mood: stormy and gray. The reason for his mood could only be Briella...

The In-Between: Living Through the Collapse of the Old Social Contract by E. Imboden is a book for today. It attempts to analyze why the world is in a state of chaos right now. The Old Order, as so many of us knew it, had...