After an absence of 15 years, Dane Carlisle decides it is time to go home and mend fences with his brother, Jonah, in Eclipse Lake by Mae Clair. Jonah had basically raised Dane, who ended up becoming the small Pennsylvania town’s bad boy. Some time...

Meaningful Omissions by Anne McNeely is a romance novel. I loved it. I loved it because it didn't read like I expected a romance novel to read. There were no exaggerated cliché characters. Romance didn't dominate the narrative. Life dominated the narrative. The life of...

The Boyfriend Whisperer by Linda Budzinski is a delightful new take on the teen romance novel. Instead of simple boy-meets-girl, we have a situation where high school basketball star Lexi Malloy is secretly helping every girl out there, except herself, to find the boyfriend of...

Proving Ground is a fast-paced thrill ride from start to finish! In Caitlin Malone, Stanalei Fletcher has created a heroine we can all root for; a young woman determined to step out of the shadow of her illustrious father and forge her own path as...

It's always a gamble reading a book with a First Nations protagonist; it always seems to be a 50/50 bet whether the book will be well-written and researched, treating First Nations history and culture with respect, or whether it will be horribly culturally appropriative and...

In The Fireproof Girl, the first in a new series by Loretta Lost, Sophie Shields is a woman with a past. Growing up in foster care, she has had to change her identity several times due to unfortunate circumstances. The one constant in her life?...

Clinch (Low Blow Book 1) by Charity Parkerson tells the tale of Gunnar, a professional boxer, and his upstairs neighbor, Liam. Gunnar doesn't recognize Liam from his past, and Liam isn't keen on cluing him in. A run of bad (or good) luck one rainy...

In The Dragon’s Staircase, former FBI agent Alexa Kyndall is called in to consult on an old case that still gives her nightmares. She’d convinced herself that she’d killed the vampire doctor Julian Frederick, but a new string of brutal murders shows just the opposite....

Home By Christmas by Rory Church is a compelling tale of intrigue as only he can deliver. Special Agent Morgan Raush is leading a joint military mission into Taliban held territory. Russian spy Dmitry Rurik is cool and calculated in his determination to deliver the...

Hold Me Again written by Rory Church is a fast-paced thriller that immediately takes the reader crashing into the Black Hills local hospital and into the emergency department where Tracy Aspen works. From the moment that young local lad, Steven Kincaid, is brought in for...