A Maiden of Snakes is a young adult fantasy novel by Jane McGarry. Marchioness Adeleta Lamberico of Monferrato has spent the last three years trying to conceive a child but to no avail. Feeling desperate, she enlists the help of the village witch Imelda, which...

War is brewing and all is not well on the Great Continent. Two young people, from the far reaches of the continent, must find each other and find their own true meaning of life. In the process, they must follow blind faith and a prophet,...

Artima's Travels - Part II: Ella is the second novel in the All about Artima's Travels series by E. A. Dustin. The story follows the 17-year-old Ella, an old soul very much like her mother Arty Ressols. Growing up with her mother by her side...

In A Twist of Fae by El Holly, we discover that Evelyn, known as Eevee to her friends, is adopted. She recently learned that she’s not even fully human. She’s part Fae. She knows who her birth parents are, but she hasn’t met them –...

When I reflect on the style of the young adult novel Any Joe by Maura Lin, I envision a delicious dinner being prepared in a slow cooker. Why? Because special foods need time for all the rich flavors to fully blend and be enjoyed. So...

A Tear and a Smile by Nwanganga Shields is the story of Clint, a novice lawyer, who falls in love with Cecelia, a recent English major graduate. This is the story of young adult millennials living in the city, who fall in love and have...

A Sister’s Promise is a work of fiction in the historical drama subgenre. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Evelyn Zivalic. Set during the interwar years between the First and Second World Wars, we follow the...

A Buss from Lafayette by Dorothea Jensen is a historical fiction tale set over the course of a week in the early 19th century, as narrated by a fourteen-year-old girl named Clara Hargraves. She lives in a small town in New Hampshire with her father,...

A Hunter Rises by Sean Clarke is the first book in the Jacob Crestmore trilogy. Jacob has been on his own since he was a child when he managed to escape from an abusive foster home and had to learn how to survive on the...

Airy Nothing by Clarissa Pattern is a coming-of-age drama novel set in the Elizabethan era. Wearing his sister's dress, John flees from his home in the countryside, seeking a better life in the magical city of London. But he soon discovers that London isn't exactly...