“I’ve loaded plenty of guns in video games, but there you just have to walk over the bullets.” This quote from J. Scott Boyd’s young adult mystery/thriller, Black Forest, if properly attended to, will tell you everything you need to know about this perfectly tuned,...

On The Border by Betta Ferrendelli is the fifth book from the mystery series of reporter Samantha Church. When a sloppily-handwritten letter in Spanish arrives at the newspaper, addressed to her, she asks the recently hired bilingual reporter, Hunter John Hollingsworth, to translate it for...

Alex McKenna & The Geranium Deaths by Vicki-Ann Bush is a young adult paranormal story. Alex, a 17-year-old, shared his mom's ability to see the dead. Although his ability caused him grief with the bullies at his school, he learned to ignore the unnecessary noise....

The Ascender by Tracey L. Pacelli is a work of science fiction based on The Mandela Effect and other cool fantasy stuff from the future. This book will appeal to young readers who ponder the ‘what if’ questions related to science, technology, aliens, and more....

Hard as Stone by BB Morgan finds Raven Thane on the adventure of a lifetime when a thief gets away with a mysterious object and it becomes her mission to retrieve what was stolen. To hunt down the thief, she embarks on an adventure with...

Jessamay Hammel and the Black Dust by Nina Phillips is the first story in a magical series. Jessamay is ready to take the world by storm as a detective and to prove just what she’s truly capable of. Her newest case calls for her expertise...

M.D. Allen continues the tale of a group of teenagers who were transferred to the Inner Realm on their sixteenth birthday. The Door is the second book in the Matilda Seer series, adding more intensity and force to the first book, Matilda Seer. Ethan and...

An Object of Desire by Jenny Twist starts with two girls, Hannah and Rea, on holiday in Tangiers. They are enjoying themselves until they notice two menacing characters following them. Everywhere the girls go, there they are. Despite feeling fear behind their backs all the...

Awakening The Nightmares by Amy Louise Hill is a collection of two eerie stories, each divided into two parts. The first one revolves around a dark creature that observes from the woods. Will you find out who (or what) it is before is too late?...

Lightscape is the first installment of a trilogy for young adults by Emily K. Karlewicz. A young orphan girl, Selkie, with an extraordinary talent for drawing, meets Aidan and her world is never the same again. The two fall in love but there is a...