Salt & Honey by Candi Miller is a well-researched historical novel set in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s. I knew very little about this piece of history, and it is exactly as sad as I thought it would be. The story follows Koba,...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...

Royal Replacement by Holly Kerr is book 6 in the Love in Laandia series, where the reader sees what happens to the characters Abigail Locke, Prince Bo, and Hettie, along with Tema, their daughter, who married in the previous book. Abigail is asked to be...

Lights & Sirens by Elizabeth Raum is a heartwarming tale about Annika “Anni” Sawyer, a quiet sixteen-year-old still dealing with her dad’s death. After seeing a poster in a store window for volunteers, Anni decides to join her town’s ambulance squad. At first, Anni wants...

Of Diamonds and Vengeance: The Chronicles of Adamah, Book 1 by Rachel Fallon is a highly entertaining fantasy story. In the realm of Gemaria, there is nothing more important than the gems from which the Elves draw their power. Jacinth, a lowly street rat and...

Phase by James K. West is an impressive novella for young adults. We are transported to the office of a Washington D.C. law firm and meet twenty-five-year-old Alison Riley, a conscientious, high-performing legal secretary who values her job and the living comforts it provides. Alison...

In Midnight Reverie by Hermione Lee, Cyndi Osmond wakes up from a dream of a royal wedding to the nightmare of her real life as a housemaid. In this version of the Cinderella story, there was no magic to get her to the ball, so...

Endymion and the Fae: A Tale of Liamec by J. Steven Lamperti follows a young shepherd named Endymion. He is living a quiet life in the mountain village of Woolford. But that changes one day, when he notices that his simple midday meal is mysteriously...

In Crown of Thorns, Mimi Deipz took me on a journey through the Moonshroud and Ember Courts, both of which are in a heap of magical trouble because of the weakening of their only source of power, the Wellspring. The story follows Princess Elara and...

Son of Osivirius by Cathryn deVries tells the fascinating story of a new world torn between two human factions living on the recently colonized planet, Osivirius: The Colony, ruled by Commander Tun, and the rebels, a smaller group of agrarian-minded people who have hidden themselves...