In Taint by Janet Kelley, Rebecca is asked by her best friend Luke to keep a secret that she couldn’t even begin to comprehend. He confides in her that he had been raped by two boys at a party. This news immediately sends Rebecca reeling...

The central storyline in The Cup is the ice hockey game the children planned for New Year's Eve while their parents entertained their guests. The preparations started early that morning since they had to shovel a lot of snow from the street and sidewalks to...

The Marquis' Daughters: In the Shadow of the Guillotine tells the tale of two daughters of a noble family trying to survive the French Revolution with its thirst for the rolling heads of royals and nobles and its hoarding of bread. These sisters belonged to...

Tall-Ah Earth by Victoria Lehrer, the fourth book of the New Earth Chronicles, is a visionary epic of action, powerful spiritual awakening, and life in space. Tall-Ah Earth, a terraformed planet similar to Earth, houses many oids, humanoid beings with animal traits like apisoids, reptiloids,...

The Last Text You Sent by Elise Fender is a dramatic young adult romance that tells the story of one teenager's struggles to cope with the loss of her brother. Whit was the Nashville football star who held Avery's family together. When he unexpectedly passes...

The Aquamarine Surfboard by Kellye Abernathy deals with themes of love and loss, both personal and communal. Condi and her grandmother live in the beach town of Dipitous Cove. It's a surfer's paradise, and Condi has hopes of one day being able to surf with...

The Runaway (Barrett Boys Book 1) by Jordan Ford is a thoroughly entertaining and evocative YA romance novel. The author brings us well-drawn characters that come across so real that you feel like you know them. Michael and Annie are a couple that will capture...

Montgomery Hughes scored a negative on Dr. Sonja Woodward's genetic test conducted at their school. His friend Joseph, however, scored a positive and happens to be the perfect candidate for Woodward Academy. According to the test he is predisposed to bad behavior. After graduating from...

The Finest Lies by David J. Naiman follows two siblings who have reached an extreme turning point in their relationship. When a mysterious man appears on her television, fourteen-year-old Nicole is quick to accept his offer to exchange her brother for a new one. She...

The Buzz Boys, by Edward Izzi, is a touching and powerful coming-of-age novel about secrets, trauma, and friendship. The Buzz Boys centers around a group of friends who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. They could have called themselves the Z Boys because each...