Lorie Emerson, like many others of this era, is traveling with her uncle on a wagon train headed west on the Oregon Trail. But after the unexpected death of her uncle, Lorie is asked by the wagon master to leave the group at the next...

Sugar Time by Joy V Smith is an interesting story of time travel that feels episodic in nature. It is broken into chapters that are short and detail separate purposeful trips in a time machine by Sugar, Japheth, and two Chessies named Mingus and Rell....

Have you ever piloted a spaceship, had a run-in with Interstellar Guards, visited the Museum on Nothing Beyond, or savored jellied garloss and rainbow omelet? Reading Taboo Tech by Joy V. Smith, I felt I was doing precisely that in the company of Lacie and...

Taboo Tech by Joy V. Smith is a space adventure which starts after Lacie's parents take off to explore and she stays behind with her uncle. Life with her uncle isn't so bad and she gets to tag along on his ship until the Interstellar...

Joy V. Smith's Well Met by Water is about a family of mermaid–human hybrids trying to live peacefully while protecting themselves from danger. The main character, Cathay, is a young woman who can breathe underwater, swim with dolphins, and move between land and sea. Her...

Velvet of Swords is a science fiction adventure by Joy V. Smith. Pressured to marry a man she doesn't love, Velvet, a young woman from the House of Swords, leaves her home and sets out into the unknown to embrace her destiny. Her quest leads...