The Cow in the Doorway is a young adult/new adult coming of age novel written by Gino Bardi. Tony Vitelli was not all that sure he really wanted to go to Cornell University despite the excited urgings of his father. He’d feel a lot more...

Unchained Melody by Cynthia Roberts is the story of a successful woman who has it all; except the things she really desires. Pamela Landers has everything that one could desire. She has a successful career as a senior partner in a law firm, a great...

Riley Banks has finally gotten her big break and it comes thanks to her long-time crush and fashion designer extraordinaire Josh Braden. Fresh off the plane in the fashion capital, Riley is equal parts excited and nervous about flexing her design muscle for big city...

In Children of the Elementi (Elerian Chronicles Book 1) by Ceri Clark, the Magi had killed the heads of four of the five great Elementi families, including the High-King, Malo Omnax. Malo’s wife, Nuin, managed to escape. With the help of Ariel, the Air Queen,...

Lena Gibson’s The Edge of Life: Love and Survival in the Apocalypse features Kat and Ryan. Kat is a schoolteacher who lost her husband two years previously. Every weekend, she drank away her pain. Her best friend Nick suggested that she go hiking with him,...

Flight attendant Lauren Cooper is approached by a military officer, Major Chris Thomason, and three Ukrainian children at Frankfurt Airport. The major asks her to take the children to America and keep them safe while he recovers from life-threatening wounds. Lauren promises to protect the...

Messy Plans is the eleventh book in the Love Plans Series by Mona Risk. Dr. Matt Lopez has rigid rules about dating coworkers in his department. When he hires a nurse practitioner, Cathy Cooper, her credentials impress him, but her natural beauty is undeniable. He...

The Phantom Firefighter: First Responder is a middle-grade novel by J.W. Jarvis. Noah loves video games and spending time with his father. After eating out one night, Noah and his father stumble across a bookstore they hadn’t noticed previously. Noah selects a children’s book with...

The Phantom Enforcer is a young adult fantasy novel by J.W. Jarvis. The story follows the adventures of Dani and Noah, two teenagers who discover a magical bookstore run by a mysterious witch. In each adventure, the two are transported into the lives of everyday...

In We're No Saints, the thirteenth book in the Love Plans Series, Mona Risk dives into a moment in St. John between Stephanie Winston and Neil Cooper. Although Stephanie and Neil are instantly attracted to each other, Stephanie holds back because she lost her husband...

Delaware From Freeways to E-ways takes a deep dive into the history, culture, and contributions of the First State of the United States to modern American society and shows how it shaped the course of contemporary America's social, political, cultural, economic, and technological landscape. Author...

Cinderella: A Love Story by Gina LoBiondo is the retelling of the classic fairy tale with beautiful illustrations. Ella’s father Charles and her mother Marie loved her dearly, but that changed when Marie died suddenly. Ella was very young so Charles thought it was best...

We all remember those special stuffed animals we cherished as a child, especially the most loved of all: the teddy bear. I know mine was loved and hugged and dragged everywhere. My grandmother had to do multiple repairs over the years, as I grew up...

Immortal Magic: Forbidden Love is a work of paranormal romance fiction aimed at young adults, and was penned by author B. J. Fournier. Set in the complementary fields of both romantic vampire fantasy fiction and tales of witchcraft, this dark and seductive work keeps its...

"Godspeed" by Dan Chabot is many things in one book. There are intrigue, touching but modern romance, anguish, despair, hope and happiness, but above all originality. And it is not often that you come across a book which features funerals and obituaries so centrally. It...

Mercy: Tears of the Fallen by Chance Dillon reaches back to the world's founding, when the Artisans—children of the gods—shaped a beautiful and fruitful land. From across the sea came poisonous red storms bringing the Blight, a corruption that drove victims to madness and twisted...

The Ache of Healing: 105 Sonnets of Love and Contemplation by Christine Maalouf Abi Najm is a book of poems that is divided into four categories. The four categories are Roses and Prickles, Spirits and Souls, Places and Contemplation. She uses these to show different...

In Payback by Steve Bassett, in 1946, the right arm of a third victim is found in the Newark city dump. Lieutenant Nick Cisco and his partner Kevin McClosky discover all three victims were connected to an American-German Bund, with sympathies for the Nazi regime...

Exodai, a memoir by Elizabeth Hendrick, shows how everyone goes through a period of self-discovery, and Elizabeth is no different. Her attraction to other females was evident at a young age. Her daydreams about rescuing the damsel-in-distress turned to fantasies of bondage and torture after...

Genesis by Kipjo Ewers is the third entry in The First Series and the first I am reading from this author. It is an absorbing and surprising narrative, enriched by strong elements of science fiction and political intrigue, and driven by a phenomenal conflict that...