Essence by A.L Waddington is a YA paranormal romance unlike any other that I’ve read, and is a great start to a unique series with an interesting premise. When seventeen-year-old Jocelyn meets her new neighbor, Jackson, he’s an instant hit with her friends and family,...

Desert Dwellers Born By Fire is a young adult science fiction novel by author Sarah Bergstrom, and the first book in The Paintbrush Saga. The desert dwellers of the title are a young trio - Khalid, Lahcen and Qeriya - siblings cut off from the...

Nameless: The Darkness Comes (The Bone Angel Trilogy, Book One) by Mercedes M. Yardley centers on Luna Masterson, who has had the ability to see demons since she was a child. When her brother’s ex-wife, named Sparkles, who has herself tangled up with a demon,...

Violet was a 10-year-old poor girl in 17th century London when an enigmatic and alluring vampire named Ewan used his power to enthrall her parents and convince them to sell her to him. He raised her as his daughter. When Ewan betrayed her and replaced...

Nick Hudson is a former military man and retired police officer who just goes through the motions of living day by day in Baroota: The Hunting Ground by Zach Fortier. In this first book of the Director Series, Nick and his wife, JoAnn, meet her...

Raluza was once a fair kingdom where people didn’t see a difference in color and there wasn’t any class distinction. That was until King Lavier restructured it, separating people into four quarters and different classes. Michael and a group of soldiers plan to storm the...

In a great second book in the planned Hyde's Corner Trilogy, In the Name of Vengeance by author J.B. Bergstad will grab readers from the very start and keep them obsessively reading straight through until the end, determined to find out what happens. The story...

Plate Tectonics: The Engine Inside the Earth (In Depth Science Book 3) by Judith Hubbard is an educational and informative book for young readers that gives them in depth details about Earth and its movements. Plate tectonics cause volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and many other natural...

Patagonia: The Camino Home: A Camino of the Soul, Book 2 is a non-fiction travel memoir written by Katharine Elliott. The author first traveled the Camino Santiago de Compostela, which spoke so deeply to her that she knew that walking, writing and actively hearing the...

Birthrights is Book One of the Revisions to the Truth Series by J. Kyle McNeal and, as the title of the series suggests, the topic of truth plays an important role. The story is told from a variety of perspectives - you get to know...

Journey to Fire's Keep: The Return to the Temple by Grady L Owens is the first book in a spellbinding epic fantasy series with phenomenal settings and skyrocketing conflict. After a devastating fire that reduces their hometown to ashes, a young man, in the company...

A Gossamer Lens by M.R. Mathias is the tenth book in the spellbinding and epic fantasy series featuring Vanx Malic, a work of great depth and length in the arena of fantasy that can find a comfortable place alongside the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Readers...

Pawns is the first book and a stunning introduction to The Wielders of Arantha series by Patrick Hodges, a sci-fi set in the future, seven hundred years from now. A story that features aliens, an impossible mission, and a race against time to save...

Isabel is working as hard as she possibly can to keep the balance and train the Anakim for the battle that will come some day. What she doesn’t realize is that the day of the battle has come and the High Mother, The Oracle and...

Smarty Pants! is the first installment in The Tyler Files, written by Brian Rock and illustrated by Joshua Dawson. Tyler is a fifth-grader with a problem – his pants have started to talk! Never knowing when to be quiet, Tyler’s trousers suddenly hit on Tyler’s...

The Library of Illumination is in danger. Knowledge is power, and with each one having their own diversity there is a danger of one becoming supreme. Why should they not all be the same when uniformity would answer questions with one decisive stroke, and how...

Hollow Weenie is the second instalment of the hilarious children’s book series, The Tyler Files, written by Brian Rock and illustrated by Joshua Dawson. Worried about having a great act for the upcoming school talent show (thanks to his now-retired talking pants), Tyler wonders if...

With her mother lost at sea, and her father’s sudden death when she was only ten, Eleanora and her older brother, Ben, became prisoners of their evil step-mother, Cecilia, as well as the object of contempt to her step-brother and sister. Eleanora had a dream...

The Emperor is using all his power to prevent witches from exercising their talents and life is becoming much more dangerous for Elissa and the others who are trying to prevent the loss of magic in the world in Heart of Tyr by Susan Faw....

A garden can be a beautiful thing – full of life and color. It can also be a chore, a dirty one at that. For Adele, left along with her children and two other women, while her husband, Troy, goes to war, the garden in...