Into Ashes is the final chapter in the Phoenix Rising Trilogy by A.L. Wyss. After saving the world twice, Vivian Carmine, a girl with Phoenix powers, finds herself at a crossroads. She has to go up against RISE, the secret organization for mythical creatures that...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

In J.R. Lightfoot’s Drop: The Police Annals of Jax Book II, Fort Worth detective Jax Ferris returns to the city after leaving the police department to work with a federal task force investigating supernatural threats. His target is Debro, the leader of the Order of...

In J.S. Scheffel’s Kith and Kin: The Last Kitsune Book 3, Tai relocates from the Louisiana bayou to New Orleans under the supervision of Strigoi governor Benjamin Durand after a powerful artifact called the Key of Wealth becomes embedded in her tongue. The move puts...

Carve My Heart by Mara J. Ova is book one in The Carve Series. It is Olympic season, and PR Manager Katharina is managing the Austrian Men’s Ski Team. She accepts this role in hopes of building her career. But it is also a deliberate...

In Rae Knightly’s Doomstar, after surviving imprisonment aboard the battleship Grimstar during the Remnant assault on Enillon, Trinket emerges from the wreckage of war with far more than the memory of the Doomstar crash. A dying prisoner has entrusted her with living beads linked to...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

In Geo Rogers' Olumian Gamble, after the dwarven king condemns Maglen for loving the elf Teriel, he escapes into the Wildlands, knowing that capture will condemn him to years of forced labor. While surviving pursuit through unmapped territory, Maglen discovers that the conflict surrounding his...

In Alexandria Prescott’s Maelstrom of Innocence, book one of The Maelstrom Trilogy, on the night of 7 December 1941, Harper Miller attends an embassy reception in Tokyo with her father, Ambassador William Henry Miller, expecting only a diplomatic ceremony. By morning, news of Pearl Harbor...

Jack and Bubble by Colleen M. Bratley is part of The Giving Collection. One day, Jack sits on a bee. Bubble is feeling just a little bit flat and wishes Jack would look where he sat. Bubble is a bee like no other, and through...

Author Kirsten Pursell concludes The Scarlet's Harlots Trilogy with its third and final installment, Amber Unscripted. After a messy divorce from her billionaire husband, Amber is back home in Sullivan's Island, trying to start her life anew. She sees that all her friends from the...

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...

Everything had been under control while Arshes Megane, the hybrid daughter of Catriona Redfletching and Daelen StormTiger, was on her extended time trip into the past, until she witnessed her mother’s death. She is left devastated and distracted, a moment that allows the Guardians she...

Down to Earth is Book 2 of The Attuned series by Jessica Natalie Reino, but it can be read as a stand-alone as well. On the face of it, Sarah D’Antonio is a typical high school junior. But her home is the fictional New England...

Love Them Do by Ian Croskell is a daring, imaginative reimagining of Beatles lore wrapped in the trappings of religious satire and speculative fiction. Set in a post-apocalyptic future where a new global faith centers around the Four (John, Paul, George, and Ringo), the plot...

Through Ashes and War by R.M. Schultz is the third book in The Forged and The Fallen fantasy series. In book one, the Dragon Queen of Murgare seeks revenge for her murdered king, targeting Nevergrace. Cyran Orendain forms an alliance with the dragon Eidelmere,...

From time immemorial, a physical barrier has always separated the Hooni'i, a mostly peaceful race, from the Zauphrii to the north and the Rauthlin to the south. Ancient scrolls describe a rebellion supported by one faction and violently suppressed by the other, resulting in the...

Max and Charlie's Highland Adventure by Wendy Leighton-Porter is another gripping adventure in a middle-grade series that will appeal to readers of all ages. Max is being sent on another special mission by the Guardians of Time, but on this occasion, he is not alone....

When Althea “Thea” Woodruff, a hotshot attorney at Hartford Pharmaceuticals in Philadelphia, quits her job after secretly driving the whistleblowing on the company’s illegal activities, she moves back to Patton Springs, her hometown in Woodruff Mountain. However, her colleagues are left curious about the way...

Freckles the Bunny Series, Book # 3: Freckles Lends a Paw is written by Vickianne Caswell. This book is created as part of a series for children. The story offers a mix of emotions from its characters: happy, sad, scared, excited, and hopeful. Freckles the...