Sixteen-year-old Ben Howard is smart as a whip and a swim champ to boot and would make any parent proud. However, all is not as it seems in the Howard household. Ben’s father is an abusive drunk and, one fateful night, life as Ben knows...

Past Sin by Hilary Murray is an exciting story of love and bravery, and one man’s struggle to come to grips with his past. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous period in distant 12th century Ireland, this novel narrates a gripping tale of a...

Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams - The Age of Obama and Beyond by Julius Bailey is a gorgeously written, exceedingly intelligent, impeccably nuanced polemic against the current state of race relations in America. Dr. Bailey includes a bibliographical reference list by chapter that securely establishes...

Seer of Souls (The Spirit Shield Saga, Book One) by Susan Faw opens with Mordecai the wizard saving the souls of two infants from the poison that killed their mother, Princess Gwendolyn. They are born again and live as twins, Cayden and Avery Tiernan, in...

The Road To London by Adriano Bulla is the story of a troubled soul trapped in a life he could not wait to escape, but somehow just could not. From very young at grade school, all through the teenage years and beyond, the narrator struggled...

Mysteries Beyond the Grave by Amy Louise Hill is a collection of two short stories that will keep you on the edge of your seat with excitement. They are suspenseful, exciting, and scary. The first story in the book — Letters — is about someone...

Under My Skin by Zoe Markham is the story of Chloe, who once used to be a teenager just like all others. But then she died and her father, a scientist, turned her into some sort of zombie. Chloe is alive and dead at the...

Wynter's life takes an extreme turn in Ultraxenopia, which is book one in the Project W.A.R. series by M.A. Phipps. At the age of 21, all people have to take a test whose outcome will determine what the person's role in society will be. Wynter,...

The wilderness of Alaska is the setting for the third mystery novel in the Detective Quaid Mysteries, Murder & Obsession by Yolanda Renée. An Anchorage detective, Steven Quaid, renovates his wilderness cabin into a honeymoon retreat, preparing to bring his new bride, Sarah, there for...

Finding Maslow by Susan Lee Walberg is an interesting novel about Justina Gonzalez, an avid student, and her budding romance with Daniel. The story begins with Justina so fully absorbed in her studies that she does not realize that Hurricane Sandy is approaching her area...

Deadly Engagement by Lucinda Brant is the first book of the Alec Halsey Mystery series. Set in the 1700s, Alec Halsey returns to London only to find that his brother is engaged to the woman he loves, and a dear friend is dead under mysterious...

Tilly’s Top Secret Trapdoor by Maureen Bartone is a children’s story. Tilly is not the happiest child in the world and, whenever she can, she hides away from the world under her bed. Here, she can imagine that she is the most popular child in...

It’s not unusual for me to cry at the end of a movie. But it’s totally unlike me to cry at the end of a book. How did Glenn Starkey move me so much with his historical fiction novel, Black Sun? Was it the series...

Lana is a writer and she wants to work undisturbed on her new novel. The only problem is that Lana is suffering from a bad case of writer’s block. She can’t think of what to write. A knock on the door interrupts Lana’s inability to...

In author Cary Allen Stone's latest installment in his Jake Roberts series, After the Kill, readers will again be treated to a stellar thriller that will keep them engaged from the very first page all the way through until the end. When the story begins,...

Broken Shadows (Shadow Stories Book 2) is a collection of twelve short stories of varying lengths. The author, Radhika Mukherjee, recommends reading each with a break in between to allow time for assimilation of the meaning; they have a central thread - isolation and discovery...

In The Blackberry Patch by Gina McKnight, picking wild blackberries is a very rewarding experience but the process is not all fun and games. That is why, before heading into the forest for the berries, one needs to wear protective gear and get all slathered...

Otherplace is a fiction novel by J.C. Rock. Richard and Pam are two friends who are inseparable. Both are homeless and take care of each other on the streets. Four years ago, Richard’s wife, Sharon, had gone to use the restroom at a restaurant, but...

Suzy Has a Secret by S. Jackson with A. Raymond is a children's story about educating them on self awareness and inappropriate behavior. The story is simple and easy to read to children. It's important to allow children the opportunity to learn what should and...

In a novel of truly epic standards, The Crystal Crux: Betrayal, Volume One by author Allen M. Werner is a story that readers will not soon forget. Follow the story of Pero de Alava, a man dealing with paranoia and hallucinations to such a degree...