Jon Hersey works as a successful business analyst for Paul Tyler, whom he met through his wife Alissa, in Paul’s company, Biz Planners LLC. He is content and they are happy until the worst thing happens: Alissa suddenly dies from cancer. Jon has never felt...

"The Palace of Twelve Pillars" ominously unravels with a threatening letter being sent to Queen Lilia by King Waldron. The setting of this fantasy novel is Crato, a country located in the planet of Ramajadin. The House of Irinaeus is ruled by King Theodric and...

“The Last Keeper’s Daughter” by Rebecca Trogner is a genre breaker that seeps into fantasy, humor, romance, adventure, and epic thriller. Lily has always been unique and suffered from severe social disorders at best without medical explanation. The frail young woman receives more than a...

The life of a cardiac surgeon is, not surprisingly, full of challenges, drama, heartache and, on occasion, miracles. "The Spirit of the Heart" by Ismael N. Nuno M.D. takes the reader through a lifelong journey filled with all those elements, told in a close-up, very...

"The Summer Everything Changed" by Holly Chamberlin takes the reader to a summer resort in the coast of Maine. There, recently divorced mother Louise and her sixteen year old daughter Isobel struggle to make ends meet and at the same time, strive to fit into...

Let's go to the beach! Bosley is a bear in a cave with his purple hat (with holes cut out to allow for his furry ears) and with his red knapsack (which has lots of room for toys). Bosley and the reader learn new things...

"A Tale of Spirit: Yours, Mine and Lessons from the Universe" by Doris Mae Honer consists of a collection of anecdotes and life stories. The narrative (which covers a wide terrain including, among other things, an encounter with spirit children, the meaning of omens, and...

Carson Phillips lives in a small town where the people do not understand or appreciate his brilliance or one-of-a-kind personality. The most important person in his life, his grandma, suffers from Alzheimer disease and no longer remembers who he is. Despite that, he still sees...

"Reel to Real" is an excellent collection of contemporary poetry. It highlights the kind of poetry that is the favorite of all poetry publishers. The abstract images leave the reader to interpret every poem his/her own way. The collection is divided into two sections, but...

"Freeway Close" by Susan Calhoun is a gritty, realistic and well-developed book relating the literal 'birth' of a serial killer in Los Angeles. "Freeway Close" revolves around three main characters - the killer, Cathy Buchanan, a housewife struggling to hold her marriage together, and Lorraine...

"Heavy Bags of Soul" paints a rather dour picture of the modern world. In this engaging collection of poems and prosody is chronicled the trials and pitfalls of an oppressive world that is as absurd as it is tiring. Yet despite this dim outlook on...

Coconut Secret Exposed is the work of Charles Chou who learned about the healing powers of coconut oil from a Taiwanese healer referred to as the Master. There are many anecdotes about the success her patients had with the treatment from ailments ranging from a...

Pushing Through the Darkness: From Montserrat to Montserrat by Linette Arthurton Bruno tells the story of a young married couple, Clementine and Christophe, as they honeymoon in the Caribbean islands. The young couple revels in the history of events in both Montserrat and Martinique as...

Imagine a world where you woke up every day unable to recognize where you were, who you were with, or even your own face in the mirror. This is the terror facing Christine in S.J. Watson’s “Before I Go to Sleep: A Novel.” Christine’s mind...

"Gideon's Chariot" opens with the mysterious death in Langston, California, of Homicide Captain Brad Logan's brother-in-law, Jerry, who meets an unexplained and gruesome death. This is followed by the disappearance of Marshal Gordan, who reported having confronted an alien. The plot thickens when...

“Journey to Inner Light” is a collection of short stories by various authors coming from different parts of the world, with completely different backgrounds. All these authors, however, have something in common and that is the courage to face the challenges that life has to...

In "Breakdown at Clear River," senior Cullen Brewer seems to be the golden boy at Clear River College in West Virginia. He is the starting quarterback in the football team and also student body president. But, things begin to go wrong in the team when...

I very much enjoyed reading "The Iranian Scorpion" by William Peace. The story line was suspenseful and fast moving, with seamless plot lines that kept me guessing. Robert, a US government DEA agent, was stationed in Afghanistan to get a handle on and find a...

“A Pius Man” by Declan Finn revolves around Giovanni Figlia and his task to protect the new African pope who stirs up controversy for wanting to make Pius XII - otherwise known as the Hitler pope - a saint. Making things worse, a body falls...

“Sunderwynde Revisited” by Joel D. Bresler is a convoluted tale about a family of four living in a house that was built on ground cursed hundreds of years earlier by an angered medicine man. The curse was a bit obscure; it was either supposed to...