I am a product of the American educational system. I teach English in China. Classes are huge and personal attention is only given to students who provide the teacher with a little something extra at the beginning of the month. The message and lessons found...

Energy Makeover: A Conscious Way to Stay Young, Have Fun and Get More Done! by Betsy Muller is a very uplifting and motivational book which describes how to transform your energy levels to enhance your living. The book has all the tools to attract positive...

The Beadmaker is generally a fast paced novel cataloging the effect of incest in Georgie’s life. Georgie, or Georgina, returns to the UK after many years. She is reunited with her dysfunctional family when she attends her grandfather’s funeral. According to Ms. Hemingway, she is...

In Jessica Hemingway's Consumed, something is eating away at the residents of a town crippled with drought in New Zealand. Its victims die an agonising death at an alarming speed. Detective Ashley North is the only one assigned to the case. Her tenacity is required...

Living in a small town can have its ups and downs. For Mary, everyone knowing her and her father, who seems to be much too old to actually be her father, is one of the downs. Mary would rather live where she can fade into...

Deadly Provocation: A Year of Domestic Surveillance by T.F. Coleman is about Jake Conley, a private investigator who shot a gunman as he opened fire in a cinema. He is offered a high paying job in a private security firm, with the benefits of a...

Holiday Hopes is a collection of short stories all centered around the same theme - Christmas. Meet Stephanie who must make the decision whether to follow her fiance to London or stay and look after her elderly grandmother. Or Sierra who doesn't want her mother...

Sinister is a fascinating suspense novel written by three authors - Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush and Rosalind Noonan. Jackson and Bush are sisters and their like minds are apparent in the fluid nature of the plot which is written in three sections by the three...

Uncle Aaron's cow pasture is experiencing more attention than it ever had before, but the news is not good. It seems that a man was found murdered and buried in a shallow grave in the pasture. And it is no secret that Uncle Aaron and...

Christmas in Lucky Harbor by Jill Shalvis features three half-sisters who have returned to Lucky Harbor following the death of their mother Phoebe. Tara is nicknamed the "Steel Magnolia" because of her no-nonsense approach to life. Maddie is the "Mouse" as she has generally been...

In Dandy Day by Annie Wood, Dandy is a 35-year-old waitress who, in her grandpa’s words, “thinks too much, talks too much, [and] wonders too much.” Even with all that over-thinking, she can’t seem to figure out why none of her past relationships have worked...

Zack and his dad, Jim, were good friends. They had always been close, but after the passing of Zack's mom and Jim's wife Deann, they grew even closer. It was a bond that got them through the tough times. This weekend they were going caving...

Street Crimes: Tales of Mystery by H.L. LeRoy is a collection of four short stories that will make you smile, make you uncomfortable, and at times scare the daylights out of you. Mistake-proof is about a petty criminal, Howard Dellicott, who has run up a...

Daisy works at a bar on the high street and things are usually pretty normal. Then a few weeks ago, a gorgeous man walked through the doors and ordered a coffee and then a vodka cocktail. The next night he does the same thing, as...

Abandoned China Dolls by Maria Miller is a story that will tug at the heartstrings of any mother, or father. Brent and Ashley have a good marriage and both have jobs they enjoy, although they are unable to complete their family with a child. Brent...

Saving Emma by Maria Miller tells a story of a teenage partnership that leads to a lifelong commitment. Luke and Emma were pushed together as teenagers by bullies at the school they both attended and dared to attend the Prom together. That dance marked the...

Keeping Score by Jamie Deise tells the story of single mum Shannon Stevens whose son wants to try out for the local baseball team. She thinks it will be a good way to spend some time with her son Sam over the holidays but does...

The Sentinel by Holly Martin is a very exciting read. It is a relatively short story at only 149 pages, but it is packed with adventure and action at every turn of the page. Eve, the heroine of the story, got the shock of her...

Order Restored: The Impaler Legacy #3 by Ioana Visan is about the end of the war between some elder vampires creating a new breed of vampire and humans and vampires that don't want the new breeds around because they are vicious killers without a conscience...

Dependence by author Sue Noye Clark is set in London in the 1970s. It is the story of Anna and Fitz, their love and progress as a young couple, and their struggle with the boy’s drug addiction. At first, Anna’s understanding of this world is...