Tessa is a lovely young woman working for one of the top hoteliers in the world, head-quartered in San Francisco. She is quite shy and more than a bit naïve and tries very hard to hide her crush on her sexy boss, Ian. In Splendor:...

Out of the Past is the latest in Renée Pawlish’s comic mystery series featuring Denver Private Eye, Reed Ferguson. In this tale, Reed is strong-armed – both physically and metaphorically – into baby-sitting the spoiled, brattish daughter of local businessman, Forrest McMahon. Reed’s charge, Stephanie...

The Emerald Quest, book #1 in The Noah Winter Adventure Series by Renee Pawlish, is a preteen and young adult adventure story that centers around a thirteen-year-old boy named Noah, along with his parents Frank and Riley, and their assistant and friend of the family,...

South on Pacific Coast Highway is a hard-boiled detective mystery written by Gary Paul Corcoran. Michael Devlin is an independent private investigator who seems to be handling mostly domestic squabbles and not getting paid very well, if at all, for his efforts. All that changes...

Just Going by Jianna Higgins is Lily's story. Lily is a 15-year-old girl from a privileged background who gets caught shoplifting cheap underwear. The judge sees through her tough demeanour and awards her 50 hours community service in Sorrento Retirement Home. Not looking forward to...

Jock Travers has an enormous challenge ahead of him as he dreams of becoming a top jockey in a tough world. Stephen Halstead tells how Jock overcomes the many difficulties in his life in Everywhere Spirit. Having grown up in a home where the abuse...

Charmed by the Werewolf by Sandra Sookoo is captivating from the first few lines. The words and pages are filled with magic. This story is more than just magical creatures and the paranormal. A surreal energy seems to seep into your soul simply by reading...

The Sea-Stone Sword is a YA fantasy novel by Joel Cornah that begins when our intrepid hero is thirteen and ends by the time he's sixteen. It starts off just as Rob Sardan is sent away from his adopted homeland, banished for daring to stick up...

It’s time for Queen Vernita to take another long visit and this time she is visiting Gator Country. While there, Queen Vernita takes readers on an adventurous journey through the plantations of the South, learning how the slaves lived. She gets to hold a baby...

Down Ballantyne Road (Alice and Porkbelly) by Jane McBride is a ghost investigation story with a touch of humor. Alice Gregg took over the running of the diner when her husband died, but she has no real purpose or direction in life anymore. It’s just...

Cat's Got His Tongue by Jane McBride takes readers on an emotional journey from the beginning pages. Everything in Kyle and Ann's life changes in a split second when something happens at the mall that puts their daughter in jeopardy. Instead of the event drawing...

Fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally loves to read mysteries and longs to solve a mystery just like Carolyn Keene, the main character in her favorite mystery series. While she hangs out at the police station in Alamo, Texas, hoping for a crime to solve, nothing ever happens;...

Crimes of a Guilty Land by Brooke Stewart follows two families - the Harts and Beauchamps - through the years of the 19th century. We first start with them in 1825 with Robert Hart. Years down the line, just before the Civil War breaks out,...

I thought The Dragon’s Egg (Relics of Mysticus Book 3) by H.B. Bolton was an astounding book that readers of all ages will be able to enjoy over and over. I should mention that I have not read the first two books but found that...

Malled: A Tale of Revenge by Lee Tidball focuses on Hector Chevas, a young street punk with a talent for architectural design who saves a young girl from being raped by a gang. Janey falls in love with him, a love which doesn't fade over...

When the average person considers matters of philosophy or the psychology of the mind...probably one of the last things you think about is Hiphop. However, rapper and author GaKnew Roxwel challenges those norms with his new book, Under the Influence: Where Hiphop Meets Psychology. A...

Most people know the famous tale of the Earp Brothers and the gunfight in Tombstone. Most have also heard of their friend Doc Holliday, the rough and tough gambler and ladies’ man, known to be deadly with his pistols. But what if there was more...

How Do I Keep My Employees Motivated? The Practice of Empathy-Based Management by George Langelett, PhD is a brilliant play-by-play book for business managers. Organized into five easily digested chapters, the in-depth book also comes with a summary of the overarching concept, daily worksheets and...

Scrooge and Marley by Karl F. Hollenbach is a follow-up story to Charles Dickens' novel, A Christmas Carol. The book builds on the story of Ebenezer Scrooge who had made amends for his mean-spirited ways after an encounter with the ghost of his dead business...

In Rejection Sucks: 40 Days To Making It Suck Less, Dr. Jennifer Johnson addresses the issues of rejection, co-dependency, bitterness, self-deprecation and more, while offering answers and hope. Dr. Johnson draws examples from her own life, as well as from fictional, historical and Biblical figures....