My Abigail by David Kummer is an intriguing and sometimes confusing story. Abigail has a secret and everyone but Caleb seems to know what it is. After Caleb learns the secret, he wishes that he'd never found out the truth. I had mixed feelings about...

Scout's Honor: A Novel by Dori Ann Dupré is the story of Scout Webb, who we literally see grow in front of our eyes. When the novel starts, Scout is 14 years old. A tomboy to boot, she really likes to play basketball and has...

Trials and Tribulations by Liv Kalay Hernandez is a 24-page collection of poetry and is a diary in verse about anger, rage, disappointment, and hard times as demonstrated by such poems as Walking Through Hell, Bleed, and Snake Eyes. But then a few poems of...

Wrinkles by Mian Mohsin Zia is a story of a deeper kind of love, one that stands the test of time. Here the message is about the love that makes a family. Xavier, a young man, has a great love for his mother and God....

Ian Chapman is a magazine reporter who has a problem standing up for himself. He shoulders the workload for many of his colleagues just to avoid the confrontation of saying no. When his longtime girlfriend, Alicia, tells him that they’re going to get married, he...

In Liberty and Means, Shannon Clark is introduced as a fairly straightforward, no-nonsense kind of gal who knows who she is, where she's going, and how to attain her goals and dreams. Author Kristin Dow takes a character who enjoys predictability and control and throws...

Christine Keleny’s Intrigue in Istanbul, An Agnes Kelly Mystery Adventure is the American version of Alan Bradley’s Flavia de Luce. It begins with the early death of Agnes’ father while he is away on a business trip. Agnes is puzzled by something her Uncle Bob...

In Silent Voices by Deborah Ryan Stone, Riley had finally put her life back together after it was nearly destroyed by the disaster of her cancelled wedding. But now Daniel was back and demanding to see her. Daniel - the ex-fiancé who had walked out...

Ranger and Keys by Danielle A. Vann is the story of Ranger, the Great Pyrenees, whom Miss Keys, the Skunk, meets on Miss Darlene Doppler Darcy's unique farm. Miss Keys' momma has been around humans for a while and knows how to do a few...

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...

Blood Passage by Malcolm Pierce taught me a lesson: don't judge a book by its cover. Let me clarify that. I have never been drawn to fiction based on military experience, soldiers, murder and mayhem on the high seas. But Blood Passage gripped me in...

In Early Birds, a very sweet and lovely story by debut author Janetta Fudge-Messmer, readers will be treated to a fun and funny romp with a group of engaging retirees as they traverse the countryside, with God and Willie Nelson along for the ride. Betsy...

Erotic Integrity: How to be True to Yourself Sexually by Claudia Six, PhD, is more than a non-fiction book about relationships or sex. It is about finding out who you are as a person and being authentic to that person, regardless of what society, religion,...

Stealing Atlanta by Cary Allen Stone is quite an adventure. The plot conceived by Brandon Wood was to rob the Federal Reserve Bank in Atlanta, hide the crime, take the proceeds, buy an island and establish their own nation called Freeland. Not just anyone could...

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...

Everlasting is a YA paranormal novel written by L.K. Kuhl. Seventeen-year-old Sophia Bandell makes her way to Charleston to spend her high school vacation with best friend, Mandy Stuart. Socially awkward around men, Sophia is shocked to find that Mandy owns her own home and...

Swarm Theory by award winning author E.W. Sullivan is a crime fiction, a thriller that reads like a breeze and whose captivating language will immediately seduce readers. Thelonious Zones hasn’t come to terms yet with the murder of his mother, a crime for which his...

The four “buddies” featured in Edward A. Dreyfus’ novel entitled Buddies first met as ten-year-old schoolboys who swore an oath of friendship and secrecy. Over two decades later, all currently living in Manhattan, they hold a reunion of their secret “club”, where they decide to...

Set against the traditional environment of a Southern California town, a place where it is just normal to peep over the neighbor’s fence, Gag Rule by Edward A Dreyfus is a touching tale of a woman’s struggle to save her husband’s name and ultimately the...

In an excellent new work by debut author, November Ellison, Beacon: Book One of the Jo Benally Series is a story that will grab readers from the very beginning and keep them reading obsessively all the way through to the very end! Following the story...