Detective Paige Whiskey, who comes from a long line of witches, is in the middle of investigating sacrificial murders in Louisiana. The question is, did the murderer know what he was doing? Paige is confused, especially with a mandala on the wall that is supposed...

Rainbow Gardens by James Malone follows a Japanese-American immigrant named Harry Shikita during the turmoil-filled times surrounding the WWII era. As an immigrant, Harry faces numerous challenges such as fitting in, enduring racial discrimination, as well as attempting to make his business ‘Rainbow Gardens’ (a...

You Don’t Have To Die to Meet God by Rick Anderson is a poignant story about the life of the author and his spiritual journey. In his younger years, Rick was more conscious of his environment and those that he interacted with, especially if they...

Making It is a collection of interconnected romantic verse written by Amanda Gibbs. It starts with yet another guy trying to pick up a woman at a bar and her infinite sense of weariness with the whole thing. She's not at all prepared for his...

Heartless: A Shieldmaiden’s Voice provides a thrilling prequel to S.R. Karfelt’s Kahtar: Warrior of the Ages, introducing us to Carole Blank, an orphaned, violent misfit in the USA’s foster system. Carole’s earliest memories are of other people like her: people who can hear thoughts, people...

Not In God's Name: Making Sense of Religious Conflict by Paula Fouce begins with a vivid description of the pandemonium, the aftermath of the killing of Mrs Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India, in 1984. Paula Fouce happened to witness many horrific incidents, of Sikhs...

Life is poetry and poetry is life. "More than words upon a page/ Images/ That Last..." These are powerful words that express all that life is, from the simplest activity of coloring with your son, to the battlefield where knights of old fight for both...

Evening Wolves by Luke Taylor is an intense political crime thriller. Detective Mike Erland is called to a mysterious murder scene at Fircrest Mansion, where the previous evening a Libertarian Party fundraiser was held. The only victim, a stunningly beautiful young woman, is found with...

That Birds Would Sing is a novel of recollected adolescence by Joanna Franklin Bell. After reading a shocking obituary in her local newspaper, the once-mousy and watchful April Jones dissects her freshman year of high school, unpicking the pieces to make sense of the harrowing...

Lindsey Paley wrote a romantic suspense in Ugly Paradise. In fact, to look at the cover it really says, "Beneath beauty, evil lurks...Ugly Paradise." Therefore, I anticipated a love story with the typical trials and tribulations most romance novels give you, but Paley laid...

The Secret of Blackjack Woods by Ashlen Brown started with a bang. Right away, you know what the stakes are in the story. There is a creature in the woods, a yeti or a werewolf or some kind of crazy, creepy unnamed monster looking in...

MissionSRX: Confessions of the First War (Mission: SRX Book 1) by Matthew D. White takes readers to the near future, where human exploration of the galaxy resulted in the first contact with an alien life form; the more advanced and intelligent Aquillians. However, their peaceful...

Sera and Angie were best friends in their teenage years. They connected on the hardships of coming from broken homes in Naples, Italy, and they shared a special bond that would prove unshakable in later years to come. When injustice lands Sera in prison, they...

As a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, what could be more fun than putting the much beloved fiction races in space; elves, dwarves, orcs, a djinn, and of course, humans. The captain of Elation-Cru, Variel Tuffman, is a hardy and street smart female human who...

Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Those words are the best I can do to describe Child Witch Kinshasa, the first volume in a series by author Mike Ormsby. Follow the story of Dudu, a young Congolese boy, who is accused of being a child witch, one imbued...

Saved by the Dragon by Vivienne Savage is about Chloe Ellis. She recently broke up with her narcissistic boyfriend and she wants to get away from him and everything. When she said goodbye to her roommate Marcy to go hiking and rock climbing, she had...

As a reader who simply loves mysteries, almost nothing makes me more excited than finding a promising new series in the genre. Add in a strong female protagonist, and, well you’ve just done me one better. So I was extremely excited to find Heart Break...

Oliver and Jumpy, Stories 10-12 (Oliver and Jumpy, the Cat series) by Werner Stejskal is an adventure series for kids where they can join Oliver, the elegant tomcat, Jumpy the kangaroo, and their other animal friends in these three short stories. The adventures entitled 'Kite...

Flawed Happiness by debut author Cori Tadrus is a glowing example of what a book from a new author should be. Fun and funny and with a fresh voice and point of view, the story follows Athena Wallace. Athena, a thirty-year-old reporter, who has always...

Beyond Silent Cadence: As the Baffling Beat Goes On is a contemporary fiction novel written by Leisley M. Lantram. Christa's collegiate dreams of being an elementary school teacher were put on hold by life. She met her future husband in a class they both attended,...