Bliss by J. Santiago is a contemporary romance novel surrounding the meaning of family and coping with loss. Lena “Maggie” Pryce has always been shaken by the death of her brother, Gabe, on the soccer field, as a result of a sudden cardiac episode. His...

J.R. Wirth’s In Passing is labelled fiction suspense and rightly so, but it could easily be tagged as paranormal or fantasy. Mary Elizabeth Stroll, in the first person sections of the story, is known as Lizzie, a fourteen-year-old, and in the third person parts as...

Lily Is... Wide Awake by Brandon Brand is a rhyming story for children. In the book, Lily cannot fall asleep because she keeps hearing and seeing things in the dark. Lily and her parents blame her overactive imagination and fear of the dark on reading...

Wow! Just, wow! That is what I thought as I finished reading the last words of author Michele Anstead's incredibly moving, difficult and heart-wrenching personal true story, Fear Is Not An Option. Bravely recounting Michele's real life experiences that start with her as a young...

He Was About To Betray His Oath is a military adventure drama by author Rodney Searcy. This short novel presents a complex mixture of crime intrigue and romantic drama, interspersed with elements of historical fiction. Our relatively contemporary (1980s) hero is Thomas Allen, currently working...

Stone Angels is a literary fiction thriller written by Michael Hartigan. They were seniors now, and it was their last spring break. The four friends were on their way back north to school in Rhode Island after a hedonistic week of sun-drenched days and drunken...

Sensual, emotionally charged, and well-sizzled up, Stockholm Diaries, Melanie by Rebecca Hunter is a spellbinding novel that features two compelling characters whose hearts are locked together by a spell. Biographer Melanie’s father left her when she was just four years old, an incident that has...

Obedience by V.G. Kilgore builds on the Old Testament story of Noah’s Ark. Each chapter begins with a sentence from the biblical story, and the chapters then unfold in the light of those words. Ham doubts his father Noah’s wisdom in building an ark, but...

"I am not my hair. I am not this skin. I am a soul that lives within." India Arie's words have never rung louder in my mind than when I was reading Crowning Glory: An Experiment in Self-Discovery Through Disguise by Stacy Harshman. Stacy's inner...

Foretold is a novel of intrigue and suspense by Melissa Abrehamsen. Lance Harper is a student at Mount Dora High School and the son of the town psychic. Unbeknownst to others, Lance also has the gift of foresight. Lucy Burns is a member of the...

The Five Moons is an army surplus ship captained by one Dallas Blake and manned by an unlikely band of men, women, children and androids who have become more of an extended family than a space-faring crew. In Convolute, the second book in the series,...

Will There Be Watermelons on Mars? is a short story written by Debbie Manber Kupfer. Susie wakes with a hangover beside her very noisy cat, Cici. Earth was supposed to come to an end but it hadn’t. It takes a while for it to sink...

It is 4th of July and Lexi Broadmoor and her brother Travis are riding on a Florida highway with their father in his Plymouth Duster when shattering glass and sparks of light bring their trip to a sudden stop. For no apparent reason, their father...

Otherplace is a fiction novel by J.C. Rock. Richard and Pam are two friends who are inseparable. Both are homeless and take care of each other on the streets. Four years ago, Richard’s wife, Sharon, had gone to use the restroom at a restaurant, but...

Whiskey Devils is a thriller novel written by Brandon Zenner. One afternoon, Powers actually did the thing he had been dreaming about for some time. He walked out of the boring office job he hated. When he went home to the spread of land he...

Eylene Miller wakes up on her eleventh birthday, never expecting the amazing adventure that is to come in Dreambreath by Kristyn Van Cleave. Not realizing that she had been living with an adopted mother for the past seven years, Eylene puts on her beautiful birthday...

I find that women writers do emotions and relationships better than men, while men are great at plot, action, and suspense. Lorraine Evanoff excels at all aspects of writing. In Foliage: An International Banking Spy Thriller, the characters are well rounded, the action is crisp...

Doug Richardson's Reaper: A Lucky Dey thriller is an explosive and action-packed look at the chaos that ensues when a dauntless police officer tries to get justice for a murder no one wants to care about. Now a training officer, Dey must juggle multiple new...

Five Moons: Entangled by Bill Parker is a science fiction novel that features the interesting character Dallas Blake, who has had his own share of pain and is now entrusted with a very delicate mission to save the Five Moons. Blake has learned to live...

Forgotten Letters by Kirk J Raeber is the story of Robert, who moved to Japan at the age of eight because his father was taking over the responsibility for a parish in Japan. Robert is soon fluent in Japanese and forms a strong friendship with...