The Third Order is a contemporary new adult thriller written by Wendy Sura Thomson. Living and working in New York City was a decidedly different experience for a young woman who had grown up in Fife, Scotland. When Maggie finished her degree in Finance, she...

On Common Ground is the first book in the Grounded Series by Jansen Schmidt, a romance with characters that are brilliantly developed, deeply human, and believable. Trevor Donaldson and Ketra Weston are two characters that are deeply wounded, and each is seeking a way to...

Malfunctioning automated vehicles keep a software engineer looking for answers to his sister's freak accident involving high-tech equipment in the entertaining sleuth mystery, Uncle and Ants (A Silicon Valley Mystery) by Marc Jedel. Marty Golden is a software engineer for an autonomous automobile company. His...

Opal of Light by Norma Hinkens is the first book in The Keeper Chronicles series. Orlla is a Keeper tasked with the knowledge of ancient runes and the Opal of Light which protects their island. Efyllsseum is a place hidden from the rest of the...

Till it Stops Beating by Hannah R. Goodman is the fourth book in a series. Maddie Hickman is 17 and is about to enter her senior year. An old flame turns up, a member of her family is diagnosed with cancer, and she’s hit...

Miss Rachel is going to teach the kids about pumpkins on Monday morning in the storybook Justin’s Pumpkin Patch Adventure by Tamika L. Prince. She takes out some pumpkin seeds and tells them how a farmer plants the seeds in the ground. Pumpkins need sun...

And My Father Was There by Noah McCaffrey is a fictional story that is built around a true baseball legend. The main character is a young man named Laird Young the third. He is the son of a former baseball player/former soldier from World War...

On a rainy New York winter’s day, while he was going home from work, Kevin Lamb thought he saw the same man he had encountered in the morning, dressed in an over-sized heavy coat. He wondered if this strange man was a mugger. Unnerved, he...

Shadows of Aizai by Mary-Jean Harris is the second book in The Soul Wanderers series. Wolfdon and Toulouse have learned of their destiny to help form the paradise Aizai and work alongside a group called the Magicians. The creation of paradise is threatened by the...

V.Q.E: The Tale of an Indian Physician in the United Kingdom of the 1980's by Vivek Gumaste is an interesting memoir that brilliantly documents the story of a young graduate fresh from medical school in Britain in the 1980’s. Twenty-six years old and an ambitious...

Thomas Wildus and the Book of Sorrows by J.M Bergen is a stunning fantasy novel about a twelve-year-old boy named Thomas. When Thomas was really young, his father told him that magic was real right before he left him. Thomas lived his life as an...

The Side Job by Don Lubov is a short, interesting and realistic story that follows a young mother on a daring journey to save her sickly daughter. Maggie Gomez gets pregnant at seventeen and, abandoned by her boyfriend, she is left alone with the child....

The Room Above by author Laura Hergane is a work of literary fiction. Although a shortish read, it has the kind of gravity to it that feels much longer. The words read off the page like poetic prose and throughout most of the book have...

Meet Pippin the cat in the story Pippin No Lickin' by Layne Ihde. Unlike other cats who liked to bathe, Pippin disliked preening and he would do anything else other than self-cleaning. His papa told him that things would get caught in his fur and...

The bad guys’ original plan in The Eighth Ransom by Given Hoffman was to kidnap seven children – each the daughter or son of an influential, rich, or particularly skilled person. However, Trent, a rebellious, moody, cocky teenage boy, got involved because his curiosity got...

Seven Ghostly Spins by Patricia Bossano is a collection of brushes with the supernatural. With their basis in truth and legend, these are your worst nightmares realized. A theater with a ghost; a moonlit walk that leads to a nightmare; the legend of Flo...

Destiny is difficult to accept, no matter how it presents itself. But when it crashes into Celeste’s life, her entire worldview is shattered. Born and raised in the Realm of Faery, magic and the deep appreciation of beauty have suffused everything she’s ever known. Now,...

Cradle Gift is the second book in the Faerie Legacy Series by Patricia Bossano, a fantasy with a strong appeal for young adult readers. When Maité is born, Nahia bestows on her a precious gift, an event she would not remember until fifteen years...

I just read the second book in the Faerie Legacy series and knew I would want to read more of Patricia Bossano’s books. Nahia: Faerie Legacy Series Book 3 is as transporting and as satisfying as the previous book in the series. Nahia of the...

In Edge of Perception by Steve Bellinger, raised in the West side of Chicago, to a poor colored family, Ronnie Lewis thought the American Dream was out of his reach. Although Ronnie loved science, his fascination for the paranormal was always present. Since childhood, Ronnie...