Sometimes, when I read a book, something about the words on the page, the story, or just the feelings that the story evokes in my heart make me realize that a part of the book will always be a part of me. So is the...

Blowing Sandstorm by Horace Crenshaw Jr. is an account of the author’s military unit, and its deployment in support of Operation Iraq Freedom (OIF). After a delightful narration of the entry of Horace Crenshaw Jr. into this world, a rather panoramic description about his growth...

Mount Rainier had stood like a towering dormant sentinel, watching over the Puget Sound area for millennia. Then, on a clear September morning, something deep inside the heart of the sleeping volcano shifted. For the Brock family, and the millions of residents who lived in...

Love, Lies & Consequences by Natasha D. Frazier is a story filled with love, lies and romance that will keep readers glued to the pages. Raegan is happy with the life she is leading until she meets Rico. Though she does not believe in sex...

The Mystic High Adventures of Fannie Flame & Crew by Claudia Hagen introduces ballooning as a ‘form of flight where the destination is irrelevant and the journey is everything.’ How the author developed an instant liking of this costly game, what difficulties she had to...

Year of Jubilee by Peggy Trotter is a story that grabbed me from the beginning pages and wouldn't let go! We first meet Jubilee Stallings on her eighteenth birthday, and it isn't a happy celebration at all. Instead I found my heart aching for this...

Where Death Speaks is a horror novel written by Ronnie Stich. Richard Ravestone has been fascinated by the occult from the moment he first peered into the occult and parapsychology section of the public library as a young boy. He still gets that forbidden thrill...

Years of Autistic Creativity by Joseph D. Smith is a unique book of "lyrics" written for the reader to peruse and enjoy at leisure. It is a whimsical book about love and how best to express that love or understand that one is in love....

Other than needle-pricked fingers and scissor cuts, it's hard to imagine the fine art of sewing as being a dangerous occupation. Then again, millions of young people continue to slave away in sweatshops all over the world; so a story like the one about an...

Finding out that your best friend apparently committed suicide by jumping from the roof of the university you both go to is not the way to start a Monday, least of all for Alexandra Neve, who has the feeling that her friend Irina Anderson did...

Great. A great book. A great mystery. A great series. That’s the best I can do to describe Ruby Heart: The Neve and Egan Cases Book 2 by author Cristelle Comby. It follows the story of private investigator Alexandra Neve and her business partner, the...

Ilia Rose spent two centuries hunting Sol, the one who’s responsible for turning her and her friends into vampires. When Ilia receive the news that Sol is returning to her hometown and that his men have been seen prowling around, she and her friends swear...

Collection: A Daisy Hunter Story by Marianne Sciucco may be a short story, but it is one that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. In fact you will want to reread the story again just to make sure that you did...

John Patrick Kennedy’s The Descended series continues with Book 2, Scorn of Angels. Nyx, Queen of Hell, lies broken and continually tormented in a box at the bottom of the Lake of Fire, put there by her lover, Tribunal, the Son of God. Nyx’s daughter...

Weresisters by Jade Clark and Shelley Stoehr is an action-packed young adult paranormal read. The book is divided into two sections following two different characters: Kyra and Selene. The first half follows Kyra, a 16-year-old girl who cannot recall anything from her life before the...

I loved the premise of Balancing Act (The Santa Monica Trilogy Book 3) by Jill Blake. When reading a romance, you definitely want a hot and heavy love interest from the very first pages, and an old rivalry (of two attractive people who are obviously...

The Sweetheart Deal is a lovely romance novel which portrays the relationship between Ellen Hamilton and John Adair. Ellen and John were romantically involved years ago; however, they broke up. She thought that he was only after her money as she was a principal shareholder...

Bogeyman 101: A Guide to Bogeymen Around the World is a children's collection of fables written by Karen Hokanson Miller. The author is a former teacher who decided to write stories and her audience, comprised of kids, suggested monsters as the best thing to write...

In Contact Us: A Jake Corby sci-fi thriller by Al Macy, two alien craft approach Earth. One hovers ominously near the orbit of Jupiter while the other descends boldly into the atmosphere and commences to encircle the planet from pole to pole. Within days, seventy...

A Kiss Before Strangling by Douglas Sandler is a psychological thriller about a killer who wants revenge against the cops whom he thinks killed his fiancee, but all is not what it seems. The story was creepy in a good way. I liked how there...