A woman playing a big part in a pirate story! What a refreshing and delightful twist. In the position of leadership, Honorata, our heroine, survives to become a queen and then finds her lost love. The Queen of the Caribbean begins with The Black Corsair...

Swashbuckling, yes! I am going to use the word 'swashbuckling.' The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari and Nico Lorenzutti is nonstop action right from the first scene. The Black Corsair is all about vengeance. The Lord of Ventimiglia, otherwise known as the Black Corsair, is...

Brett Cotter's 3 Keys To Managing PTSD: The Warrior’s Guide to Overcoming Combat Trauma begins with a spirited answer to the question, what is PTSD, and identifies it as the brain’s way of venting trauma. Exploring the manner in which it manifests, the core complexities...

Picking up a few months after the conclusion of Evening Wolves, Luke Taylor’s Shatterpoint Alpha follows the story of Henry Morell. In post-crisis Crescent City, Morell is seeking a change of scenery from Homeland Security. Offered a position at the prestigious Tidebender International, a private...

Gingerbread by Victor A. Davis is a cross between the stories Hansel and Gretel and Peter Rabbit. This story is based on a dream that Davis had. Eddie, the town misfit, dares his friend Arainy, the good girl, to sneak into the candy factory. Despite...

There's very little that I love more, in terms of reading material, than a great work of historical fiction. That being said, I also have been getting just a bit burned out by some of the books I've read in the genre lately. So many...

In Everybody Has a Story... These Are Ours... Audrey N Lewis offers seven stories of varying lengths on the theme of nobody’s life is perfect, all but one told by a female at some stage of her life. The Closet centres on a young married...

When You Are Happy, I Am Happy! The Power of Compassion by Jaicy Ramsay tells a tale of Taro Mori. Taro is a well respected Sensei who teaches young people the art of compassion. He believes that changing your heart from being a selfish person...

Releasing Me: A Novel by Melissa Payne is a memoir about her life. It is also the story about how Payne learned how to start healing after suffering from sexual abuse as a child. This is a work of fiction but is based on actual...

For Our Good was a fantastic read — everything any reader of Christian contemporary fiction or Christian suspense would enjoy. Paula Mowery’s writing is really a notch above her peers. She keeps all the relationships, romance and adventure of the police/crime genre while adding a...

Fiona’s Knight of Dreams by Sharon McGregor is set in the small town of Timber, shortly after the Second World War. Fiona lives at home with her mom, dad, and her grandmother while her brother, Bertie, who was injured in the fighting, is still away,...

Sarah and a Midnight Cruise to Catalina is written by Gay N. Lewis. This Christian based fiction book is a well-written story about two angels sent down to Earth on a voyage by way of a cruise to Catalina Island, focusing on the same target...

Patriot's Pride by Penelope Marzec is the story of Margaret and Derrick. Each has a different view on God, how to treat various wounds and illnesses, and they are from very different backgrounds, but when things go wrong they find they can count on each...

Anna Stewart and her younger brother, Edward, are forced to leave their home in Columbia, South Carolina, after it is burned to the ground near the end of the Civil War in The Rancher Takes a Cook by Misty M. Beller. Living for a time...

Gold Nuggets by Lynn Lovegreen is a wonderful tour through the Alaskan wilderness in 1916 and probably much of it is still like that today. Through the eyes of viewpoint characters Charlotte Cooper and Henry Reeves, readers are introduced to an interesting collection of backwoods...

A Firefly Life by Linda Shew Wolf is a novel set in the late 1960s that follows a girl named Melanie as she navigates the waters on her journey from twelve to thirteen. This age is a difficult time for nearly every child, and Melanie...

Roped by DiAne N. Gates tells the story of Crissy Crosby, who lives in Terrel, Texas, where football and rodeo are everything, winning makes you a hero, and losing makes you a zero. Crissy has to deal with school, keeping up her grades and still...

The Year of Our Invasion by Margaret Pearce is an interesting science fiction story that starts with an invasion of Raven's village. The evil unleashed onto the village by the Black Duke only grows as his powers do. Raven is a herbalist and is...

Apocalypse The Memoir by Chantelle Oliver is a memoir about the events of 1987 when the author raced across America to search for her father. The author is a self proclaimed 90-pound loser who made her way to Las Vegas and tells this story in...

Dusk Runner (Book One in the Dark Arrow trilogy) by Mathias G.B. Colwell is an epic fantasy fiction read. The story tells of a young elf named Elliyar and the uphill battle that he and his fellow elves face against the dark elves and the...