Marie and Mr. Bee is a children’s story by Margaret Welwood. Marie is content in her cabin in the woods and has many forest friends. She likes helping them with their chores and playing games after she does her housework. One day Mr. Bee enters...

Is there a such thing as a generational curse? Can our sins, dysfunctions, emotions and poor choices be passed down to our children? In The Scream Of Silence: A Short Story Thriller by Pamela Crane, you will be on the edge of your seat as...

Loretta’s Caterpillar is the third book in the Loretta’s Insects series, written by Lois Wickstrom and illustrated by Francie Mion. While outside in a field of milkweeds, young Loretta enjoys watching all of the Monarch butterflies flying around the flowers. The next day, however, all...

Type X by M.A. Phipps continues the story of Project W.A.R. It is the second book in a series, and it would be strongly recommended to read the excellent book 1 first to fully understand the plot. Wynter Reeves has been turned into the State’s...

Jean Davis brings us beautiful fantasy fiction in Sahmara. With the moon as her only source of light, Sahmara runs for freedom from her Atherian captors. Taken from her home four months ago and having endured the rough, dirty hands of a different soldier each...

Key Change by Barbara Valentin is a wonderful romance that involves music, writing, newspapers, coming back from a horrible situation and not falling down the well but changing the situation into something good. Sara, the main character, is working for the Gazette as a music...

A Haven in the Woods by Nancy Shew Bolton is a love story filled with fear, tension and heartache. I thought this was going to be a predictable love story, but it is not. This romance is a picture of contrasts and an example of...

The beauty of nature and the pure joy of selfless love are in stark contrast to the effects of greed, deception and vanity in Silvana: The Greening by Belinda Mellor. Fabiom, heir to the Holding of Deepvale, has always found refuge in the wildwood, home...

Olympian Confessions: Hades and Persephone by Erin Kinsella finds Persephone stuck in the security of her home on Olympus, with her mother, the goddess Demeter, constantly watching over her, and her only friends being the nymphs selected to look out for her. She's determined to...

The Needle’s Eye by Deanna Nese is a slim book, a story with a lot of symbolism, one that explores the idea of destiny and friendship, a tale laced with wonderful insights and wisdom. It is a story with powerful spiritual dimensions. It wasn’t until...

Limelight Kisses is the first book in the Love Behind the Scenes series written by Michelle Segal. Having walked into fame by accident, Katherine Walker is now one of Hollywood’s most successful and revered movie stars. Discovered by film director Ryan Lancaster, Katherine’s audition for...

In Expired Listings by D.M. Barr, a murderer with a special taste for real estate agents is loose in Rock Canyon. Unfortunately, the real estate business has previously cried wolf so when two agents are killed, the police are not in any hurry to investigate....

The Angel of Soriano is a historical romance set in Renaissance Italy, populated by a fascinating cast of characters including the infamous Cesare Borgia, who plays a major part as a villain in the book. Loosely basing the plot on an old story of a...

I listened to The Seadog: Paines Creek Beach Book 3 by Aaron Paul Lazar on Audible. The instructions were clear and easy to follow. The checkout and downloading of the book was flawless; the narrator, Gwendolyn Druyor, added an authentic New York dialect for the...

Lizetta and Jensen seem unlikely people to ever find some sort of connection with each other, but in Something To Dream On by Diane Rinella anything is possible. Lizetta had issues with her body image since she was a teen, and Jensen, while having a...

Gita Audhya’s In Pursuit of Love, Spirituality and Happiness unravels as Jonathan Foster lands in Oahu, Hawaii on a much needed holiday. The son of a very successful businessman from Texas, he has a privileged life and is now working in the family business. His...

Depths of a Teenage Mind is a poetic compilation written by Andrew Mills. Conveying myriad emotions, each of the poems - which differ in length - clearly expresses heartfelt loss, love, nature, desperation, misery and loneliness. Titles in this compilation include Dark Streets, Societal Pressures,...

Artificial Flowers by J.A. Hailey is a stunning opening for The Screenside Trilogy, a story of love that takes readers beyond the physical world to encounter a consciousness akin to humans in the virtual internet world. The artificial intelligence developed to run in the internet...

The Flower in the City is an interactive children’s novel that serves as both coloring book and storybook. Author Donyell Arkeva Tillis has put together a unique combination of storytelling and drawing that should be perfect for imaginative children! The story opens with an old...

There is a style used for writing horror stories that works supremely well, something I would simply call casual. It is a laid-back, natural, simple style that suggests a normal world filled with casual, non-intrusive, non-dramatic events until... Until the horrible thing happens, which often,...