The Engine Woman's Light by Laurel Anne Hill is a coming of age story with strong characters and an adventure that is as action-packed as it is mesmerizing. It is 1894 and an alternate world in California. Fifteen-year-old Juanita gets a vision in which a...

The Silence of Darkness by Bradley James Tall is a fictional novel set in Prairie View, a small rural town near Lake Michigan. It tells the story of a farming community with a sinister secret going back twenty years when Bobby, the young son of...

Kannada Khan had been homeless for several years after a lucrative career as an investment banker. His fortunes changed when he saved the life of Robert Prosperi, a real estate developer and hedge fund manager. Initially, Rob simply wanted to repay Kannada for his kind...

The Chartron Chronicles: A Shattered Stone is an epic fantasy novel for children and young adults written by Kit Michaels. The new year’s crop of incoming freshmen sat nervously at their desks, waiting for the clock to hit the eighth hour. Jimmy Chartron was one...

Steven M. Moore pens an apocalyptic thriller in The Last Humans. Penny Castro left the US Navy and became a forensic diver for the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Penny and her fellow deputy George are called out to locate a victim offshore. Penny plunges into...

The Year of the Fox: A Good Life Novel by Merren Tait is about the adventures of Nancy Myers. After being unceremoniously dumped for a younger woman by her boyfriend, she abandons her job and home to buy land in an idyllic rural location. Her...

A sudden awakening of magical powers that coincides with a prophesied sign mark a twelve-year-old slave, Kibure, as the agent of a dark god in Derrick Smythe’s thought-provoking epic fantasy, The Other Magic. Shackled, gagged, and caged, it seems death is the only outcome for...

Meet Liam the superhero who came to stay with the Merideth family. Though Liam was a sickly child, he had a strong spirit especially when he wore his red cape. He couldn't run fast or jump high. His lungs were weak and everyone had to...

The Case of the Mystery of the Bells is the sixth book in the Davey & Derek Junior Detectives series by Janice Spina, introducing readers to exciting young characters. Davey and Derek are twelve-year-old non-identical twins who are inspired by a book bought for each...

Desmond is seven years old and he likes being a big brother to Omari who is two. Desmond likes sports, pizza, and building forts. Omari loves Desmond and he laughs at his older brother's jokes and enjoys listening to his bedtime stories. It is bedtime...

The narrative form of the memoir is very common, and Amy Jean’s The Kingdom Has Arrived Volume 1 Foundations is a welcome departure as it combines essays and poetry to look back at her spiritual formation and the divine inspiration that led her to write...

The Kingdom Has Arrived Volume 2: Passion's Fire: Snippets from a Wild Ride - A Prayer, A Poem, A Prophecy by Amy Jean is a memoir that beautifully documents the protagonist’s journey of faith and her intoxicating love for God. In this memoir, the author...

The Land Steward's Daughter is a work of fiction in the historical, romantic, and interpersonal drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Becky Michaels. Written for adult reading audiences, the work does contain the use of explicit language and sexual situations appropriate to the genre....

Meet The Sun by Ruth Finnegan and Claudio Vita-Finzi gives readers glimpses of the fascinating world of the sun and its majestic beauty. Where did the sun come from in the first place? The pre-solar cloud of dust and gas was supplying the solar nebula...

As Annie falls asleep each night, she slips into a special place she calls her Dreamland. Here she can do whatever she wants. It’s a fun place to be. One night, she dreams of walking through her backyard. She’s startled by a tiny voice calling...

The Flying Cutterbucks by Kathleen M. Rodgers is a women-centric drama novel that follows three women whose fates irrevocably changed after a traumatic event in their lives. It's 2016. Trudy watches with horror as the man admitting to groping women without their consent on record...

The Munchkins is a children's book written by Candice Zee. How many times did your parents tell you never to talk to strangers? I know mine did a lot. Perhaps the adoptive father of thirteen extraordinary children should have told them as well. When a...

Readers may be daunted by what to expect if they dare to read The Ins and Outs of My Vagina. I must say that author Karin Freeland has real guts to share so much of her intimate life. Without a doubt, more reserved female readers...

The Labyrinth of My Life by Kay Alahakoon is a slice-of-life romance novel set in Sri Lanka that follows the story of Sakunthala (Saku), a young university lecturer trapped between modern ideologies and her traditionally conservative family. Saku's humdrum life takes an unexpected turn with...

Before I even read The Injustice System by Ronarose Train, my perceptions of the fairness of the judicial system weren’t positive. Oh, how this biography supported my misgivings and how unfortunate for Sam Gray, falsely accused of major financial crimes, that he believed justice would...