The Luxe Resort has just been bought and the new owners have arrived. Will they make drastic changes or will all the employees keep their jobs? This is about to be revealed at the first meeting. The star of the story is Danielle, a young...

Sage is a compassionate nurse who cares about her dying patients and Cannon is a somewhat bitter young man having had to give up his life to return home and watch over his drunken father. Aspen Cove, Colorado is the place where they both...

The pleasures of childhood will always return in our memories. Simple things like picking berries in the wild and favorite paths we often followed. But things change over time: a special berry bush, over-picked and left neglected, will suffer, perhaps even wither and die. However,...

A Twist of Lemon: 100 Curious Stories in Exactly 100 Words by Arlene Duane Hemingway is a cleverly written collection of complete tales. Too many to list here, each story has its own merit, ranging from comedic to tragic. This happened to be my first...

Lost Girls goes through a variety of stories from different women; they range from love to heartache, to grief, to making themselves heard and the importance of leaving the past behind. An unmarried young woman finds solace and comfort in a breast feeder’s support group,...

Real Enough: A Wilderness Survival Novel is a suspenseful adventure novel written by Jeffrey W. Tenney. The premise of the reality show was that four teams would fend for themselves on Hawkesbury Island, located in a remote area of British Columbia. Each team would have...

Burning Water by Inge-Lise Goss begins another sleuthing job for Gwynn Reznick, a rookie investigator with a habit of snooping. Ruben, her boss and boyfriend, is scheduled to solve this case with Gwynn, but something called him away, leaving her with minimal supervision. An employee...

In His Last Hope: Chance (A Steamy Enemies to Lovers Contemporary Western Romance), foster kids Amber and Matt are split up by the system. They remain determined to be together, so they keep running away from their foster families. Sharla Wylde introduces Chance, a security...

His Scarred Soul: Brandt (A Steamy Fling turned Forever Contemporary Western Romance) by Sharla Wylde is the fourth book in The Tanners series. David Brandt has physical and emotional scars stemming from his time in the marines. In local business owner Abby, he finds some...

The Places Left Unfilled, a memoir by M.C. Cauley is a refreshing change, both in how the memoir is written and in its almost surprising revelation of the details of a sexual relationship between a minor and a middle-aged adult. Let’s look at that second...

Closure by Lindsey Todd starts with Morgan Wells singing to charm the audience. She is attracted to fellow musician Kyle in a manner that enables her to overcome her obsession with her former boyfriend, Wade. As part of the healing process, Morgan recounts the history...

Wrapped in Quotations: One Gay Guy's Commonplace Book by Tom Beattie is a collection work by the self-described “quotophile”. The anthology has stories of different lengths, primarily flash fiction, with several that are lyrical and wonderfully poetic. Each piece revolves around a quote or ten,...

Too Cute to Spook, written by Diana Aleksandrova and illustrated by Alicia Young, is the fourth book in their Special Monsters Collection, with the other three being Mon-staa, Thud! Thud! and an Activity Book: Monsters – Packed, Fun Activities. In Too Cute to Spook, Larry,...

MON-STAA (Special Monsters Collection Book 2) by Diana Aleksandrova is a simple and sweet story of a child finding a friend in an unlikely way. Right away, we meet a little girl, Nikki, and her family. Nikki, her baby brother, and their parents are having...

White Fire by Laurie Bell is the first installment in the Toni Delle Adventures series. White Fire follows the adventures of an interplanetary adventurer named Toni Delle as she undertakes a new and dangerous assignment with the aid of her robotic dog companion and ship’s...

Echoes of Ancient Times is a work of fiction in the science fiction, mystery fiction, and interpersonal drama sub-genres, and was penned by author Nikolas Lain. Disaster on a global scale looms as the nuclear option is put on the table, but there are only...

Pulling no punches, Voices of Diversity is a powerful collection of statement poems by Vanessa Caraveo that does exactly what it sets out to do – it makes people sit up and take stock of themselves and the world in which they live. Characterized by...

Zippy and Zappy, two ladybirds, lived in a cornfield under a big green leaf and led a happy life. They ate the green flies that came to eat the corn leaves. As the months passed by, Zippy and Zappy started getting bored and they decided...

It's very early morning and Adam is on the beach doing what he's been doing for years, surfing and spending time alone with the Lord. Well, until...is that smoke? And it looks like it's coming from the mission. He hurries home as fast as possible,...

Abigail Walker lived on the streets for nine months between 1986 and 1987. This homeless protagonist in Connie Chappell’s Summers Only is on the run from herself. Little did she know that one fateful day in July she would meet the altruistic Frank Cordell, a...