Emma and the Silk Thieves by Matthew S. Cox is the second book in the Tales of Widowswood series and it picks up from where Book One, Emma and the Banderwigh, finishes. Emma, the protagonist in the story, is a ten-year-old who lives with her...

Emma and the Silverbell Faeries by Matthew S. Cox is the third book in the Tales of Widowswood series. Ten-year-old Emma lives with her parents, brother Tam, and her Nan in a small two-bedroom house. Her mother, Nan, and Emma are druids and they possess...

Can a vampire teach a priest a lesson in faith? Matthew S. Cox poses this question in his novel Chiaroscuro through the eyes of Father Antonio Molinari, a priest serving God as part of a secret order within the Vatican. After he solves a possession...

Death is not the answer when you have the world to save, or at least that is what Asteria learns when the Archangel Micah prevents her from attempting suicide in Asteria: Into The Fray by Adrienne Enfinger. After running into Micah several more times, Asteria...

How do you start over when you’re almost halfway through your life? In Twyla Turner’s His Muse, we meet Taryn Reid. She’s forty-four, divorced, and ready to start her new business in Nice, France. Sounds pretty risky to her daughter Kari, her ex-husband and his...

Live Free or Die by Dave Ives is told from the point of view of young Sam Higgins, and a good deal of it is in vivid flashbacks that reveal his relationship with his father. Don-the-Digger, Mr Kenny – the neighbour who doesn’t pay his...

Kaslon is a world of natural beauty, its wilderness left largely to its own intentions, its people uniquely at one with their surroundings. For there is something particularly special about Kaslonians: upon reaching maturity a youth will Change and take up their second life in...

The Vexation of Vampires by Chrys Cymri is the fifth book in the Penny White series. Penny has returned to England, but problems from Lloegyr follow her back. Raven seems to be suffering side effects, including memory lapses from the recent Spirit Ceremony, and Penny...

For beautiful Lucinda, being born into a well-to-do aristocratic family in 17th century England should have been the beginning of a life of opulence and ease. Unfortunately, her mother, fifth daughter of Lord Hempstead, was disgraced by becoming pregnant while unwed and died shortly after...

Somewhere to Begin Again by Verna Clay introduces Quince Calloway, who takes leave to explore his past incarnation. Arriving in Somewhere, Oregon, Quince enters Sandy Gutierrez’s swimwear shop. The couple experiences a “zing” when they touch, and exiting, find themselves back in 1945. Quince is...

Dreaming of Oranges: An Unreliable Memoir by Marcelline Thomson is a memoir that captures the spirit of adventure in two young women. In a story set in 1961, readers are introduced to two gutsy young women, just graduated from an exclusive college in Westchester. Instead...

Haunting of the Wired Monk by J.A. Williams is the first book of The Coventry Ghosts series. Leanne had just had her first kiss; the last thing she expected was to die. After her death, she's left to haunt the place where she died -...

Dark World by Mike Waller is the second book of the Echo’s Way series. Echo and partner Ben have escaped from the ruins of her home world and hope to find some peace and rest. That doesn’t happen. Ben is given command of a Fleet...

It’s fun to read a book where the author has obviously enjoyed the entire writing process, along with the plot and characters she’s created. That’s what one senses about Alice Rene, an award-winning author, as she brings us The Other Side of Him, a novel...

Niamh is a contemporary romance novel written by Gary Hope. Mark McCarty found his true home an entire ocean’s span away from his North Carolina roots. When Paul Alfred left North Carolina the year before, he was reeling from his failed marriage, the greatly exaggerated...

Charlotte had a lot to prove. Especially to her father who thought she would always be, like her mother, second rate in her profession, or at least she was in his eyes. Often she had fantasised about shoving her ground-breaking research down his throat, literally....

The 1% Rule: How to Fall in Love with the Process and Achieve Your Wildest Dreams by Tommy Baker is a guide for anyone who has ever found themselves to be little more than a hamster in a wheel, running in circles but never actually...

Cat Call by Mollie Hunt is the fourth book in the Crazy Cat Lady Cozy Mystery series. Lynley gets a frantic call from her friend Rhonda whose sweet cat, Cary Grant, has gone missing. Of course, Lynley goes to help and hears about a hexter...

Through the Shadows by Carroll Blair is a collection of poems about life, plans, commitment, change, motivation, creating and creativity and so much more! It is comprehensive and encompasses all aspects of our lives nowadays with our questions, pondering and need to understand the meaning...

In her novella Kept, Theresa Jacobs offers readers a tale of desperate humans fleeing a dying Earth on enormous spaceships. The story opens seven years after one of the ships, Gaia, has crashed-landed on Kepler, an unexplored planet. The survivors are kept alive by a...