In Murder Beyond The Precipice by Penny Goetjen, Elizabeth decides to leave her interior design business in Connecticut and take a long weekend trip home to the Maine coast, an area she has not been back to since her grandmother’s death. Elizabeth never expected the...

Dreamtime by Barbara Arnett is a fantasy story nourished by an original concept, one that can be translated to an eternal now, but people evolve in it and destinies collide. It begins in 1820 when a homeless boy discovers a murdered girl on the beach....

Imagine having to change schools in your senior year of high school and move from a large city to the middle of nowhere. That’s exactly what Kee Lawson has to do in Surviving Doodahville by Ashley Fontainne and Lillian Hansen. Even Kee’s mother is not...

Memoirs rarely have the ability to make you root for an author and his friends as vigorously and vehemently as the succinctly and appropriately titled Tenacity by Ron Coury. If the reader were to share the author’s military background, instrumental (as attested to by Mr....

Gambling Broke Us: Can Boston Fix Us? by Joanna Warrington unravels in the wake of the uncertainty brought about by the Brexit referendum in England. Pandora and her niece Ellie are going to embark on a trip to historic New England but Jules, the father...

Blood & Rust: On Devil’s Throne by P. D. Platt opens with Deacon Greenleaf confined in a rusty metal box as claustrophobic as a coffin, in pain from injuries, but with no memory of why he is hurt or how he got there. The only...

Feyi Fay and the Disappearance of Captain Nosa is a multicultural fantasy novel for children and preteens written by Simisayo Brownstone and illustrated by Teni and Tayo Creations LLC. Kuzoolies could be mistaken for human beings, that is, if you didn’t notice that they have...

So, You Want to Be a Sensitivity Reader? by Patrice Williams Marks is a book that explains to you how you can make a living by being a sensitivity reader. Patrice Williams Marks gives you the definition of it and says what it isn’t as...

Finding Euphoria is a chilling work of thriller fiction in the drugs and medical drama genre, penned by author C. Becker. Written for adults due to its dark themes and occasional graphic content, the story follows married couple Mark and Hailey Langley. Hailey has plenty...

In Bobby Ether and the Jade Academy by R. Scott Boyer, it all starts with an earthquake. Then Bobby Ether's life changes. He gets a phone call about his parents being in an accident and a mysterious woman shows up to take him away, but...

Woven around the parents of Stan Musial, the renowned baseball star, The Strongman and the Mermaid is historical fiction. Kathleen Shoop has bejeweled this book with her magnificent imagination and impeccable writing. Lukasz Musial and Miss Mary, unbeknownst to each other, share a mutual bond...

Michael is grumpy all the time. He thinks the day is yucky though his mom thinks it is a beautiful day as she opens the curtains. He does not think the bacon is crispy enough while having his breakfast. Michael slams the bathroom door when...

Besa Po by Hana Noka takes us readers back in time to the age of the Roman Empire. But, this book follows the life of Queen Teuta of fabled Illyria and recounts the love she has for King Agron. However, she is a warrior in...

Chloe has a story to tell. She’s an eighty-pound bundle of joy that was adopted by a loving family with other pets. Chloe wants to share her story, so she wrote a collection of short stories to introduce herself and share some of her adventures....

If you enjoy thrillers, especially psychological ones, Spiral Into Darkness by Joseph Lewis will grab you good and proper in the opening two chapters. You will find yourself avidly turning pages as a serial killer accosts his victims, confirms their identities and blasts away their...

Project Vita is a collection of historical short stories written by Charlie Jin. The three of them were late, of course, their third time that month, but this time it was a prelude to something larger, more momentous, darker. They dashed along the rows of...

Carol Hibbs deftly combines elements of romance, suspense, and horror in Forever Ends. When Gabrielle moves to a different area with her sons, she believes it is the best thing that ever happened. It's a new start for them and a new life in a...

“The song of the sea flows from a deep heart, pulsing with a spirit that can never be broken.” After the deaths of their parents, Tomas Alvarado and his younger siblings are cared by their Abuela Magdalena, a no-nonsense but kind grandmother matriarch, offering them...

The Companion by Pad Brotherton is a story about the rare bond of friendship. Will Westfield, a doctoral student, answers an advertisement to become a companion. Will is excited about the prospect of making easy money while studying. Will meets Libby Stamos at her upscale...

The Creed — Siren Song is the third book in the Magical Realism Romance Series by Vivi Stutz, a beautiful mix of fiction and the paranormal. Mia is a ballerina who is facing challenges in different areas of her life. First, her boyfriend Gabriel has...