Blood Pact (Youkai Bloodlines) by Courtney Maguire centers on Hiro, a male geisha of unknown origins who works in the okiya of the woman who found him as a child. Hiro has always felt out of place, even in this odd setting. It is only...

The collection Silhouette: Poems by Nancy Viera covers the movements of life from love to seeking freedom and experiencing rejection and explores the emotions in each of these shifts. “I Am” is an emphatic poem in which the narrator sheds the labels imposed on her....

Legacy of Power is the first installment of a new series by C.C. Bolick. Charlie’s mother is dying, but not of cancer as she thought. When their home is invaded by strange men intent on taking her mother away, Charlie’s world turns upside down. She...

Gemini Divided by Lauren Kristen Roberts is a page-turning mystery that follows Jen, a hired assassin who has spent the past several years getting rid of bad people. When her next assignment brings her into contact with her idol from a famous TV show, Gemini...

The Return to Deephaven is the second book in The Adventures of Crimson and the Guardian series by Karen Cossey. Twelve-year-old Kinsey is tired of reading the enormous pile of books entrusted to her by her father, Lord Eric Bardin. When she discovers that she...

Joey Blade was the football star of Shadow Mountain High School. He had a bright future with tons of scholarships awaiting him. However, the night of Joey’s eighteenth birthday, which also ushered in the new millennium, signaled the beginning of his nightmares. After his ex-friend,...

Kicking and Screaming: A Memoir of Madness and Martial Arts is an autobiographical memoir relating the experiences of author Melanie D. Gibson with the Korean martial art of taekwondo that changed her life. Since her teenage years, Melanie suffered from bouts of anxiety and depression...

In Grandma, I Don’t Want To Go To Sleep: A Forever Love Tale by Richard Ceasor, we are introduced to a little boy who is troubling his grandma because he doesn’t want to go to bed. His grandma tries to explain why it is necessary...

A Touch of Romance is the second book in the Romantic Encounters series written by Paullett Golden. While attending a writers' retreat at her friend’s estate, Leila Owen waits for her father to return from India with her betrothed. It is an arranged marriage to...

The Prancestor Project by Christine Morse is a work of contemporary speculative fiction with a strongly tied counterfactual history component as it delves into the discovery of a possible ancient indigenous hominid-type advanced civilization, one which ruled the planet before any meaningful knowledge of the...

The Memory of Sydney by J.A. Hailey, the 7th book of Chronicles of a Stolen World, follows the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Sydney, Australia. Sydney is no more. Burned to ash and radioactive dust. However, it's not just the 'real' world that deals...

A Most Efficient Murder: A 1920s Country House Mystery by Anthony Slayton is the first book in the Mr. Quayle Mysteries. Lord Unsworth hosts a party that quickly becomes a mystery perfect gathering with red herrings, misleads, and scandalous secrets. Not to mention the body...

Everyone knows about horoscopes and most people even know what their sign is, but what happens when your sign doesn’t sound like you at all? You might be shocked to learn that there is so much more to astrology than simply knowing your sun sign....

Another Way Over by John J. Michalik is the tale of a Slovak immigrant who travels to America on the brink of World War I in search of a better life. Inspired by Michalik's paternal grandfather's life story, the book follows Jan Brozek, son of...

The Marquis' Daughters: In the Shadow of the Guillotine tells the tale of two daughters of a noble family trying to survive the French Revolution with its thirst for the rolling heads of royals and nobles and its hoarding of bread. These sisters belonged to...

Jewbilly is a hilarious, well-paced tale about how young Yosef Bamberger finally enters manhood. Twelve-year-old Yosef and his orthodox Jewish family live happily in 1970s New York. But a year before Yosef is due to have his much-anticipated Bar Mitzvah, Yosef’s father, Murray, moves the...

Killing Innocence is a work of fiction in the murder mystery and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is best suited to the adult reading audience and was penned by author Merit Clark. Written as the second novel in the Jack Fariel Denver Mysteries series, we are...

Bits From the Pieces is an inspiring memoir by Georgette Noëllat relating her life story from her childhood to current times amid the influx of the Covid-19 pandemic. Brought up in a strict Catholic household in Australia, Georgette suffers harrowing physical and psychological abuse from...

The Abhorrent is the second book in the Obsidian Blade series by authors Nathan Wilson and S. E. Nin. The story of Shindara and his companions continues as they travel to Yomi to get some much-needed answers. Shindara’s curse was slowly but surely ruining his...

The Adventures of Ditsi the Dor-rat and her Friend the Donkaroo: A Children's Guide to Lessons in Life by Lisa Wilson is the heart-warming story of Ditsi who did not like the image that she saw of herself in the mirror. Ditsi felt she looked...