After her son tried to commit suicide, Agnieszka was left with no choice but to reveal a well-kept secret to her kids in order to help them understand their brother's actions. Starting from when she was eight, she told her family her life story, with...

Covert Exposure is a Nick Spinelli Mystery by Valerie J. Clarizio. Detective Nick Spinelli’s sadness caused by his partner’s retirement turns to outrage when temporarily transferred to Social Services. His foul mood changes after meeting Shannon O’Hara, the caseworker he is to assist. She is...

A Dark Collection: 12 Scary Stories by Mark Lukens provides a year's supply of unique and eclectic stories for the discriminating reader of short fiction. Perhaps best known for his entertaining novels Ancient Enemy and The Summoning, with this collection Lukens proves he also is...

The Bird Room is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories written by Chad Hofmann. The title story is a macabre piece in which a pet parrot carries, along with his ability to speak, an unearthly and evil manifestation of the past. Some...

Here Be Dragons by Hannah Steenbock is a collection of eight short stories about magic, mythical creatures and sorcery. From a traveling wizard that fixes toys, to a wizard who loses and searches for his magic deck of cards. From a young girl that tries...

Prism is a collection of short stories that span multiple locations, times and worlds. Roland Allnach has a great talent for creating worlds, building an atmosphere and painting for the reader a believable setting for each story. His power of description is considerable. The style...

Billy and the Cloneasaurus is one of the most brilliantly constructed and elegantly written satirical stories I have ever read. The entire population of the world is made up of identical clones of a single unassuming and frequently annoying individual. All go about their tasks...

Look How Lovely!: ¡Mira qué lindo! is a bilingual (Spanish and English) children's book written and illustrated by Marti Skarupa. It chronicles a nature outing of a young boy with his grandparents. They walk through forests, fields and grassy lands, and see butterflies and bees...

Tara Simmons has been running from the Shadow Man, a serial killer, since the night he murdered her parents when she was 16 years old. It has been nine years since that horrendous night, and now the Shadow Man is hunting and playing with her...

The Goldsboro Curve is a legal thriller written by William Campbell. Buck lives in the hill country of Southern Ohio. It’s where he grew up and was a young teen in 1955. In the summer, the kids would be doing their chores in the early...

Shatter Point by Jeff Altabef is a gripping psychological thriller set a little in the future. Maggie was only young when she first met Cooper. At first friends, she soon found out that there was a darker side to him. She rejects him and moves...

The title alone, Fairytale Apocalypse - A Romance of Apocalyptic Proportions: Epic Romantic Fantasy (The Verge Book 1), intrigued me to read this fantasy novel by Jacqueline Patricks. Twin sisters, Tessa and Lauren, are not as similar to each other as people think twins are....

Gonebee’s Odyssey by Thomas William Fillinger is a brilliantly contrived science fiction novel about the adventures of the marsupial Gonebee Overhill, a master maintenance technician that, by accident, saves the life of the monarch of the planet Fedoria. Thus begin their adventures as Gonebee tries...

Hazelet's Journal: A Riveting Alaska Gold Rush Saga is more than the adventure of one man; it is the adventure of a nation seeking something bigger and more than themselves, of people who were willing and able to try to make a new path. The...

Forgotten Objects by Carlos Rubio introduces us to the life of Anna d'Amio who is the daughter of Louis and Francesca d'Amio, opera singers. The trail follows them from Mussolini’s Italy to the city of Pittsburgh during the roaring time of the mid-sixties. You will...

Susie finds out her mommy has cancer. Susie is not sure what that means exactly so she goes to her grandmother to seek out the answer. Susie asks her grandmother a few questions about cancer such as what it is; does it make a person...

St. Nic, Inc, is an action and adventure thriller written by SR Staley. Peter Peary is a washed-up explorer in his early twenties. He excelled in school, graduated on a fast track and was making waves as the consummate explorer until the fateful trip to...

In Ripple Effect by Kathleen King, Jenna, a college student at Michigan State, wanders aimlessly in the mounds of thick snow and sub-zero, bone-chilling temperatures. She's tired, scared and sleepy. Minutes later, she's dead. Her college friends Lexi, Abbie and Kim, did not have to...

Davis Ashura’s A Warrior's Path series is quite the hidden gem in the fantasy genre, introducing its vast world and multi-dimensional characters through Book One: The Castes and the OutCastes. The demon Suwraith, the Bringer of Sorrows, has been constantly seeking out the absolute extinction...

Lost Cause: A Grayson Cole Thriller by Sean D. Smith is an action and adventure story featuring a National Park Ranger. Grayson Cole is used to giving lectures on American history, especially the Civil War, to the thousands of visitors to the National Parks where...