Ed Brent had no idea what Gail looked like, but he was sure that he liked her. How could he not? It had been a couple of months now since he first started calling her company in Durban from his office in ‘Maritzburg for business....

Sweet Dreams: Where Nightmares Stalk by Jo Ullah is a gut-wrenching thriller set in bustling Bristol. Astrid is a carer, working and studying part-time to build a new life for herself, free from her cheating partner Nick and a heartbreaking loss in her past. As...

Hot Magic: Black Cat Antiquities Book 1 by Catherine Kean tells the story of Lucian Lord, a 12th-century knight. A sorceress cursed him with her dying breath. He and his squire (who is now a cat) are fated to be reincarnated for eternity. Lucian is...

In We Are All Made of Scars, Christopher Morris recalls his tumultuous childhood and the questionable choices he made as a young adult who experienced an unhealthy level of exposure to addiction all his life. The company he kept escalated Chris's natural attraction to chaos,...

The Trials of the Black Tower by Joseph S. Andrew is the first book in The Storm Blood Records epic fantasy series. The story follows Varion, an orphaned man who had never ventured out of Lyisien village where he grew up and trained under the...

Eliza F. Tilton’s fantasy novel, The Never Rift, contains a fight for love and survival. Azalea has a life of luxury and ease in Oasis. Doted on by Acaden and Lark, she never expected Orion to appear. Orion left her thirty years ago to fight...

Susan-Alia Terry returns to the Coming Darkness series with book two, Dreaming in Shadow. Terry introduces readers to a new type of creature amongst the numerous diasporas represented in the series, which include but are by no means limited to vampires, werewolves, satyrs, angels, and...

I’ve recently had the pleasure of enjoying Randy Weir’s latest installment in the Jarvis Mann Detective series, Lethal Blues. The story follows detective Jarvis Mann as he is pulled out of his retirement after the roaring narcotics trade in Denver starts leaving a body count....

Death by Greed is a murder mystery novel from Abigail Keam's A Josiah Reynolds Mystery series. After many tumultuous events, Josiah Reynolds has become a successful beekeeper living a humdrum life in the Kentucky Bluegrass on her animal farm when, one day, an enraged Texas...

Chris Lombardi brings us an intriguing literary piece in Blue: Season. It is the year 1993 and the month of August in East Baltimore. Molly O’Donnell gets hit by a car on one of her nightly runs and ends up being sent to a psychiatric...

The Ominous Trail is an action-packed and suspenseful story by J.C. Fields. Former FBI agent Sean Kruger starts a defense contractor firm with his friends following his retirement. Diamonds worth a hundred and fifty million dollars are stolen from The Field Museum. The insurance company...

Comic book fans and space opera lovers rejoice as David Sun's Godians Creation of Earth seems set to whet your appetite. Newly crowned Godian Supreme Theo launches an ambitious plan to build a planet from scratch. He calls it Earth and sends two teams to...

C. Gary Johnston pens an insightful dramatic tale in New Leaves in Winter. It is the holiday season; the weather has turned cold and somewhat precarious for travel. However, the frigid and threatening atmosphere of Starlinger’s Advertising far surpasses the wintry elements outside. Daniel Pierce...

The Vitruvian Mask is a historical sci-fi drama story by BJ Sikes. After disposing of the previous regime, the Naturalists have taken over France, methodically targeting scientists and destroying every one of their creations. Former Head Scientist and Roboticist Adelaide Coumain takes refuge on a...

Time Zones and Other Tales is a work of fiction in the anthology, psychological, and speculative fiction subgenres. It is best suited to the general adult reading audience and was penned by author Real Carpentier. In this fascinating collection of works, we are first introduced...

There comes a time in everyone’s young life when they must find the courage to venture out on their own. Max Mallard Has An Adventure by Doris Dumrauf introduces Max, who is a young Mallard duck. He’s rather shy and even though his siblings have...

Computer Love: A Digital Anthology by Ricardo Pierre-Louis is an intriguing collection of eight short stories. Each story is character-driven. The focus is usually on the emotional state of the protagonists as they interact with those around them. For example, in the first story, Marley’s...

Creative Genius: Short Stories for Boys is a collection by Shermaine Perry-Knights, aimed at boys aged 7 to 12 years old. The book contains six short stories, each with a distinctive theme and character, with settings such as fantasy, mystery, and adventure. The stories in...

Aldous Crane, a professor studying folklore and the occult, gets an irritating phone call at three in the morning. Morris Archer, a dealer of rare collectibles, asks Aldous to go to the wine cellar of the eccentric collector, Matthew Boudin, and deliver him six very...

The Lost Son is the first book in The Zargothian Saga, an epic fantasy series by Aidan Lucid. This book follows the story of Henry Simmons, a seemingly normal seventeen-year-old boy whose world is about to be turned upside down. It all begins when Henry...