After his father's death due to a sudden heart attack, John W. Hardin and his mother lost their sixty-acre property because of their inability to pay the mortgage. William Hayes, however, offers them a less valuable piece of land but enough for them to call...

Alpha Redemption by P.A. Baines allows readers to journey deep into space where they will observe astronaut Brett Denton in total isolation as he searches his soul. Denton lost it all, his wife, sons, his faith in God and himself. After applying to be a...

The Shadow Constant by A.J. Scudiere is a fascinating story which may, in fact, be rooted in historical fact. Scudiere has created characters as varied as any like number of real people, and placed them in a situation which, although certainly not common, is as...

Gisborne: Book of Knights is book 2 of Prue Batten's Gisborne Saga. The saga is set in the 12th century and is centered around Richard the Lionheart's crusades. Lady Ysobel de Courcey is in hiding with her son, William, while her lover and the head...

Tom Gillespie's Painting by Numbers is an intricate and elaborate illusion masterfully created to wrap around an ultimately classic plot. Dr. Boyce is a lecturer in Earth Sciences at Glasgow University who becomes obsessed with studying a lesser known baroque painting at the local museum....

Rosa in Bloom by Janet Rhyme Key is a coming of age, nice story especially for girls. It is well written and I enjoyed the tale. It is written at an appropriate age level, clean, and wholesome. It is a good tale to teach children...

Hypnopoetics…Modern Love Poems and Hypnopoetics Inductions, by Phil Billitz, is the hopeful lover’s tool for seduction. In this special collection of poems, Billitz uses carefully crafted rhythm, meter, and rhyme to create mesmerizing poems that are designed to relax and woo your potential lover. These...

Edward Eaton’s Orpheus and Eurydice is a dramatic retelling of a classic Greek myth. Orpheus has been blessed by the gods with the gift of song. When he meets the beautiful Eurydice, he uses his music to woo her, and they soon fall madly in...

The Doves of Synchronicity by Bryan Flamig tells his own true story as a socially awkward computer programmer who finds a home in the local bluegrass and folk music circles in Phoenix, Arizona. There he meets Catherin, an enigmatic guitar player, who asks Bryan to...

Brett is a detective who thinks he is an Adonis (even though he has no idea what an Adonis is!). He is handsome (or so he thinks)and is apparently proud of his mustache. Looks like a blonde bimbo does not need to be a girl...

When fourth graders Madison and Josh are tapped on the shoulder to become members of a secret agency called the Small World Global Protection Agency in Mark Miller’s Small World Global Protection Agency: New Kids on the Rock, they had no idea what kind of...

Patricia Borlenghi’s novel, Zaira is a compelling story of a woman who yearns for a freedom not allowed in her native country of Italy prior to the Great War. Zaira Crespi is raised by a loving but stern father who holds traditions close to his...

What do you do when the man you think you want to spend the rest of your life with decides to up and leave? You do exactly what Rachel Dillon does; you move on and marry someone else. Then divorce him before running into your...

As a huge history buff, I found Jumper by Jeff LaFerney to be an excellent read. Following Flint Cole and Hannah Carpenter around not only the US, but the Middle East and Europe of today and yesteryear. How is that possible exactly? Well, Cole is...

Trina's life is taking a nose dive. It is Christmas and she is lonely. Plus, to cap it all off, her impending divorce is dampening her spirits. Walt was the love of her life. He was her first and only and she was the same...

This book was reviewed by Lee Ashford for Readers' Favorite. The First Birthday Party by K. & K. Johnson is a cute children’s story that evolved over the course of 16 years. Initially an impromptu reply to a son’s question about who had the first birthday,...

Could you ever forgive your mother for leaving your family to live with a serial killer? That is the question Tess Olsen must answer in Elaine Walsh’s Restoration. Tess, a young art conservator has lived a very closed off life since her mother’s abandonment and...

Someone is intent on finishing what he started, and none of it good. Embryo 2: Crosshairs by J.A. Schneider is a medical thriller with a very current day twist involving in vitro fertilization and other medical miracles. OB resident David Levine and intern Jill Raney...

A closed insane asylum lies quietly rotting in the bleak North-Atlantic sun. Yet, it seems that some of its residents, both children and adult, are still inside. The Pennhurst Asylum is one of America's most haunted residences. Its history is dark and traumatic, with most...

Things between Mitch and Olivia are complicated, in fact have always been complicated. In Cynthia D’Alba’s Texas Two Step we learn that Mitch and Olivia used to date and were madly in love, until Mitch’s brother James died tragically, leaving behind his pregnant socialite wife....