Gia Bianchi, the daughter of New York Senator Michael Bianchi, had left home, trying to avoid an arranged marriage by her father, when she ended up at a rental unit in Pine View. Responding to a fire alarm at the unit, Sergeant Troy Wilder and...

The Hidden Cipher by Rich Petrelli introduces The Templars Legacy Trilogy. This is a book that fans of Dan Brown will adore. The premise is compelling: a Templar codex, dating back centuries, contains secrets buried in the vaults in the Vatican that can change history...

Omega Rose by J.R. Marzolf is a blend of science fiction, mystery, and adventure. The story follows Inga Ashilda Adamsen, a neurobiology graduate student whose life takes an unexpected turn as she becomes entangled in a web of danger, intrigue, and self-discovery. The plot is...

Jeffrey L. Carrier’s Coal Dust on Purple Asters is a short historical trilogy about three families surviving in the rough mountains of Kentucky through wars and the Great Depression. In Rain on Chinquapin Holler, Wiley Hicks, a coal miner, is torn between providing for his...

Malumdon Cottage by L.C. Williams follows two women connected by the same house, decades apart. In the 1930s and 40s, Kathleen Miller grew up on the Dorset coast, survived the loss of her sisters and her father, and entered wartime adulthood determined to build a...

The Relationship Contract, book 2 in Marcella Steele’s To Barcelona with Love trilogy, picks up the story from where the emotional gamble in The Vacation Bubble leaves off. Sofia Drake and Ryan Hunter decide on a sixty-day trial of shared life and expectations. Primarily set...

Eafin Lokdore and the Ancient Secret is the third installment in The Lokdore Trilogy by R.G. Edwards. The story becomes more interesting with a high-stakes quest for Eafin Lokdore. This time, Eafin must travel through dangerous terrain to retrieve an Ancient Secret. He is seventeen...

The Endgame is the second installment in The Aeternum Trilogy by award-winning author Matt Aynes. The story revolves around the fictional state of Khatizan. Deadly explosions in Germany and Russia spur the Aeternum team into action. American CIA agent Boris, his daughter Nadya, and to-be...

Drowning the Flames by A.L. Wyss is a young adult fantasy that follows the adventures of Vivian Carmine, a teenage girl thrust into the secret world of mythical beings. Vivian continues her journey of self-discovery and growth as she has to face the Greek god...

Into Ashes is the final chapter in the Phoenix Rising Trilogy by A.L. Wyss. After saving the world twice, Vivian Carmine, a girl with Phoenix powers, finds herself at a crossroads. She has to go up against RISE, the secret organization for mythical creatures that...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

In Alexandria Prescott’s Maelstrom of Innocence, book one of The Maelstrom Trilogy, on the night of 7 December 1941, Harper Miller attends an embassy reception in Tokyo with her father, Ambassador William Henry Miller, expecting only a diplomatic ceremony. By morning, news of Pearl Harbor...

The Creeping Darkness of Janaidar by Robert D. Holland begins in a hidden underground city called The Sleeping City, where an ancient dragon named YuLong wakes up the instant YunFei, the ruler he has been mentally linked to for thousands of years, dies. He expects...

In Robbi Sommers Bryant’s Last Breath, after learning that her boyfriend Edward Olson is the serial murderer known as the Copycat Killer, Seattle nurse Caitlyn Derry attempts to disappear before Edward escapes from police custody and resumes hunting her across the Pacific Northwest. Using false...

Helyn Dunn’s Valor is the riveting and well-crafted story of Ena, a young Druid, and her quest to find purpose and meaning in her life. This is Book 2 of The Evensong Enchantments Trilogy, and many details of Book 1, Sacrifice, are interwoven. The story...

Author Kirsten Pursell concludes The Scarlet's Harlots Trilogy with its third and final installment, Amber Unscripted. After a messy divorce from her billionaire husband, Amber is back home in Sullivan's Island, trying to start her life anew. She sees that all her friends from the...

Joy Michelle Austin’s Half Agony, Half Hope follows Rick Wentworth after his engagement to Anne Elliot ends and a message apparently from Anne draws him back to the Elliot estate. The woman waiting is Louisa, Anne’s identical twin, who drugs Rick before imprisoning him in...

Daniel Ellrick's Interstellar Refugees Omnibus combines the three books in the trilogy into one. It follows poker-playing telescope jockey, Miharu Nakayama, who is thrust into a role she never imagined, becoming one of the most important people in the solar system. An arkship delivers 500,000...

C.F. Yetmen’s The Pretense of Memory follows Oskar Gruenewald, a law student in 1958 Wiesbaden whose life begins to tilt after Professor Brehmer accuses him of plagiarism. Oskar survived the war as a child and was raised afterward by Anna and Henry Cooper, yet his...