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...

In Michelle Miller’s Where the Clouds Cannot Find Me Revisited, Marisol is a mother in Mobile, Alabama, whose life narrows to a single imperative after her infant son Jacob Oliver is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. As doctors work to stabilize Jake, Marisol...

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...

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...

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...

Nubia Johnson is a disciplined, principled USCIS officer who discovers that her case files and digital badge are weapons in a hidden war in David L. Wadley’s Passport Bro. She has always believed in justice and fairness, even if it is difficult to find justice...

In Matt Aynes’ The Novian, Charles Ferguson is a university professor still recovering from imprisonment inside a secret technological experiment. He learns that the Magnus Foundation has established a hidden island in the Pacific where artificial intelligence now directs a plan capable of reshaping civilization....

The Raging Torrent (Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems, Book 2) by Anthony Pardoe is an imaginative fantasy story. Trapped in the Land of Gems with a little pebble friend Jasper, ten-year-old Star must avoid being captured (again) by the pitchblendes and get to...

What an adorable book! The Ride of Doom: Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems by author Anthony Pardoe is a children’s book with a fun protagonist, a cute talking pebble, and an action-packed tale from start to finish. Ten-year-old Star does not quite get...

In Star Sapphire and the Land of Gems: Book Three – The Crystal Cavern by Anthony Pardoe (in collaboration with Suzanne Pardoe), mythology meets geology in a delightful adventure unlike any other available to young readers. All of the familiar components of the quest are...