In Echoes of Maya by Kelly Vincent, eight-year-old Maya is Lauren’s stepsister, and together with their neighbor Gabriel, the three are close friends. On Halloween night, Lauren takes Maya trick-or-treating while their parents are at work. With missing children in the news, Lauren tries to...

Holly and the Magic Bunny by Kateryna Dronova is a well-written book that enlightens young readers on the importance of being helpful and kind to others. Holly refuses to help her grandma during the winter. While trying to sleep, Holly encounters Toby, a talking bunny,...

Eafin Lokdore and the Altar of the Sun, the second installment of The Lokdore Trilogy by R.G. Edwards, plunges listeners into a world of magic, secrets, and coming-of-age trials. On the cusp of turning sixteen, orphaned peasant Eafin Lokdore’s life takes a unique turn when...

Saving Cottonwood by Lisa Page follows a recently divorced middle school librarian named Iris, who was seeking a fresh start in an old adobe house near the bosque. This landscape of cottonwood trees and winding riverbanks seems to hum with its own quiet spirit. In...

The Compete-Learn-Honor Playbook: Simple Steps to Take Your Mental and Emotional Tennis and Pickleball Skills to a New Level by Peter C. Scales is a guide that combines sports psychology and practical application. Known to many as Coach Pete, the author draws on decades of...

The Mori family’s book, Tiny Backyard Discoveries: Explore Nature, is part of a series of encyclopedias. It’s a lovely read for the curious-minded nature lover, and is packed with stunning pictures personally captured by the family. Each page is full of information about the smallest...

K.M. Huber's Call of the Owl Woman carries readers into ancient Peru among the Nasca people. Patya, the protagonist, is a 15-year-old girl caught between her personal desires and her duty to her people. As drought engulfs her homeland, Patya's people begin to turn on...

In Elizabeth Mowery’s The Unwanted Alliance, Adeline Bigsby is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives with her family. She unlocks a rusty gate behind her backyard and enters a hidden realm where time in her world stops. There, she trains with a fighter named Jesse under...

The General's Gift is the second book in The Swans of Paris series by Giovanna Siniscalchi. The story follows Celeste Dubois, a dreamy and idealistic young heiress who believes in poetry and fairy-tale love. On the other hand, we have Alexander de Warenne, the stoic...

Love Wars: Clash of the Parents, A True Divorce Story – Memoir by Matthew A. Tower is a humorous yet heartbreaking look at the effect of divorce on children. Matthew loved both his parents, but the constant wars between them were dragging him down. In...

Waking Maya by Warren Goldie is a brilliant metaphysical visionary mystery. Maya Burke, a history graduate from Towson University, discovers a journal that her father, Ben Ambrose, wrote for her before he left for good. Maya is elated and surprised by this discovery. She remembers...

Liam (Foxy), a once celebrated resistance soldier, is now a remorseful man living in a world marred by alien devastation. Liam is no stranger to pain. Estranged from his sons and father-in-law, and having lost his beloved wife in an alien attack, he is a...

Gwendolyn “Gwen” Evir, the Elvish princess, has been captured by Morrigan and imprisoned on Grenholm, the Goblin world, where she faces brutal torture from the dark goddess and her daughter, Riana. While Riana seems to be embracing her dark heritage, knowledge of her mother’s secrets...

Killarney Traynor's Mr. Maybe by Christmas follows Cassidy MacLean, a woman struggling to navigate love and family pressures during the holiday season. After her best friend, Kayla, remarks on her picky ways when it comes to relationships, Cassidy is determined to find a date for...

The Story of You by Daniel Maunz centers around Will Banfield and his son, Quince. Father and son learn early the struggles of navigating life's difficulties. Will, who is a reserved and emotionally distant lawyer, experiences a change with the birth of his son, Quince....

Samantha Alis’ Clairvoyant follows Delilah Dufort, the daughter of a well-known lawyer in the small town of Baneberry. Gifted or cursed with the ability to see into people's pasts, Delilah used her visions to help solve mysteries. But she may have bitten more than she...

Shadows Fall by Gary Stringer is book three in The Salvation of Tempestria series. It continues the story of Catriona (Cat) and her allies, who are trying to save their world, Tempestria, from dark forces. Cat (a skilled half-faery druid mage), Dreya (a powerful faery...

Heroes, Holidays, and Hope: Volume 3 is a collection of military-inspired romance stories by authors Sharon Wray, D.C. Stone, Megan Michelle, Dania Voss, and Laura M. Baird. One Night by Firelight tells the story of Abe and Daphne. On her way to her friend’s wedding,...

Emma Madison: Master Meddler by Pat McDermott Michener follows Emma Madison, a sharp, strong-willed widow in 1950s Medford, Ontario, whose quiet life unravels when her niece Jasmine Holmes returns home after years of disgrace. Once the town’s beauty, Jasmine is now sick, divorced, and shunned....

Falling For My Husband (Again) by Mercy Jane Porquez Ballesteros begins with a married couple, Olivia and Ethan Carter, arguing over the unraveling of their marriage, driven by his distance and workaholism. She leaves him. Then she’s in a life-changing accident, one where she temporarily...