“The world didn’t leave us much, but it left enough. Enough to remind us that maybe, just maybe, we still matter.” Perhaps, but the novel Seeker by Glenn S. Robertson would indicate that we are a long way from what we once were. The world...

In Showboat Soubrette by Brodie Curtis, the story begins with Stella Parrot, a talented, popular Native American showboat singer, performing aboard Lady J along the Mississippi River. Taking place in the years leading up to the Civil War, she travels from town to town, captivating...

In Bound By Love, Faith and Hope, the first volume in Maurius Muze's Two Hearts Within One Soul series, after Queen Gelsomina’s death, King Marici’O rules from Turin under the shadow of grief, moving through palace halls and gardens still shaped by her presence. On...

The Rule of Three by Jennifer Granville is a heartwarming, humorous tale of betrayal and revenge. Julia Bennett has discovered her husband’s affair. They’ve been married for 25 years, and he’s decided it’s time for a younger model. What’s a girl to do? Discover herself,...

Two Hearts Within One Soul: Bound By The Invisible Red Thread by Maurius Muze opens in post-WWII Hampshire, England, where the main character, Layla, has settled into a life that is as predictable as the ticking of a clock. In her early fifties, her days...

Suzanne Parry’s The Communist’s Secret begins in 1941, where former Leningrad radio worker Katya Karavayeva joins a Soviet volunteer labor squad, expecting to dig defensive trenches against the German invasion. After a disastrous attack near the Luga River destroys the group, Katya escapes into occupied...

Sketch by Ros Hill is a unique adventure that describes what happens when magic and superheroes collide. Charles was just an average art student on a trip to Egypt when a discovery changed his life forever. It all started when he met the beautiful Heba,...

Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is based on D. L. Norris’s own family history, and rings with authenticity. Opening in nineteenth-century Norway, like so many of their compatriots living in poverty, Kittil and Marte Dyrebu decide to emigrate to America. They have an extended bureaucratic battle...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

The Train to Quebec by Julia Baeten follows Gabriella, a woman in her thirties who feels drained by her routine life and is desperate for a fresh start. After leaving behind a difficult past and an unfulfilling job, she boards a train to Quebec City,...

In Joel Canfield's Brain Worm, as far as the world knows, former CIA officer Max Bowman is dead. Really, though, he's in Long Beach with a fake name and modest life as the private investigator, Hank Sinatra. That facade collapses when a client complains about...

In Pinkie the Pink Elephant by George J. Linsenmeyer III, Pinkie is born as Sarah in a peaceful jungle herd, but she is different from the other elephants the moment she arrives. Her bright pink skin sets her apart, leaving her isolated while the other...

Amy and her family are off on a beach vacation for an entire week. And her two best friends, Lilly and Dawn, and their families have been invited, too. In Nirja S. Khemka’s Amy’s Sandy Summer, Amy learns that sometimes besties can be a challenge....

Laurence Hutson’s Shattered Faces is set during the First World War, when American sculptor Anna Ladd leaves Boston for Europe after learning that soldiers with severe facial injuries are hiding themselves from families and society. In London, she studies a new process that uses sculpture,...

On December 6, 1932, in Los Angeles, world traveler Aloha Wanderwell’s famous husband, Walter “Cap” Wanderwell, is murdered aboard their schooner Carma in Laurel Corona’s Aloha Wanderwell Takes the Wheel. Aloha and her devoted sister, Miki, grieve with the children. But they have to deal...

Writing your memoir is a big undertaking. For one thing, no matter how old (or young) you are, you have a lot of stories to share. So, where do you start? Lita Kurth’s Writing Memoir in Flashes is a good place to begin your memoir...

Versology is an enthralling collection of poems written without using colons or semicolons. Taking inspiration from the nature of life, Avalok has crafted this collection seeking answers to some profound questions. Pursuing meaning and purpose, the author chooses to rely on question marks and exclamation...

Hook, Line, and Murder by GG Calpo opens when an ordinary spring morning in Whitman's Port turns grotesque in an instant. A fisherman's line pulls in a severed human hand. Meg Brightbook, a retired kindergarten teacher, recognizes the diamond-encrusted signet ring on the hand as...

A reset session is a focused session of reading positive quotes for a fixed number of minutes, without interruption. Reset practice should be time-bound, done alone, focused, and with a clear intent of feeling better. To better understand reset, it is essential to experience it...

Lisa has just attended her ex-fiancé’s wedding, feeling lost, weepy, and humiliated. After all, her fiancé had just dumped Lisa for her friend, whom he had just married. She needs a change; she needs to get away from the past she spent with him. And...