The Big Switch: Varney and Cedric by Lynn Slaughter is a remarkable novel for children. We meet Varney and Cedric, two teenagers, both misfits, unhappy with their lives. Varney is a born-and-bred vampire, but he hates how blood tastes, dislikes his mum’s cobweb cookies, and...

Sean M. Tirman’s A Rap on the Door is a collection of short stories built from speculative premises that turn familiar fears into strange pressure points. And they all start with a knock. Among them is Polaris Breach, where a widowed sailor leaves shore after...

Fun Day With Misa is a children’s book written in both English and Spanish by Mireya Saldua. Misa is a playful, miniature Australian puppy whose name means 'beautiful bloom' in Japanese. This playful puppy is loved by her mom and dad and adored by her...

Without Reservations: Roadmap to Romance by Shonda Ramsey is a gentle, faith‑centered second‑chance romance that brings Tess and Luke back into each other’s lives after more than two decades apart. Once high‑school sweethearts who spent several summers building a quiet, hopeful love, they were separated...

Hypatia by Lukman Clark begins in fourth-century Egypt, where a girl named Tuya lives beside the Nile with her Kushite mother and Macedonian soldier father. After her father disappears, a catastrophic sea surge tears Tuya away from home, family, and the name she was born...

Reunion in the Desert by Leslie Rager is a skillfully written story about finding your way back to who you are. For most people, losing their way does not seem entirely likely; for Quinn Goode and Colton Carson, losing themselves seemed like the only way...

Royal Replacement by Holly Kerr is book 6 in the Love in Laandia series, where the reader sees what happens to the characters Abigail Locke, Prince Bo, and Hettie, along with Tema, their daughter, who married in the previous book. Abigail is asked to be...

What do you do when you have a dream that seems impossible? Sally's Musical Tale by Rosie J. Pova is the story of a young snake named Sally, who has one big goal. She wants to learn to play the piano. There’s just one catch....

Some love stories end with a kiss. Others end with a suitcase and eight years of silence. Royal Reluctance, the fourth book in Holly Kerr's Love in Laandia series, belongs firmly in the second camp. Prince Bo Erickson and Hettie Crow eloped in secret, only...

RC and JP Carter’s Magic Beneath Manhattan follows Aurora Quinn, a junior editor in midtown Manhattan, whose ordinary subway ride becomes a passage into Aeltheryn, a realm where dragons speak, and old magic governs royal war. After a mysterious conductor gives Aurora a brass token...

Royal Rebel, Holly Kerr’s fifth Love in Laandia novel, is built on a very particular kind of heartbreak that comes not from losing something, but from watching it walk away. Princess Lyra Erickson, who’s been in the background of every book in this series, signs...

Laura J. Wellington’s Doormat Mom, No More! is an explosive blend of memoir and manifesto for parents who have reached a breaking point with ungrateful, selfish children. Drawing inspiration from her own painful experience of being excluded from her youngest daughter’s wedding after years of...

The Steal is Book 1 of Sunset City Secrets by Ella Kane, and a great start to the series. Bella is a Reiki practitioner with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. Jason is the son of Lewis Hall, who embodies the stereotypes of the domineering father...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...

In Kurt Burke's Rebels & Filibusters, Doc Carlile, a former Confederate naval surgeon turned mining claim owner, accepts a paid assignment from Salt Lake City businessman Frederick Butterfield to inspect a massive saltpeter cargo in Panama. The job should place Carlile in charge of moving...

Forever, Papa Bear is a children’s picture book written by Danielle Beerli with illustrations by Jecoe Firmalan. It follows Little Bear as she appreciates her father’s unconditional love. Papa Bear has always been there for Little Bear, giving her the warmest hugs, comforting her when...

Robert Frost once wrote, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” In Autumn Ridge by Micaiah Munro, that sense of home is tied to a quiet cabin in Montana, where family history and personal struggles...

Kathryn Le Veque’s Wolfehound follows Cambria de Royans, a young woman raised at Folkingham Castle who is preparing to marry Liam Herringthorpe, the northern knight promised to her since childhood. Cambria does not know she was born Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last...

Stephanie Cotta’s Beneath the Crescent Shadow follows Naja, a sixteen-year-old Karahvelan warrior in an isolated seaside village where children are sacred and outsiders are feared. During a monsoon, Naja and her best friend Sylda rescue a pregnant albino woman from a wreck off the Zahari...

God Whispers Are Life Changers by Michael Salkeld is a memoir about the blessings that come with following God’s guidance. At a time when Michael and his wife Delane were both out of jobs, and everything was looking bleak, God whispered to them. They co-founded...