Of Diamonds and Vengeance: The Chronicles of Adamah, Book 1 by Rachel Fallon is a highly entertaining fantasy story. In the realm of Gemaria, there is nothing more important than the gems from which the Elves draw their power. Jacinth, a lowly street rat and...

Orphans of the Sea by Charles R. Cooke and Christopher X. Ryan opens in a tranquil village featuring Sook Joo, a very determined martial arts trainee. She is busy mastering the traditional combat skills taught to her by her grandfather, Ryu. Things go sideways fast...

Jugular Vein by David Lasaine is about the struggles of families during the Great Famine in Ireland. It takes place during the years 1847 – 1848, and concerns the O’Sullivan family, Seamus and Elizabeth, father and mother, and their daughters Bridget, Catherine, and Mary. During...

Sincerely Yours... by Sonia D. Hebdon is set in 1989 in Haven Cove. Seventeen-year-old Josie Worthington is an intelligent senior high school student who begins writing the anonymous advice column “Soul Searcher” for the Haven Cove Gazette. Her carefully constructed world tilts when Blaine Cordwell,...

The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

Midnight Ballerina is the first book in an enthralling fantasy series by Jhani Mills. The story follows a hybrid of Fae and mortal blood called Lysandra, who has endured brutal ballet training designed to suppress her magic and to be a weapon for the powerful,...

Lights & Sirens by Elizabeth Raum is a heartwarming tale about Annika “Anni” Sawyer, a quiet sixteen-year-old still dealing with her dad’s death. After seeing a poster in a store window for volunteers, Anni decides to join her town’s ambulance squad. At first, Anni wants...

Inside the Darkness: Eternal Book 4 by JP Ramzy picks up with former assassin Devyn and her companions, Isaac and Ryan, wandering a ruined Texas after the Blackout meteor strike. The atmosphere is terrifying, with winged monsters and human-faced beasts patrolling a sky that has...

GalactiCats: Showdown with Pickles and Roaches by Phillip Wolf follows Sergeant Smiley and his crew (Marble Games, Dixie Brains, and Chunky Monkey) as they jump from a rough mission on planet WARTHOLE straight into a galactic crisis. After a shaky landing on their home turf,...

Two Lefts Don't Make a Right by Dan Romanello is a sharp, entertaining thriller that drops readers right into the world of Dylan Tomassi, a self-made Florida investor with a generous heart and an uncanny ability to attract trouble. When Dylan travels to Connecticut to...

The Warrior in the Garden by Keith Thorn is a beautiful, reflective book that narrates the story of young Kaori. She starts her journey under the watchful guidance of her Sensei in a dojo. Most stories about any martial art focus on the discipline of...

Jennifer Allis Provost brings us an endearing fantasy romance in Phoenix Rising. Rosalie’s sister has been contracted to marry Lord Blackmoor, the Black Duke. Two nights before the wedding, Rosalie’s sister runs away with her personal guard, leaving their father no alternative but to have...

R.E. Davies’s The Necromancer’s Gift follows a young human woman who wakes in a dark forest after Ulve, a drow necromancer, attempts a spell he should not be casting. She has no name or memories, while Ulve discovers he has raised a living woman instead...

Kfir Luzzatto’s Encoded Minds is a biological thriller about Liv Scott, a university student whose brother Bobby is arrested after a young man is killed at a rave. Bobby says his drink was drugged, but the police treat him as the killer, so Liv turns...

A River Still Runs by Fran Coughlin is a memoir that unfolds through self-contained moments from the author’s childhood and early life in Lowell, Massachusetts. Rather than following a strict chronological arc, the book presents memories as a collection of snapshots, moving fluidly across time...

Two Spirits Here by Louise DeVito is a poetry collection that helps you face your tender spots when life is burdened by grief and personal struggles. Louise teaches us to process the significant or painful milestones in our lives by looking closely at the world...

Dirty Deeds by Deborah Shlian and Linda Reid is a continuation of a series involving investigative radio journalist Sammy Greene. Sammy is currently hosting a talk radio show in New York City for Radio USA. In the period leading up to the 2008 elections, the...

Massawa by Pam Webber is set in 1942, when Kit Thomas leaves Washington for Eritrea as an OSS courier under Navy cover. American payroll money for civilian laborers at the naval base in Massawa has vanished, and serial numbers from that cash have surfaced through...

In introducing The False Paradigms of Today and the Timeless Truth of Tomorrow, John Bliss states that “We can never know what is true,” and that what we understand as truths are merely those things that most people can agree on. The book is a...

In Daniel R. Hersch’s The Laughter from the Dark, when Cain, the first son of the first human family, murders his brother, his bloodline is linked to a cursed laughter that spreads through the city. His descendants, later called the Ones Who Laugh, use forbidden...