After an early journalistic career filled with achievement, Svetlana Meritt's life changes gear after a disastrous encounter in Mexico and she feels compelled to re-examine her values and her life path. She meets a soulmate and fellow searcher in her husband Dwight, and sets off...

Every parent’s worst nightmare comes true in William Mark’s gripping new police thriller, Lost in the Darkness. When Detective Curtis “Curt” Walker’s son, Josh, is kidnapped, he leaves his entire life behind to search for his only son. While he’s desperately looking for leads on...

Waiting in the Wings (Flying Solo Series) (Volume 3) by Jeanette Vaughan is the last book in the trilogy, and is a book that will emotionally connect very well with readers. Jana Charbonnet is an adopted child and she is always haunted by the thought...

I loved the different voices in Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension by YT Whitemansson. During the annual Convention-con, a bunch of fans are gathered in expectation of the arrival of Mr. Abraxas, the mysterious author of the comic book '365 Heavens.' This story is told...

Finding Faith in the Midnight Hour: Bible Verses, Tests & Testimonies - Finding Faith by K. Camille Snapp is a comforting read where the author connects readers to instances in her life. She begins with the midnight hour of her life and how it comes...

In Bells in the Air by E.B. Butler, a new church in the neighborhood is about to hang its bells. The Bell children - Rudge, Lanny and Timmy - along with their friends - Rufus, Sally and Katy Collins - are looking forward to events...

Guess What is in the Ocean? by Nancy O'Neill is an interesting book for kids with a nautical theme. The book has four-line rhyming verses that give clues about places, people and things, and the answer is given with the aid of beautiful illustrations. The...

The childhood rhyme, "Give me give me never gets; don't you know your manners yet," rattles through my mind as I read this charming story, Treasures in the Winter Vault by Debbie Bertram and Lisa Detanna. It's a lesson that children and adults alike need...

Trapped in the Mayan Tattoo by Ronda Pauley is an engrossing read dealing with the seedy, sordid and cruel world of sex trafficking. Maria is a 14-year-old girl who has been kidnapped from her home and sold into sexual slavery. Two FBI agents rescue her...

Whisper in the Blood by S.H. Montgomery is set between the 1900s and the 1940s in the Chicago area and revolves around two families, Italian and Irish immigrants, the Savios and the Callahans, and their lives. Both these families came to Chicago searching for a...

A Diamond In The Dust by Paulette Rae is a romance that crosses genres and mixes romance, dystopia, and science fiction into a tale about loyalty and doing what is right. Adrienne is happy with her life on Earth, as long as her husband Trapper...

I chose to read Friend Grief in the Workplace: More Than an Empty Cubicle by Victoria Noe because of all the violence happening at workplaces nowadays. When I see people crying for their lost co-workers, my heart goes out to them. Before this book it...

A body is found in the Arboretum of Cold Creek College and Faculty Sleuth Dr Sheridan Hendley swings into action. The victim died of bullet wounds to the head and the local police charge a college gardener with murder. Sheridan is horrified. The evidence is...

One of the oldest of the Twelve Great Cities, Talis is second only to the capital in wealth and prestige. However, Talis is starting to creak under the strain caused by the tension between humans and faeries. The strain gets worse when a hobgoblin destroys...

Alone in the Wind by Judy Bruce is a compelling tale of treachery and deceit set in a small town in western Nebraska. Megan Docket Culhane is a Glock-toting, opinionated newlywed who also happens to be the senior partner in the Docket Law Firm, the...

The early part of Just A Drop in the Ocean by Grant Leishman is set on a family smallholding in the Philippines and the time is July 1971. The eldest child of the family, who survives at subsistence level on rice crops, is eleven-year-old Teresa....

Nick was extremely likeable and could charm anyone despite his shy and guarded demeanor, so why was he murdered? In Death in the Old Rectory by Kathie Deviny, Mrs. Adele Evans, President of the Ladies Auxiliary, Directress of the Altar Guild, and the Chair of...

Lost in the Park by Sabinah Oroge is a delightful adventure read for youngsters. Nine-year-old Richard is fascinated with Daniel Boone and reads and watches everything he can about him. He loves the idea of living in the forest and being like Daniel Boone. When...

In a story set in the 1930s, amid the struggles to survive life in the Depression, Amish housewife, Gloria, and her English neighbor, Minerva, grasp at faint straws of hope to make it through yet another winter. Their clashes and disagreements formed long ago as...

A Shadow in the Moonlight: A Thirteenth Hour Prequel by Joshua Blum is a short story and a prequel. A young hunter is out in the woods and he gets lost. It is raining and cold, so he looks for shelter. When he finds shelter,...