In Feigned Madness by Tonya Mitchell, we meet Elizabeth Cochrane as an ambitious young woman trying to make a name for herself as a journalist, something very few women had been able to accomplish. She has high hopes and pushes her way into the “World”,...

Aggie Boyle & the Lost Beauty is a work of fiction in the fantasy and adventure sub-genres and was penned by author David Fine. Written for the middle-grade reading age, this delightful and fascinating tale is packed with action, loveable characters, and bright ideas from...

Lariat Girl is a psychological thriller novel written by Suzanne Prescott. Kenley Madson was not your ordinary teen. She loved the action and adventure lifestyle that went with having a dad who had been a stuntman and now had a training center for people who...

Low Reign by Mario D. King is a coming of age story of two boys as they try to find a way to chase their dreams while making sense of their reality. LJ and Bee are two friends on the brink of adulthood. The boys...

I Am Because I Choose is a children’s educational picture book written by Patrice McLaurin and illustrated by Dian Wang. The little boy in this story knows how important it is to make good choices. Making choices is his superpower. He can make good or...

Life in Saint Paul’s Bay, Malta in 1967 felt stifling for sixteen-year-old Melita. She lived in a male-dominated society, in a family where her father and brothers held the power. When Ross Macdonald came into her life, she found the love and affirmation she had...

Thorfinn and the Witch’s Curse: The Forerunner Series Book 1 takes the reader deep into the heart of Viking-occupied Britain at the beginning of the ninth century. Author Jay Veloso Batista shows us a fragmented land that is dominated and ruled by a mixture of...

Shortly after her eighteenth birthday, with plans for college and a challenging career, Enya learned she has Huntington’s Disease. Although her physician explained there are new treatment options, and it may not be terminal, her father’s death a few years earlier proved its possible outcome....

The goblin army overruns Isabel with plans to take all of Marlsbeth. Led by the nefarious Lord Gim, the Dark armies will stop at nothing till the land is wiped clean of men and their kind. All that stands between them is King Kristophor...

The concept of Death of a Bully by Steve Zimcosky is simple enough: following the reunion of a group of classmates, one of them is murdered. Of course, after the spouse is cleared, the immediate suspects are those with whom the victim spent his last...

The Witch-Hunter Trilogy by KS Marsden consists of The Shadow Rises, The Shadow Reigns, and The Shadow Falls. When witches and dark magic threaten the world, it's up to witch-hunters to stop them. When the Malleus Maleficarum Council hears about a growing power that would...

Time Waits For No One by Steve Bellinger is time travel fiction at its finest. As the story begins, we learn that an inventor early in the twentieth century developed plans for a time travel machine that would actually work, once technology caught up to...

Close Enough to Perfect: A true story of love, grief, resilience, and spirit is a work of non-fiction in the memoir and autobiographical sub-genres of writing and was penned by author Christine Noyes. As the title suggests, this very emotive work explores the tumultuous life...

In The Girl At The Hanging Tree by Mary Gray, we are introduced to Gemma Louise Coldiron, a young woman trapped inside her own head by a paranoid and manipulative second personality named Tansy. Aside from a dual personality, Gemma also suffers from amnesia, unable...

Art's Place: Stories & Diversions is a collected work of fiction that features short stories, many of which were award-winning, published, or highly commended, and all of which were penned by author Michael Fedo. There is a definite theme of subverting the norms throughout the...

Maiden of Flowers is the first novel in The Flower Saga by Makayla Love. Princess Orchid and her brother Prince Jasper are orphaned and living under the care of Beauregard Claude, the Comte du Papilio. Now that Jasper is the King, Orchid’s only concern is...

A Young Person’s Field Guide to Finding Lost Shipwrecks: The Search for the Santisima by Laurie Anne Zaleski is an informative and fascinating account of all that goes into searching for a lost shipwreck. The author, a marine geologist, takes the reader along on the...

A Dash of Romance draws the reader into the lives of Percival Randall and Abigail Walsley as they attempt to untangle the lie that binds them. This is the first book in the Romantic Encounters series by Paullette Golden. Abby knows better, but she spoke...

A Twist of Lemon: 100 Curious Stories in Exactly 100 Words by Arlene Duane Hemingway is a cleverly written collection of complete tales. Too many to list here, each story has its own merit, ranging from comedic to tragic. This happened to be my first...

Burning Water by Inge-Lise Goss begins another sleuthing job for Gwynn Reznick, a rookie investigator with a habit of snooping. Ruben, her boss and boyfriend, is scheduled to solve this case with Gwynn, but something called him away, leaving her with minimal supervision. An employee...