Wishes Gone Awry by M. Ainihi is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories. It focuses on people who wanted something, but their efforts in obtaining their desires ended in tragedy. In the first tale, Jimmy, a young man promised a share of...

We Live in a Fallen World by Lance Dickson is a helpful guide that aims to help believers find ways to remain faithful to God in this world that is full of sin and corruption. The author reminds readers about the origin of sin and...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

Mix the world of Harry Potter and its characters with economics, and you get an amazing book, Potternomics: Why Wizards Still Live in the Dark Ages and Other Economic Curiosities in the World of Harry Potter by J. Brian O’Roark. The author is an economics...

In Robbi Sommers Bryant’s Last Breath, after learning that her boyfriend Edward Olson is the serial murderer known as the Copycat Killer, Seattle nurse Caitlyn Derry attempts to disappear before Edward escapes from police custody and resumes hunting her across the Pacific Northwest. Using false...

From Kiev to Moscow traces how Russian rule changed its meaning as political life moved from medieval Kiev to Moscow. Meletios Semertzides presents Kiev as a society where a prince’s power still had to answer to public custom shaped by Christian duty and town approval....

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,...

Beyond Grimm by Alan S. Kessler is a collection of 25 short stories inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales. After coming across a scary wolf in the woods, a young girl tried to offer her grandmother as bait. A Berkshire pig betrays others of...

In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect,...

When Your Shadow Knocks by Nick Dream follows Adonis, the singer of fading rock band Father’s Heresy, after the group is stranded near Kalotihos, a mountain village in Cyprus where Adonis spent his childhood. A mysterious force requires the band to complete a musical frequency...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight: The Dark Realm follows Alex Stone, a Winnipeg teenager flung across time into a galaxy where the ancient Star Knights have become prophecy. Aboard the mining ship The Avenger, Alex works beside Maggie Anderson while hiding how...

The Death Keeper Chronicles: A Light in the Darkness by Daniel Hersch is a fun, thought-provoking, thrilling read. This story has several beginnings, according to its narrator. The first beginning provides a brief introduction to vampires before we are introduced to Yiyao of Huaxia. About...

All Roads Home: A Collection of Short Stories by Lisa Diaz Meyer is the first book in the author's All Roads trilogy, followed by All Roads Destined and All Roads Shattered. This anthology begins with the onset of Meyer's wildly popular and highly rated saga,...

A collection of short stories by Matthew C. Woodruff, 26 Absurdities of Tragic Proportions explores the characters displayed in the illustrations by Edward Gorey. The chapters delve into the backstory behind each of the characters portrayed in The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Maria and her daughter move...

Tales from the Aether by Matthew Woodruff, a collection of 14 bizarre and thought-provoking short stories, will make you question your conditioned reality. What if the world is not how you have always perceived it to be? Imagine waking up in a strange, darkened room....

Having missed out on all the fun while growing up due to his Jewish mother's smothering ways, Seth Miller finally got the independence he needed and escaped her constant presence and control. A confirmed bachelor, Seth was living the life and loving it, compensating for...

Shadow Beneath the City is the first book in The Secrets of Shadow series by Joel Hopkinson. Amara is a young vampire with a dilemma in that she wants to kill all vampires for murdering her parents. Amara's constant companion, Shadow, is her only link...

God Of War by Ian Thompson is a suspense filled novel that will appeal most to an audience made up of a mix of mature young adults and adults who enjoy the idea of being scared out of their minds. God Of War portrays a...

Oz Will Fall: The Royal Marriage by John Malone and Nicole Delgado is a well-imagined and beautifully written fantasy that thrusts the reader into a world of magic, a world with its own rules. Oz was once subjugated to fear and terror by the evil...

The Love of Gods is a dramatic work of romantic paranormal fiction penned by author Tarrant Smith and is part of The Legends of Pale Series. In a world where gods come down to earth and interact with humans on a regular basis, our central...