In Dead Money Run by J. Frank James, Lou Malloy has just maxed out on a fifteen-year prison sentence for the theft of $15 million dollars. Right before leaving prison, he learns that his sister is brutally murdered. Even though he has 15 million reasons...

The Stone House Secret by Debra Burroughs opens with a broken date, one wrecked by the news of an unnatural death that was to keep them busy; Michael being one of only two detectives on the small Hidden Valley police force and Jenessa being the...

Adie is all set for a much needed vacation in Cozumel, but two murders and a best friend, Marg, who is a prime suspect, take relaxation out of the picture. In A Corpse for Cozumel, an Adie Sturm Mystery by Anastasia Amor, intrigue, mystery and...

A mother will do whatever it takes to provide the very best for her child or children, even when it might go beyond those things which she has always believed she could never bring herself to do. Miranda K. Simon shows how she did just...

The Relationship Protocol: How to Talk, Defuse and Build Healthier Relationships by Debra M. Roberts is a self-help book about how to communicate in relationships that might not be as good as they were, or as good as they could be. It can be a...

Dr. Stephanie's Relationship Repair for Couples: A Customer Service Approach for Minimizing Conflict and Creating Lasting Love in Your Relationships is a non-fiction self-help relationship book written by Stephanie Weiland Knarr. The author is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist who recommends that her...

The Sleepy Dragon is a children’s adventure by Amanda Bannikov. Knight Kimothin was feeling unhappy because the other knights in the Kingdom of Smesselleo teased her for she has never slain a dragon. Kimothin decided to go on a quest in search of one. She...

My Dad's Beard by Zanib Mian is a delightfully charming story about a little boy's observation of beards. The little boy's dad has a prickly black beard. His uncle's and grandfather's beards are different. The beard tickles him when his dad kisses him. The beard...

Zanib Mian and Bill Bolton have written an absolutely adorable story in Oddsockosaurus. Most preschool and young elementary age children love dinosaurs. Mian and Bolton will draw in parents and young readers quickly and easily with the colorful, playful, and funny images within Oddsockosaurus. The...

Better Remote Work: Do It Right, And Reap the Benefits by Jarkko Oksanen, after an introduction to this style of working, explains the increasing popularity of such a work model. The benefits and challenges of working remotely are applicable to firms of different natures such...

Behind The Fun Zone is Book 4 in Bruce Edwards' young adult fantasy series, The Age of Amy. Amy's best friend, Fred, is terrified of water, but still he agrees to go out in a paddle boat with her on Summit Lake. Amy and Fred...

How Learning To Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live is an excellent book by Joffre McClung which addresses a range of subjects such as grief, loss, coping with financial troubles, and building inner spiritual strength. It is an account of real life events leading...

Think of The Maltese Falcon in the milieu of 21st century Silicon Valley, and you’ll end up with something like Bad Karma (A Jack McCoul Caper) by Dwight Holing. Jack McCoul, the main character in Holing’s series of mysteries, is a former high-end burglar and...

For a collection of stories that stray delightfully off the beaten track of cookie cutter characters and plot lines without any roadside surprises, you can do a lot worse than venturing around inside Unpredictable Worlds: Stories by Jessica Knauss. While the stories are widely divergent,...

In Day of Forgiveness by Paul Anthony, life altering moments come in all forms. For Tobias Sinclair, it was an almost fatal blow to the head that changed his life. Suddenly he was more aware and could see things more clearly, but did not like...

In the cozy mystery Killer Kung Pao by Patrice Lyle, we accompany Dr. Piper Meadows to Florida for a three-day body, mind, and spirit expo. The expo is intended for spiritual/psychic types, and not for someone like the good Dr. Meadows, who is a naturopathic...

Five Weeks: A Lifetime, The True Journey of Clinton Jacob is a mother’s journal of her pregnancy, giving birth in a hospital 12 hours from home, surgeries and tubes, and mourning his passing. How do you juggle work and time with her two other young...

I just finished reading The Hunter of Hertha, book two in author Tess Collins’ The Midnight Valley Quartet, and I can’t get over what an enjoyable read it was. Following the story of Connor Herne over the course of several decades of his life -...

“You are such a dog, Spencer. One of these days you're going to turn into one!” To his colleagues, thirty-six-year-old Lieutenant Spencer Watley is a jerk. He’s a playboy, dislikes kids and is rude to everybody. Nevertheless, he works hard to bring down the Cyber...

Cauliflower Heart: A Romantic Wrestler by Diana Hart, named after an acquired deformity or hardening of the ear affecting the fighters, reflects on the trials and tribulations of living in the wrestling milieu. Through the story of Claudine Bellamy, who grew up in the wrestling...