No Looking Back: A Powerful and Emotionally-charged Story of a Young Girl's Struggle for Dignity and Self-Worth by Shirley Dawson is an inspiring story that many readers, especially women, can relate to. Josephine “Josie” Pritchard’s childhood had been punctuated by physical and verbal abuse from...

Fun with Dick by John Dolan is a gripping psychological thriller with a quirky protagonist. From the start, the reader meets the protagonist, twenty-five-year-old Richard Blackheart whose life is dull. But there is more to him than that. First, he hates his name, even though...

Handle with Care: Book 3 is a romance novel from the Ford Brothers Series by Sandra Alex. Garret Ford loves Nora, a nurse who cared for his late father, and tries to build a bond with her troubled daughter, Missy. He becomes wary whenever David,...

You have a great idea, a plot you’ve been working on in your mind, but you just haven’t started writing it down. Why? Procrastination? Or simply the fear of getting it right? There are a lot of books on the market that can help a...

There is a lot to unpack in Return to Eternity, Jenni Barnett's colorful and character-driven drama. I appreciated the preface certainly, as it grounded me in the factual history of colonial Australia that the novel expands upon. This is more than historical fiction; it's a...

The Land of Nod is a 29-page children’s picture book written by Alicia Antonio and illustrated by Manqing Jin. The story centers around a mother putting her daughter to bed and telling her about a whimsical land called Nod that resides across a rainbow arch...

A deadly viral mutation is threatening to bring an end to society in the thrilling science-fiction novel, A Step Ahead of the Fall (Part One: Sanctuary) by I. W. MacDonald. After the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and 7/7, Dr. Robert Wallace warned the American and...

Life is all about choices. Tiger (the cat) makes his choice to follow his heart, to pursue a mission to bring peace to everyone. Tiger partners with Fiddle (another cat) and they venture through the forestlands toward the Temple of the Golden Light. They must...

In the final part of the Richard and Maria trilogy, One Alone in the World by Sarah Stuart, the couple is facing financial and relationship difficulties. The business they inherited from Maria's late surrogate father, The White Hart Inn, is struggling and Richard's once devoted...

Drum Beats, Heart Beats is a work of non-fiction that is written in a memoir style by author Maria Nhambu. This work completes a memoir trilogy chronicling the journey of culture, empowerment, and identity of the author: the Dancing Soul Trilogy. After the harrowing experiences...

Red, White & Blues is an epic undertaking by author L.V. Sage. It takes the reader into two divergent cultures, that of the 1960s hippie in San Francisco and that of the Vietnam war veteran. The juxtaposition of these two stories is beautifully researched and...

Misericorde is the first installment in the Mercy series. It is a work of fiction in the epic fantasy genre and was penned by author Cynthia A. Morgan. Set after the first three horsemen of the apocalypse have been let loose upon Earth and shifted...

Netherrealm Book 1: Heed the Darkness is a work of fiction in the historical, mystery/intrigue, and romance sub-genres, and was penned by author Kim Michelle Ross. Combining many different elements of medieval life to deliver a truly epic work, this engrossing and engaging novel brings...

A Testament of Steel is an epic fantasy by Davis Ashura. The story opens in a small village where Cinder Shade and his parents work as farmers. His parents are killed by an aether-crazed snow tiger. During the attack, he escapes death but loses his...

Northern Lights, Southern Stars is a work of fiction in the fantasy and fairy tale retelling sub-genres and was penned by author C. S. Johnson. Suitable for all readers from young adult audiences upwards, this fascinating retelling of Snow White contains themes of racial identity,...

Friendship comes in all kinds of packages. Even pets have friends. While it’s not usual, it does happen that a cat befriends a dog. Luckily for Calypso, an alley cat did take an interest in the Welsh terrier. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have survived the night...

Rancid Mahoney works for Gunther Ostrander, Head Prospector of New Canterton, a mining settlement in what was once, a long time ago before civilization ended, “the heart of American Northwest”. Mahoney’s task is to find the Blackheart Mountain which is the source of “Blackvein”, a...

Child of Prophecy is a mesmerizing final entry in the Titanian Chronicles by Leisl Kaberry. This is a beautifully written fantasy that made me want to read the entire collection of books in the series. There is so much at stake in this entry. Lenna,...

Dark Descent into Desire by J. J. Sorel is a sizzling romance novel full of passion, lust, and eventual love between the mysterious Blake and the compassionate Penelope. Blake has a dark past that has affected him deeply; he doesn't date, and he never opens...

Summer of L.U.C.K. by Laura Segal Stegman is a delightful, middle-school-targeted adventure that finds three different but uniquely linked young pre-teens attending summer camp at Camp Inch, Michigan. Darby is a talented, young equestrienne but she is threatened by a recurring stutter that her mother...