The DCI Jones Casebook: Ellis Flynn (Volume 2) by Kerry J. Donovan is a very neat and interesting thriller that will grab readers' attention till the very end. Fourteen-year-old Hollie Jardine is abducted on her way back from school one day. The case is given...

Author Aaron C. Engler’s The Wizard and the Rat brings two contradictory people together; Wizard Master Thed Hyral Clearwater, a powerful wizard who needs to correct his past mistake, and Rota Ken otherwise known as Rat, a lowly street urchin. Their path crossed when Hyral...

Wraithsong by E.J. Squires follows the journey of Sonia in her graduation year at high school. She had known she was different to other children from a young age as she had the ability to control others by her thoughts alone. After her father's death,...

D.W. Harper delights children with her book Jace's Adventure at Crystal Lagoon. Summer is over and Jace is not too happy about going back to school. But things change when he meets his new teacher, Mrs. Merwin, who fascinates him with her mysterious presence and...

Upon Your Honor by Marie Lavender starts with a little girl, Chloe, being comforted by her father after the death of her mother. Chloe is told that her mother fell, but she soon learns that her mother took her own life. Chloe grows into a...

Gary D. Conrad is a brilliant storyteller and Oklahoma Is Where I Live is his masterpiece. Conrad shares heartwarming stories of what it was like for him growing up and being an adult in Oklahoma. Whether it’s the story of his first crush and how...

Numerous pathways collide and different cultures become blended into one odd reality in The Lhasa Trilogy. Gary D. Conrad has drawn several cultures together into one destiny in these three books. Book one chronicles the roots of Matthew Walter Johnston from life on a Davidson,...

Remnants of the Damned, the first book in the Abyssal Sanctuary series by Gavin Hetherington, takes place in a little eerie town called Lakefield View. Five friends and co-workers from Pandora Café are about to experience the worst 24 hours of their lives. It all...

Flowers and Stone by Jan Sikes is a historical fiction and romance rolled into one enticing true story. It shares an intense love story that takes place in the loud and fun Texas honky-tonks in 1970. Darlina Flowers isn't prepared for any man to come...

Button Nose The Sad Little Bear by Gina LoBiondo is the story of a sad little bear and the little girl who gave it a home and everlasting love. The little bear was always sad because no one wanted him. He had been in the...

Dorothy Kozeny, grieving for her son who died in Vietnam, is shocked when she receives a mysterious letter stating the ashes the military sent her may not be Andrew’s. Her investigation confirms this, but the military bureaucrats are tight-lipped. Dorothy decides to go to Laos...

Two major life changing events had taken place in Helena Brewster's life in the recent past; her father had passed away and she had seen Jason again after four years. However, neither of these compared to the effects of the sudden appearance of an angelic...

Rock Star is the second book in the Dream Weaver series by the talented Su Williams. While I hadn't read the first book, it was easy enough to grasp the ideas once I read into the first few chapters. The writing style was unique and...

Crystal Rock chief of police Sam Danielson could not have been happier with the way things were going; he finally had a chance at a life with Penny Wentworth after over twenty years of waiting. He did not even mind taking on her special-needs teenage...

Escape From Nuur by Kathy Porter is the second episode in her Gray Guardians series. In Escape From Nuur, we learn that the Grays have returned to Earth. A year earlier, half a million humans had been abducted and transported to the planet Nuur, ostensibly...

Just Going by Jianna Higgins is Lily's story. Lily is a 15-year-old girl from a privileged background who gets caught shoplifting cheap underwear. The judge sees through her tough demeanour and awards her 50 hours community service in Sorrento Retirement Home. Not looking forward to...

Finding Arun by Marisha Pink is a beautifully written story that will take readers along with Aaron Rutherford and his journey of self-discovery. When Aaron loses his mother, he discovers a secret from her past which takes him on an incredible journey of discovering his...

At seventy-five years of age, Alice Williams is still a sharp, spunky character, but she does forget a few things. Her daughter Karen decides she can no longer live alone, and finds a place for her at the Sorrento Retirement Facility. Alice considers this a...

When things get tough, we all look for something or someone to lean on; some turn to booze, drugs or money while others discover that family and friends are best to hold them up. Jevon E. Thompson tells the story of a family struggling to...

Twisted, by Lola Smirnova, is a nightmare journey into the life of Julia, a young woman from Ukraine who, struggling for a future, follows her sister's path into the sex trade. In the post-Soviet break-up world, there is little to offer in the way of...