The Battle Angels by A.S. Thomas is a fantasy drama about powerful warriors who battle against monsters born from human negativity. Emelie is haunted by the past and keeps her identity as a Battle Angel a secret from her husband and children. However, one day,...

Slipper Girl by Adele Royce is about Skylar Van Ness, a 27-year-old woman who discovers that her dark past has returned to torment her. Right before her father's wedding, Skylar reads a shocking email, and she learns that her mother knows everything about her and...

Smiley had a lot to learn. He didn’t know why he was in a dog shelter. Had he done something wrong? In Olena Kagui’s What Smiley the Rescue Dog Didn’t Know, Smiley is quickly adopted into a loving family, so he doesn’t have to feel...

Kristen Peters’ The Modalities of ISA discusses the ISA, or the Integrated Spectrum Analysis Therapy, for neurodivergent individuals, such as those who have autism. The therapy has two main goals. Connection Over Correction emphasizes building a strong, trusting friendship first, rather than just trying to...

ISA StoryWorld: Chandler's Stay by Kristen A. Peters is an insightful, compassionate story told through the eyes of a twelve-year-old autistic boy named Chandler who is facing a frightening hospital stay without the ability to name or communicate his strong, confusing feelings. The book explores...

In ISA StoryWorld: Garrett's Becoming by Kristen Peters, Garret is at an age that confuses most people. At twelve, his body has changed considerably. He is tall, his voice is deeper, and his shoulders have begun to broaden. These changes have led people to start...

In A Walk Among Heroes by James McDevitt, T.J. Montgomery had loved Magdalyn for as long as he could remember. When T.J. saw Magdalyn standing beside another man, smiling in a way he thought belonged only to him, his world shattered. T.J. searched for something...

Ancilla is the first book in a trilogy by Sera Maddox Drake. After a religiously constrained childhood, a young woman begins experimenting with sex and learns that she enjoys a wide range of partners and activities. With each lover, she becomes less inhibited during the...

In Everkind, Haven Ruth, the smallest fairy, is also known as the Biter Fairy. In Gael JB Orr’s The Itty-Bitty Biter Fairy, Haven Ruth has quite the temper, and she resolves it by biting anyone nearby. All the other fairies have bite marks from Haven...

In Nathaniel Jungheim's Savages of the Bulk, the year is 2286, and Jacob Dawes prepares to join the Terran Joint Expeditionary Forces after graduating in Chicago alongside classmates Miguel Castal, Priya Patel, and Milla Sefira. During their final night together, a violent rooftop attack destroys...

Joy Michelle Austin’s novel, Half Agony, Half Hope: Dear Lily Edition, is a gripping psychological story of the survival of a father and his daughter under horrific circumstances. The shocking story emerges through letters that Rick Wentworth wrote to his daughter Lily over ten years...

After the death of her grandfather, Grace Woodruff returned to Woodruff Mountain, home to many generations of the Woodruff family and its herb business empire, for two main reasons. To settle and manage her grandfather’s sprawling estate, and also seek peace of mind since her...

In Sophia Kouidou-Giles’s historic Ariadne, when Cretan princess Ariadne is sent to Athens as part of a fragile alliance, she enters a city strained by famine, political unrest, and rising hostility toward her family. Her brother Androgeus arrives to compete in the Panathenaic Games, but...

Math Heals: On the Gift and Weight of Being Human by Tiffany Suson lays out the idea that life is already running in patterns that don’t bend just because we feel strongly about something in the moment. The author takes equations, like Emotion ≠...

Melissa “Mel” Noblett, a journalist and environmental activist, is in Milan gathering information from a whistleblower about a new bee virus, but is disappointed by the lack of progress. To salvage the trip, her editor sends her to Bologna to interview Dr. Daniel Woodruff, a...

Canadian author, Charmaine Hammond, and her husband, Christopher Alcock, loved their white German Shepherd, Dooks, and grieved losing him to death at an old age. Then, they found the picture of a happy, loving Chesapeake Bay Retriever on a website dedicated to rescuing animals....

"An Affinity for Shadows" by Liz R. Newman centers on the life of Kate Theodore, a talented and focused broadcast journalist who has made it to the top, only to find that office politics as well as national events may force her out of her...

A car crash. A mother left with her three children. Uncles coming to taking care of mommy. Sounds suspenseful, intriguing and captivating, right? It was. Roxe Anne Peacock took an interesting plot line of suspenseful twists, added to it the vividly portrayed characters, and turned...

In the 1890s, Fred Harvey’s waitresses, the Harvey Girls, are an integral part of intercontinental train travel. Tessa Crane is attractive, hard working, independent and personifies the best of the Harvey Girls. Like so many others, her job is to welcome the passengers of the...

“A Cruel Calm: Paris Between the Wars” takes readers back on a visit to an era when Paris was the cultural capital of the world, a time when Paris was recovering from the First World War and awaiting the next great war. Libby Whitaker and...