Authors Aaron J. Cox and Gregory L. Wright write from experience. They do not claim to have degrees in psychology or that they are renowned therapists. Instead they are individuals who have faced bad relationships and survived. The titles of the chapters worried me at...

"The Housekeeper's Son" by Christopher Loke is a compelling and, at times, complicated tale. Christopher Loke weaves quite a story involving Eleanor, hired as housekeeper, her son David, and the Cunningham family, Elizabeth, Katherine and Edmund. Add abuse, incest and murder, and you have the...

"Gerry the Giraffe" is written by Melissa Northway and illustrated by Jennifer Mercede. The first thing that jumped out at me when I saw this book was the delightful colors of Gerry. The illustrator has given him orange, giving him the look of a quirky...

Golden girl Heven Montgomery had it all: the looks, the body, the talent, the popularity and the good grades, and she is (of course) a cheerleader. Life is perfect until one day something dreadful happens. Heven is attacked by some horrific creature while walking home...

In Chicago, FBI Agent Nick Catlin spent months setting up a sting on Damon Hannah’s business, INYO Industries, that supposedly focuses on high-end medical equipment. It is clear there is a leak in the FBI team. Twice an enormous explosion has obliterated all traces of...

“Red Leaves and the Living Token” by Benjamin David Burrell is a riveting fantasy featuring multiple interwoven sub-plots, with a captivating over-arching theme. Three distinct “species” of characters are the primary personalities in this story: Bota, Zo, and Petra. The Bota are a BOTAnical species,...

Samantha English’s life has become a deep dark nightmarish dream. Her best friend Lucas whom she had grown up with and his brother Ethan are powerful angels. They are special angels sent from above to help watch over and protect Samantha. The life that she...

Scarlet the dolphin and Hailey have teamed up and are ready for another adventure in the deep blue sea where Scarlet lives. This time, it is on the west coast, the Pacific Ocean, where their new adventure takes place. Scarlet takes her best friend Hailey...

Joy, Gabby and Maxine have been friends since their college years at Morgan State University. Now Joy and Maxine are driving Gabby to the hospital to have her baby who is fathered by the famous Rayshawn Robinson, a quarterback with the Baltimore Ravens, even though...

Stanislas Cassel in the French justice department has been persuaded by thugs with German accent to give a certain witness, Louis Boucher, an easy time when he is interviewed about a murder case. That makes him investigate further although it first scares him. So he...

"Asymmetric Warfare for Entrepreneurs" by Luan Hanratty is frankly an ingenious book. Its approach of applying a tactic of the famous Lawrence of Arabia during the Arab Revolt war, and which he wrote about in "Seven Pillars of Wisdom", to entrepreneurship in the ‘warfare’ of...

Kory's sister Callie is killed in what police say is a hit and run. Kory, however, believes that her sister was beaten to death. She goes to the old campground that her grandfather sold and takes a cabin with the intent of finding her sister's...

Young Danny Firoth was just an average middle school kid, just like everyone else, or so he thought. Then, one innocent school day turned out to be like no other day. Danny’s day started out like any other. But, one fateful event would change the...

Natalie was beaten and verbally abused by her mother when she was growing up. All she wanted to do was get away and live a normal life. But, when she was 14 her mother's boyfriend almost killed her and did kill her mother. After...

In the book "Prayer Never Fails: Especially During Trials", Berney Dorton uses her own life struggles as an example for how we should always pray, even in our most difficult trials and heartaches. Ms. Dorton shares with readers the heartbreaking stories of their 21 year...

Jane Austen’s novels in general, and "Pride and Prejudice" in particular, are some of the works of literature that have been rewritten the most. Author Collette Saucier offers her contribution with "Pulse and Prejudice" and makes a brilliant substitution. Instead of an honorable and custom-stifled...

Stephanie Dagg is a new author to me. I love finding new ones who will hook me and hold me until the end of the story with just a few pages. That is what she did here for me. I loved the way she took...

In his book “Finding Real Purpose,” author Kenneth Nkemnacho gives readers a deep insight into how to find the real purpose of our lives as it should be. God created each one of us with a special purpose, so the only way to find your...

Alice's job is writing for the soap opera "All My Tomorrows". Peter wants out of his contract on a prime time drama. The deal he got is to appear for a limited time on Alice's soap. She is less than enthusiastic when Peter, his agent...

“The Harvest” by Clint Morey paints a picture of a very different future America: one in which synthetic humans are cultivated on remote, highly secretive, and extremely well-secured facilities to serve as organ transplant donors. Legally designated as non-human, the so-called mutants have no rights,...