For a short story, Her Christmas Cowboy by Tanya Stowe and Delia Latham provides a satisfying read that is far from short on character development and plot! Emily Mabrey finds herself on the run when she learns that her ex-husband wants to put their six-year-old...

Lash 4 (Revenge) by Tara Fox Hall is the fourth installment in the Lash series, but it can be read as a standalone novel without the previous three. This dark fantasy plot follows protagonist Lash, a creature described as a weresnake, who has a collection...

Aria Robbins doesn't really care for the new youth minister Corbin Bishop, who has come to Angel Falls. As the church secretary and praise team leader, she is hard-pressed to avoid him, and when he moves in next door to her at Heart's Haven Apartments...

The Big Game is a collection of poetry written by Bethany James. The poet includes romantic lyrics, poetic recipes, and sports-inspired verses in this collection of mostly free-verse poems. Her dessert recipes are decadent and luscious-sounding, and her cooking instructions are lyrical, romantic, and sensual....

What an imaginative and surprising read! When I first started reading Tsunami Cowboys by Jadi Campbell, I thought it was a collection of short stories despite being described as a novel on its cover. Each part (or story) in the book is told from the...

Hello, Baby by Delia Latham is a tender and yet powerful romance where uncertainty and unbelief are both dispelled by an unexpected glimpse at the usually unseen. Dawni Manors has recently moved to Angel Falls, where, if you believe the stories, both love and angels...

Imagine if, upon death, you could continue in a digital world. Author Karen A. Wyle develops this existential plot in her novel Who, which takes place in the not-too-distant future. The story centers on a young woman named Thea, her husband Max, and a cast...

NSA agent Alton Blackwell, his wife Mallory, and his team of experts arrive in Seoul just before the Olympic Games as they’ve received reliable intel that the North Koreans are going to launch an attack on the south. The challenge for the Blackwell team is...

Till Her Heart Dances is the continuing adventure saga, the third book in the Fury series, by talented author, Thomas Macy. It’s a perfect read that manages to capture the adventurous spirit of the frontier, somewhat reminiscent of the adventures of Tom Sawyer or Daniel...

When the Trees Started Falling by A.D. Popovich is a gripping environmental thriller set against the backdrop of climate chaos. The story follows Luna Lewis, who returns to her rural home to appease her activist parents, only to find herself amidst a growing climate disaster...

In Heart of Malice by Lisa Edmonds, for two decades Alice languished in the clutches of a nefarious underworld collective, her arcane talents commandeered to elevate a man known as Moses to an echelon of unmatched power and dread throughout the Eastern seaboard. Desperate to...

Now in her eighties, Carolyn Osborn had a successful career as an author, and wrote, amongst others, numerous anthologies. In Durations: A Memoir and Personal Essays, she describes her family ties against the background of World War II and the post-war years in Tennessee and...

In Rum, Cigars, and Corpses: Roger and Suzanne Mystery Series Book 13, author Jerold Last has mixed espionage, murder mystery, and adventure in a most intriguing plot. The reader’s attention is captured from the very beginning by the author’s well-known characters Roger Bowman and Suzanne...

In the chilling debut of her Gothic series, Florida Gothic, Mitzi Szereto plunges readers into a realm of terror and dread. Ernesto Martinez, a casualty of a heartless hit-and-run incident, is left alone to bleed out beside a murky Miami canal. His suffering is only...

Richard J. Kendrick brings us clockpunk young adult fantasy in Squawk of the Were-Chicken. Deidre has many 'oops' moments wherein her “thinky” bits have time to catch up. To Deidre, it seems this is all a part of becoming a grown-up. Between her tinkering, going...

There are many ways to kill a person, and it's a difficult thing to do, but far more so if you have to kill the same person twice. Grave Robbers by Matt Drabble begins conventionally enough but doesn't stay that way for long. Lucas Grant,...

In Unsolved No More: A Cold Case Detective's Fight For Justice, author Kenneth L Mains has written a soul-searching story about his life as a police officer and then as a detective, especially a detective who looks into cold cases that have remained unsolved. The...

Morwitch: Breaking the Rules by Jennifer Redmile is a YA urban fantasy story. There’s nothing special about Ellie. She just wants to finish school and get on with life. And then a family secret comes to light and Ellie finds out she is half mortal,...

Shaman Stone Soup by Elizabeth M. Herrera features a compilation of inspirational true-life stories that show the higher power of spirituality. Readers are challenged to question their own beliefs. Elizabeth lost her Christian faith in her early twenties and for over a decade, she searched...

Tilly recalled VE Day. She sneaked out of the nursing home where she worked and spent most of the night dancing with Johnny, an Army captain. Then he proposed to her. She liked the prospect of marrying him, but dreaded meeting his wealthy parents, since...