I think all of us have been faced with a time in our lives when we’ve felt ourselves drifting away from a friend. Sometimes even a really good friend. We see this happening in Really Good Friends, the first book in the Spin the Bottle...

Evening Wolves by Luke Taylor is an intense political crime thriller. Detective Mike Erland is called to a mysterious murder scene at Fircrest Mansion, where the previous evening a Libertarian Party fundraiser was held. The only victim, a stunningly beautiful young woman, is found with...

That Birds Would Sing is a novel of recollected adolescence by Joanna Franklin Bell. After reading a shocking obituary in her local newspaper, the once-mousy and watchful April Jones dissects her freshman year of high school, unpicking the pieces to make sense of the harrowing...

Chaos on Kariba: Houseboat from Hell by Hilary Chase is a story of a woman who is trying to find the love of her life at the opposite corner of the world. When she met Anton, Paula had no idea that she would cross the...

Lindsey Paley wrote a romantic suspense in Ugly Paradise. In fact, to look at the cover it really says, "Beneath beauty, evil lurks...Ugly Paradise." Therefore, I anticipated a love story with the typical trials and tribulations most romance novels give you, but Paley laid...

The Secret of Blackjack Woods by Ashlen Brown started with a bang. Right away, you know what the stakes are in the story. There is a creature in the woods, a yeti or a werewolf or some kind of crazy, creepy unnamed monster looking in...

MissionSRX: Confessions of the First War (Mission: SRX Book 1) by Matthew D. White takes readers to the near future, where human exploration of the galaxy resulted in the first contact with an alien life form; the more advanced and intelligent Aquillians. However, their peaceful...

Sera and Angie were best friends in their teenage years. They connected on the hardships of coming from broken homes in Naples, Italy, and they shared a special bond that would prove unshakable in later years to come. When injustice lands Sera in prison, they...

As a fan of sci-fi and fantasy, what could be more fun than putting the much beloved fiction races in space; elves, dwarves, orcs, a djinn, and of course, humans. The captain of Elation-Cru, Variel Tuffman, is a hardy and street smart female human who...

Excellent. Excellent. Excellent. Those words are the best I can do to describe Child Witch Kinshasa, the first volume in a series by author Mike Ormsby. Follow the story of Dudu, a young Congolese boy, who is accused of being a child witch, one imbued...

Sometimes God's creatures need a helping hand when they become lost or stuck. The Great Carp Escape by Irish Beth Maddock and illustrated by Lucent Ouano tells the story of how some ugly fish are treated just the same as the more beautiful of God's...

Saved by the Dragon by Vivienne Savage is about Chloe Ellis. She recently broke up with her narcissistic boyfriend and she wants to get away from him and everything. When she said goodbye to her roommate Marcy to go hiking and rock climbing, she had...

Memories by Steven Belden is a psychological thriller that will keep you hooked to the story. Cody Brannon was just seventeen years old when he had a near fatal accident. He stayed in a coma for 27 days, with his girlfriend Tiffany vigilant at his...

As a reader who simply loves mysteries, almost nothing makes me more excited than finding a promising new series in the genre. Add in a strong female protagonist, and, well you’ve just done me one better. So I was extremely excited to find Heart Break...

In Aisuru from debut author Anma Natsu, we are introduced to a world that includes romance and fantasy, sadness and happiness, love and illness. The protagonist, Sakura, is a lovely Japanese high schooler. She hasn't had an easy life, in fact, her father's mental illness...

Oliver and Jumpy, Stories 10-12 (Oliver and Jumpy, the Cat series) by Werner Stejskal is an adventure series for kids where they can join Oliver, the elegant tomcat, Jumpy the kangaroo, and their other animal friends in these three short stories. The adventures entitled 'Kite...

Felicity's Power by J. Arlene Culiner is a contemporary romance with an older hero and heroine, and asks the question, what happens when you come face to face with an old lover many years later? Marek Sumner and Felicity Powers were drawn to each other...

Jasper's Cafe On The Boulevard is a quick-read novel by Tracey Fagan Danzey in the chick-lit genre. It centers on heroine Torie Lynn Harper, an educated, proud black woman who is suffering a crisis of identity as the story begins. A move to a new...

Flawed Happiness by debut author Cori Tadrus is a glowing example of what a book from a new author should be. Fun and funny and with a fresh voice and point of view, the story follows Athena Wallace. Athena, a thirty-year-old reporter, who has always...

Beyond Silent Cadence: As the Baffling Beat Goes On is a contemporary fiction novel written by Leisley M. Lantram. Christa's collegiate dreams of being an elementary school teacher were put on hold by life. She met her future husband in a class they both attended,...