Eafin Lokdore and the Magician’s Lost Medallion by R.G. Edwards is a modern-day fantasy tale that reads like a classic from the 1800s. The story takes place in a faraway kingdom where magic still exists and good can still triumph over evil with a little...

The Adventures of Lou-Lou, the Tiniest Dragonfly, Book 1: Lou-Lou and the Light Within by Mariela G. George is a charming story that invites readers into a magical world of wonder, kindness, and self-discovery. Written with a gentle touch, the book follows Lou-Lou, a tiny...

Two years after serving in the war, Henry Miller decides he cannot remain in his troubled marriage to Lydia and moves with his daughter to a small town, hoping life will finally calm down. But quiet doesn’t mean easy. Henry still fights through nightmares and...

Owen and Nicole Able are your typical South African married couple, except they’re not. Over the years, they’ve acquired some special skills that make them lethal. Ten years ago, their young son, David, was murdered by persons unknown. On the night of the tenth anniversary,...

Illegitimate by Maddie Lock is a memoir that begins with Maddie as a child in postwar Germany. Maddie was left with her grandma, while her mother, Susi, moved between countries and relationships. Maddie was later sent to live with Susi, who married Ted, a US...

Daughters of the Crosslands: Book One by Brian Kerr takes readers on an extraordinary journey across magical lands where fierce human-like creatures hunt for the flesh of the unsuspecting, and a self-made queen takes things to the extreme in a bid to continue her evil...

ABRACADABRA by Terry Bean follows Dani, a young girl who leaves home during an argument between her parents and goes to a lake she often visits. There, she picks up a branch shaped like a wand and notices her reflection speaking from the water. The...

In The Basement Angel by LeeAnn McChristian, a sixty-three-year-old widower in North Texas robs a small town bank after financial strain and years of isolation following the deaths of his wife, Elizabeth, and daughter, Amanda Joy. Fleeing the police, he hides in the basement workshop...

Therein Lies the Pearl by Catherine Hughes is one of those historical novels that I devour with great pleasure. Set in Normandy and England in the eleventh century, in the years leading up to the Norman Conquest in 1066, it focuses not so much on...

In the book In Jake's Shoes by Andrew C. Phillips, when Jake Gatlin is killed while serving overseas, his family gathers at their home in Oakton, North Carolina, as winter rain falls and Christmas approaches. During the hours following the funeral, his father, Marshall, slips...

In Dark Wolf’s Howl by Brenton Lillie, Elisa’s role in a palace breach in the elven capital of Varya leads to the removal of a sealed scepter hidden in the royal grounds, an object linked to a barrier that had kept the Darkabalos confined beyond...

A long-awaited love is threatened by a stalker in the exciting romance novel, Bet’s Christmas Gamble (Evanston) by Ann Dunbar. Bet has loved Garrett her whole life, but believes he still sees her as a child. For several years, she has been working remotely for...

For Cause by Mark Shaiken is part of the 3J legal thriller series. 3J, or Josephina Jillian Jones, is a Kansas City attorney, and she’s taken on a Chapter 11 case for Paxton Energy. She’s not worried—until she sees a video of the Paxton CEO...

Getting a kid into bed is usually a mission in itself, so making it a literal space mission is a genius move. In Zoom to the Stars, Megan Erin Hamilton shows how Aaron turns a boring bath and pajamas into an astronaut’s adventure. I loved...

How often are mental health issues pushed under the carpet and ignored? In Breaking Perfect, Elyse Heartwell brings the pain and suffering out of the shadows and into the light. The Dawson family appears perfect on the outside, wealthy and successful, but behind closed doors,...

The Endgame is the second installment in The Aeternum Trilogy by award-winning author Matt Aynes. The story revolves around the fictional state of Khatizan. Deadly explosions in Germany and Russia spur the Aeternum team into action. American CIA agent Boris, his daughter Nadya, and to-be...

The End of the Sidewalk by Nancy Schutt McCorkle centers on a white girl named Gertrude, or Trudy, growing up in Mississippi during the early 1960s. Segregation and clashes over civil rights are part of her everyday life. Her mother, who serves on the state’s...

Cody Redman’s life has gone sideways in ways that feel both absurd and painfully familiar in Rod Drought’s Phoenix Rising, Lemuria Down. Once a viral YouTube star, Cody is now scraping by with his roommate, living in a tiny apartment filled with takeout boxes. Everything...

John Striker created an AI so advanced that it could be controlled by thoughts via a chip implanted in his head. Scared at how powerful it had become, he shut it down. Then, at the age of 33, as a proud atheist, John had an...

Angela E. Johnson’s The Duke I Despise starts with a moment that is accidental but fateful. At a stuffy Mayfair ball, a sudden blackout throws Miss Juliana Astley straight into the arms of Lucian Montrose, the Duke of Windsor. He is amused and is fascinated...