Glitch: Lost in Time Book 1 by Brenda Pandos was an intriguing blend of zombie-pocalypse, time travel and dystopian YA genres. Our heroine, Abby, as a result of her leap year birthday, discovers herself to be a glitch in a complex system of parallel universes...

The Leader’s Journey by Dr. Artika R. Tyner begins with an interesting quote: Lead from the back and let others believe they are in front. Introducing leadership as a journey often mistaken for a destination, the author presents the topic in three parts, answering the...

In Countenance by Joy Ross Davis, 38-year-old Nealey Monaghan's life is turned upside-down when her husband Hank, their two children Nicholas and Lauren, and her sister Naomi are killed by Naomi’s estranged ex-husband. A year later, her charmingly eccentric and cookbook author Aunt Sylvie Wolcott...

What is the treasure that Emalyn has hidden in the green velvet chair in her bedroom that no one else knows about? Emalyn still has dreams about what happened to her when she was six years old. She was struck by lightning that burned her...

Dance with Me (California Belly Dance Romance Series Book 2) by DeAnna Cameron is a sizzling romance that starts with a somewhat innocent lie. Big time drummer Taz Roman wants a woman to pretend to be his girlfriend and come live with him so...

Province of a Thief by Scott A. Borgman centers on a 26-year-old thief named Jaelyth, a member of the hidden Thieves’ Den in the capital city of Silvergate. She has no recollection of the time before she joined the Den at the age of twelve....

Love’s Illusions is the story of Jackie Moretti and the men she’s loved, lost and discarded. An art student with a bright future, we meet Jackie in the most unconventional way but it speaks to Jolene Cazzola’s plans for this young woman. She is hard...

A woman playing a big part in a pirate story! What a refreshing and delightful twist. In the position of leadership, Honorata, our heroine, survives to become a queen and then finds her lost love. The Queen of the Caribbean begins with The Black Corsair...

Swashbuckling, yes! I am going to use the word 'swashbuckling.' The Black Corsair by Emilio Salgari and Nico Lorenzutti is nonstop action right from the first scene. The Black Corsair is all about vengeance. The Lord of Ventimiglia, otherwise known as the Black Corsair, is...

Brett Cotter's 3 Keys To Managing PTSD: The Warrior’s Guide to Overcoming Combat Trauma begins with a spirited answer to the question, what is PTSD, and identifies it as the brain’s way of venting trauma. Exploring the manner in which it manifests, the core complexities...

Picking up a few months after the conclusion of Evening Wolves, Luke Taylor’s Shatterpoint Alpha follows the story of Henry Morell. In post-crisis Crescent City, Morell is seeking a change of scenery from Homeland Security. Offered a position at the prestigious Tidebender International, a private...

It's every spouse's worst nightmare to be awakened in the middle of the night and told that your loved one is dead. And to find that they've been murdered, well, that just adds another level of grief to the equation. That's exactly the scenario the...

In Dreamthief, the first book in the Fairy World MD urban fantasy series by Tamara Grantham, visiting Faythander is a nasty business. Forget the fairies and unicorns, most people who visit return to the human realm with lost memories and mental problems. Olive Kennedy knows....

Once in a Blue Year is a contemporary fiction novel written by Michael D. Durkota. Dan has been honorably discharged from the Navy and has mixed feelings about the whole thing. He's thrilled to be off the submarine. Each deployment got harder and harder for...

I found A Spirit in Motion by Aaron J Schieding to be quite an interesting read. This non-fiction book investigates the notion of the human soul and afterlife beliefs. The book was broken into several chapters, each with their own specialised sub-topics, ranging from origins...

Gingerbread by Victor A. Davis is a cross between the stories Hansel and Gretel and Peter Rabbit. This story is based on a dream that Davis had. Eddie, the town misfit, dares his friend Arainy, the good girl, to sneak into the candy factory. Despite...

Splintered by Thomas London is a humorous twist on an old fairy tale. We all know the story of Pinocchio, and we all know that he couldn’t lie. Now Pinocchio is a politician and he can’t tell the truth to save his life. Once upon...

The Bad Girl is a literary fiction novella written by L. Donsky-Levine. New York City in the 1970s is a hectic and swirling place filled with life and vibrant colors. Though it’s been two years since Fitz Darcy was wounded on Hamburger Hill in Vietnam...

Mary had endured things that no person should ever be made to endure, and now that she was free she was determined to stay that way. But a small part of her didn’t just want freedom, it wanted revenge. A part of her wanted to...

There's very little that I love more, in terms of reading material, than a great work of historical fiction. That being said, I also have been getting just a bit burned out by some of the books I've read in the genre lately. So many...