The novel "Steps to Heaven" by Wendy Cartmell is definitely a thriller. It is actually a roller-coaster ride story that elevates your blood pressure as Wendy packs so many intriguing details into one story. A father and his young son are found dead. It is...

"Destiny's Past" is a book about time travel and the magic powers held by the female line in a certain family that uses this power for good. Kelly, a medical examiner, finds herself caught up in a mystery of time travel and discovers she is...

In a New York City where murder and other heinous criminal acts are virtually no more, an oblivious population must now dispense with any unacceptable memories. A fugitive fleeing from his masked attackers, Frank Shelby, has been accused of murdering his girlfriend and of acts...

"Pipeline" by Christopher Carrolli is a tense paranormal thriller, the first in a series. A pipeline is when the dead attempt to communicate with the living through technology such as television, phone or computer. This is what happens to hospital nurse Tracy, whose fiance David...

What would happen if you found out your child has a life threatening illness? You would do everything possible to help your child, and that is just what John Manning does in this story, "Shades of Gray". Based on a true story, author Andy Hollman...

Hope. It is such a simple word. Yet it is what drives most of us: hope for a brighter future; hope for wealth, happiness and health. So, when firefighter Jude Elliot loses a leg due to a bomb explosion, he has a hard time adjusting...

Struggling opera singer Paige Marshall needs more income, so she signs up to work with the show choir at Prospect Glen High School outside Chicago. The first line of Chapter One of "Murder for Choir" says it all: "If Dante ever added a tenth circle...

Elizabeth Chalker suffers from late stage lyme disease, probably fatal, offering nothing but a slow, agonizing death. Lyme disease is complicated and compounded by other serious health issues that have left her bedridden and mostly alone. In this roaring furnace where she experiences daily frustration,...

Joana James's "Finding Romeo" is the first in a romance trilogy about finding true true and the trials along the way. Daynia is stuck in life. She is still living at home, working at a job she hates at a resort in a number one...

"The Time Travel Storm," written by TC Booth and illustrated by Juan Carlos Colla, is a fun, educational book to share with children. It will teach them about going to school in the 1800's. Alex and Scott become separated from their class on a school...

Aging is a part of life. Our bodies change as we age. Time slips away in a twinkling of an eye. Hugh Wilson, M.D., has written a book about the aging process and what can be done to prolong life. This easy-to-read book travels into...

Dan Harper is just an ordinary guy, having an ordinary day until he spills sauce on his tie during lunch. When he visits a Humane Society thrift store near his office for an inexpensive replacement, merely touching a secondhand tie triggers a flood of gruesome...

Recently widowed interior designer Deva Dunne decides to move to Florida in an attempt to get over the unexpected death of her husband. Deva takes a job of helping to redecorate one of the condos in her building for an ex-exotic dancer named Treasure. The...

Since the nuclear war devastated cities all across the United States of America five years ago, Luke and his family have been hiding out in an underground bomb shelter. Running out of supplies and food, they must now take their chances above, exposed and vulnerable...

Poppy Johnson, an exemplary, exceptional and a super-focused high school junior, is given the prestigious Denton Award. The full paid scholarship to Columbia University has been Poppy’s and her family’s dream ever since Poppy could remember. It is awarded only to one outstanding student. In...

"Emma Winberry and the Evil Eye" by Helen Macie Osterman is an entertaining mystery novel with a mature heroine. The scene of action switches between historic Murano and present day Italy and America as the story develops. Emma gets a walk-on part at the Midwest...

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...

Old miner, Phillip Smith, says God wants him to put an ad in the Boston newspaper for a mail order bride. His close friend Jeremiah doesn’t agree with him at all, but goes along with helping Phillip anyway. Madeline Mercer comes from a very wealthy...

"Chrysalis: Tribulations" by M L Lacy is the second in this excellent series, following on from "Awakening". Aubrey Marie, Bree, the Chosen One, grows stronger every day but besides still facing a huge threat from evil wizard Esmerelda, who has brought in a menacing assassin,...