You don't make friends in Market World; there are no heroes, no acts of kindness, and especially no gifting. This was the way of life; 'don't pay, don't get.' It didn't matter if someone's life was on the line, if you acted freely you answered...

I am, by no stretch of the imagination, a musician. I am a music lover, though, and I appreciate good music and the 'behind the scenes' people and forces that combine to push it into the popular consciousness. From that perspective, I could enjoy and...

Like the reality behind the term made famous by this book’s leading character, one is never quite so sure that what he reads is not truer than the facts – if one is reading Fake News by David Hutter. The subtitle best explains the premise...

Water Monsters South of the Border by Denver Michaels dives into the fascinating field of Cryptozoology by examining the folklore and myths surrounding lake monsters in the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico. Various reported sightings, theories, and all the possibilities behind these supposed...

SAM and ME: The Week I Spent A Year With Sam Kinison is a nonfiction music/entertainment memoir written by Steve Lamar. As Lamar was growing up, he soon came to the realization that he wanted to be in show business. He was the youngest of...

The Amityville Nuisance by Mike MacDee is a zany, fun filled ride. Henry is a wizard who summons his cousin, Friday, from Hell and faces a dire punishment for his actions. I liked the idea that everyone goes to Hell, if only for a short...

Stella Riley skillfully blends history with romance in her novel, The Marigold Chain. She begins with Chloe meeting Alex Deveril and his friends by chance when her young ward was almost trampled by a horse. Chloe questioned within herself the fact that she loved him...

Tragedy, revenge, greed and a wealthy young woman struggling to find her place in society sets the stage for The Player: Rockliffe Book Three by Stella Riley. After the tragic death of his fiancée, and shunned by his family, Adrian Sinclair Devereux was forced to...

Making of an Empress by Frank David is a gorgeous story with a powerful conflict, a story that features strong themes, including personal development, family, leadership, and the power of change. As the only person — her grandfather — who could help her harness the...

Don’t let the title of this book fool you: Mormon Erotica is really about loss of freedom, a loss that forced a younger Sadie to become an ex-Mormon. So when Sadie and her college sweetheart, a long divorced but practising Mormon, 45-year-old Jim Maxwell, suddenly...

Zoe's own tactics had been used against her with precision execution. Captured, shamed, and manipulated into silence, it seems her only option is to accept death in order to protect those she loves. The people who thought that obviously didn't know her, or her allies,...

Survival Island by Matt Drabble is the kind of book that intoxicates the reader with thrills, where the setting takes on a character of its own. Clayton, a town with secrets and a beauty that is unique. There is a clear dichotomy, faintly visible, between...

Aristide Delacroix is a puzzle of a character. Owner of a respectable gaming club, he is also in love with Genevieve. But his past catches up with him when he is accused of cheating at cards years back in Paris. The aristocratic Duke of Rockliffe...

Pete’s family’s new house comes complete with its very own ghost. Nice ghost? Evil ghost? Pete is happy his house is haunted, even before he finds out whether the ghost is good or not. Who else gets to live with a ghostly being? Even the...

Make It Right by Ron Yates is a novella and a series of eight short stories. These stories chronicle the despair of people who make the wrong choices, bad choices that have negative effects on others. An English teacher, lonely and hating himself; an orphan...

Shrill Dusk by Helen Harper is the first book in the City of Magic series. Charley does whatever it takes to help people even if it means taking on a debt to pay back money owed to the despicable Maximilian Stone. She spends her time...

In The Black Fox by Gordon Bickerstaff, scientist Gavin Shawlens has been targeted by the CIA for assassination for holding vital information that could bring the entire country to its knees. MI5 secret service captain Zoe Tampsin has been assigned to keep him alive...

In Everything To Lose by Gordon Bickerstaff, an amazing sport enhancing drug is about to be launched but the evidence of its safety points to corruption. When people involved in the research begin to disappear and athletes die, biochemist Dr. Gavin Shawlens of the Lambeth...

A man must make an agonizing decision between love for his family or selling his integrity to keep his innocent daughter out of prison in the breathtakingly realistic novel, Blood Ties by Peter Taylor-Gooby. Ritchie Morlan leaves his career as an adman over the agency's...

Layers of Light by S. R. Cronin is a beautiful story that handles complex and sensitive themes. Teddie is the female protagonist, just finishing high school when her best friend Michelle convinces her to spend the semester in Darjeeling, India. Teddie sees an opportunity for...