The subtitle for Keeping Up With The Joneses by Derek Vaughn says it all: What would you do if a corporation placed a robot in your neighborhood to sell products? Haze is the 9-year-old next door neighbor, except, well, he's actually a robot. After failing...

The childhood rhyme, "Give me give me never gets; don't you know your manners yet," rattles through my mind as I read this charming story, Treasures in the Winter Vault by Debbie Bertram and Lisa Detanna. It's a lesson that children and adults alike need...

Trapped in the Mayan Tattoo by Ronda Pauley is an engrossing read dealing with the seedy, sordid and cruel world of sex trafficking. Maria is a 14-year-old girl who has been kidnapped from her home and sold into sexual slavery. Two FBI agents rescue her...

John Randolph left Missouri following a long and devastating drought that caused him to lose his farm. He had heard of gold just for the taking in Colorado. On the way, he nearly died traveling over the hot, dry high plains, but he was rescued...

Jon M Nelson has one distinct message that he wants readers of Brightness from the Shadows to get: we are all part of the human race. No man is lesser or greater and therefore what we can infer from this is that the wars we...

Call of the Warrior: An Anthology Presented by Read, Write, Muse lends a voice to the fighting spirit, wherever it may occur. While some stories, like The Fight at Lishkar Gah by Holly and Jared Brown do take place against a backdrop of military combat,...

St. Thérèse and the Wedding Dress by Terrimarie's Mother is a fascinating tale which describes the true story of a young couple wishing to get married soon and how they overcome the issues of wedding preparations with the help of a Christian saint. The feeling...

Whisper in the Blood by S.H. Montgomery is set between the 1900s and the 1940s in the Chicago area and revolves around two families, Italian and Irish immigrants, the Savios and the Callahans, and their lives. Both these families came to Chicago searching for a...

Things are looking bleak for both Kate and "the kid" at the start of Anne Rothman-Hicks and Kenneth Hicks' novel, Kate and the Kid. Kate lost her editorial job at a NYC publishing company and had a huge, possibly relationship ending, fight with her lawyer...

Writing the Cozy Mystery by Nancy J. Cohen is about writing a whodunit which, as the author says, is a complex task. Mulling over the bits and pieces one has gathered, the puzzle should be made to fit together in the end. This guide begins...

Dawn of the Dominant by Vipin Suren is a fantasy adventure steeped in magic that is geared for the pre-teen audience. We will meet a group of siblings that have each been given special and unique magical powers and a deep desire to fulfill their...

Barbara Hartzler states in her introduction that at times no one can help us apart from God. Waiting on the Lord is a collection of thirty reflections revealing God’s loving-kindness and grace during our dormant times in life. Each day’s devotional starts with a scripture,...

Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl: Quotes, Inspiration and Advice for Women by Women by Kelly Tonelli is a useful guide for all those mothers who have a girl child. The book offers guidance, comfort and inspiration and also teaches the value of hard work,...

Zac Zap and the Great Big Race by Michael Verrett caught my eye because the lead character, Zac Zap, is in a wheelchair. Zac Zap was born with spina bifida which causes him not to have use of his legs. When Zac hears about a...

Into the Sunrise by Carolyn Haley is the story of Linnea Eagan (Linny), a woman who is bent on having a career with horses even though her family doesn't agree. After a nasty fall that left her bruised, sore, and with a concussion, Linny must...

In Beyond The Pale by C Michelle McCarty, Abbie's mother, Phoebe, has just died. Her father, her soul mate, died when she was a young girl and her mother never forgave Abbie for her father's death. A sad thing for a girl to live with,...

In Sins of Fathers by Catherine Sue Morgan, Rebecca Bennet is a trauma therapist, but that does not mean she does not have demons in her closet. Twenty years ago, her father raped and killed an unsuspecting girl. The aftermath of that horrible time had...

Call of the Conjurer by Ryan Grimbly is a paranormal thriller about an underground military force, Hidden Government Army, whose job it is to fight ethereal enemies and maintain the current structure of the world order without being discovered. Captain Calbert Mason, an experienced Combat...

A strange man keeps coming to a bar, orders vodka with water, and just stares at the TV, whether on or off. After a few days of this routine, customers start taunting the stranger, but he simply ignores them. One night, he refuses to order...

In At the Center by Dorothy Van Soest, Sylvia Jensen is a middle-aged, white social worker who works at a foster agency somewhere in “Indian Country.” When 5-year-old Anthony Little Eagle is found dead in the foster home where one of the agency’s social workers...