Three Shocking Stories: Scoundrel, Shameless, Sins & Secrets by Noreen J. Byrne features three stories that are beautifully written. In Scoundrel, Susan is an eighteen-year-old girl with an angelic face, a girl who has lived a very sheltered life in her upper-class home in Chelsea....

Colours of Life: A Colurful Magic, by Md Taslim, is an inspiring, aesthetic work of fiction that encourages readers to celebrate life in all its colors. The author is comprehensive and perceptive when discussing the myriad aspects of life, from simple pleasures to deep pain....

Project Onion by Karen Stensgaard is book one in The Melville Consulting Series. Kat Jenson has a new job as an audit consultant at an investigation company called Melville Consultancy. Assigned to Project Onion, Kat’s job is to investigate the bank accounts of a...

Changing the Game by Mia Wenjen introduces seventeen Asian Pacific American Female star athletes. They have overcome crippling injuries, poverty, racism, and other life-altering events to win Olympic medals, and achieve other honors in their chosen sports. These women practice martial arts, kayaking, swimming, soccer,...

Standing before the world's largest oil painting, Tintoretto's Paradise--a monumental depiction of Heaven--in Venice, Nick hears a disembodied whisper, "Amore mio." His wife Julia believes him to be delusional and insists he see a doctor, but Nick insists the voice is real and returns to...

The Ransom Drop is a work of fiction in the military genre and is the first installment in The Response Files series. It is aimed at the mature adult reading audience and was penned by author Robert Phayre. The book tells the story of a...

Halley Harper, Science Girl Extraordinaire: Summer Set in Motion is a children's adventure novel written by Tracy Borgmeyer. Nine-year-old Halley Harper is a science prodigy. Labeled lovingly as Miss Disaster by her parents due to her tendency to cause minor accidents like clogging up sinks...

Stay With Me, Wisconsin, by JoAnneh Nagler, is a short story collection of eleven stories. All the stories focused on well-developed characters. Another interesting point is every story connects each character to another person in an earlier or following story. Ponty Bayswater is the first...

Being a parent can be challenging at the best of times. Add the additional factor of a special needs child and the workload multiplies substantially, but, then again, so does the love and the inevitable learning curve that goes along with these needs. Jess was...

The Sea Turtle Spy Project (Putney Hicks Inventor Adventures–Book 4) by Marsha Tufft is a children’s adventure story that would appeal most to a mixed audience of children and preteens who enjoy mystery adventure stories. Putney Hicks is a 12-year-old self-proclaimed wannabe artist/inventor who has...

In Finding Jane by Elizabeth Conte, readers are introduced to Jane, who is looking for true love. She thought she had found it with Stephen. They had planned a life together – or, at least, she had. But Stephen found someone else and left Jane...

You Are Your Healer: The Ultimate Guide to Heal Your Past, Transform Your Life & Awaken to Your True Self by Yol Swan is a comprehensive guide to a fuller and healthier life. Indeed, it awakens you to your true self and values that will...

Abby discovers a painting while searching through some of the antique stuff in the basement and she shares this find with Holly. The painting has a strange key pinned behind it but there is no obvious indication of what the key is supposed to open....

Echoes of the Past by Angela Grey and Paige Peterson is an outstanding mystery. Leah and Jake’s mother goes missing and a search party is arranged. Everyone who can help is involved in this intensive search. Decapitated and dismembered victims are found in suitcases, and...

Get ready for a gripping new murder mystery thriller by Angela Grey and Paige Peterson in Lake of Secrets. It's been ten years since the bodies of three premature babies were found on the shores of Lake Riley, each born a year apart, creating havoc...

Salt Island by Lisa Towles is a suspenseful thriller that forms the second book in the E&A Investigations series. In this installment, we find ourselves back with private investigator Mari Ellwyn and her new partner and former detective Derek Abernathy on a whole new case....

Dancing Without Music is a young adult coming-of-age story by Angela Grey and Paige Peterson. The book follows the lives of two seventeen-year-old teens, Mia Callan and Milo Chatham. Despite their seemingly humdrum lives, Mia has an eating disorder that prohibits her from living a...

Spirit Pass by Angela Ellen Grey is a collection of novellas involving tribal law enforcement and certain types of missing persons and murder cases. This collection examines the high murder rates and cases of missing Native American women. As the author highlights, this is a...

After the death of her mother and grandmother, seventeen-year-old Esme lives with her foster family. Her life, however, takes a turn for the worse when her foster sister, Cambria, who is only a year older than her, is raped, and, after the detective asks if...

Bliss Road by Martha Engber is heartfelt. Written in eight parts, Engber takes us through different phases of her life, with each piece delving into her journey of self-discovery and acceptance. Engber's story begins with her childhood; even then, she knows her father is an...