In Kendra, the new short story released by author Grant Kniefel, we follow the story of Grant and his friend Zach as they are set to enjoy a movie together. In walks a girl that Grant’s never seen before, Kendra, and from there a twelve-hour...

Styling Wellywood by Kate O’Keeffe is a classic chick lit novel, the first in its series. After spending four years in London, Jessica never even thought of returning home. She loves the glamour that comes with being in England, and she vows she wouldn’t trade...

Stunner: A Ronnie Lake Mystery by Niki Danforth is a fun and suspenseful mystery fiction read. The story follows a divorced, fifty-something woman named Ronnie Lake, who resorts to her own sleuthing when things are not quite what they seem with her brother’s new lover....

Krista Tibbs’ Uncertainty Principles brings together a very disparate group of students; their only common element is a group study they’re required to complete in order to graduate. Their project focuses on electromagnetic disturbances, evolving from observations of EMF changes around a prayer group in...

In Lucy Leroux’s Stolen Angel, falling in love is not easy. Sergei Damov has been waiting for Ada to see that he is the perfect man for her. After months of waiting, Sergei was given an opportunity and he took it. One late night in...

Fatal Whispers is the second book from the Megan Scott/Michael Elliott Mysteries by Sandra Nikolai. Michael Elliott, an investigative reporter, and his girlfriend, Megan Scott, find themselves probing the sudden death of Tiffany, the socialite wife of George Gray, while visiting Megan’s cousin Bianca in...

Many people have trouble seeing who they really are until some type of reflection exposes their weaknesses and limitations. In Dark Glass by David Skynner, the characters find their reflections in shiny surfaces in the heart of a supposedly haunted property and come to look...

What a fun read! Those were the words that came to mind when I finished reading Famous Penultimate Words by Roberta Pearce. The book starts with the protagonist, Adelyn “Adie” Wilding, being surprisingly shot and dying. Thankfully for her, and for me as the reader,...

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...

Ghetto by M.L. Sparrow is an exciting look at our world in the near future. Unlike many novels about the future, Ghetto feels close, warm, and totally possible. Part of the surprising warmth and intimacy of Ghetto is the amazing voice of our narrator, Sunny,...

Compulsive by Lia Fairchild is a contemporary romance about a compulsive liar that has some dark undertones for a traditional romance. Gray Donovan is a compulsive liar. She attempts to see a psychologist to overcome her issues that are threatening to ruin all of her...

Kovu: PT. 1 by Kenneth Fultz Jr. is a young adult fantasy that is an anime style novel and comes with over 10 manga style illustrations. Kovu, a prince of 18, wants to make himself king by overthrowing his father, a cruel man who...

To Live Out Loud: A Novel by Paulette Mahurin is not only a novel, it’s a good primer on the Dreyfus case, a cause celebre in late 19th century France that highlighted the issue of French anti-Semitism. In To Live Out Loud, the story is...

His Name Was Ben by Paulette Mahurin is an excellent, heartfelt book. It follows the growing relationship between Sara and Ben. They are each dealing with different forms of cancer, which take them along separate routes until they are referred to a particular specialist clinic....

Oh, Ship! Tales of a Cruising Chick and Other Travel Adventures by Lori A. Moore is a compilation of short stories about various things the author has seen and experienced in her life as a world traveler. Near the end of the book is a...

Guardian of Paradise by W.E. Lawrence is a historical romance set in the South Pacific, written in the style of an Indiana Jones movie script. We find our heroine Kira to be a whip toting, shorts wearing, pistol of a personality. An outsider herself as...

In Codename Cupcake by Jillian Green DiGiacomo, married mother of two, Molly Peterson, decides to give herself some cherished alone time after her youngest child, Olivia, finally starts school full time with her older brother, Michael. When every misadventure imaginable creeps into her mind, Molly...

In A Superpower For Me, Mariana Llanos has written about a superpower few people realize they have. This superpower is a power that people gain as soon as they turn eighteen. It took me a while to guess the superpower and it may be a...

Tracy A. Seiden’s Stardust and Fire: Tales of a Hopeful Romantic comprises a collection of seventy-one poems about the many varying aspects of heterosexual love, passion, desire, attraction and romance. The first of the short pieces, "Childhood Forever," comes close to conventional rhyming poetry, but...

Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo by Michael Pronko is a collection of essays about life in Tokyo, and particularly how it deviates from the life Western people might be used to in engaging with Eastern culture. Each essay is like a self-contained explanation...