Marc Hampson’s Solo throws readers into a heavy, emotional night in suburban Southern California during 2003. The plot centers on Alex, a nineteen-year-old musician who faces a heartbreaking betrayal when he learns that his band secretly dropped him right before a major show. Full of...

Killing Time, by M.W. Taylor, begins with the discovery that reincarnation is a fact and that past lives can be accessed through a connection to the present. But as so often occurs in newly developed sciences, they tend to have a downside: they are not...

Wouter van Wyk’s Legacy of Ash is the first book in the Brotherhood Chronicles. Adrian Ward is a brilliant but deeply wounded foster kid, and the discovery of a water-damaged grimoire in the church basement costs him everything. But it also awakens the genius in...

Anthony S Roccato’s Among the Crows is gripping, character-driven historical fiction set in Stalingrad in 1942 during WWII. Anya, Ivan, and Yuri are close friends, living in Stalingrad, struggling to survive. On 23 August 1942, the Germans launch a devastating, massive air attack on Stalingrad....

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

The Horn of Caninia by Eddie Ferguson follows twelve-year-old Ian Richards, who's dreading his family's move from San Antonio to a sprawling old house out in Texas bayou country, mosquitoes and all. But the backyard hides more than swamp water. Ian finds strange symbols carved...

Too many healthcare workers are exhausted and withdraw from careers they once loved. A Prescription for Burnout: Restorative Writing for Healthcare Professionals by Dr. Carolyn Roy-Bornstein, a pediatrician who turned to writing after her son's near-fatal accident, offers a different path forward. Using Christina Maslach's...

Scott Ambrose’s Demystified Mystic presents a modern guide to mysticism built around the idea that interconnectedness can be experienced as a lived spiritual reality. The book frames the sense of separation people feel within themselves and the world as the starting point for a path...

T.K. Toppin’s The Dark Without follows Dr. Esme Morrant, a genealogist-anthropologist in 7631 whose discovery of an ancient journal threatens everything humanity believes about Sibyl, the woman credited with leading civilization out of a ruined Earth. Scientific testing dates the journal a thousand years earlier...

Feathers, Treasures & Sandy Paws is an appealing trilogy by a handsome, blue-eyed border collie named Barney, obligingly typed by Shirley Lee Baldwin. It takes readers to the world of the port village of Hansford Landing and the varied adventures of young Jack Cooper and...

Angel’s Fall by Daniel McKenny is an intriguing read. The preface assures us that the story will ultimately have a happy ending. However, this is only the first book in the Angel’s Blood Series, so there is still a long, interesting journey before the end....

Public Record by Marc Hampson is about Elijah Wolfe, a CPA whose life is turned upside down. Elijah receives a call from attorney Martin Fenwick concerning a lawsuit filed against Elijah, his father, and his sister. The family did not know the plaintiff and had...

Aleksander Szeser’s Dissonance follows Kira Hunt, a thirty-six-year-old Los Angeles physical therapist whose home life with philosophy-professor husband Max revolves around their three-year-old daughter, Rebecca. At a child’s birthday party, Rebecca hands Kira a message from a stranger who somehow knows where to find her....

Transformational Communication by Jomo Thomas is a well-written book that provides readers, especially Christians, with a blueprint for becoming effective communicators who mirror Christ in both the words they speak and in the inner content of their hearts. Thomas begins by describing communication as a...

C.S. Pascoal’s Accidental Tribes charts the unexpected path of eight isolated teenagers thrown into a strange disciplinary space known as Solitaria. This high-pressure environment in Room 359 at PS 555 unites several tech-loving rule-breakers overseen by school advisor Dr. Miryam. The moment a sudden theft...

Being ordinary can be so boring. Jimmy has his own unusual way of doing just about everything in Jumbled Up Jimmy by Laura Roso. He wears his watch, his socks, and even his uniform just a little bit differently. His friends Rafi, Maddie, and Sophie...

Nicholas Acker’s Pure Light: Shadows That Wait for Me follows Gem, a young woman who wakes beside a river with no memory of her name. A living orb of light she names Diamond leads her through the forest toward Sapphiria, where she discovers a land...

Peanut Butter and Donner: The Wishing Tree is about a rabbit named Peanut Butter. It is based on a real place and real-life animals. Erin Rosenblum starts the story with a group of friends wandering the redwood canyons. They are looking for a thrill when...

Irina Kvistberg’s Continuum follows Lea Voss, a researcher in the Biological Reserve, one of the few places left outside the smooth routines of an optimized future. When an unexplained perceptual event reaches Lea during synchronization, the System labels it harmless noise, yet sealed records connect...

Richard-Lael Lillard and the Great Mountain: The Lillard House is an enchanting, hilarious Gothic comedy and the third book in Lorin Morgan-Richards' Great Mountain series. The story is set in 1883 in Nicklesworth, a booming gold-mining town. Richard-Lael Lillard, a mystic resident at 666 Cautionary...