The Brewster Protocol by Moran Tomer is an exhilarating technothriller that introduces us to Josh Brewster, a retired Mossad spy who now runs his cybersecurity consulting firm in Singapore and looks after his golden retriever. But his cushy, boring life as the Chief Information Security...

In Peter Van Oossanen’s The Extraterrestrial, when an infant is left in a basket on the porch of a remote California farm, John and Mary Stanton raise him as their own son, naming him Sam and giving him an ordinary life in the Salinas Valley....

In Judith Kendall’s The Tangled Web, railway payroll officer James McConnolly leaves Adelaide in December 1912 carrying the Christmas wages for the South Australian Railways, but never reaches his first delivery stop. His disappearance leaves his wife, Lizbeth, to rebuild her life in New Zealand...

Entertaining and well-researched, A. Piper Burgi’s The Exploress and the Pillars of Eternity is a fine example of historical fiction. Set in the early nineteenth century, at a time when Egypt was just beginning to allow Europeans access to their country and its archaeological treasures,...

In The Ember Stone by Shari Marshall, Kori Ember does not want anything to do with the less-than-normal things that are part of her heritage. Kori travels the world with her lottery winnings, determined to ignore her magical abilities, though she cannot fully escape them....

The Dragon of Dread Deep by C.D. McKenna follows Cassian, a boy betrayed by his thieving parents and raised as a cutthroat pirate, always seen as less for not being a "pure" pirate. When he suddenly finds himself in the role of captain, it quickly...

Nick Nethery’s novel, The Peace Child, is an exciting and character-driven fantasy about an old retired soldier and a six-year-old prince, caught up in a struggle for power between two kingdoms, Cordoba and Leone. The retired soldier, Red (Colonel Ranford Redgrave), has carried out countless...

The Daredevil by Regan Walker is about a merchant captain named Samuel Tucker, who decided to leave London after hearing that war had erupted between Great Britain and the American colonies. Tucker made a bold move by choosing to sail back across the Atlantic so...

Author Aaron Ryan concludes the epic Talisman saga with its final installment, Halcyon. Liam "Foxy" Mayfield, the last Iskander, Onyx Sleater, the powerful Nexus, and Arion Peridifyca, the Zorander, are united in their fight against the dreaded Asterium Axis. With 743 scattered souls all over...

The Seekers: Hilo Dome by Jack Bartley is an adventurous and suspenseful story with several excellent reasons to read it. The main antagonist is a volcano that is threatening to erupt. It is the driving force that pushes a group of men and women to...