Fifteen-year-old Crystal O'Mally loves to read mysteries and longs to solve a mystery just like Carolyn Keene, the main character in her favorite mystery series. While she hangs out at the police station in Alamo, Texas, hoping for a crime to solve, nothing ever happens;...

I was quite impressed with Steven Weaver’s The Vault: A Journey of Discovery as I found it an unexpectedly well-written story with distinctive characters, realistic dialogue and a fairly solid plot. While the book is targeted to a younger audience and contains a lot of...

Maggie has lost her father, but is he really gone? That is the question in The Weeping Willow Sings by Billie Grable. With a history of mental illness and a rough experience in the Gulf War, John is never quite the same and his daughter,...

Brylee Branson is a senior in high school, which is a pretty stressful time for a seventeen-year-old, but her gift of being able to see and talk to the dead, and living in a majorly haunted house really makes high school seem tame. Added to...

Imagine yourself struggling for your life and for the life of the one you love. Imagine being pulled away from your home, taken to a facility where you are abused by the very same people that were meant to serve and protect you. Imagine that...

The Morac by Colleen Bratley is the story of Julian, Aleah, Kelton, and Marquita, four friends just out of high school off for a leisurely weekend at a cabin owned by Julian's parents. Strange events begin happening just after a bright flash in the sky...

Vaya Dauphin’s novel, The Turquoise Tattoo, is a mystical tale set in North Island, New Zealand. Scarlet Flint’s mother is dead and she is left by her absentee father in the care of her Aunt Sarah. The young woman is telepathic and before her departure...

The Immigration Lawyer: Asylum (Volume 1) is a young adult legal thriller written by Shah Peerally. Sarah Mustafagic is a young, successful corporate lawyer who decides that she wants to represent people who have immigration and naturalization issues. Her friend, Shah, is an immigration attorney,...

The Dead Lands by Rick Hautala is one more in a long string of top-notch horror stories by this author. Megan McGowan didn’t come home with her brother, Mike. Megan never came home again. Young Mike saw something, but his mind had buried it, because...

What a book! I have to state that I found this book utterly wonderful and a total pleasure to read. The story begins with a young girl living in an off-world colony. The book describes her everyday life as safe, regimented and utterly mundane. She...