It must have been difficult living in the penal colonies of what we now know as Australia, halfway around the world from home with little or no chance of returning. To those sent either as military personnel or convicts, it must have felt like what...

The Patient is a work of fiction in the urban fantasy, magical realism, and adventure sub-genres, and was penned by author Linda Thackeray. The first novel in the Beyond the Veil series, this engrossing work focuses on psychiatrist Dan Ellis, who treats the ills of...

Neither Officers Nor Gentlemen: A Fiction of Piracy + Plunder is a work of fiction in the historical, adventure, and action sub-genres, and was penned by author Jake Lanum. The work is intended for mature readers as it does contain some use of explicit language,...

In Bikini Cowgirls of the Urban Legion by Dave Agans, three years have passed since Meg Brecker was witness to her boyfriend Tommy Owen's disappearance and ultimate death as he was scooped out of the ocean by a fire-fighting tanker plane. As she watched from...

The Century's Scribe by Brendan Walsh is an ambitious new adult fantasy novel offering multi-layered themes and interpretations. It begins with an endearing bookworm dragon, moves toward main character Dreden Sharpstand and his professor father, then to his friends. They live with financial strain, and...

A Wicked Chance by Anna Flakk is the first book in the urban fantasy series, Paranormal Adventure Chronicles. Samantha “Sam” Unam Clark has forged her way to New York City despite the loud protestations of her father and is trying as hard as she can...

J. E. Mooney's The Siren of Good Intentions: No Path Leads Where You Think It Will is an adventure novel set in 1978 in Senegal, Mali, and Guinea. American Victor Byrnes has just finished a Peace Corps project along the Senegal River. In Dakar,...

Sunshine at the Academy: Book 1 of the Sunshine Series by MF Blake is an easy-flowing entertaining YA science fiction novel. It's about a teenage girl named Sunny, who is trained at an academy for a peace-keeping mission on humanoid planets in the United Universe....

Exile of Snake: Alien Invasion Series —The Second Generation by Patricia Scholes is a great story with a dystopian setting and fascinating characters. Snake is in big trouble and what he has to deal with is even more sinister and dangerous than his presumed enemies....

The Golden Man: A Story from the Helen Tamzarian Papers by Thomas J Black is a farcical comedy that seeks to examine our obsessions and preconceptions at the end of the second decade of the 21st century. The story is a collection of journal events...