I love this anonymous opening quote: “Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” How true. Life is like that: full of auspicious moments that flitter past almost undetected until, somewhere along the way, one of these...

There was so much going on with Dale’s health in My Disappearing Act: Into the Abyss of Dementia by Todie West that he and his wife Patsy were not concerned about her forgetting things as they had both written it off as stress. During her...

Lilith Mary Brown grew up in Plainsville, Pennsylvania. As the daughter of an affluent business owner, they expected her to follow the rules of etiquette. Lilith, a wild spirit refusing to conform, narrates Jeanne K. Johnson’s novel, My Search For Air. Lilith often disappointed her...

My Dearest Miss Fairfax: What Jane Austen's Emma Didn't Know by Jeanette Watts is a love story revolving around Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill. Jane is a poor girl but has been allowed to grow up in a rich family. Frank is a young man...

FBI Agent Meredeth Connelly in Mercy Forsaken: A Meredeth Connelly Mind Hunt Thriller by E.H. Vick is hunting the .40 Caliber serial killer. He targets families who barely make ends meet, live in trailers, and have multiple children. He kills the children first and then...

Monty’s Coming of Age: The Grand European Tour (The Saga of Monty) by Eustace Hope Langmore is a somewhat farcical look at what was known as the Grand European Tour during the Victorian era of Great Britain. Montague Finch-Morton (Monty) was born into privilege and...

My Boys, by Ronald L. Ruiz, is a fictional YA drama. Abel Mendoza finds himself at the end of an unfulfilling career as a Public Defender. He has been passed over for promotions and as he feels more and more unable to help his young...

Missed Calls is a work of fiction in the slice of life and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is suitable for the general reading audience and was penned by author Zachary Ryan. The book follows two childhood friends, Cheyenne and Vanessa, as they reconnect as adults...

Moth City by Kenneth James Allen is a speculative fiction novel that centers around a dystopian future where the laws that govern families are sweeping in both scale and enforcement. Once considered a unifying piece of legislation and roundly embraced by most, once implemented, the...

Madam in Lace is a work of fiction in the historical, interpersonal drama, and suspense subgenres. It was penned by author Gini Grossenbacher and serves as the third installment in The American Madams series. It is best suited to the mature adult reading audience owing...