In Turning Trixie, Robb Grindstaff introduces the 23-year-old single mother of 8-year-old Ty, whose lives were irrevocably changed when Trixie won millions in Powerball. Before the big win, Trixie’s only means of supporting her son was through her “personal services bid’ness” of prostitution. With the...

The Lost Diary of Cécile Dubonnet: Forgetting the Yesterdays of World War II by A P Harper is a historical fiction novel with a solid plot and even stronger characters. The story opens in Paris, 1999, when Hénri Durant decided to remodel his apartment. He...

The Boy Behind The Door: How Salomon Kool Escaped the Nazis by David Tabatsky is inspired by a true story. Salomon Kool was celebrating his Bar Mitzvah with family and friends when they learned that Amsterdam had been invaded. The life they knew was slowly...

Jules Larimore's The Muse of Freedom is a well-crafted historical novel, a coming-of-age story of Jehan BonDurant, a young French nobleman. Larimore has drawn inspiration from the 17th-century historical figure of his ancestor Jean Pierre Bondurant dit Cougoussac, a French Huguenot. The Muse of Freedom...

Wendy, Melissa, Sarah, and Lisa had no idea what awaited them in Brazil. The four girls were members of a dance group from London and were bound for Brazil to honor a six-month contract to participate in a circus. In a bid to spice up...

The Female Breeders: In a World Controlled by Women by Melanie Bokstad Horev is an interesting perspective of what an all-female society could look like. EVE has five clans of genetically engineered women. Each clan has a special enhancement that sets them apart. For example,...

The Timber Stone by Dave Abare takes you on a journey through life. Joshua Traxon used to be famous but now all he wants is peace. Escaping LA, he heads for Vermont, where he plans to settle down with Pickle, his pug and best friend,...

The Night Cometh: Fantastical Short Stories by Lorilyn Roberts reminds us that we are all sinners. If we were placed on the stand in front of a judge, how would we fare given all the wrongs we’ve committed in our lives? Would we be sentenced,...

Set in 1950s Cuba where Batista rules with an iron fist and dissenters disappear in broad daylight, the mafia and their nefarious cohorts have joined hands with the junta to suck the country dry and the future looks bleak for ordinary Cubans. For the Enriquez...

The Rainbow Room by Claire Ishi Ayetoro is a short read that is curiously moving with a strong emotional and psychological arc, something you don’t read every day. His name is Jack Taylor. He wakes up in an unfamiliar room with an arrangement he has...