The Sand Pounder: Love and Drama on Horseback in WWII is a young adult historical novel written by M.J. Evans. Covering a period between 1942 to 1944, the book follows seventeen-year-old Jane Morris, a tenacious teenager with an affinity for horses who joins the US...

A Republic's Rise by Clinton Aldrich is a tale with a strong appeal to fans of historical novels, especially those with a setting evolving around WWII. Before WWII, the Reich Chamber of Culture orders Derek Schorr, an art graduate student at Berlin Academy of Arts,...

Scorn of Secrets by B. Truly is a mesmerizing coming-of-age story with strong themes and elaborately developed characters. When Madison Guillory’s father dies leaving a huge gambling debt behind, her mother doesn’t wait long to start dating again. After just a few months, she introduces...

Sundays at Simone’s by Thomas Bauer is a first-person novel that reads almost like a memoir. Our narrator and protagonist is Michael McDowell, well versed in all things music, especially classical, the Los Angeles environs, film and theater, and food (especially Italian). He is also...

In Shadows in Our Bones by Tamara Merrill, Georgia O’Brien is a thirty-four-year-old professor who is very outspoken when it comes to issues of racial prejudice. When her mother is diagnosed with cancer, she begins a journey that will trace her lineage that she had...

The Twenty-First Floor by Kathleen Ormond is a drama/thriller that follows a set of characters tasked with running powerful banking corporations. Arthur Barrington, CEO of Barrington Bank, is a man of singular focus who abhors deception and ineptitude. An audacious offer of a merger made...

Road to the Breaking by Chris Bennett is one in a series of books that explores the adventures of former U.S. Army Captain Nathaniel Chambers. Chambers was the Commander of the U.S. Army base Fort Davis in Texas when he received news of his father’s...

V for Vanished: A Not-so-Ordinary Love Story by Ingrid McCarthy is a combination of love story, mystery, and commentary on human nature. The novel is set in modern times, with the coronavirus playing a substantial role, but the story is told through a series of...

An Ocean Away: A Journey of Hardship and Survival by Peter Clarke is a well-crafted historical novel that is both touching and hopeful. Set in the mid-1800s, the story is about William (a.k.a. Bill) Smith who is sent off by his father to Belfast, hoping...

Set in 1529 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Heart of the Highlands: The Raven by April Holthaus follows the experiences of Adelyn Scott, a descendant of Roland de Velville, as she seeks refuge from her cousin, King James V of Scotland. Pursued by powerful men for the...