In Competing With The Star (The Star Series) (Volume 2) by Krysten Lindsay Hager, Hadley Daniels was living the life. She finally felt like she belonged. She had made some really good friends and things between her and Nick were finally moving in the right...

Michael Sprankle’s Love and Theft is an intensely absorbing and ‬excellently written blend of fiction with true events.‭ The protagonist,‭ ‬Michael Malone,‭ ‬has a series of encounters with the ‬law,‭ ‬but he doesn’t necessarily see that as a‭ ‬bad thing.‭ ‬At some ‬point,‭ ‬he even...

And the Beat Goes On by Sheronda L. Barksdale is a short story that makes the reader take a look at their own life. Jerman McCullough is a 34-year-old, sex addicted momma’s boy. When his mother dies, he has no choice but to face how...

Hellavey — book two in the New Breed series by Lisa Vandiver - is so much more than a gripping fantasy that puts the reader in the middle of a war between humans, Hellaveys, and Earth vampires. Hellaveys are a group of powerful creatures from...

This set of marvelously taut short stories in Nobody’s Looking by J.R. Miller creates more of a tapestry of themes than a formation of discrete tales. With the deftness shown by a confident, sure-handed writer, the author explores the convoluted but continuous crawl, walk, and...

Diana Paul’s novel, Things Unsaid, examines the dynamics of the family. It’s tough getting old — for you and those around you. As an elderly parent, how much do you have the right to expect from your children? As a child of an elderly parent,...

Across the Water by Phil Harvey is a collection of eleven contemporary short stories of varying length. Phil describes his stories as 'Tales of the Human Heart,' telling readers that they 'examine the pivotal moments when people touch something at their own core or at...

In Liberty and Means, Shannon Clark is introduced as a fairly straightforward, no-nonsense kind of gal who knows who she is, where she's going, and how to attain her goals and dreams. Author Kristin Dow takes a character who enjoys predictability and control and throws...

The Road To London by Adriano Bulla is the story of a troubled soul trapped in a life he could not wait to escape, but somehow just could not. From very young at grade school, all through the teenage years and beyond, the narrator struggled...

Tainted Love by Erin Cawood is a story that touches on domestic violence shared by the protagonist — Faith McKenzie — through letters to her younger brother. In her letters, Faith describes the slow decay of her marriage as her beloved psychiatrist husband, Calvin, ten...