Punk is a title that might normally put me off, but I was taken by the back cover blurb on Amy Q Barker’s latest novel. I started reading, harboring some reservations, but the first few pages raised questions that kept me interested, so I persevered....

Mia: A Novel by Joseph F. Sciuto is a story of family and self-discovery that will give you emotional highs unlike any others you have experienced before. The story follows Joe Ciotala, a man who gave his life to Major League Baseball. Now at 50...

Golden Eights is a work of fiction in the military thriller, action/adventure, and historically-based fiction sub-genres, and was penned by author Nigel Seed. The work is intended for an adult reading audience and contains some moderate references to sexual situations and wartime conditions. Based on...

A woman boxer? Nowadays, it may not be something to be surprised about, but in the eighteenth century? Gasp! How unladylike. In A Lady’s Revenge by Edie Cay, Lady Lydia Somerset is just that, though only a select few know why. Even fewer understand the...

In John W. Bebout's The Light from Darkness, we meet seventeen-year-old Teddy Miller in Great Tortugas, off the Florida Keys. It’s 1864, during the waning months of the Civil War, and this desolate island is the location of a Yankee prison. Teddy has gone there...

Anatomy of a Darkened Heart by Christie Stratos is a gothic thriller surrounding the lives of the Whitestone children, but mainly the eldest sister, Abigail Delilah. Unwanted and abused by her mother, Abigail faces a life of solitude and fear while her two younger siblings...

In this amazing story, Winter's Wallflower by Scarlett Scott, you can let your imagination take over, bringing with it vivid descriptions of people, events, and scenes that leave you with feelings of love, loathing, and bewilderment, with a real desire that characters get their deserved...

Shortly after her loving Aunt Hilary’s funeral, Heather faced a challenge at her job. At the State Library in Victoria, Australia, she was assigned the task of assessing a one-hundred box collection donated by the late Professor Foyle. She was a professor of religious studies,...

Primarily set in early eighteenth-century London, The Adventures of Tom Finch, Gentleman by Lucy May Lennox is a picaresque tale of a blind music master who triumphs over his disability to lead a thoroughly (dis)honorable life. It is a merry romp from start to finish....

Shot Through the Heart by Andrea Downing is a historical romance novel set in the 1800s. Shiloh, a retired assassin and prodigal son, came back to his father’s ranch to find his sister and her child murdered. He swore vengeance against the killers of his...