Clarissa: The Flight of a Monarch Butterfly, by Maria Elena Lavaud, highlights the grim reality of domestic violence that many women have come to endure. Clarissa’s husband used his wealth and influence in unspeakable ways against her and she suffered the worst kind of domestic...

Color of Authority: When Taking a Knee Becomes Taking a Stand by Bruce Carleton Fisher is an engrossing tale about the evils of manipulating diversity. Lt. Colonel Jesse Hawkins has served his country as a jet fighter pilot for twenty years. Upon retirement, his commanding...

Call My Name by Jenni Ogden is an impressive and complex novel, especially concerning friendship, motherhood, and grief. It follows Olivia Newman, an orphaned girl who is raised by her mother's best friend, Cathie Tulloch, and her husband. Now aged 22 and a newly graduated...

Certified by Roger Wilson-Crane is a comedy-drama novel containing three inter-connected stories signifying three significant milestones in a man's life. Inspired by real events, the book follows an unnamed narrator who recounts three momentous events from his life. "One Unexpected Birth" follows the narrator as...

Consumed by a Season is a work in the women’s fiction and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is intended for the mature reading audience owing to sexual situations as well as some dark subject matter pertaining to grief and mental health issues. It was penned by...

China Grade: A novel about the Transcontinental Railroad by Wong Yue is a fascinating glimpse into the life and times of those involved in the construction of the Central Pacific Railway in the US in the 1860s. Yue has woven an engrossing story around real...

Inspired by true events, Clean by Michael Rebellino tells the story of Cameron, a young man who struggles to let go of the influence of drugs and alcohol in his life. Written in a unique style with poetic verse, letters, and conversations making up most...

Coal is a slice-of-life story written by Dave von Beck. Rummaging through an old box in the basement of his childhood home in Seattle, forty-two-year-old Ken discovers a collection of letters saved by his older sister Carole Priscilla Sharpe, a.k.a. Cole. Eight years ago, his...

My initial encounter with award-winning author SL Beaumont was in Death Count, the first of her new thriller series featuring forensic accountant, Kat Munro. In that novel, which I highly recommend, the fickle finger of fate was a key player in several deadly events. Well,...

Crossings: Four Tiered Stories by Allie Cresswell is a literary fiction novel set in modern-day England in a diaspora that is both separated by and converged by way of a river, the dividing line between the haves and the have-nots within a common geographical area....