Lost Souls of Paradise by Ian Ritchie Stewart is an engaging story with a strong appeal for readers who enjoy sophisticated characters and stories that are psychologically and emotionally rich. It features a cast of colorful characters and explores realistic themes and experiences that are...

Little did Todd and Mary McGee know as they quietly discussed plans for their retirement that FBI agents were seconds away from cementing their decision? One bullet; that’s all it took for Special Agent Thompson to extinguish the paid assassin known as the Lion. While...

Mission: Believe: Rise Again Warrior Series, Book 1 by Stacy Eaton is a moving novel about heart, grit, and resiliency. This realistic plot, told from the characters' points of view, centers on a wounded warrior named Shane Logan, whose new life mission is to look...

How to Make a Life: A Novel by Florence Reiss Kraut is a beautifully written historical novel that explores family themes and the challenges of emigration. It starts with the migration of Ida and her daughter, Bessie, from Ukraine to America in 1905. They believe...

Copy of Me by Kally Khan is boldly honest as in brave, i.e. a female author having the courage to put a woman’s sexual fantasies into detailed, graphic print, not to titillate readers, but to capture the lonely despair a woman feels when a decade-old...

Her Cumberland by Susan Paisley is an imaginative historical novella that chronicles Rebecca Sevier’s life as her family arrives in Tennessee in search of better prospects during the late 1700s. The story highlights her resilience and follows her continuous determination to honor her father’s dreams....

Hinterland by L.M. Brown is an engrossing and emotionally rich story that explores themes of love, family, and parenting. Nicholas Giovanni drives a taxi at night and adores spending time with his five-year-old daughter, Kate. His wife, Kathleen, has been unstable, health-wise, even before their...

Choo Chooma' by Wayne J. Landry is a collection of short stories that range in genre, with each reading independently of the others. In total, Landry's anthology is comprised of six pieces: Perfect, For Love, Moochie, Together in Church, Pig Bones, and A Good Sunday....

Iowa, 1948. Readers are presented with a bleak illustration of intolerance in America when you are judged by your skin color. In the Blood is inspirational in its plot, yet manages to picture a setting that is dangerous for a band of black jazz musicians...

It must have been difficult living in the penal colonies of what we now know as Australia, halfway around the world from home with little or no chance of returning. To those sent either as military personnel or convicts, it must have felt like what...