Mattered People by Aaron Palm is about a girl who lives in an island community. Not having many jobs on the island to choose from, Dina worked at The House, a mental health facility for the elderly. The residents can be ornery and sometimes dangerous,...

No, Step Crazy isn't about being crazy about climbing steps. Step Crazy is about not being too crazy about becoming a step-parent. Or more accurately, feeling like you're crazy once you become a step-mother, which is what happens to Josie when she marries Tom after...

Children of Eden by Michael Beeney takes us into the world of Harry Lester from London. Harry, like many others, took part in visiting unregulated infertility clinics when he was a medical student. Harry easily donated his genetic material to allow couples who were infertile...

From the moment the heroine, Lark Chadwick, in Bullet in the Chamber by John DeDakis, took the wrong front row seat in her first ever press conference representing Associated Press in the White House, I was hooked. She’s a heroine you can’t help liking. She...

Frank Cudgill is a self-made man, a factory owner and farmer. Wealthy and upstanding in the community, he has no enemies and he is admired. When he and his wife, Lizzie, are unable to conceive they decide to adopt. They get a boy whom they...

‘Tis The Season is a holiday fiction novella by Olivia Folmar Ard, the first in the Seasons of Love series. Lauren Calhoun is a woman who seems to live a picture perfect life. She has a great, hot surfer husband named Joe and they just...

Of Dreams and Tragedies by D.A. Lawson is a story of life, tragedy and connections. As children, Michael Moriority and Allyson White lived worlds apart. To the outside world, Michael had a great life. Michael had his Papaw Dan, his parents, and a girl that...

I loved the stories in C. Jai Ferry’s Unraveled. The book is made up of twenty-six short stories which cover a variety of topics. All of the stories in this book are entertaining. I love to read short stories. It is not often that I...

After a run of so-so books, what a joy to pick up Rescue Man by P.J. Patterson. Here's a writer who understands what a novel should do, at least according to noted authority on writing, James Scott Bell: "If you're a novelist, your first job...

Lessons II: Mirror Conversations by LaDonna Marie is a book of freestyle poetry in four parts: Things never said; Awareness, The Shift, and Lessons. They present half a lifetime of conversations that a woman call Abby holds with her reflection in a mirror. "Things never...