Fried Calamari by Francine Zane is the story of a gutsy, sprightly, smart but rather lazy raccoon who was born in the Alaskan wilderness and spends his time foraging or hunting with his two brothers, or getting into fights with bigger predators over food. But...

Wow! Just wow! Have you ever read a book that leaves you feeling like you have to come up for air, and wishing you could meet the author, just to see how his mind works in real life? That’s certainly the feeling I ended up...

A Month of Sundays: Stories of Love and Loss by Megan Gordon is made up of twelve short stories. Each story is unique and focuses on some type of loss. I was able to connect to each story even though each one was different. All...

Crossing the Border is a collection of short stories by Ksenia Rychtycka. The title of this collection itself presents myriad moments in life with nine stories set in Ukraine and reaching to the United States and Greece. Love, disillusionment, tragedy, strength and perseverance are highlighted...

A Christmas romance story. Could there be anything better? Not much, in my estimation. And that’s exactly what we have in Coming Home for Christmas, the new novella by author Joanne Rawson. In it, our main character, Sophie Lang, returns home to Derbyshire, England, with...

The Treacherous Wheels: An Oliver DeVille Short Story by Vetle Sivertsen centers on Oliver DeVille, an expert in religious extremism. He and his colleagues are enjoying their relaxing team-building event in the Belgian countryside when a radical right-wing French politician is brutally murdered at the...

Delightful, delightful, delightful! That is the best way I can describe the new work by author Elizabeth Cooke, A Tale of Two Hotels. Following our protagonist, Elizabeth, as she returns to her beloved Paris and the Hotel Marcel, we see the infighting between two established...

“Oooh,” I thought as delicious chills ran down my spine. “A book about vampire-zombies…what could be better?” That was my thinking as I picked up The Journal of Vincent du Maurier, the short novel by author K.P. Ambroziak. And my initial thinking certainly wasn’t off-base....

In the short story Dreams of Marriage by author Debra Benson, the reader is introduced to our protagonist, Leah, the dietitian and weight-loss consultant who dreams of her perfect wedding day. Leah has many ideas and plans for her wedding, including her perfect dress, perfect...

Collection: A Daisy Hunter Story by Marianne Sciucco may be a short story, but it is one that stays with you long after you have finished reading it. In fact you will want to reread the story again just to make sure that you did...