The consequences of substance addictions – opioids, prescribed medications, alcohol – are well-portrayed in this contemporary novel. The focus is on how these addictions affect the Wasson family – father, Emmitt; mother, Maggie; and their daughter, Lindsay. On baby Lindsay’s Baptism day in 1994, Emmitt...

In Lorna Peel’s A Summer of Secrets, the heroine, Sophia, daughter of a former coal miner, has returned from London to her hometown in Yorkshire to take up the job as a tour guide at Heaton Abbey House, formerly a Cistercian monastery. The hero, Lord...

Anna: Waiting for Redemption by Gail K. Bell is the story of a child brought into the world unexpectedly, only to face a harsh life. William, Anna’s father, is a mechanic who leaves his wife and child in search of a better job with better...

A Time to Reflect by Joanna Warrington is a family saga that spans three generations. Pandora and her brother Jules are brought up on a farm, their father commuting to work weekly and their mother in the shadow of her domineering husband. Pandora is a...

Ashes by Sharon Gloger Friedman tells the story of a young Jewish girl named Miriam who lives in Czarist Russia with her parents and older brother Eli. During this time in Russia, there was a lot of hostility towards the Jews for many reasons. One...

Autonomously Yours is K. N. Parker’s science fiction account of the development of an artificial human named Sally, made to be indistinguishable from an actual female and adjustable in its physical attributes. Set in the year 2116, Doctor Harold Okamura has been contracted by a...

Med student Sharon can’t seem to shake the haunting memories of her Baba and what happened that fateful day, despite all she’s done to move on with her life and make a difference in the world. Just when the gnawing pain in her heart...

If you’re going to write a long fiction crime thriller, you'd better make sure of three things: you have a really great plot, gripping characters, and most important of all, the skill to create a true page-turner. Well, Francine Rodriguez certainly followed that mandate in...

Athena's Choice by Adam Boostrom is a science fiction story with a setting in a distant future where men are extinct. A dangerous experimental virus has killed all men on earth. Fifty years later, in 2099, a project is initiated to bring men back to...

Rachael, the narrator of A Spy’s Eyes: Rachael's Story by Dickie Erman, was born to a black mother impregnated by a landowner. Thanks to her light coloring, she has the good fortune to be raised by the landowner and his wife as their own child....