The honest, urgent, and disheartening message buried at the core of Ebele Ufondu’s blistering indictment of endemic, systemic corruption, The Land That Shivers, a fictional depiction of contemporary Nigerian society – though universally applicable, even in so-called “developed” nations – is this cogent observation offered...

Mia Chapman is a stranger in town; she has her job and a house but has yet to make any real friends. She is attacked by a stranger as she walks to her car and injured by her assailant. Luckily for her, someone had noticed...

Gambling Broke Us: Can Boston Fix Us? by Joanna Warrington unravels in the wake of the uncertainty brought about by the Brexit referendum in England. Pandora and her niece Ellie are going to embark on a trip to historic New England but Jules, the father...

South of Little Rock by George Rollie Adams is a novel set in a small town called Unionville in Arkansas during the forced desegregation of Little Rock Central High School in 1957. Changes are coming and not everyone is happy about them. Hatred is being...

While the plot of Broken Humanity by Karine Vivier is based upon child trafficking, this compact psychological thriller is actually more about the characters in the story than the events…in particular, three characters: Denis Papin, a convicted child molester; Andy, the kidnapper; and little Alice,...

In Nia and the Dealer by Dominic Carrillo, when Nia and her mom, who live in Bulgaria, come to spend a couple of weeks with Nia’s grandmother, she is open to learning about life in America. What she discovers along the way is how different...

A New Hope: Second Chances and a Forgotten Boy by Emily Stalder Johnson is a Christian fiction novel set in America in 1878. While out riding, Andrew Caldwell comes across a man whipping a 14-year-old boy. The youngster is Dublin Pearson and his father is...

All the Broken People by Amy Rivers is a suspenseful story that explores the brokenness in the characters, which are poignant and deeply human. Alice Bennett has finally let the pain of her past go, forgetting her abusive childhood and rebuilding her life around the...

The Last Man: Rise of the Pink Army by Sean Williams is a story set in a world that is reinvented, where a dangerous ideology is about to transform everything. It’s a very hostile world, and Ian is bent on becoming a respectable leader. The...

Millie has a decision to make. At the age of 29, she must choose how her future unfolds. She lost her mother and grandmother to a terrible disease and has always known there was a high chance of contracting it herself. Medical intervention can change...