The Sum of His Worth by Ron Argo will have you enthralled if you’re a fan of well-crafted novels with powerful themes and historical settings like me. This novel plunges the reader abruptly into a racial setting and an environment where the KKK holds sway,...

The Dawn of Skye by E.B. Heimdal is a gripping story that combines a dystopian setting with a densely plotted adventure to offer readers a fascinating tale, especially younger readers. Meet Skye and her twin brother, Ecco, as they cling to life, barely managing to...

The Princess and the Parakeet by Marc Clark follows Princess Brooke who was cursed by a Sorcerer to stay confined inside the palace. She finds freedom in the most unexpected place, in a mysterious talking Parakeet only she can understand. When the Parakeet reveals that...

The Demon Conspiracy by R.L. Gemmill is Book 1 of The Demon Conspiracy Series. Kelly, Jon, and Travis Bishop are orphaned after an accident and, after being shuffled around, they finally get placed with a family in Northern Virginia. At last, life can get back...

What might become of our civilization after world-wide nuclear war? How might government and humanity react? What would the fallout be? The Heights of Perdition by C.S. Johnson gives us a possible glimpse. Aerie St. Cloud is a dutiful student, if not a tad willful,...

The Hired Gun by Bob MacKenzie is a novella focused on a young group of five friends in Alberta, Canada back in the late 1950s. The kids - Bobby, Sam, Alex, Linda and Dickie - are just shy of their teen years and are on...

The Immortal Guardians by Alynne McFaye follows a seemingly ordinary girl named Jessalyn Squalorwinde, who finds herself at the center of a centuries-old battle between good and evil. When she's attacked by the demonic henchmen of the Shadow King, Theorin Valen, her grandmother Josephine reveals...

You can be haunted by many things and Josh Weston has it bad. In The Haunting of Josh Weston by Melinda Rucker Haynes, Josh is haunted by the gruesome death of his cousin, the loss of his father in Afghanistan, and his own issues being...

The Rise of the Dawnstar by Farah Oomerbhoy is the second spellbinding installment in The Avalonia Chronicles, a delightful epic fantasy read for young adult readers. In this latest installment in the series, the stakes are raised even higher. The seven kingdoms of Avalonia are...

I liked The Sorcerer’s Quest by Rain Oxford. As the title implies, it is a traditional quest adventure with magic and all the fantastic beasts and other elements you can expect in this kind of tale. I am a big fan of magical stories so...