High Summons by Eli Celata is a fun urban fantasy following the story of Jon as he finds his place as a warlock. All his life, Jon has grown up hiding his magic from everyone except his mother, and dreaming about a father he's never...

Eliza and Millie are two best friends who live in St. Agatha’s Home for Girls, an orphanage run by the iron-fisted Matron Criggs. Eliza is desperate to escape the stifling and sometimes torturous rule of the place. When the opportunity comes, she brings along her...

Every once in a while, a book surprises me. I mean really surprises me. It’s difficult to do because I grew up in my mother’s library and I read a lot of books. In The Night the Sky Fell by Stephen G. Levy, I was...

Red Widow by Nathan Wilson is Book One in the Vivian Xu series, a good murder and mystery story, every bit as entertaining as it is engaging. Life has never been easy for Vivian. She’s been used by the crime-riddled world of the Czech Republic....

Only If by Ariana R. Cherry opens with Bill, an elderly dishevelled man, ranting to himself in his jail cell. He has been accused and found guilty of the murder of his wife, Clara. Bill, however, won’t accept he is in any way to blame,...

The Rosegiver by Sandy Benitez is a beautifully written mix of supernatural, mystery, and romance for young adult readers, but adult readers will still get a lot of entertainment by reading it. Set against the English rural landscape in the late 1800s, a young girl...

If you're looking for spooky stories and happy haunts, look no further than Mark Milbrath's Pumpkin Spirits! From the very beginning, Milbrath draws readers in with a chilling proposition: the Seed Reader will share one of his many tales with you and, in return, if...

Bedtime Horrors is a collection of dark flash-fiction horror stories written by Nic Kristofer Black and illustrated by Jorge Gonzalez. The creators of this collection designed their work with those who have short attention spans in mind. Each of the ten tales is exactly 1,000...

Erie Energy is the first book in The Ghostlands saga written by C.N. James and Amy Joy. Anastasia misses her boyfriend, Uz. It had been two years since he and his entire family had been traded by Erie Energy to the Sydney Corporation, due to...

Riptide by Claudette Melanson is the third book about the life of teenager Maura, who is slowly transforming into a vampire. Her father, who came back into her life after having left her and her mother before Maura was born, is the first vampire who...