Tainted is a brilliant and intense young adult novel written by Jody Calkins. Shep and Charlie met each other unexpectedly when Shep saved her life in a dire situation. Ever since they first met they could not get enough of each other, but all the...

The Silver Six is the second novel in the Uncanny Valley series by C.A. Gray. Readers are once again taken on an exciting adventure. Rebecca Cordeaux has learned that her mother is the mysterious leader M of the renegades. Considering that her mother had...

The Legend of Shark Island by Heidi Peltier is the first story in The Book of the Delmar series. Dylan Murray has the chance of a lifetime to spend the summer studying sharks, but all his plans change when he meets Princess Terra Delmar. He's...

The bad guys’ original plan in The Eighth Ransom by Given Hoffman was to kidnap seven children – each the daughter or son of an influential, rich, or particularly skilled person. However, Trent, a rebellious, moody, cocky teenage boy, got involved because his curiosity got...

When you read Darkness Descends (The Twisted Climb) you will find J.C. Kavanagh brings up a topic many have often wondered about; can dreams be connected? This is the author's second book featuring Connor, Jayden, Max, and Richard as they explore this world made of...

Time Next by Carolyn Cohagan is the second installment in The Time Zero Trilogy, preceded by book one, Time Zero. Manhattan has been taken over and is being ruled by hard-core fundamentalists. The main character, Mina, and her friends – known as the Manhattan Five...

Cedar Springs High students Zelda, Sabrina, Andrew, Gabby, and Justin are the ones everyone around them－peers, parents, and teachers－deem as lost causes, which rightly gives this YA mystery thriller its title. Two undercover FBI agents, Ryan Nash and Patricia Nichols, summoned them to a ‘group-therapy...

The Jack Creek Horror: A Novel by CJ Coombes is a great treat for fans of horror fiction, a narrative with powerful environmental themes and great potential for entertainment. Harold Sweeny owns the County Chronicle and when he invites his friend Cory Ballard for dinner,...

The Field by Ian Dawson is a fairly straightforward YA novel about two friends, Daniel and Kyle, and what happens when one of them is kidnapped. The book starts with an introduction to both boys and their friendship, and all of the normal adolescent...

When Kevin first starts receiving the visions, he’s not sure what they mean and neither is anyone else, but what he’s certain about is that he’s not crazy. It’s those visions that lead him to SETI and even further to NASA, but visions aren’t...