September 8, 2026
When a reporter is sent to cover a homicide that occurred in self-defense, she’s reminded of events from her own past in Donna M. Bevans’ novel It’s the Mountain Way.
It has been 20 years since Savannah Benjamin left Tennessee, vowing to never return. But now Katie Lyn, 14, is charged with murdering a man […]
August 11, 2026
This intense YA story follows 15-year-old high school sophomore Henry Wilton, who has been bullied at school for years, as he turns the table on the teens who torment him and the adults who stand by and let the bullying go unchallenged.
Set in an unnamed American city, this contemporary novel is driven by the […]
August 4, 2026
Author Gregory Rizzi’s science fiction adventure follows a colony of human settlers who—hundreds of years after crash-landing on an inhospitable planet named Ares and slowly building a glorious civilization from the ashes—are on the verge of ideological hatred-fueled self-destruction.
Jakob Daedalus is a young lieutenant in the Praetorian Guard, an elite unit that protects the […]
July 21, 2026
In the second book in the Veiled Flame series, author Meg Kramer continues to build her fascinating dual witch and human world based in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon.
When teenage witch Amoura Renly returns to Elderwood school for her second year, she turns down the opportunity to become a Champions Cadet; Champions are a […]
June 23, 2026
Ben Klotz’s four-part book offers an epic poem and other poems ranging in topic.
The book’s first part is a 75-page entry about a struggle for peace. Major characters are Irene, Greek goddess of peace, and Mars, Greek god of war. Zeus and Prometheus appear as minor characters.
Here, Irene repeatedly visits the dreams of […]
May 26, 2026
Charles Rellex’s The Benevolent School of Witches is a fantasy tale that chronicles five women’s courageous attempts to protect their school from a powerful, unrelenting force.
Tiffany Galloway is the Mother Supreme and owner of the School of Benevolent Witches, which she has inherited through her family line. She’s determined to safeguard its legacy and […]
May 18, 2026
Meg Kramer’s Amoura Awakened is a charming YA novel in the Harry Potter vein, in which a 16-year-old girl learns that she is a witch—and that tensions inside the magical world are on the rise.
Adopted as an infant, Amoura is a clever but lonely teen. As the story begins, she receives a postcard inviting […]
May 5, 2026
Stacy R. Ward’s absorbing young adult novel explores deep issues of childhood neglect and environmental contamination through the eyes of its teenage protagonist.
As soon as she receives emancipation from the courts, Meaghan Pullman leaves Ohio and hightails it to San Diego to live and work with her Aunt Tessa, captain of the oceanic explorer […]
April 21, 2026
Jeff Ingber’s novel Collateral Dreams centers on a handful of people caught up in the record-breaking gains of the stock market in 2006.
Everett Webb is a young bond trader, married to Hannah, with a young child, a country club membership and great ambition for much more. His world revolves around the rich and powerful, […]
April 7, 2026
In book three of the author’s YA science fiction series, a group of teenagers prevented a dangerous alien threat. Now, in the fourth book, they unite to help a terrified widow who believes her house is haunted.
The scene opens to eight years ago, with a scientist stealing top secret items at a research center. […]