“She is not the pet they tamed. She is the beast they let inside.” Madeline Taylor’s Heir of Illusion is a heart-pounding new dark romantasy novel that will leave you more than a little breathless. Hot on the heels of its success in the self-publishing market, Heir of Illusion receives the......

In MC Beaton’s latest Police Sergeant Hamish Macbeth mystery, Death of a Groom, the mystery not only involves who is the killer and how it was accomplished, but which groom becomes the victim. In a twist that strikes from the first page, there are two actual grooms in the book.......

In The Company of Owls, Polly Atkin’s devotion to her own tawny owls glows like the auroras she enjoys during her evening walks to visit her owl neighbors.  We begin our journey in the night time, a moment when the hooting of owls interrupts sleep. Her first relationship with the......

Jonathan Freedman has written a thought-provoking, heart-breaking work of non-fiction in The Traitor’s Circle subtitled The True Story of a Secret Resistance Network in Nazi Germany and the Spy Who Betrayed Them. Among his previous works is the award-winning true story The Escape Artist: The Man w...

That uniquely magical moment when a novel knocks you flat and makes you ask, “Did that really just happen?” The joy of reading a passage multiple times to revisit the delightful insanity that liberates the reader from their reality. In Cruelty Free, author Caroline Glenn delivers a number of the...

Art historian, journalist and author Amy Newman (no relation to her subject) has written the definitive biography Barnett Newman: Here, about one of the founding members of the Abstract Expressionist movement. Newman sometimes referred to their works as “Abstract Sublime”. Beginning in the early...

Nikesha Elise Williams starts the prologue of The Seven Daughters of Dupree with a sentence so horrible readers will hope it’s a metaphor for something less unthinkable. And then, as though taking the hand of a reluctant child, Williams pulls her readers into the first chapter – and into a......

“He who saves a single life saves the entire world” – The Talmud Author Kat Devereaux has written an impressive second work of historical fiction with Daughter of Genoa. The plot centers on protagonist Anna Levi Pastorino, a half-Jewish widow whose existence in Genoa in 1944 is precarious.  B...

Queer author Rebekah Faubion delivers a captivating and haunting Young Adult horror/thriller with a paranormal twist. Lost Girls of Hollow Lake revolves around a group of high school teenage girls who vanished on a mysterious island while on a school trip. During an Environmental Science trip to Hol...