Book Reviews
Promise Me Darkness
Maddy is an innocent “good girl” with a very “bad boy” best friend, Ryder, a playboy and something of a thug who has nonetheless been close to Maddy since they were six and nine. Read On
Real
Brooke Dumas is a former sprinter until she tore her ACL – twice. She has since gone into sports rehab, hoping to help other injured athletes like herself. But her life changes when her friend drags her to see Remington “Riptide” Tate, a gorgeous, sexy fighter who has women screaming for him everywhere he goes. Read On
Dead to Me
Dead to Me follows the psychological world of Patrick, a young adult just setting out on his own, who is occasionally prone to cosmic visions. Read On
Spies and Lies: The Paradox
David Pearl is the head of an intelligence consulting firm that has been languishing for lack of business. However, when he is asked to track down and bring back a Greek diplomat who has gone AWOL, he gets embroiled in a massive tangle involving Greek smugglers and the Greek mafia, the murder of an American Undersecretary, a Russian spy and more. Read On
Parry Pretty and the Eight Realms
Parry Pretty is a brilliant, logical inventor who does not hold with fantasy worlds or magical creatures. So why is it that one day, she wakes up in a different realm, run by magical rules, with a quest of her own – to close the Slipstream that keeps time cycling over and over through the same eternal day? Read On
A Bad Veterinarian Never Goes Hungry
Dr. George Washington Carver, understandably nicknamed “Peanut”, was once a physicist who created a device called the Prophet, which created a rift in spacetime and received a message from the future. Read On
Tidal
Now that Willow Avery is out of rehab, she’s got one chance left to prove herself before she’s officially on every producer’s crap list. At least, that’s what her parents and agent are claiming. She doesn’t really give a damn if she never makes another movie or not—she just wants to get on with her life, get back to her friends, and find her next escape. Read On
An American in Vienna
The book’s focus on the Eastern European front opens up new territory, most westerners are probably more familiar with the Western Front and its long and deadly trench warfare. Read On
A Lost Gun
The story opens with a bang, or rather several, as Leotis Wilson kills his wife and children then sets out for the river to dispose of his gun. Detective Jessie Sands witnessed the killing and tails Wilson to the river. Read On
Softly at Sunrise
Rachel, haunted by memories of her kidnapping by a terrorist group, counts her blessings daily. Now life is filled with second chances to work on her marriage, to have a child, to start a new job, and to appreciate the love of her extended family. But, once again, she is confronted with a situation that makes her wonder if her second chance may be short-lived. Read On
Love & Darts
Nath Jones’ Love & Darts, a collection of twenty-four stories, gives readers an insight into the anxieties of the heartland of the United States today. Read On
The Crimson Battle Axe
Gnarl, who wields the eponymous axe, fights against his oppressors, the humans, who for over a hundred years have enslaved his people. Thelady, the daughter of a human warrior, is an unlikely symbol of kindheartedness in an otherwise malicious species. She should be Gnarl’s natural enemy, but when Gnarl meets Thelady, he vows to protect her if she should ever need it. Read On
American Girl
Roseann Fontana begins her story years before her name change to Roxanne. She begins it in Brooklyn as a girl in love with music. Young Roseann is obsessed with The Beatles and is also filled with love for Brian Jones, and starts a fan club for him that goes international. It doesn’t matter that Jones is already deceased; he is loved and missed by many.
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Heart of Darkness
Aleksandr is a vampire prince who has renounced his heritage in order to fulfill a 400-year-old bloody and self-appointed quest, to vindicate the death of his sister by a vampire hunter. Elise is a vampire guard living to protect her bloodline family. Both are quite content in the lives they have chosen. Read On
Ros
Ros is the story of Marci Cramer and her race against time to save Ros, who has crash-landed her spaceship near Marci’s house. Add into the mix, Marci’s ex mother-in-law, a neurotic cat, a handsome government agent, and a die-hard alien hunter, and you have a wild, unconventional adventure filled with romance and intrigue. Read On
She Tells All
Although Judah Lee Davis is no Dickens, Shakespeare or Fitzgerald, I doubt that any of those men could annotate the life of a nymphomaniac Southerner trying to find a man. Read On
Lucy Wagner gets in Shape
After being dumped by her handsome and exercise obsessed boyfriend, couch potato Lucy Wagner decides to rein in her love for food, break out the running shoes and get into shape! Read On
Happily Ever Afton
Afton Lanford plans to live happily ever after with her beau Jason. When she finds out that he is having an affair with her bridesmaid, she feigns a romance with Cooper Stewart Carrington III, a stranger on the street. Read On
Summer’s Journey: Volume One – Losing Control
A blend of contemporary romance and erotica, “Summer’s Journey” begins with Summer’s decision to recover from her recent divorce by seeking the sexual freedom she has always desired. Read On
Counting from Zero
To invade a computer, a virus relies on human help, such as clicking on an unsolicited e-mail attachment or inserting an infected floppy disk. “Counting from Zero” is about attacks on computers and computer networks, the attackers, and the defenders. Read On
Wired
Former Special Ops member David Desh suffered a horrible experience in Iran and is haunted by the memory. He is called out of retirement to track down a dangerous molecular biologist, Kira Miller, who may have discovered how to double the human lifespan.
Fezariu’s Epiphany
Bruised by a rough childhood, a young man joins up with a legendary band of mercenaries and begins an exciting new life. Read On
Blood for Love
The imaginary planet called D’ot is not a happy place. It is “peopled” with creatures who have evolved into reptilian humanoids. They are violent and sadistic and lack the basic compassion that is crucial in any society. Read On
Open Source
“What if a ship carrying a cargo of stolen Russian missiles bound for Iran was mysteriously hijacked? What if Israel was secretly behind the hijacking? What if the guy who fills the vending machines in the break room figured the whole thing out?” Read On
The Faithful
A Presbyterian pastor who is seriously questioning his faith is suddenly thrown into the midst of a paranormal murder mystery. Read On
Paris, Moi and the Gang
Documents Grendlin’s daily meanderings through modern-day Paris, a journey that’s mainly interesting to Grendlin. Read On
The Change Artist
The plot transports the reader from modern-day Canada to 1940s Europe, and contains a wide cast of characters, including Nazis, Gypsies and carnival folk, along with more mundane Canadian accountants and lawyers. Read On
Percy: The Perfectly Imperfect Chicken
The artwork in the book is fantastic. All the chickens are expressive and, though everything takes place in the one yard, the perspective on the yard and chickens varies in each scene.
Murder of an American Nazi
A a story about a small town police detective whose obsessive search for the truth leads him from a seemingly simple murder investigation down an insidious path of espionage, cover-ups, and violence.
Shotgun Shopping: Adventures in How to Materialize Anything You Want Through the Metaphor of Shopping Fast, Cheap, and Fabulous
Smart and incredibly helpful shopping techniques buried beneath stylistic shortcomings. Read On
