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Honor among Vampires by Elizabeth Guizzetti

Intriguing and highly engrossing vampire tale… Unaware of something ominous hiding in the shadows, Agata Arturescu Vidraru leaves to assist a first-year heifer at night and wakes up in the morning wounded and defiled. To regain her honor, Agatha must…
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Maya Angelou (Little Guides to Great Lives) by Danielle Jawando

  Informative, well-crafted… Jawando brings African-American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s biography as the second book in Little Guides to Great Lives series: small guides introducing children to the most inspiring figures from history in a…
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The Prized Girl by Amy K. Green

  A suspenseful Psychological thriller… In this engrossing but somewhat derivative debut by Amy K. Green, a sister searches for her half-sister’s killer. After Jenny, a young pageant queen, is found murdered, all the clues lead to a single suspect;…
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Criminal Beware (The Lykanos Chronicles Book 1) by Joseph Stone

Highly intriguing and gripping… Stone’s entertaining first installment in The Lykanos Chronicles series set in the 1920s San Diego finds young and ambitious Daniel Archer trying to adjust to his new identity in a city which is rocked by brutal…
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Lock Me In by Kate Simants

  A slow-burning, engrossing thriller… At surface, Ellie Power seems to have a normal life; she has a stable home, a loving mother, a nice boyfriend. But she suffers from dissociative identity disorder; her alter ego takes over occasionally and…
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From #Catatonia, to #Avalon, Back to #Atlantis – and Beyond by William Smith

Intriguing … A combination of philosophy, myth, and fantasy, Smith’s short, accessible book integrates Freudian, Jungian, and Buddhists concepts of personality with Drive Theory to draws parallels between humanity’s relentless journey of brotherhood and peace to hatred, intolerance, and racism.…
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Taming Her Stallion (Self-Made Rogue Book 1) by Megan Musgrove

  Deliciously sexy, sweetly romantic, and highly engrossing… Set in England in 1817, Musgrove’s page-turner first installment in the Self-Made Rouge series is filled with delicious erotic tension and sensual love scenes. Felicity Greene is perfectly content living the quiet…
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Before the Fall: A Prequel to The Chaos Series by Jim Hamilton

Reflective, intelligent, and highly gripping… This prequel to Hamilton’s The Chaos series is a swiftly paced, thoughtful tale of the exploration of the grim realities as a planet devastated by population explosion reaches its tripping point, approaching fast toward its…
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Someone to Kiss my Scars by Brooke Skipstone

  Evocative and dark… Skipstone’s debut novel delivers a moving portrait of young lives scarred by severe mental and physical abuse, as seen through the lens of a teenager’s nightmare. Hunter not only left his old life behind but also…
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Inside the Masque by R. T. W. Lipkin

  Outstanding, sinful to miss… Lipkin’s impressive police procedural is set in a far-future where everyone wears masques and secrets, lies, and deceits prevail. When Chief Inspector McNair and his team are called to investigate a murder at a high-profile…
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Enchanted (Things We Lost in the Night #2) by Larry J. Dunlap

Electrifying… In this electric, surprisingly moving memoir, Dunlap takes up where he left off in Things We Lost in the Night and recalls his final years as a member of Stark Naked and the Car Thieves band. Dunlap talks about…
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Time Framed by Roger Chiocchi

A highly intriguing, tightly packed time travel tale… An intriguing blend of paranormal with science fiction, Chiocchi’s third book takes readers into the lives of two members of a prominent New England family from two different time period, who shrewdly…
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A Medic’s Mind by Matthew Heneghan

  Powerful and incredibly inspiring… Heneghan takes a sharp-eyed look back at his fractured childhood and personal loss as he chronicles his journey towards a better way of coping. After joining Canadian Forces, Heneghan began experiencing crippling episodes of depression…