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Goddess of the Gillani by Jim Hamilton

  A delightful, engrossing read… After Colony Ship New Hope, Jim Hamilton returns with a sophisticated sequel. Cassiopeia Evanland and Griffin Mayfir’s exploratory jump rides across the universe continue until a disgraced variant decides to exact revenge for Cassiopeia’s part…
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My Diary of You by Haley Peterson

  A chorus of emotional teenage voices… Peterson’s short collection captures delicate moments of love and heartbreak in high school years as the protagonist talks about falling in love, the misery of a broken heart, her regrets, and her grief.…
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Journey to the Son by Carla Carlisle

  Multi-layered, emotionally charged read… Journey to the Son narrates Carla A. Carlisle’s eight-year struggle filled with mental turmoil and moral dilemma to get Devon, her foster son, back from a difficult system and a manipulative, abusive birth mother. Years…
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Prairie Fire: A Top Secret Presidential Novel by Mike Shallenbergar

With its high narrative energy and fast-paced action, Prairie Fire makes for a quick read… After Recover and Terminate, his first Top-Secret Presidential novel, Shellenbergar returns once again to espionage genre with this absorbing, tightly plotted action thriller about uncovering…
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Birth Right: Galak’s Rising by Christina Goebel

  A brilliant start to the series… In a cyborg-ruled world where destruction of technology has reduced civilization to a few ancient tribes and secret underground dwellings, humans and Valki, the genetically enhanced humans, are barely surviving their brutal treatment…
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Piper Robbin and the American Oz Maker by Warwick Gleeson

Dark and surprising, Gleeson’s modern twist on the world-famous classic tale is rich in characters and world building… Expertly combining hard-core science fiction and high fantasy, Gleeson tells the story of twenty-first century’s greatest sorcerer who sets out to save…
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Mari Why I needed to Return from The Future by Dr. Winfried Sedhoff

  Thoroughly engrossing… After crash-landing of his spaceship in early twenty-first century in Brisbane, Australia, Benjamin Ecclestone, the arbitrator of the late twenty-second century, meets lovely Mariana Jenkins and falls in love. But his stay in the current century is…
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Civil Hearts (Haunted Voices) by Claire Gem

  Seductively readable… Claire Gem brilliantly brings forth a blend of contemporary romance, historical fiction, and paranormal in Civil Hearts. Two years after losing her husband to brain cancer, Liv Larson buys a historic mansion in Camellia, a rural southern…