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Pool Man (A Nightmare in Riverton Novel) by Dan McDowell

A gripping, philosophical horror thriller… Survival, grief, familial conflict, and the quest for self-identity are given a dark and fantastical treatment in McDowell’s latest thriller, the third in the A Nightmare in Riverton. 1991. Greg Preakle, who is known as…
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Christ came from Croydon by John Redstone

Unusual and intriguing… Set in a near future in Croydon, London, Toronto, New York, Shanghai, Geneva, Moscow, and San Diego, Redstone’s debut explores oppression, injustice, courage, and identity. The world has become a chaotic place. A multi-national terrorist group aiming…
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Nobody Told Me by Karla Rogers

Beautifully imagined and vividly crafted… Rogers explores the self-realization, transformation, and intricacies of motherhood in her absorbing debut. Molly Fowler has always defined herself by her role as a mother, wife, realtor, and a sister and is ready for the…
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Risen (The Battle for Darracia #3) by Michael Phillip Cash

An emotionally charged and thematically profound conclusion to a fascinating series… Cash’s final installment in The Battle for Darracia trilogy captivates with its ferocious action, poignant emotion, and atmospheric setting. With Prince V’sair captured and the ruling class left for…
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Collision (The Battle for Darracia #2) by Michael Phillip Cash

Artfully constructed and vividly detailed… Electrifying. Cash continues The Battle of Darracia trilogy with this second installment with all the key players separated and searching for answers throughout the solar system. With Zayden on the trail of his uncle Staf…
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Schism (The Battle for Darracia #1) by Michael Phillip Cash

A captivating start to what promises to be an epic space fable… The first volume in Cash’s The Battle for Darracia trilogy is set centuries into a future shaped by violence, bloodshed, and pride, where varied alien races are threatened…
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The Knowing (Bulwark Anthology, #1) by Brit Lunden

Exciting to read, engrossing, and satisfying… A phenomenal read. Lunden continues the story of Bulwark by delving into the backstory of JB Stratton, a character who made an appearance in the original Bulwark novella. With his beloved wife Ellie long-gone…
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The After House (A Haunting on Long Island Series Book 3) by Michael Phillip Cash

Poignant, witty, and propulsive… A standout gothic tale. Cash returns with this fine blend of gothic romance and humor in his latest novel. A year after getting divorce, the lovely Remy Galway buys a 300-year-old cottage in historic Cold Spring…
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The Revenge of Hatathor (The Sphere of Destiny Trilogy Book 3) by Nassim Odin

A captivating premise and great fun… Odin creates a compelling and intriguing SF tale in this concluding installment in The Sphere of Destiny Trilogy, delving into the intricacies of life, love, revenge, and redemption. Al-Khidr is back on Lyra once…
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Crazy Time: A Bizarre Battle with Darkness and the Divine by L. Andrew Cooper

A gritty tale of modern-day good versus evil. Cooper’s latest novel follows a young woman as she becomes forced to battle supernatural treachery after a tragic accident kills her friends. It was a regular night out for Lily Henshaw and…
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Last Worst Hope by Lee Hunt

A Cracking page-turner with an unlikely group of misfits… Hunt’s highly gripping standalone, set in the world of his Dynamicist Trilogy, is as much a cerebral story as an action-driven tale. With the wizard Nehring Ardgour and his pawn from…
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The Glimpse by Lis Bensley

An engrossing read…Entertaining, poignant, and meaningful. After facing a life-altering event, a budding artist escapes to a small-town life to raise her daughter born out of wedlock and navigates inspiration and redemption in Bensley’s poignant novel. Liza Baker, a rising…
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Skyehag (The Torrport Diaries Book 2) by Bettyanne Twigg (Author), Albert Marsolais (Author)

An intricate, entertaining tale, both immediate and arrestingly absorbing. Elspeth MacLeod’s quest to save her clan from sinister enemies while fighting false charges of witchcraft propels the action in Marsolais and Twigg’s second installment in The Torrport Diaries series. It…
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The Silk Road (Lucy & Dee) by Kirsten Marion

A rip-roaring fantasy… Not to be missed. Marion’s fantastical middle grade fantasy is a deft mix of science, magic and intrigue, sending two best friends on a magical quest. Lucy and Dee are as opposite as they can be: Lucy…
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Legends on the Rise Series by Leigh Rose

Riveting… Page-turning… Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The first book begins…
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When Starlings Fly as One by Nancy Blanton

A solid historical drama high on emotion, setting, and character… The nightmare of the 1641 Rebellion and Ireland’s longest siege comes to the page in this engrossing novel from Blanton, a provocative exploration of one young woman’s quest to find…
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The Rape of Persephone by Monica Brillhart

An engrossing and fascinating gem of a book with love, passion, and intrigue inscribed on every page… Wrought with love, treachery, conspiracies, and hidden agendas, Brillhart’s debut novel, the first in the projected trilogy, is deeply engrossing and fascinating with…
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SOMEWHERE YOU ARE IMMORTAL: An Elegy for Tom by Don Gutteridge

Hauntingly beautiful… Gutteridge delves into the pain and heartbreak of mourning in his strikingly intimate latest, a series of elegiac poems remembering, memorializing, and celebrating his grandson Tom’s life who died tragically at age 35. “Tom” highlights the empty space…
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The Perilous Journey of Gavin the Great by Don Gutteridge

A richly complex, stirring tale sure to keep readers glued to the pages… Gutteridge’s engrossing fantasy gracefully examines courage, adventure, resilience, and survival. After a devastating flood leaves the citizens of Earthwood trapped on a deserted island, they set out…
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The N. M. E.: A novel by Ryan A. Kovacs

A high-stakes, darkly intriguing work of verse fiction… Set in the 1960s and rife with violence, bloodshed, revenge, and intrigue, Kovacs’s free-verse crime thriller sees a pair of dangerous inmates trying to escape the maximum-security prison to carry out a…