Synopsis Rivals-to-lovers romance? ✔ Only one horse? ✔ Enough sapiosexual tension to make one’s reading spectacles a bit foggy? ✔ Rival ornithologists hunt through England for a rare magical bird in this historical-fantasy rom-com reminiscent of Indiana Jones but with manners, tea, and helicopter parasols. Beth Pickering is on the verge of finally capturing […]
Category: Fantasy
Excerpt – Universe of Lost Messages by Janet Stilson
Synopsis What if your child has special powers and can get people to do almost anything? What happens if the child is abducted?Izzie and Tristan were never mere humans. They are Charismites, with almost god-like powers of magnetism. And they couldn’t be more different. Izzie is a reckless, playful megastar whose popularity far exceeds […]
Review – Forgotten by A. Gural
Synopsis Edwardian England Gwendolyn Deering was sent away to St Ursula’s School for Young Ladies six years ago, and she has no idea why. Estranged from her own family, she forms a new one with the troubled teens at her school, and tries to be at least a tiny bit happy. Except that […]
New Release – The Portalis Runes by A.G. Brogan
Synopsis A Portalis, their saviour or doom? Thrust into a world beyond her wildest imagination, Aria Torvel’s simple life abruptly shatters after learning she is a Portalis. The only one of her kind and gifted with an ancient portal magic, she has become the unwitting bridge between the Three Realms. But now […]
Review – Dead Girl by Kerrie Faye
Synopsis Dying has its perks…mostly. Bullied teen, Ember O’Neill goes from the weird girl to the tyrant of her school when she is resurrected from a deadly prank. Now secretly supernatural, she dethrones the school drama queen and snags the hot new guy, but her reign is at risk when the Order, […]
Review – The Garden of Changing Blooms by Madison McAuley
Synopsis He doesn’t want to be her enemy. She doesn’t want to be his friend. But when their paths keep crossing, can a change of heart lead to a chance at love? In the Kingdom of Kalopsia, Dahlia has grown tired of the cloying perfumes and swirling silks of ballrooms. Her reality […]
Synosis Twelve-year-old James Rhyder is being hunted by people from a hidden world he never knew existed. Unlike most people his age, James doesn’t dream at night of becoming a hero. Rather, his dreams are filled with shadowy figures and cryptic warnings about the end of the world. As these strange […]
Review – The Lies Among Us by Sarah Beth Durst
Synopsis From the award-winning author of The Shelterlings and The Lake House comes a haunting novel about sisterhood and grief, where difficult truths must contend with the corrosive power of unchecked lies. After her mother dies, Hannah doesn’t know how to exist without her. Literally. In fact, Hannah’s not even certain that […]
Review & Excerpt – The Monstrous Misses Mai by Van Hoang
Synopsis A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true―whatever the sacrifice. Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959―though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, […]
Excerpt – The Phantom Enforcer by J.W. Jarvis
Synopsis A supernatural journal. Two kids in over their heads. Can they lead a new Chicago police officer to success in the dangerous south side of the city? Danielle and Noah’s curiosity gets the best of them when they find another magical diary about an officer’s second year in the country’s second-largest […]