It's 1648 in England and the small island of Sealsea Island, part of the Sussex Tidelands. King Charles has been overthrown by Parliament and is under arrest/being held on the local Isle of Wight. It's midsummer's eve and for Alinor she is at the chuch near the...
Herbert Powyss is wealthy, likes botany, and wants to be one of the big guys at the Royal Society Of London as a proper scientists. To that end he decides to push the psyche of one human being to the limit with extreme isolation (the story takes place starting in...
Review by Lauryn Angel With its cameos from major characters in British Literature and a protagonist who is an English professor with a specialty in Victorian British Literature, it’s hardly surprising that I liked The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep. That’s not to say...
Review by Lauryn Angel It’s very rare that I abandon a book without finishing it, but if I wasn’t reviewing it, I would have given up on The Gossamer Mage about 50 pages in. The description was intriguing: a magic system in which each spell, or “intention” ages its...
Review by Adrina Palmer In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives unfold. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life — her husband, who has gone in search of water for the...
Rhys Bowen is the New York Times Bestselling Author of the Royal Spyness Series, Molly Murphy Mysteries, and Constable Evans. She has won the Agatha Best Novel Award and has been nominated for the Edgar Best Novel. Rhys’s titles have received rave reviews around the...
It's July of 1913 and for 25 year old Annie Clements is the same old. She has lived in Calumet, Michigan her whole live and watched the men work the copper mines. They make very little and live is tough here. Having to put food on the table and other everyday needs...
One woman and two different lives come together in the newest thriller from author Melissa de la Cruz in The Birthday Girl. It's birthday number 40 for Ellie and she is going all out (even though her husband isn't for the party and really neither is she). She has...
C. J. Box is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 24 novels including the Joe Pickett series. He won the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Best Novel (Blue Heaven, 2009) as well as the Anthony Award, Prix Calibre 38 (France), the Macavity Award, the Gumshoe Award, two...
Two people Andra Lawler and LJ Deslie are an unlikely couple. The day he walks onto their ranch for a job working the stables nothing will be the same again. Andra was kidnapped and assaulted in College before she escaped and hasn't really gotten over it yet. LJ is an...