Passion and duty clash in this story of two people who are determined not to fall in love… Miss Araminta Barrington, clever, pretty and unexpectedly poor, bravely decides to sacrifice her own happiness in a marriage of convenience, in order to save her family from certain ruin. She sets out to win a proposal from the wealthy Sir Timothy Stanton while struggling with her guilt over using a good man so poorly. Just when success is in sight, she catches the eye of … [Read more...] about The Rogue’s Reluctant Rose by Daphne du Bois
Cavern Between Worlds by M. K. Theodoratus — [Kay] @takingvengeance
Targeted Age Group: Young Adult, Adult Genre: fantasy adventure Your Story: … [Read more...] about Cavern Between Worlds by M. K. Theodoratus — [Kay] @takingvengeance
Dangerous Wind by Alan Cook
In the third Carol Golden novel, Dangerous Wind, Carol is abducted from Chapel Hill, North Carolina where she lives with her grandmother and is thrown into an adventure that will take her to all seven continents. It involves a former boyfriend she doesn’t remember (because of her amnesia), who is trying to bring about the “downfall of the Western World” according to people in power. While Carol is hunting for the bad guys she has to sort out the truth and figure out who they really are. But she … [Read more...] about Dangerous Wind by Alan Cook
Khe by Alexes Razevich
Khe, the first volume of the Khe’s World series, is the tale of a young alien on a distant planet who, to discover the truth of her world, must defy all that she believes. Khe loves her simple life on a farming commune, until she discovers that her gift for pushing the crops is a death sentence. Fleeing across the wilderness, she makes her way to the city of Chimbalay, searching for the orindles who might save her. But Chimbalay has its own dangers. The Powers are there—the secret rulers … [Read more...] about Khe by Alexes Razevich
ARIA: Left Luggage by Geoff Nelder by Geoff Nelder
Today, Jack caught a bug at work. He catches a bus home. By the time he disembarks in the desert town of Rosamond, all the other passengers and the driver have fuzzy heads. Jack had caught an amnesia bug, and it’s infectious. Imagine the ramifications: The passengers arrive home infecting family; some shop en route infecting everyone they meet. The bus driver receives more passengers giving them change for last week’s prices and today’s amnesia. Some passengers just started work at the power … [Read more...] about ARIA: Left Luggage by Geoff Nelder by Geoff Nelder
The Chaosifier by Mike Evers
A storm is brewing. High on a mountain in Central Europe a vengeful chaos lord has managed to get a terrifying device to do his bidding. The future of the whole of mankind is at stake, and only a plucky band of luck goblins can possibly stop him. There's just the troublesome matter of a crime wave, global financial meltdown, and WW3 to deal with first... A rip-roaring fantasy adventure from the author of The Spirit Archer and Campaign of the Gods. Targeted Age Group: 11+ How is … [Read more...] about The Chaosifier by Mike Evers
Miss Williams by Charles Frankhauser
A coming-of-age true story presents the life of a boy traumatized by failure in school, living with dysfunctional relatives and divorcing parents. Miss Williams, a fifth grade teacher, empowers him with self-confidence he uses to succeed in life. Her last words to him were, "Someday you'll thank me." His adventures are filled with unexpected events that come together with startling life-changing consequences such as the young girl selling balloons at the zoo who changes his life forever. … [Read more...] about Miss Williams by Charles Frankhauser
The Whiskey Tide by M Ruth Myers
At the height of Prohibition three sisters in a genteel Massachusetts family turn rumrunners to save their family. Desperate to provide for their newly widowed mother and little brother, they use the family’s pleasure schooner to smuggle whiskey from Canada. Kate, the bookworm, hatches the plan, sacrificing her last year at Wellesley to make every grueling and dangerous trip. Rosalie risks her engagement to a clergyman to help on the home front, and tends Kate’s gunshot wound from … [Read more...] about The Whiskey Tide by M Ruth Myers
Into the Vast by DJ Edwardson
The Institute is all Adan knows. And the scientists who run it don't seem to know or even care who he might have been before he came there. But the strange technology they've fused inside of him and his missing memories are only the beginning as he finds himself swept up into a conflict between the researchers and the last remnants of humanity untouched by their experiments. Part mystical science fiction, part dystopian thriller, Into the Vast is the high-tech exploration of humanity at the … [Read more...] about Into the Vast by DJ Edwardson