A front-line game of cat and mouse between cops as tough and cunning as the conspirators - a murderous satanic cabal intent on influencing the 2014 Scottish referendum. Kertamen is a fast-paced thriller involving recurrent darkness, some moral dilemma and portal-stepping into Jerusalem in 30AD. Seen primarily through the eyes of Detective Inspector Chuck Kean of the Drug Squad. Kean is running a deniable investigation into a masonic cabal among the Edinburgh establishment, who are allegedly … [Read more...] about Kertamen by Mauro Martone
High Priestess by AA Lee
How do you cope when your greatest wish is forbidden in your village? Fifteen-year-old Kenda has always been sure of one thing - getting married young like the other girls in her village wasn't what she wanted to do with her life. Instead, she had dreams of wealth and independence, dreams that earned her the disdain of her family. So when Kenda is tricked into an engagement, she does what any fiercely independent teenager would do. She stages her great escape to the city, but that's where … [Read more...] about High Priestess by AA Lee
Interview with Author – Mauro Martone
About Mauro Martone: I was born in Glasgow, raised between Edinburgh and the East Neuk of Fife and attended residential school in the north of Scotland. I have been a waiter, a Barista, a wine sales person, and a taxi driver. I keep dogs, feed foxes and enjoy football. What inspires you to write? I guess having several stories to tell. I imagine little scenes as I walk the dog or drive my car, then I feel the urge to write these down and cook them all into a tale of sorts. Then I want to … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Mauro Martone
The Amazing Super Wolf by Roxanne Smolen
Cody Forester is a werewolf. When his parents banished him, he thought his life was over. But it turns out that living in Florida is pretty sweet. He has friends he can rely on, a girlfriend who loves him, and a good home with his uncle. All in all, life couldn’t get more perfect. Until he is kidnapped. Dr. Torhild Saarsgard is obsessed with unraveling the secrets of lycanthropy. She wants to create a vaccine that would give the werewolves' superhuman abilities to everyone. She needs test … [Read more...] about The Amazing Super Wolf by Roxanne Smolen
Who is Ida Thorne? by Gem Solity
“Kids were told to be scared of the bogey-man, when they should be afraid of the wolf in grandma’s clothes.” Ida senses wolves from across the street, stinking like rotting garbage and fuelling her uncontrollable anger and ‘supposed’ vigilante behaviour. So when her Grandfather relocates them to her dead Mother’s childhood home, in a sleepy, rural village, Ida figures it can’t be worse than London. Nothing ever happened out in the sticks. Turns out, she was wrong. Plunged into a dark and … [Read more...] about Who is Ida Thorne? by Gem Solity
Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Fantasies, dreams and reality swirl together in this time when humankind and our beautiful blue planet face terrible social and environmental crises. And just at this moment we see a significant movement to empower women. We are already seeing the benefits for families, communities and even nations. For this author it was a siren call to build a story where women were central to preserving the future. And so the Gaia’s Majesty Trilogy was born to explore the possibilities. What if our Earth … [Read more...] about Gaia’s Majesty-Challenge: The Chosen Rise by Roger B. Burt
Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
About Roger B. Burt: I'm supposed to tell you about me. The problem is I'm still trying to figure out who I am even as I move into advanced years. I'll try. One essential part of my life has been to explore the "what if". I don't believe much of anything is to be taken for granted. Early in life I thought I would go into nuclear physics because all this strange stuff was being discovered. But I ended up getting a doctorate in clinical psychology at Duke … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Roger B. Burt
Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
About Lily Iona MacKenzie: About me? A Canadian by birth, a high school dropout, and a mother at 17, in my early years, I supported myself as a stock girl in the Hudson’s Bay Company, as a long-distance operator for the former Alberta Government Telephones, and as a secretary (Bechtel Corp sponsored me into the States). I also was a cocktail waitress at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco, briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman (I was the first woman to work … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Lily Iona MacKenzie
The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett
The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett A time tunnel from the future, a castle seeking paranormal powers, an assignment in foreign parts. Three separate adventures take us further into the world of Princelings Fred and George. We meet Lord Mariusz finding both opportunity and trouble when he steps back in time; Humphrey, the refugee from the Lost City, seeking somewhere he can call home, and Victor, the ambitious young barkeeper, setting out on his business career, with two, … [Read more...] about The Princelings of the East: Books 4-6 by Jemima Pett
Interview with Author – Isabella Ides
About Isabella Ides: I am a poet and playwright, recently turned novelist with the publication of my debut epic, White Monkey Chronicles: The Complete Trilogy. I love what happens in my creative process when I exchange a theater audience for a reader, how new worlds open up. The reader is my Alice. I lead her to the rabbit hole. Trip her. Then I run like an evasive rabbit in unexpected directions. The tricky part is how to keep the reader coming toward me as I’m moving quickly away. I wait … [Read more...] about Interview with Author – Isabella Ides
