Where Fiction and Reality Meet
Title: Prosperity Author: Alexis Hall Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 190 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: A breathtaking tale of passion and adventure in the untamed skies! Prosperity, 1863: a lawless skytown where varlets, chancers, and ne’er-do-wells risk everything to chase a fortune in the clouds, and where a Gaslight guttersnipe named Piccadilly is about... Continue Reading →
Title: Junior Willis Author: Richard Natale Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Pages/Word Count: 84 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: From the moment he leaves the Midwest in the early 1950s, Tom Larson is forced to confront his sexual and romantic desires at every turn. His awakening begins in Korea where he has an affair with his... Continue Reading →
Title: Flight of Magpies Author: KJ Charles Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 212 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Danger in the air. Lovers on the brink. A Charm of Magpies: Book 3 With the justiciary understaffed, a series of horrifying occult murders to be investigated, and a young student who is flying - literally -... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Bloodline (Whyborne & Griffin: Book Five) Author: Jordan L. Hawk Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 236 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Between his bullying father and dissolute brother, Percival Endicott Whyborne has quite enough problematic family members to deal with. So when his sister returns to Widdershins asking for help solving the mystery of a... Continue Reading →
Title: Half a Man Author: Scarlet Blackwell Publisher: Totally Bound Pages/Word Count: 27000 Words Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: In a world torn apart by war, solace is hard to find... It is 1919, less than a year after the end of the First World War and a recovering Britain is in the grip of the... Continue Reading →
Title: The Soul Author: S.R. Carrillo Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 165 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Evil has flourished since the beginning of time, but at long last it has come to pass - that the world should end at the hands of the divine. A Lesser Earth thrives in the ashes of the old... Continue Reading →
Title: The Glass-House Murder Author: T. Nielson Publisher: JMS Books Pages/Word Count: 156 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Meet Lord Henry Carlisle: gentleman, wastrel, and mystery-novel lover. When his mother telephones him on a May evening to tell him they've just discovered a body in the glass-house, Hal does what he loves to do: he... Continue Reading →
Title: The Stonechild Betrothal Author: Katalinya Palokova Publisher: Torquere Press Pages/Word Count: 55 Pages Rating: 3.5 Stars Blurb: Estli is a professional bodyguard and fighter for hire who stumbles on a job that looks like easy money: escort a cursed magician named Maurin Stonechild from a remote mountain village to the bustling town of Plains... Continue Reading →
Title: Isle of Illusions Author: A.L. Wilson Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 30000 Words Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: The year is 1954 and this marks 10 rocky years that Cyrus has spent with his human companion, Dr. Lorenz Meissner. The two unlikely lovers, after some heated debate, decide to cross the Mediterranean and go on holiday... Continue Reading →
Title: The Knife of Narcissus (Parts One and Two) Author: Carolyne Chand Publisher: dik-dik books Pages/Word Count: 123 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: Lucius Sentius, along with most people in the city of Rome, assumes that the debauched days of Nero are behind them now that Rome has settled down under a sober new ruler,... Continue Reading →
Title: Pearls in the Darkness Author: S.E. Connor Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 39 Pages Rating: 2.5 Stars Blurb: Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. When Tanner goes on vacation to get away from school and work, he learns this the hard way. Though he hates water, Tanner agrees to join his older brother and friends... Continue Reading →
Title: Blood Tells Author: Rachel White Publisher: Less Than Three Press Pages/Word Count: 304 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Nineteen years ago, Demetrius Fallon was accused of murdering his father by way of a rare, unusual poison. When the crown prince is nearly killed the same way, Demetrius agrees to work with Rodger Dalme, the... Continue Reading →
Title: Blood Tells Author: Rachel White Publisher: Less Than Three Press Pages/Word Count: 304 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Nineteen years ago, Demetrius Fallon was accused of murdering his father by way of a rare, unusual poison. When the crown prince is nearly killed the same way, Demetrius agrees to work with Rodger Dalme, the... Continue Reading →
Title: City of Monsters Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Hunter is a human turned animal shifter in Nightshade, a literal city of monsters in a near-Earth dimension called Dev. All sorts of beasts reside here, unable to return to Earth, yet still plagued by the same... Continue Reading →
Title: City of Monsters Author: Andrea Speed Publisher: Riptide Publishing Pages/Word Count: 72 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Hunter is a human turned animal shifter in Nightshade, a literal city of monsters in a near-Earth dimension called Dev. All sorts of beasts reside here, unable to return to Earth, yet still plagued by the same... Continue Reading →
Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →
Title: Sand Author: Charlie Cochrane Publisher: MLR Press Pages/Word Count: 44 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: Andrew Parks has come to Syria to escape potential disgrace in Edwardian England, burying past heartache and scandal among the tombs. Charles Cusiter has travelled here more reluctantly, as chaperone to a friend whose fondness for the opposite sex... Continue Reading →
Title: Apollo's Curse Author: Brad Vance Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: All Dane Gale ever wanted was to be a successful writer. Then he and his friends Rose and Sherry decide to write romances, and join forces to become "Pamela Clarice," self-published novelist. When they look for a cover model... Continue Reading →
Title: Apollo's Curse Author: Brad Vance Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 282 Pages Rating: 4 Stars Blurb: All Dane Gale ever wanted was to be a successful writer. Then he and his friends Rose and Sherry decide to write romances, and join forces to become "Pamela Clarice," self-published novelist. When they look for a cover model... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
Title: Paragraph 175 Author: Ruby Lis Publisher: Self-Published Pages/Word Count: 276 Pages Rating: 3 Stars Blurb: Berlin, 1936. The carefree, hedonistic days of the Weimar Republic have ended, replaced by the conservatism of the Nazi Party. Stricter interpretations of laws such as Paragraph 175 criminalize homosexual activity. For gays, falling in love is punishable by... Continue Reading →
Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →
Title: Mending Him Author: Bonnie Dee and Summer Devon Publisher: Samhain Publishing Pages/Word Count: 243 Pages Rating: 5 Stars Blurb: "As his world collapses, love opens his heart." Robbie Grayson has always felt like a bit of an outsider in the Chester family, though he’s related by blood. An orphan taken in at a young... Continue Reading →
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