Young Adult
The Sentinel of the Chakra Stones
Christine Boucher (Unleash Press)
In The Sentinel of the Chakra Stones by Christine Boucher, fourteen-year-old Jaden discovers her mission in the most unexpected of places. Jaden's mother abandoned her when she was a little girl, and her father does not behave as though he ever wanted her. Life at school has its own trials. The one beautiful thing in Jaden's life is her friendship with Alister. When a strange woman sells a crystal chakra set to Jaden, she doesn't think much about it. She and her friend, Alister, are transported to Mount Shasta, California, where they discover t...
The Dream Keepers
Linda Keen (Keen Press)
The Dream Keepers by Linda Keen is a rollicking ride that follows two young characters, Starlight and her older brother, Thatcher O'Day as they set out on the adventure that will shape their lives in inscrutable ways, from the Deep South to the West Coast. The kids are seven and eight when — together with their grandfather — they must embrace change at the break of a new Millennium. Grandma Gloria has followed the advice of the social worker and has asked Star and Thatcher to leave their regular middle school for the unknown. So, from the treac...
Drops of Sunlight
Kristy Lee (Blossom Spring Publishing)
Kristy Lee breaks hearts in Drops of Sunlight and sets the characters on a journey to self-discovery. Miranda (May) Carlson and Dylan once carved their names into a boulder before sharing their first kiss. At fourteen, May leaves the Colorado Rocky Mountains after her parents announce their divorce without telling Dylan anything. Dylan is devastated and heartbroken, but he has no choice but to move on — or so he thinks. May goes through depression, hating herself. At twenty, May comes back to the Rocky Mountains, and the encounter wit...
The Curious Case of Seaman Garber
B. K. Mayo (Fir Valley Press)
When the body of an old man is found floating in a pond by two boys venturing out on their homemade raft, the younger of the two is determined to unravel the mystery behind the man’s death in The Curious Case of Seaman Garber by B. K. Mayo. Before heading back to middle school, eleven-year-old Seth Roberson and his friend, Collin, are making the most out of the summer break. Everything takes an awful turn when they discover the body of an old man identified as Vietnam War veteran Henry Garber, the same ma...
Room Service Please
Alicia Cahalane Lewis (Tattered Script Publishing)
In Room Service Please by Alicia Cahalane Lewis, delivers a spellbinding, twisty tale that features not only strong plot points but unforgettable, richly imagined, and sophisticated characters. Edie May is the daughter of a washerwoman who, on her sixteenth birthday is seduced and impregnated in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. It is 1922, and the young girl is determined to make the man who seduced her pay for his actions. Everything changes with the realization that she has been mistaken for a famous Hollywood actress, Agnes Ayres....
Angelfyre (Destiny)
Lydan Francis (Ukiyoto Publishing)
A winner for a debut, Angelfyre (Destiny) by Lydan Francis is a wonderful meld of science fiction, dystopian, and space opera, a story with a setting in the distant future in the twenty-fifth century, a time when humanity has experienced migrations in other planets. Human beings live side-by-side with the extra-terrestrial race known as the Fel. With time, a new species occurs through the illegal splicing between humans and Fel, resulting in the hybrid called the Felsians, who are eventually treated as low-class and unwanted citizens....
Falling On The Sword
Bryan Havel (Bryan Havel)
Jack and Jill have known each other since preschool. The bond between them is so strong and Jack is confident that Jill will remain by his side until all that changes when Jill starts dating Tanner in the last year of high school. Jack and Tanner decide to play against each other in a football game in order for Jill to choose the better of the two. Which of the two will be able to win Jill’s affection?Falling on the Sword (Jack and Jill) by Bryan M Havel opens with an enticing description of North Bay Preschool and introduces readers to the cha...
Favorite Daughters
Laurel Osterkamp (Black Rose Writing)
Elyse Gibbons is raised by a single mother and language professor in Pennsylvania who instills in her great values. As an undergrad at Columbia University, she makes friends with the two most popular students on Campus — Aubrey Adam-Drake born into a powerful political family with a grandfather who was the former president, and Marina Hunt, the daughter of a famous mob lawyer. Finneas Beck is another handsome yet enigmatic character from a rich family that catches Elyse’s heart. While Elyse is drawn into the glamorous world of these characters,...
The Gray Line
B.J Cyprian (Divergent Expressions Publishing)
Angel and Bethany are a happy couple, even if Beth’s idea of having a child is not shared by Angel. Then, just so suddenly, Angel’s life is shattered — emotionally and psychologically —when her wife, Beth, dies in a car accident. She blames herself for the loss and to heal, she joins a grief support group, but when the members of her group begin to disappear one by one and mysteriously, she and some members of the group set out to unravel the mystery. She is aware that someone is targeting members of her group. As Angel is pulled into a world o...
Death by Chaos
Renaii West ( Independently published)
Mystery, murder, and relentless drama in the campus setting are among the strong elements that elevate the entertainment in Death by Chaos by Renaii West. The narrative features four beautiful, intelligent, and gifted girls who decide to become the goddesses of the liberal arts college in Southern California — Tasha, Elizabeth, Dawn, and Miranda. They seem to enjoy everything about the life they are reinventing for themselves, even having a crush on the same guy. But everything changes when a student is murdered on campus as graduation is set t...
