“Dayspring Dawning” by Jeanine Berry is the first book in a series based upon the world of Gaea. The struggle mounts between the humans who have newly turned back to the Sky Gods and those who follow the aliens that have come to teach the psiborn how to use their talents to further the human race. Just a few superstitious peasants clinging onto the old ways in fear of change, but is everything as it seems?
In this chatty first-person tale, “Walking With Elephants“, Karen S. Bell introduces the reader to Suze Hall. Suze has lived a conventional life, aside from a yearlong relationship with an art student while she was in college…
The Gulf War is the backdrop of “Rumors of War” by Peggy Tibbets. “Rumors of War” delves into the disruption caused by the overseas conflict during the early 90’s resulting in the activation of Phillip Singleton’s reserve unit…
Fresh out of cooking school, Annie Reed is overjoyed to be offered a job as head cook at a well-known dude ranch. But that job doesn’t work out, and she finds herself down to her last dime in an unfamiliar town…
The Florida Keys at the height of the hurricane season is the setting for “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah” by Barbara Pearson Arau. “Someone’s in the Kitchen with Dinah” probes the murders of two people in Webb Key, a sleepy place where everybody knows everybody else’s business. Dinah comes to Webb Key to work on a cookbook and to deal with her soon-to-be-final divorce…
In “Teasing Danger” by Autumn Dawn, Jasmine finds herself hunting for her best friend in the Alaskan wilderness. Wiley often disappears into the solitude of the heavily forested region, knowing that Jasmine and her dog Lemming will soon follow. She always leaves a map and never deviates from the course she has set…
“The Eye of Night” by Pauline Alama is an epic tale of converse elements: famine and harvest, mystery and enlightenment, death and rebirth, chaos and genesis…
In the next book in the series, “The Mother’s Sword” by Dr. Bob Rich, the Ehvelen are mythic peoples, small of stature, but mighty as to their reverence for each other. This second story tells what is happening back home while the invading, evil Doshi hold Heather of Quiet Glen captive.
Dr. Bob Rich’s, “The Start of Magic”, begins an exciting mythic tale of the Ehvelen peoples from long ago. Their name suggests elves or fairies, and they have beautiful faces, eyes, and bodies that are quite small, averaging about three feet tall. The image is enhanced by their very physical behaviors of leaping among tree tops and singing like birds to secretly communicate. Enemies see their ways as magical and envy them. They are not warlike at all and seek union and reverence for all life.
“A Summer Knight’s Tale” by Ronda Chervin and Gene Grandy is a charming story about the power of faith. It will appeal to many readers with its memorable characters and cleverly detailed narrative…