The first movement of a classical music sonata begins with an elaborate exposition to entice listening ears. The melodies introduced in the exposition are then developed and expanded upon until one reaches a climax and a resolution, a restatement of the opening musical ideas ensues....

Punk is a title that might normally put me off, but I was taken by the back cover blurb on Amy Q Barker’s latest novel. I started reading, harboring some reservations, but the first few pages raised questions that kept me interested, so I persevered....

A young couple has left Europe and traveled to Australia to begin a new life after leaving a World War II refugee camp in the LGBTQ novel, Promise is a Promise (Intertwined Souls Series) by Mary D. Brooks. Seeking to be whole again after traumatic...

Paaten has been taken as a prisoner of war by Egypt’s enemies, the Hittites. He has been beaten, starved, left in the cold, tortured, sold, and his loyalty to Egypt has been tested at every turn. Still, Paaten vows to honor and uphold the principles...

Path of Treasures is a historical fiction novel written by Gail Meath. Sara loved being a hoggee, a canal driver for Cappy and Sam, who had been her family since Cappy found her as an infant floating in a basket. She loved her mules, Japheth...

Davyne DeSye took a classic novel and expounded it into a masterpiece of its own. Phantom Rising is the third in a series and wraps up a promise Erik had made to his son. Petter had known his father was the mysterious man behind the...

Prospects of a Woman: A Novel by Wendy Voorsanger is the story of Elizabeth as she discovers the meaning of independence and what it means to be truly free. Elizabeth and her husband Nate travel from Massachusetts to California to find her father who has...

The 1960s, the era of sex, drug and rock ‘n roll, was a time of civil unrest, endless protests, unwanted wars, drug-induced ‘flower’ power, assassination, and, somewhat unexpected in such an era, putting a man on the moon. When the Rayson family packed up their...

"He grasped the blood-sodden blanket that covered her corpse and lifted it from her head. Her face was as delicate as he remembered. Her pallor, however, which once resembled that of snow, had changed into a bloodless mask." Snow White is dead. Enemies? She had...

A young woman's life changes when her father becomes engaged to a vicious woman in the suspenseful historical romance, Peril at Thornywilde by Jonni Rich. When Lady Mariana Belmont visits her father, Lord Charles, several unexpected shocks await her, and the course of her life...