Rigel: Appointments on Plum Street by Eli Ingle is a great first entry for a series, and it grips the reader from the very first line with: “Have you ever felt so alone that you feel there is only empty space inside you? A hollow...

Rosie’s Umbrella written by Denny Taylor is a story of an unspeakable family secret. Rosie Llewelyn and her classmates are given an assignment to research their personal history, concentrating on the origin of their family name. But, what if you don’t have a past? In...

Regret by Danielle Doolittle is book one of The Guardians series. Penelope Green's life is fairly mundane and routine, until a new girl named Jenna arrives at school. She befriends Jenna, and finds herself drawn to Jenna's older brother, Kane Whitmore, who seems to despise...

Russian Roulette by May Freighter is book one of the Helena Hawthorn series. Helena Hawthorn is excited to embark on the next chapter of her life, moving out of her mum and stepdad's house and in with her two best friends for an easier commute...

Roman Rescue by Michelle Gilliam is an exciting, suspenseful thriller novel set in Italy. Fear has always been a major part of Maggie's life and to combat it she runs, literally and figuratively. Maggie broke up with her boyfriend and has flown to Rome to...

Riley is Book Two in The Fox and the Girl series by Frankie Yandow, a moving and entertaining adventure novel for young readers. The three friends - Luza, the Arctic fox, Keira, the fourteen-year-old princess, and their new friend, Riley - must escape from the...

As Resurrection of an Empire, The Magic Within Series: Book 2 by Sharon Gibbs opens, Christopher and Elle seem to lose what they had fought so hard for. Going back, then, to the previous Spring when the tyrant Arnak had been defeated and the wizards...

In David Kudler's Risuko: A Kunoichi Tale (Seasons of the Sword #1), which is set in Japan in the late 1500s, three orphan children and a girl who learns that her mother has sold her to a woman that she barely knows, are being transported...

Katy Haye’s Rising Tides tells the story of Liberty 'Libby’ Marchmont, a citizen of City, one of the last bastions of known humanity in a flooded world. City floats atop the sea, cobbled together from remnants of the Time Before. Libby’s dad is City’s doctor,...

Carol, Will and Eric are on the run from the vampire coven in Maine that was responsible for the death of Carol’s aunt, as well as a lot of other violence in Redeemed by Jason K. Macomson, the follow up story to Refuge. Driving south...