With both modern-day and historical characters equally believable in their desires and life journeys, this novel tells a little-known story that is complex and captivating. With "The Cherokee Rose", Tiya Miles has written a complex and... Read More

A decades-long, epic love story, this novel offers hope through choosing love despite religious objections. R. L. Sommer’s Courtship: A Novel of Life, Love, and the Law puts a poignant spin on the age-old trope of lovers from different... Read More

This author stands out as one unafraid to be sensitive as well as adventurous. An ex-convict turned detective for the LAPD, Bruno Johnson is a man who puts justice above all else, raising eight children he rescued from abusive... Read More

The romance of the Spanish countryside wars with the practicality of England in this romance set in the 1950s. A large volume, rife with romanticized descriptions of Spain, Hannah Fielding’s "Indiscretion" traces the relationship of... Read More

Backstories, humorous dialogue, and developed personalities humanize these four villainous protagonists. Many fantasy readers know what’s going on with the villains in a story as the baddies antagonize the heroes, but what happens to... Read More

The detailed setting of this historical romance creates the atmosphere of a Victorian novel. Quicksand: A Family Foundation, by Victoria Thomas, is a story of love, marriage, and family in mid-to-late 1800s France. With close... Read More

Margolis’s two nuanced protagonists hold fast to their beliefs in this historically accurate, thought-provoking romance. Sharon Margolis’s thoroughly researched, authentic, and passionate novel, "Swan Maiden", creates pulse-pounding... Read More

This manga-style novel features distinct, interesting characters and, of course, lots of mixed martial arts. In the future envisioned in Ed Cruz’s Kirin Rise: The Cast of Shadows, an economic collapse has eliminated the middle class,... Read More