Review: Red Velvet by Sandra Byrd

Review by Jill Williamson
 
While her mother undergoes treatment for stage four breast cancer, Quinn Miller and her family move to Seattle to stay at Anderson House, a special home for cancer patients and their families. At her new school, Quinn meets Annie, a girl whose mother also has cancer. The two become friends, although Annie [...]

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Review: Dark Pursuit by Brandilyn Collins

Review by Jill Williamson
 
Novelist Darell Brooke is known as the King of Suspense, with ninety-nine blockbusters published. An auto accident two years ago left his mind hazy. He now lives alone in his mansion home, a recluse without friends or family, with one goal: write one more blockbuster novel.
 
His twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, Kaitlan, hasn’t seen him [...]

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Review: Playing with Fire by Melody Carlson

Review by Gigi Hoffman
 
In Playing with Fire by Melody Carlson, Samantha McGregor, the girl with the spiritual gift of prophecy, has a vision that hits close to home. Her brother, Zach, was into drugs but is home after being in rehab for three months, and everything seems to be going okay. However, Sam starts having [...]

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Review: The Personifid Invasion by R. E. Bartlett

Review by Jill Williamson
 
Having been addicted to life enhancers for years, Aphra is moody and depressed as she tries to live without them. Her brother, Antha, arrives with great news: he has found their younger sister, Ashley, who they’d been seeking for years. She’s a personifid, which is a soul that has moved into an [...]

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Review: Goodbye Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson

Review by Jill Williamson
 
Sigh! It’s the perfect ending to an amazing story. In Goodbye Hollywood Nobody, by Lisa Samson, Scotty and her dad are on a mission: find Babette, Scotty’s mom. But the journey to Maine only seems to give another dead end. Scotty pushes her sorrow to the back of her mind as she [...]

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Review: Black by Ted Dekker

Review by Jill Williamson
 
Someone is shooting at Thomas Hunter. He runs for his life—zig-zagging, hiding, and executing some awesome martial arts—as men chase him through the streets of Denver. But when a silent bullet grazes his head, his world goes black and he wakes up somewhere else.  
 
In darkness. He doesn’t know where he is. [...]

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Review: The Book of Names by D. Barkley Briggs

Review by Tammy Doherty
 
Fifteen year old Hadyn Barlow has recently moved to a new town after his mother died. He doesn’t like the new house, the new school where he has no friends, and he especially misses Mom. His father gives him the chore of clearing a huge bramble patch. Hadyn makes a game of [...]

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Review: Beyond Reach by Melody Carlson

Review by Gigi Hoffman
 
Melody Carlson’s Beyond Reach, the second book in The Secret Life of Samantha McGregor series, is just as enthralling as book one. Carlson uses real life teen topics, tons of suspense, and faith in God to spin an engaging, can’t-put-it-down book.
 
Samantha McGregor, the girl with a God-given gift of prophecy, is [...]

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Review: Romancing Hollywood Nobody by Lisa Samson

Review by Jill Williamson
 
Recently reunited with her dad, Scotty Dawn’s life has changed for the better. Scotty, Charley, and Dad take the RV to Asheville, Texas where Charley is working for an impossible director. Star of the film, Scottish actor, Anthony Harris, makes the horrible job worthwhile when he rescues Charley from the director’s wrath. [...]

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Review: Where I Belong by Rebecca Kenny

Review by Jill Williamson
 
In Where I Belong, by Rebecca Kenney, six-year-old Miu is taken from her home by a band of raiders and sold to Abraham as a slave for his wife Sarah. The years and miles pass quickly as Abraham’s camp travels away from Miu’s home. She resigns herself to life as a slave, [...]

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