reviews

A Very, Very Slow Alien Story Author: Dean Koontz Total strangers across the US are being seized by fervid nightmares and phobias. There is a man (and later a child) obsessed with moons, an author with a fit of terror-induced sleepwalking, a surgeon with fugues, a lonely motel owner increasingly terrified of the dark, a priest who has lost his faith and dreams of red moons, and many others. The connection? They were all itinerant travelers at a remote Nevada motel on the same night. Their terrors will slowly bring them together over a course of weeks as they try to [...]

Something in the Pipes, Something in the Walls Author: Jonathan Sims Thirteen strangers, one location, an invitation to die for. Banyan Court, the creation of billionaire Tobias Fell, is an elite building. Only the super rich can afford its luxury apartments . . . except the very back, the forced second part of hidden “affordable housing.” But never mind, those people in the back of the building aren’t allowed to mix with the affluent, aren’t seen in the luxury side or even addressed by the elite concierge. They are merely a hidden concession. Yet, oddly, some of them are invitees [...]

A Christian Romance that Examines the Horrors of Slavery Author: Lori Benton Ian Cameron is disgraced, haunted, semi-wild, and he is returning home to his family’s plantation, Mountain Laurel, to help his ailing uncle and serve as an heir. It’s a duty he cannot avoid. One he is not comfortable with undertaking. He doesn’t belong with his family. He does not want to own slaves, much less a slave plantation. To make everything more complicated Ian’s friend, Thomas, is posing as his slave and has a scheme up his sleeve that will only cause more dissension. When Ian arrives, he is [...]