WITH HIS WORDS I'M NOT ALONE
FULL BOOK TITLE: With His Words I’m Not Alone
AUTHOR NAME: Lucas Ryker
PUBLISHER NAME: Lucas Ryker
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/His-Words-Im-Not-Alone/dp/9535958194/
Lucas Ryker crafts a story that teems with vulnerability and intelligence. At its heart is Noel Walker, a writer trapped in his own emotional quarantine—haunted by touch aversion, loneliness, and the slow unraveling of creative ambition. His carefully guarded life takes an unexpected turn when an anonymous user, known only as “Faded,” begins sending him messages that straddle the line between flirtation and intrusion. The opening “Hey Daddy” is as jarring as it is disarming, setting the stage for a connection that grows from curiosity into something far deeper.
What follows is a slow-burn exploration of digital intimacy—the ways in which technology both divides and saves us. Ryker writes the exchanges between Noel and Faded with a mix of tenderness and tension. Through their conversations, we witness not only the awkward bloom of connection, but also the modern condition of seeking authenticity through a virtual veil. The relationship feels alive, unsettling, and deeply human.
Beneath the flirtation lies something much larger: a reckoning with loneliness, creative insecurity, and the fragile nature of identity in an age of constant exposure. Ryker doesn’t sensationalize queer experience or digital romance; instead, he writes with empathy and restraint, shining a light on the beauty and pain of being known. His prose is lyrical but precise—each sentence feels sculpted from silence.
As the story deepens, Noel’s emotional walls begin to fracture. The gradual reveal of Faded’s identity forces both characters—and the reader—to confront uncomfortable truths. The emotional climax is subtle yet devastating, built on unspoken understanding rather than melodrama. By the end, Ryker leaves us with a lingering ache that feels achingly true to life.
With His Words I’m Not Alone is a well-executed piece of LGBTQ literary fiction that captures the complexities of connection in the digital era. It’s equal parts love story, confession, and mirror. …. A quiet triumph of emotion and voice.
Author Bio:
Lucas Ryker does not just write words. He paints them in a rainbow.
His writing, including his debut novel With His Words I’m Not Alone, centers around character-driven LGBTQ+ literary and contemporary fiction stories. He explores themes such as friendship, loneliness, social anxiety, the pursuit of love, and the impact of technology on human connections.
Lucas, a keen advocate of compassion, equality, tolerance and acceptance, takes inspiration from books, animals, nature, sunsets, and extreme sports like skateboarding. He loves to write to a background of 80s music.
You can follow him via newsletter, social media and Amazon, or his Linktree lucasrykerauthor.
Lucas Ryker is the Literary Titan Book Award Winner.
100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION
FULL BOOK TITLE: 100 YEARS TO EXTINCTION: The Tyranny of Technology and the Fight for a Better Future
AUTHOR NAME: Peter Solomon
PUBLISHER NAME: Munn Avenue Press
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/100-YEARS-EXTINCTION-Tyranny-Technology/dp/196029993X/
Peter Solomon’s ambitious speculative novel blends science, social commentary, and human drama into a cautionary yet hopeful vision of a world on the brink. When young astrophysicist Aster Arvad and her sister Liz vow to “save humanity” after a near-fatal tragedy, their promise sets in motion a multigenerational mission to confront the threats Stephen Hawking once warned could extinguish humankind within a century—climate collapse, pandemics, artificial intelligence, and the unchecked power of technology.
Opening in 2022 and spanning decades, 100 Years to Extinction moves confidently between family saga and scientific thriller. Solomon grounds his sweeping ideas in the intimate lives of his characters: Liz’s survival of a senseless shooting, Aster’s passion for space exploration, and their grandfather’s measured wisdom give the novel emotional ballast amid its grand scale. The story’s central question—whether humanity can evolve fast enough to save itself—drives both its tension and its heart.
Solomon’s prose is often educational in tone, with well-researched scientific details that make complex ideas readable for a general audience. Though the narrative occasionally leans more toward didactic exposition than traditional storytelling, the sense of urgency and moral conviction keeps the pages turning.
Richly imagined and deeply earnest, 100 Years to Extinction offers a thought-provoking exploration of how science, ethics, and empathy must converge if civilization is to survive its own brilliance.
A timely and optimistic warning that will resonate with fans of forward-thinking, science-driven fiction.
Author Bio:
Peter Solomon is a scientist, author and entrepreneur who is devoted to passing on his love for the many wonderful science stories to the younger generation through the media they like best. He believes that integrating science concepts into exciting stories is the best way for children to learn. The birth of his twelfth grandchild was the inspiration for The STARDUST MYSTERY book. The child characters in the story explore the creation of their atoms through time and space travel adventures in the Beamer Virtual World. Solomon was asked by his young book reviewers to create a virtual world that they could use. This inspired a National Science Foundation project to create video games and the Stardust Mystery YouTube channel for science videos to accompany the book. The characters in the story, games and videos were inspired by his grandchildren.
The theme of the story is: We are made of STARDUST that was once in the body of Albert Einstein and the last T-Rex. This is true. We each have more than 300 trillion carbon atoms that once belonged to, and were exhaled by Einstein, and more than 5,000 trillion that were once in each T-Rex that roamed the Earth. And those atoms were created in the end of life explosions of stars during the evolution of the universe and shared during the history of planet Earth. This book is about that story.
To find out more about the stardust story visit: http://TheStardistMystery.com, the STARDUST MYSTERY YouTube Channel, and the video games on store.steampowered.com (MissionKT and Building the Universe).
RACING TOWARDS DESTINY
FULL BOOK TITLE: Racing Towards Destiny: A Sports Romance
AUTHOR NAME: Lena Gibson
PUBLISHER NAME: Black Rose Writing
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Racing-Towards-Destiny-Sports-Romance/dp/1685136419/
In this fast-paced contemporary romance, author Lena Gibson merges the high-octane world of MotoGP racing with a tender story of self-discovery and love. After neurodivergent marketing specialist Anna walks out on her toxic job—and her cheating boyfriend—she impulsively buys a one-way ticket to Spain, where fate steers her into the path of Isaac Vasquez, the introspective younger brother of a world champion motorcycle racer. What begins as a culture clash between the anxious American and the disciplined Spaniard gradually evolves into a relationship defined by mutual understanding and vulnerability.
There’s a quiet understanding in Gibson’s writing that makes every detail feel sincerely human. Anna’s inner life is drawn with such care and empathy that her vulnerability becomes her most relatable trait. Isaac, meanwhile, is more than a romantic foil; his struggle to emerge from his brother’s shadow gives the story balance while broadening its appeal. By weaving between perspectives, Gibson sustains trajectory.
Though the romantic arc follows familiar beats, Gibson’s nuanced handling of neurodiversity, the empowering tale of reinvention, and the adrenaline-fueled racing backdrop keep the pages turning. Readers who enjoy sports romance with depth and heart—think Emily Henry meets Nora Roberts by way of Drive to Survive—will find themselves rooting for Anna and Isaac’s hard-won happily ever after.
An inspiring and emotionally intelligent love story that finds grace in both speed and stillness.
Author Bio:
Award-winning author Lena Gibson is a storyteller as an elementary school teacher and keeper of the family lore. She holds a First-Class Honors degree in archaeology, with minors in history, biology, geography, and environmental education from Simon Fraser University.A voracious reader from childhood onward, Lena seeks wonderful books in which to escape. Because of her passion for different genres, she combines elements of many in her writing. As an adult newly recognized with autism, she often creates characters that reflect this experience.When Lena isn't writing, she reads, practices karate, and drinks a ton of tea. She resides in New Westminster, Canada, with her family and their fuzzy overlord, Ash, the fluffiest of gray cats. You can learn more at lenagibsonauthor.ca.
A KILLER'S FATE
FULL BOOK TITLE: A Killer’s Fate
AUTHOR NAME: John Bae
PUBLISHER NAME: Old Logging Publishing
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Fate-Sequel-Tears-Devotion-ebook/dp/B0FXXLTFZ5/\
John Bae’s globe-spanning finale to his Tom Rose trilogy opens on a windswept Carmel Beach, where the victory over Ian Ramsey has brought neither absolution nor peace. Instead, Rose—still haunted by Melanie Mann’s death—finds himself drawn deeper into the shadow network behind Ramsey: an international trafficking empire directed by the unseen “Odin.” As calculated threats close in (a knife slammed onto restaurant tables, anonymous warnings that “the end is coming”), Rose resolves to take the fight to its source.
Bae’s strengths are on full display: clean, unfussy prose; pacing that accelerates from moral unease to operational urgency; and a gift for procedural staging. Meetings that could read like exposition—say, a fruitless pitch to DHS—carry real dramatic charge and sharpen the novel’s central question: how do you confront a system designed to deny accountability? The answer, for Rose, is to build cases from the ground up. The novel’s most compelling passages follow his quiet, methodical outreach to survivors (Sofia Courie and Sohee Shin) and the dangerous flipping of recruiters across Seoul and Helsinki—scenes that balance suspense with empathetic detail.
As the net tightens, Bae broadens the canvas credibly: a compromised senator with selective amnesia, a Vegas front called Shangri La Dream, and the cold, corporate logic of laundered billions. The villainy feels systemic rather than cartoonish, and the book’s moral engine—Rose’s refusal to accept that “same victims, different names” is the natural order—keeps the stakes human even when the plot ranges across agencies, shell companies, and continents.
If there’s a quibble, it’s that Odin’s reach can verge on omnipotent, and a few connective explanations arrive just in time. But those moments are outweighed by the novel’s propulsive momentum and the earned, emotionally resonant beats between Rose and his allies—particularly former operative Jackie Sire, whose independence complicates both strategy and heart.
Smart, urgent, and morally engaged, A Killer’s Fatedelivers a satisfying close to Bae’s trilogy while leaving its most important point ringing: justice only exists when someone insists on it.
Author Bio:
John is a practicing attorney in NYC with a national law firm. He has practiced law for over three decades and is the recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Excellence. He was inducted into the inaugural Hall of Fame at Hofstra Law School in 2022. He is the author of "A Killer's Tears" (released in June 2022) "The Price of the Verdict" (released in December 2022) and "A Killer's Devotion" (sequel to "A Killer's Tears", book 2 of 3, released in January 2024). Look for "A Killer's Fate" (book 3 of 3) in 2025.
SINCERELY, MILDRED
FULL BOOK TITLE: Sincerely, Mildred
AUTHOR NAME: Ashley Rea
PUBLISHER NAME: Ashley Rea
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Sincerely-Mildred-Ashley-Rea/dp/B0CZMGGTNS/
Ashley Rea’s Sincerely, Mildred begins not with glamour but with a daydream — a girl covered in fish blood imagining diamonds at her throat. It’s 1932 in the riverside town of Bresford, Washington, and nineteen-year-old Mildred Westrick scrapes by at a salmon cannery while her mind escapes to places she’ll never see. Her opening fantasy — a flapper’s evening of champagne and dancing — dissolves into the gray reality of labor, discipline, and the small humiliations of a girl overlooked.
Rea writes these moments with clarity and compassion. The cannery, the fish guts, the hiss of the hose — all pulse with tactile realism. Yet beneath the grit is a current of yearning that gives the story its quiet momentum. Mildred’s world is narrow, bordered by her overbearing stepmother, a weary father, and the endless monotony of work. Her imagination is her rebellion.
When Mildred’s friend Hattie secretly mails a stack of unsent letters to Marty Townsend, a pilot and philanthropist she has only read about, Mildred’s world shifts from fantasy to possibility. What follows is not only a romance across class and circumstance, but a journey toward dignity — toward the belief that she deserves to be seen and loved on her own terms.
Rea captures the voice of the 1930s with graceful authenticity. Dialogue feels lived-in, period-true without stiffness. Her descriptive passages hum with quiet power: a hose hissing over the cannery floor, a supper table charged with unspoken resentment, a small-town sky full of longing. The result is a story that feels both cinematic and intimate.
While Sincerely, Mildred echoes the romance of Depression-era America, it’s ultimately a novel about courage — the courage to imagine a better life and to reach for it even when the world insists you shouldn’t.
Author Bio:
Ashley Rea is a Washington State native and was born in the Columbia River region. She spends her time cooking, writing, running and exploring the Pacific Northwest with her husband. They currently live in Castle Rock, Washington near the Mt St Helens volcano.
Ashley is inspired by the works of Sean Dietrich, Fiona Davis, and Kathryn Stockett, incredible writers that are masters at taking the reader back to the past in full color with living, breathing characters you won’t soon forget. She also gives major credit to the writers of the original American Girls and Dear, America series for making her fall in love with the historical fiction genre in the first place.
SCOTSMAN'S VALOR
FULL BOOK TITLE: SCOTSMAN’S VALOR - A Frontier Historical Romance: Wilderness Valor Series Book 2
AUTHOR NAME: Dorothy Wiley
PUBLISHER NAME: Dorothy Wiley
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/SCOTSMANS-VALOR-Frontier-Historical-Wilderness-ebook/dp/B0FWTR6ZFL/
Wiley (Sheriff’s Valor) returns to early 19th-century Kentucky with another stirring blend of frontier romance and danger in the Wilderness Valor series. When U.S. Marshal Lachlan Sinclair—a proud Scotsman with a noble past—arrives in Boonesborough to investigate a string of disappearances tied to the notorious Potts Inn and a slave-trading ring, he never expects to fall for Julianne MacKay, the fiery daughter of a local family whose clan once feuded with his own. Their attraction sparks amid peril, suspicion, and the haunting violence of a frontier still carving out justice from lawlessness.
Wiley writes with clarity and an old-fashioned sense of adventure, evoking a vivid 1820s Kentucky frontier filled with danger and moral testing. Her prose balances action and emotion deftly—the opening chapters, involving the sinister Potts Inn and the mysterious poisoning of Sinclair, crackle with menace, while later scenes between Lachlan and Julianne carry both tenderness and heat. The author’s hallmark historical detail—frontier lawmen, militia patrols, and echoes of Scotland’s clan rivalries—enriches the narrative without bogging it down.
Though the romance follows familiar beats, Wiley’s gift for intertwining faith, family, and moral courage keeps the story emotionally resonant. Fans of classic frontier sagas by authors like Linda Lael Miller or Lori Benton will find much to admire in Wiley’s steadfast heroes, noble heroines, and evocative sense of time and place.
A rugged, heartfelt historical romance where justice, faith, and love converge on the Kentucky frontier.
Author Bio:
Amazon bestselling novelist Dorothy Wiley is an award-winning author of Medieval Scottish Frontier Historical Romance. Wiley’s novels blend rich historical details and thrilling action with the romance of a moving love story to create engaging page-turners. Her exceptional historical romances, inspired by history and real events, have won numerous awards and garnered over 10,000 five-star reviews on Amazon.
Wiley's first two series, the American Wilderness and Wilderness Hearts Series, are set on the American frontier when Kentucky was the West. Her third series, Wilderness Dawning, continues the highly acclaimed Wyllie family saga but brings some of the family to the new edge of the West—the Province of Texas. Wiley's fourth series, Wilderness Valor, returns some family members to Kentucky where they join heroes with extraordinary courage. Each book is a stand-alone, full-length, tastefully romantic novel.
MAGIC IN THE HUB
FULL BOOK TITLE: Magic in the Hub, The Sequel
AUTHOR NAME: Macintosh Steele
PUBLISHER NAME: Palmetto Publishing
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Hub-Sequel-Macintosh-Steele/dp/B0FXYDQLXG/
In Magic in the Hub, Macintosh Steele delivers an imaginative piece of philosophical science fiction, blending classic space opera adventure with metaphysical depth and moral vision.
This novel begins in the aftermath of a long and bitter interstellar war between the Alliance and the Consortium—two civilizations weary of destruction yet incapable of trust. When both powers converge on a newly discovered planet, intending to annihilate it to preserve the peace, they encounter a mysterious being known only as Old Man, whose godlike abilities alter the course of history—and humanity—forever.
From the opening scenes aboard the Star Cruiser Infinity, Steele pulls readers into a richly realized universe. The Infinity’s crew—Admiral Jenki, Captain Edmonds, and a memorable supporting cast—embark on a transcendent mission guided by Old Man (Primo) to the Hub, the nexus of all universes, where existence itself hangs in the balance. Along the way, Steele’s narrative grapples with timeless questions: the origins of consciousness, the cost of creation, and the thin line between divine intent and human folly.
The prose is crisp yet poetic, balancing the technical realism of hard science fiction with moments of spiritual reflection and emotional resonance. The story’s scope is vast but cohesive, its characters fully human amid cosmic scale. Fans of Arthur C. Clarke, Dan Simmons, and Isaac Asimov will recognize the novel’s lineage—yet Steele’s voice feels distinctly his own, marked by curiosity and courage.
Author Bio:
Macintosh Steele lives on a family fruit and vegetable farm in New Hampshire, where he was raised. His career spans farming, carpentry, law, and writing. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Law degree from Cornell University. Magic in the Hub is his second book, following I Have a Question. In this sequel, Steele delves into fundamental mysteries explored in his first book, uncovering unexpected solutions. His writing blends science, adventure, and romance, appealing to a wide audience. With no offensive language, it is suitable for teenagers and above, inviting readers into a captivating journey.
