Fantasy Book Reviews

Will Teague is a NY lawyer on a new case from his out of town office – he is hired to search for the lovely Mae Kendrick’s husband – that she has no recollection of marrying.

But as he delves deeper into the case, he not only falls for the artistic Mae, but has to move the investigation to her homeland – Ireland. As they set sail for the emerald isle, strange visions and amnesia plague Mae, and when she also vanishes, Will is led by his feelings for her to a mysterious world of Irish mysteries, legend and magic, […]

The Witches of Jericho is a fantasy novel that takes place in Eden, but this is no Eden you ever heard about in Sunday School. This Eden has an Eve, but she’s a witch, and her husband is not Adam, but a Guardian named Saul. The Dark One, however, is true to form, stirring up trouble. The real protagonist of the novel is Sophia, Eve’s daughter. Eve and her family escape their home city of Jericho after it is invaded by a mysterious group of witch killers known as the Horde. One of only a few surviving witches, Eve goes […]

Derry, Ireland, 997 A.D. One stormy midday, a black-hulled ship moors near the local monastery, setting down the towering Bishop Adémar, three priests, and a small army of Frankish soldiers and vicious dogs. The black-robed bishop tells the assembled monks he’s here to find a murderous heretic in their midst. Suspicion soon falls on the freethinking brother Dónall mac Taidg who studied in Reims and has long been the guardian of an orphaned boy – Ciarán, now a twenty-year-old monk and scribe. Ciarán can scarcely believe his mentor is involved in the kind of villainy alleged, but he soon uncovers […]

A Dragon’s Passion, by Sandra Enriquez, explores the belief that love can conquer all. Annaliessa and Tyson live in the Land of Miradel, home to the Kingdom of Petroset. Both have one thing in common; their fathers didn’t love them. Annaliessa is the king’s daughter and Tyson is a son of a witch.

A curse unites Princess Annaliessa to five princes. She has to marry one of the five, even if she doesn’t love any of them. Her duty is to produce an heir to the throne. The curse complicates matters for a young woman who wants to marry […]

Wilson Weatherford turned down a college football scholarship to marry his high-school sweetheart, Doris, and settle down to a quiet life of farming. However, by the time the Weatherford’s children are grown, the tranquility of the countryside that so appealed to the young Weatherford has been challenged by a local crime syndicate and celebrity-obsessed, materialistic townsfolk.

One morning Wilson finds a strange young woman in his barn. She looks weak and frail and seems to have lost her memory. Wilson and his family (a wife and two children home from college for the summer) take the stranger into their home […]