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14 Hours of Saturn
14 Hours of Saturn is a slice-of-life story told through the eyes of Saturn O Syres, a 24-year-old woman spending what seems like an ordinary Saturday that slowly becomes anything but. The book unfolds in real time, each chapter named after the hour, moving from morning to evening as Saturn’s day reveals her past, her regrets, her humor, and her heart. She speaks straight to the reader like an old friend over coffee, weaving stories about family, faith, and self-discovery while the rain taps outside her apartment window. It’s a quiet, thoughtful narrative about being alone but not lonely, about making peace with who you’ve been and who you still want to become.
Kizman’s writing is plainspoken and unpretentious, which makes Saturn feel real. She rambles sometimes, circles back, drifts into childhood memories, then lands hard on a feeling that hits home. I liked that her voice wasn’t polished or filtered. It’s messy, but that’s how real people sound when they’re figuring themselves out. The pacing surprised me. Nothing explodes or catches fire, yet I couldn’t stop turning the pages. The small moments like a dream, a broken yolk, or a memory of a sister, pile up into something relatable. The humor sneaks in when you least expect it, softening the heavier reflections about family and faith.
Kizman writes like someone who isn’t afraid of detail. A scene about breakfast can stretch into pages, but then I’d catch myself smiling at a line or nodding at a truth tucked inside all that talk. There’s a rhythm to it, like spending a rainy day indoors when you’ve got nowhere else to be. The emotional honesty makes up for the slower pace. It’s warm, a bit awkward, and completely sincere. You can tell the author loves his characters, flaws and all.
By the end, I felt like I’d spent those fourteen hours with Saturn myself. The story leaves you calm but thoughtful, the way a good talk with a friend can. I’d recommend 14 Hours of Saturn to readers who appreciate character-driven stories more than action-packed ones. If you like books that make you feel seen in small, ordinary ways, and honest writing that sounds like conversation, this one’s for you. It’s gentle, a little quirky, and full of heart.
Pages: 332 | ASIN : B0FRB8589W
Ghost Writer
Arjay Lewis’s Ghost Writer is a haunting, twisting tale that begins with a bitter divorce and spirals into the supernatural. The story follows Joe Riley, a washed-up novelist who inherits his late uncle’s cabin deep in the Poconos. What starts as a man’s desperate retreat to escape his failures turns into a psychological unraveling filled with eerie noises, mysterious pages that write themselves, and the blurred line between inspiration and possession. At its heart, it’s about creativity, grief, and the price one pays when the muse turns monstrous.
This book gripped me right away. Lewis writes with an easy rhythm that feels like an old friend telling you a story over a drink. The voice is sharp, cynical, and soaked in the kind of regret that only comes from living hard and losing often. Joe’s bitterness feels real. His loneliness cuts deep. There’s humor too, dark and dry, that makes the pain go down easier. What I liked most is how the writing itself mirrors Joe’s mental decline. Sentences start crisp and clear, then grow jagged and strange as his sanity unravels. It’s the sort of book that keeps you awake at night, not because you’re scared of ghosts, but because you recognize the ghosts inside yourself.
The supernatural element creeps in slowly. At first, I wasn’t sure if what Joe was seeing was real or just his hangover talking. That’s what makes it so effective. Lewis never rushes the reveal. Every scene in the cabin feels heavy with memory and regret, every creak in the floorboard feels like a heartbeat. The book plays with the idea that creation and madness might be neighbors. I loved that. It’s not flashy horror; it’s quiet, psychological, and deeply human.
I’d recommend Ghost Writer to anyone who loves stories that blend the eerie with the emotional. Fans of Stephen King’s Bag of Bones or Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House will feel right at home here. It’s for readers who enjoy slow burns, flawed characters, and the unsettling feeling that maybe the scariest thing in the room is your own mind.
Pages: 322 | ASIN : B0CWYCWPVS
A Female Perspective
Pain Games follows the member of a Female Engagement Team on her journey from enlistment through boot camp to deployment in Iraq, capturing the brutality, absurdity, and dark humor of military life. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
Kate Molsin, the main character, is a Military Police Officer who’s hand-selected to lead a Female Engagement Team (FET). The original idea for what became Adrenaline Rush actually started when I was in middle school. Back then, I was sketching out the blueprints for a story about service, sacrifice, and adrenaline—but I set it aside when I enlisted in the Air National Guard. The concept stayed in the back of my mind for years, though, simmering until I found the inspiration I needed to bring it to life.
That spark came after I transferred to active-duty Army three years later. I was stationed in South Korea as a Military Police Officer, and being in that environment—serving with so many incredible men and women who became like family—gave me clarity on what I wanted the story to become. That’s when Adrenaline Rush evolved from a single story into what’s now a full series.
During my time in service, I realized how few military stories are told from a female perspective. We go into combat alongside our brothers-in-arms, shoulder-to-shoulder as equals, but we process war, trauma, and resilience differently. That contrast stuck with me, and I wanted to explore it honestly. In many ways, this series is my version of a Tom Clancy or Jack Reacher story—told through a woman’s lens. Because the truth is, men aren’t the only ones who like to blow stuff up, tote guns, and fight for their team.
Ultimately, I hope Adrenaline Rush serves as both a platform and a conversation starter—to educate, entertain, and shed light on what all soldiers and veterans experience, especially women whose stories too often go untold.
Your characters are wonderfully emotive and relatable. Were you able to use anything from your own life to inform their character development?
Yes, absolutely. Kate Molsin is a blend of all the incredible women I’ve served with—myself included. She embodies our strength, humor, resilience, and the emotional depth that comes from serving in uniform. Many of the other characters are inspired by the remarkable men I’ve had the privilege to work alongside. Their personalities, quirks, and unspoken camaraderie helped shape the realism behind each scene. In many ways, these characters are tributes to the people who’ve stood beside me through chaos and calm—the brothers and sisters who became family through shared hardship and service.
What were some themes that were important for you to explore in this book?
Oh man, there are so many. The main themes I wanted to highlight in the lives of soldiers are honor, courage, commitment, and resilience.
Honor—for us, it means living by the core values instilled in you from day one of boot camp: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, integrity. It’s about making a vow to use those values as your moral compass, both in and out of uniform. We don’t always get it right—we’re human—but honor is a cornerstone of what it means to be a soldier.
Courage—it’s doing what’s right, whether you’re on the battlefield or navigating your personal life. It’s having the courage to walk into the darkness, sometimes alone, because you made a vow and you stand by it.
Commitment—as a soldier, you’re committed. Bottom line. To the mission, to your team, to your values. It’s that unbreakable drive to show up, even when everything in you wants to quit.
Resilience—the military will test you in every possible way: emotionally, psychologically, and physically. You have to take care of yourself so you can keep completing the mission. You have to learn to get back up after being knocked down, again and again. This life isn’t for the faint of heart—war doesn’t care about your feelings—but resilience is what separates those who endure from those who fade.
Can you tell us more about what’s in store for Katie and the direction of the second book?
Actually, the third book—Adrenaline Rush: Operation Homefront—will be coming out soon, and I’m really excited about it. Like the rest of the series, it’s packed with non-stop action, but it also dives deeper into the emotional and psychological battles soldiers face once they return home. It explores what it’s like to transition back into what we call the “civilian division,” or civ div—that uneasy process of trying to fit back into a world that feels both familiar and foreign.
This book highlights the reality that the fight doesn’t always end when the deployment does. Sometimes, the toughest battles are the ones you face after the war—when you’re trying to rebuild, reconnect, and rediscover who you are outside the uniform.
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When a terrorist organization threatens American lives in Iraq, the Black Devils are tasked with finding the leaders and eliminating the threat. Working alongside her love interest Alex and confronted with the loss of a team member to an IED, Kate embraces her iron-clad resilience. She’s given three days to capture three enemy combatants by the Ops Commander. Her singular thought: “When messing with the Black Devils, the cost of penance is high.”
The New World Order
In your memoir, Octagon Pillars and Domes, you take readers on a wild, emotional, and surprisingly personal ride through history, religion, politics, and memory. Why was this an important book for you to write?
In order to understand how we have arrived at this present state of affairs both nationally and globally, especially since the presidency of Barack Obama in 2009, who advanced a globalist agenda beginning with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (HR1) and at which time my research began, it was important to take a close look at events that have occurred since WWI, specifically, the rise of class-based Marxism and the establishment of the Federal Reserve Bank by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913 under the advisement of his chief economic advisor and the leader of the Progressive and Zionist movements, Louis Brandeis.
What were some ideas that were important for you to share in this book?
Since the beginning of recorded history in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt in 3,500-4,000 B.C., the acceptance of creationism and related causal morality has served as the basis for law. However, due to perceived injustices experienced by Jews under creationist regimes including the Habsburgs and Romanovs during the 18th and 19th centuries, Karl Marx’s classist philosophy challenged these ideas, which gained acceptance by European intellectuals and academic circles at the Frankfurt School during the rise of German Industrialism. Of course, they already were immersed in Hegelian (deconstructionist) philosophy toward achieving absolute knowledge via rationalism. It is my belief in contrast to our founding principles rooted in Natural Law which formerly served as the rule of law, Marxism infected the United States at least by 1913, with the creation of the Federal Reserve, and certainly by the 1919 Paris Peace Conference (Treaty of Versailles), which established The League of Nations, a global peace-keeping force and precursor to the 1948 United Nations’ declaration of Human Rights as the revised rule of law. Since then, Progressive policies have established class protections for individuals and (immoral) behaviors that would have fallen well outside Federal law, according to our founding principles. I also wanted to clear up a common misunderstanding regarding the “separation of church and state,” which according to Thomas Jefferson’s 1802 letter to the Danbury Baptists, was intended to protect the right to worship (God), rather than exclude Biblical morality from legislation, which is an argument that has been misappropriated by The Left.
What was the most challenging part of writing your memoir, and what was the most rewarding?
They are one and the same: researching historical events, with all their details and nuances, which have led us to this moment, in order to gain a clear picture of opposing forces and political occurrences over the last 100 years that have perpetuated Progressive ideology. I will say my research into Egyptology was especially rewarding, inherent to which are the ideas of divine birthright (Horus), salvation, and spiritual rebirth, and which likely served as the template for Christianity.
What do you hope is one thing readers take away from your story?
Marxist class-based protections were established in opposition to political systems perpetuated by Christianity’s old-world order, including the notion of the Divine Right of Kings, Natural Rights, and Democracy, which has far-reaching implications and conclusions. Finally, though it has been implemented under the auspices of humanitarianism, it is apparent globalism, assisted by technology, is an effort by international bankers and global oligarchs to harness formerly distant workers for the purposes of control and taxation. Indeed, the New World Order is upon us.
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Something Resembling Love
Something Resembling Love tells the story of Jane Davenport, a young woman burdened by loss and a rare medical condition that shadows her every choice. After losing her parents and discovering she has hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia, her life becomes a balancing act between survival and desire. Years later, she crosses paths with Peter, a quiet researcher haunted by his own solitude. Their worlds intertwine in Chicago through mutual friends, late-night labs, and hesitant hearts. The novel moves between perspectives, revealing how two people learn to accept imperfection and find something close to love amid fear, science, and second chances.
Author Elizabeth Standish writes with a kind of honesty that sneaks up on you. The story isn’t flashy or overly romantic, it’s gentle, careful, and raw in ways that feel human. I loved how Jane’s sharp wit balances her vulnerability, how her pain never turns her bitter, only more determined. Peter’s quiet awkwardness, his devotion to science, and his fumbling affection make him real and lovable in his own hesitant way. Their chemistry builds like a slow burn, full of small gestures and unspoken emotions, the kind that make you smile and ache at the same time.
What stood out to me most was how Standish weaves science into intimacy. The clinical details of DNA, blood vessels, and soil chemistry mirror the characters’ search for connection. The writing feels almost poetic in places, but it never drifts into pretentiousness. The dialogue feels lived-in, the pacing patient but never dull. Still, there were moments when I wanted the story to push harder, to show more of Jane’s darker thoughts, or Peter’s guilt, instead of keeping things so contained. But maybe that’s the point. Love here isn’t cinematic. It’s quiet, flawed, and a little messy. Just like the people trying to hold it together.
Something Resembling Love isn’t just a romance, it’s a meditation on resilience, grief, and the fragile beauty of being known by another person. I’d recommend it to readers who enjoy character-driven stories with emotional depth, to anyone who’s ever loved someone despite fear, and to those who prefer subtle emotion over melodrama.
Pages: 317 | ASIN : B0FMP96X96
ELIXIR: A Journey into Ancestral Alchemology
Gisella Rose’s ELIXIR: A Journey into Ancestral Alchemology is a lush blend of memoir, mysticism, and method. It’s a spiritual guide that threads together genealogy, astrology, elemental wisdom, and somatic awareness into what she calls “Ancestral Alchemology.” The book opens with her near-death experience at age three and moves through a lifetime of weaving ancestry, astrology, and self-healing into a single sacred practice. Rose explains how the elements, fire, water, air, and earth, shape not just nature but the stories of our bloodlines. Through the “MoonTree Chart,” she shows readers how to trace cosmic patterns through family history, turning family trees into living constellations. The work is both personal and strangely universal, a map for anyone wanting to understand where they come from and how to heal old generational wounds.
The writing is rich and sensory, sometimes so poetic it hums. Rose’s language is vivid and flowing, full of emotion and imagery, though at times it wanders into repetition. Still, there’s a raw sincerity that holds it all together. I loved how she brought her grief and her wonder into the same space, never polishing away the human messiness behind the mysticism. She invites the reader to think of ancestry not as data but as story, as breath, as pulse. The mix of spiritual and practical astrological charts, along with reflections on trauma and epigenetics, makes the work feel grounded even when it reaches into the mystical.
At times, the writing drifts into abstraction, and I found myself wishing for a few more grounded examples or simpler turns of phrase. Still, the poetic rhythm has a beauty that draws you in. Those slower passages feel intentional. It’s a book meant to unfold gently, best read slowly. I often paused to reflect, thinking of my own family and the quiet stories resting in my roots. The book left me with a soft ache and a lingering curiosity that felt both tender and alive.
ELIXIR is best suited for readers drawn to the mystical and introspective, people who love astrology, ritual, or personal transformation through ancestral work. It’s a companion for seekers. I’d recommend it to anyone who feels their roots tugging at them, who wants to bridge the spiritual with the tangible, who believes that healing can travel through time.
Pages: 443 | ASIN : B0FD96NKC8
Have You Seen Him
Kimberly Lee’s Have You Seen Him opens with a brutal bank scene and spirals into a decades-later mystery that tangles grief, identity, and moral reckoning into a slow-burn thriller. The story follows David Byrdsong, a weary public defender who discovers a missing-person ad bearing his childhood face and a stranger’s name. That bizarre discovery unravels a buried past, a vanished family, secrets hidden by his adoptive father, and a network of people who’ve been searching for him for decades. Lee layers the suspense with emotional depth, flipping between timelines and perspectives to show how loss ripples across generations.
I was hooked from the first chapter. Lee writes with an intensity that sneaks up on you. Her sentences are clean but punch hard, and her dialogue feels lived-in, not polished. The tension never drops, but it’s not all fear and chase scenes. It’s the quiet unraveling of a man realizing his life might have been built on a lie. Some sections hit me right in the chest, especially the flashbacks to David’s childhood. There’s a sadness there, a kind of ache that sticks. I found myself pausing just to think after some of the reveals. The pacing dips here and there, but that slower rhythm gave me time to absorb the emotion under the mystery.
What I admired most was how human the story felt, even when it got dark. Lee doesn’t rely on shock for impact. She writes about fear the way it really works—slow, creeping, sometimes disguised as routine. The villains aren’t cartoonish, and even the side characters have small flickers of truth. David’s hesitation, his guilt, his strange calm in chaos made me want to shake him. But maybe that’s the point. He’s not an action hero. He’s someone who’s survived by pretending he’s fine, and that resonated with me.
Have You Seen Him is about finding yourself after everyone else thought you were lost. I’d recommend it to readers who love stories that balance plot with heart, especially fans of psychological thrillers like Gone Girl or Everything I Never Told You. If you like your thrillers with a pulse and a conscience, this one’s worth every page.
Pages: 270 | ASIN : B0F9TJYN8V
Candace McFly, Undercover Spy Case No 1. The Botched Beauty Pageant
This children’s book follows Candace McFly, a sharp, puzzle-loving third grader who’s more into solving mysteries than fixing her hair or joining beauty pageants. Her best friend, Arnold, is this quirky, potato-obsessed kid from Idaho who somehow makes everything more entertaining. Together, they stumble into a strange case involving pageant drama, allergic reactions, and a whole lot of small-town weirdness. It’s got mystery, humor, and just enough heart to make it really sweet.
I loved how Candace thinks. She’s smart but not show-offy, curious but still super relatable. Her friendship with Arnold cracked me up more than once. He’s a total goofball, but in the best way. Some of the stuff he says made me roll my eyes and laugh at the same time. The writing feels real, like how kids actually talk, and the mystery, while light, kept me reading just to see how they’d piece everything together. It’s like Harriet the Spy meets Nancy Drew for the younger crowd, with a Southern twist and a dash of sass.
There were a few parts where I felt it rambled a bit, especially when Arnold got off on a tangent about potatoes or pageants, but it kind of added to his charm. I liked how Mansfield didn’t make every adult in the book clueless or annoying, either. The parents and teachers actually felt present, which made the world feel fuller. The story balances humor and mystery so well that even when things get a little over-the-top, it still feels believable in that fun, small-town, kids-solving-cases kind of way.
If you like clever kid detectives, funny best friends, and stories with a lot of heart, this one’s for you. I’d totally recommend it for kids around eight to twelve, or honestly, for any grown-up who misses the days when summer meant solving “cases” with your friends and a flashlight. It’s light, cozy, and full of charm.
Pages: 272 | ASIN : B0B57QZ749
LITERARY TITAN 