In Bondwitch: Hybrid by Chelsey M. Ortega, Marianna and her sister, Annamaria, arrive at their grandmother's house. Their grandmother isn't happy to learn that Marianna, the heir of the witch coven, has a new identity. Moreover, their grandmother doesn't approve of Annamaria's boyfriend because he is...

In Yarrow Bend, a rural Canadian town, Sergeant Lena Malone of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and her junior, Constable Fincher, have launched an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of nine-year-old Elise, the daughter of Gustav “Goose” and Therese Deschamps. The more they dig...

In Don Stuart’s Descartes' Shadow, born during the Cascadia disaster, Ellie Frye Carver grows up on Vashon Island with unanswered questions about her mother’s death and the father she never knew. Her closest confidante is Patrice, an advanced artificial intelligence who first enters her life...

Bless Me Father FOR YOU Have Sinned by Bruce Lewis is a thrilling drama that follows Chuck Grayson, a crime reporter who has just been told that he only has a few more months to live. He begins to reminisce about his childhood, especially about...

Hal Koufax, a veteran journalist for the Cincinnati Bugle, was still recovering from a near-death experience at the hands of Frank Miller, a gangster who was after a controversial list in Koufax’s possession. The list, strategically planted in Koufax’s way, not only had ties to...

Patient Zero by Dr. Emil Šabanović follows the stories of five patients as they navigate their struggles with the help of their therapists. A twenty-two-year-old woman suffering from DPDR slowly starts to overcome her dissociation with reality after some therapy sessions. Intrusive, violent thoughts plague a...

It is 1954. Ten years after she left for Stockton to start a new life, Althea Sparrow has just returned to Bear River, California, her hometown, to help her siblings run the family business and care for her aging father. However, she has no idea...

In Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain, a routine shift inside a secure mountain facility becomes a desperate fight for survival when a catastrophic collapse traps a small group of workers and visitors far below the surface. Forced into the darkness beneath the ruined structure, Paul...

After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...