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...

Lies to Forever by Marlene M. Bell is a suspenseful murder mystery blended with romance. April Manning took leave from a firm of architects to look after her landlord, who was recovering from a major accident. But one day she found her landlord gone. An...

In Steve C. Posner's Questioner, attorney Martin Bavarius takes on the defense of Mark Ryder after the shooting of fellow lawyer John Mudge. The case turns on a disturbing claim: Ryder believes the killing began inside QuestGame, a hyper-immersive virtual reality simulator. As Bavarius works...

Party of a Lifetime by Henry Corrigan follows Becca Longford as she heads back home from college, hoping a beach weekend with her old crew will make up for how badly their high school prom went. That prom night was horrible, marked by bullying, a...

“Everything’s the same as it’s always been, Kurt. It’s only our perception of the world that’s changed.” In the novel Without A Face by Lonnie Busch, that sentence would be a significant understatement. The curtain rises in Rescue, a small town somewhere in the American...

Vindictive Angel by Karen Black is a stunning psychological thriller. The lines between right and wrong are about to get seriously blurred. Julie Davenport works in the ER and has fixed up more children than she can remember, many of them torn apart by criminals....

To Catch A Monster by Rale Miller takes place in the seemingly quiet town of Lexington, Virginia, where Officer Chrissy and her bike squad suddenly find themselves caught up in a strange murder investigation. The town's usual calm is shattered when a victim is discovered...