In Som Phin’s The Naga Sisters Chronicles, six Cambodian American sisters travel to Cambodia, their late mother’s homeland. During a sunrise visit to Angkor Wat, eldest sister Chanda Seang remembers the stories their mother told about naga guardians and the princess who helped establish a...

Gordon MacKinney’s Memory Mine hooks you immediately with a wonderfully unsettling premise. Dalton, an aerospace engineering washout, initially signs up for the Mars mission just to reunite with Anna, his lover and sole driving motivation on the red planet. He expects nothing more than a...

Hunting Armed Men by J. M. Erickson begins with an explosive orbital crisis when First Officer Robert Lee VI spearheads a violent mutiny aboard a heavy cruiser. His main target is Captain Taylor, an egalitarian commander whose elimination of strict class privileges has fueled the...

In J.M. Erickson’s Deadly Going Dark, ten-year-old David Strong lives in the Great Third Republic, a future America rebuilt after environmental collapse into sealed habitats divided by caste. Born into the ruling patrician class, David is expected to enter military school and uphold the social...

In M. Ainihi’s Patchwork, readers are plunged into a grim fantasy realm alongside a solitary outcast named Patricia. She finds a brass key in a mundane thrift shop. This magical item unlocks a gateway into Knowhere, a ruined, decaying landscape that actually resembles a shattered...

Dinky: The Nurse Mare’s Foal by Marta Moran Bishop pulls back the curtain on the hidden financial side of high-end horse breeding. We follow a discarded newborn colt named Dinky, who’s treated as nothing more than a useless byproduct by top-tier stables. Shipped away on...

Rustwater by J.G. Macdonald brings wedding photographer Jane Dougherty to a small Arizona town, filling in for her cousin who’s won a prize but can’t attend the ceremony. The first things she sees are the red fountain on Main Street and Greer’s Books & Little...

The Third Man by Malachi King is a novella about two young men lost in the Alaskan wilderness in the winter, and a mysterious third man who guides them to rescuers. Tom and Jarvis are high school students with a taste for adventure, which frequently...

The Pact of Exit by Her Majesty Of Ink and Exit Wounds follows a woman known as the Queen, whose neatly ordered life has begun to hide truths she can no longer keep tucked away. Velin, an ink-bound witness who reads every shift in her...

Lost in the Hall of the Mountain King by M. LaRose follows Laurel Grove as she spends a solo retreat in a national forest, hoping that hiking and meditation will help her figure out what she wants from life after struggling with her unfulfilling job...