Incident at Lahore Basin is riveting—one of those page-turning books. My curiosity was piqued: how will this dangerous plot end? Clive Radford’s writing in this book created a sense of impatience that made it impossible to stop reading. The narrative focuses on Dale, a successful...

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...

Just Another Tuesday in Manhattan: A Journey of Discovery by Christopher Tradgett shows the wrongful things done to people who have no control over the consequences of what happens to them. During the 80s and 90s in Ireland, there were places called homes for 'wayward...

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...