K. M. Cookie’s Song of Hummingbird Highway starts when Terri, a music lover, gets rid of her boyfriend. She refuses to shed a tear and cannot imagine that one impulsive night at a Santa Monica reggae club will change her life. Enter Reynold, a beguilingly...

Between Two Names is a coming-of-age story by Aaron Wang. It's 2010 in China. Cheng Ma was preparing for his Gaokao tests when he received a full scholarship to attend the international program at a new school. From the very beginning, Cheng felt like an...

Hillbilly Monk’s Brisket Wisdom by Billy Monk brings us a really wild premise that perfectly blends rural American life with some heavy psychological exploration. The book follows Billy, an eccentric Oklahoma man who spends his days smoking meat, running an illegal still, and rambling about...

Rachel Elwiss Joyce’s Lady of the Castle is set in late 12th-century England, where Nicola de la Haye is Lincoln Castle's hereditary constable while raising a household formed through two marriages. When an earthquake destroys part of Lincoln Cathedral and kills her young son Tommy,...

Chris Neo’s third installment in The Love Secret series, Love Beyond Eros, continues the story of Aris, the American traveler who finally finds the “love secret,” and Angelica, the woman of his dreams. After a village festival throws their future into chaos, Aris goes missing....

In Ravi Ranjan Goswami’s Missing, we take a close look at Suresh, a young man in Orai overwhelmed by his family’s expectations. He has a university degree but no career path, which triggers a non-stop stream of cruel remarks from his mother. His family even...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...

Carrie Kabak’s Shibby Magee unfolds in two timelines, following the identical twins Isabelle “Shibby” and Isadorah “Dorah” Magee, who are like chalk and cheese. The story starts in the 1970s when the kids are abandoned by their Traveler mother, Vera Coffey. They are raised by...

Sparrows by Rose Betit follows Isabelle, a young girl whose childhood is affected by poverty, family instability, and the difficult choices made by the adults around her. The story traces Isabelle’s early years as she and her older brother, Stevie, struggle with their Southern-born mother...

“If people would stop murdering other people in molten glass, it would be easier.” Yes, it would be easier, but perhaps these murders are just one issue in Resurrection of the Ruby Skull (Fox Argall Mysteries book four), a novel by Collings MacCrae. The story...