In Dinner at God's House by Todd B. Lieman, on the night Erik decides he no longer belongs in his own life, a car ends everything he thinks he knows about himself. In the location that follows, his childhood dog waits beside a stranger who...

Nine Rooms in the House by Dave Ellis begins with John, who moves through silent farmland, keeping animals alive and retracing the path that led from crowded towns to empty fields. His account settles on memories that still press against his present, and those memories...

“You sit up in bed. This is where you’ve landed—fallen off the map, and no one seems to care. But that’s not new. You’ve felt invisible before. Now it’s just official.” That’s life in Eddie The KIng (the title is not a typo), a collection...

The Other Lotus Girl by Daniel A. Riddle is about an Asian girl who was trafficked to pay off her parents’ debt. Vân and her sister were promised jobs at a nail salon, but instead were forced into sexual exploitation. For nearly two years, Vân...

Tales of the South China Sea by Fred G. Baker follows Alex, Diego, and their crew as they work as pirates and smugglers in Southeast Asia in the late 1990s. Alex, a calm and skilled leader, teams up with Diego, a loyal Spanish-Filipino captain, and...

The passing of her husband makes Kreya begin to feel the inevitability of death creeping up on her. As she prepares Davaj, her great-grandson and successor for his inevitable assumption of the role of shaman to their people, she reminisces about the arduous journey she...

Haunted by a Broken Oath is the first book in Dee Armstrong’s new Haunted series. JD Wolfe, a talented private investigator, is pulled into a tough case when the body of a decorated military hero is found hanging. When two young boys go missing, she’s...

Joan of the Arcane by Alexandra Fleder delves deep into the world of conspiracy theories and the internet trolls who spread them. Before she married and settled down to middle-aged, middle-class normalcy in Los Angeles, Joan was a rebel, a singer in a punk rock...

Hearts and Bones by Lawrence D. Bub follows Maya over about a decade of her life. It alternates between her college years in the 1980s and her third year of medical school in the 1990s. During her freshman year, she crosses paths with Peter, a...

Echoes in the Void by Ben Hafer follows Captain Jonathan Reed and the crew of the Perevian on a mission that begins as a routine survey, but shifts once they encounter an energy field near the ruins of the Aetherion. The field reveals structured signals,...