After the Quiet: Stories to the Edge and Back by Carl Lakeland is a tightly constructed collection that examines moments when ordinary lives brush up against violence, moral fracture, and irrevocable choice. Across its interconnected stories, the book moves through intelligence work, personal loss, and...

In A Second Chance by Asher Frend, Oak Haven teenagers Mikaila Emery, her older sister Kaitlyn, and their best friend Chara Wilson move through the same town under very different pressures. Mikaila believes she has been given limited time to protect Chara after a disturbing...

Afterglow by Troy Kotanides is a psychological drama following Edyn, a 32-year-old man who has psychogenic amnesia, a very rare form of retrograde amnesia in which one loses all memories after some traumatic incident. Coming back to his psychologist, Dr. Gordon Raine, after a gap...

A World of Slanted Light by Marvin Brauer is a delightfully clever and warm coming-of-age story set in the harsh environment of 1960s coal country in Congress, West Virginia. Marty Barber is a sensitive fifteen-year-old growing up in a town committed to their one industry...

Glen Branson has moved back to his hometown. It’s just before Christmas, and the villagers are busy preparing the town for the festive season. Keen to be part of the community, Glen joins in. His long-time best friend and bakery owner, Julie, puts him to...

Ashen Lands by Tess Manchester centers on Randall Colt, a seasoned military veteran who must travel across a civil war-ravaged America. Bombardments have fragmented and reduced it into chaotic regions characterized by mass burial grounds, burnt-out woodlands, and ruthless armed groups. He must deliver a...

A Perfect Year? by Ruth Foster is part murder mystery and part humorous saga with plenty of sass. Ali and Caroline may live near each other in Upley Rising, but they aren’t friends. Ali spends her time trying to rear her many children while constantly...

A Life in Too Many Margins by S.E. Thomson is a bittersweet LGBTQ+ story of a young person torn between their birth gender and their absolute certainty that they were male, not female. David is also plagued by several pain-filled disorders and conditions, such as...

Arasgain Saga: Hope – Book One by V. G. Cooper is a delightfully gentle and warm story about family, love, and loss, introducing a character who embarks on an epic fantasy journey. Ava Lewis has always been intrigued by a set of birthmarks on her...

A Debt In Time by Bryan James Beck is the first book in the Ancestral Debt Anthology. James hates his job; it’s going nowhere, and he’s barely making enough to survive. And then there’s the strange, realistic dreams he keeps having. A death in the...