After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

In Sophia Kouidou-Giles’s historic Ariadne, when Cretan princess Ariadne is sent to Athens as part of a fragile alliance, she enters a city strained by famine, political unrest, and rising hostility toward her family. Her brother Androgeus arrives to compete in the Panathenaic Games, but...

The Chinese thinker Lao Tzu once said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and that sentiment is echoed in Kaci Curtis's Along the Trail. Winnifred “Winnie” Hayes and her family take that first step as they leave their home and...

Another Invisible Ghetto by Rasmenia Massoud is a thought-provoking look into the lives of a group of people trying to find their identities through various means. Ian, poor and heartbroken, makes a life-ending decision that opens a space in Jacob’s apartment building. Jacob tries to...

A House Full of Strangers by Diana Stevan is a collection of two novellas and eleven short stories set in Winnipeg, Manitoba, during the 1940s and 1950s. The book focuses on landladies, their families, and the tenants who pass through their homes, offering a view...

How do you live when the ghosts of the past are so unforgiving? One can only hope to find relief in the numbness that grows from a disconnected reality. Austen is a musician travelling west to play his songs there. He lives in a world...

Laura Beers brings us a Regency romance with hints of action in A Brilliant Defiance: Courting the Unconventional Book 6. The year is 1814, and Lady Jane Lyttelton has always done what society expected and what her father and brother dictated. And as she stood...

According to Law is the sixth book in Bill Lewers’ Gatekeepers of Democracy series. The story focuses on Darcy Gibbons, a young conservative Republican during the 2022 election cycle in Northern Virginia. She is finishing her studies at a local university, with an internship at...

Anya’s Song by Laura Mills is a beautifully sweet historical romance set in a small Californian town in the 1880s. When Anya and Robert Redding’s parents were gunned down in a bank robbery, the siblings were determined to continue their parents’ legacy and ensure their...

Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....