A. M. Linden’s The Valley is a spellbinding and imaginative work of historical fiction set in early medieval Anglo-Saxon Britain. The Valley begins in the 8th century, when Herrwn, a Druid priest, teacher, and bard, is an old man in his eighties. Herrwn recalls his...

The House of All Sorrows: Gothics Undead by Richard Gadz brings readers a tantalizing version of the cult classic, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Something terrifying is going on at Westwych House, but the servants are excellent at turning a blind eye. There is only...

In Robert Crompton’s The Dark Side of Gilead, cabinetmaker Vic Scanlon returns to Colinton after schoolmate Amy Rashid asks about the girl he saw locked inside elder Len Robinson’s junk room twenty years earlier. Vic reported the discovery as a child, but the Fellowship of...

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...

Set in the Caribbean in 1780, S.R. Staley’s The Pirate of Panther Bay follows Isabella, a young Creole woman who escaped a sugar plantation on Santo Domingo before becoming captain of La Marée Rouge, the armed brig once led by her mentor Jacob the Red....

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

Stephen James’ Trial by Conscience begins with a panicked choice that alters a person’s life forever. In 1964, an ordinary morning for a runner named Richard in Birmingham is shattered after a cruel family prank goes wrong. Believing he is responsible for a girl’s sudden...

The Vanity of Hope is the first book in the Apostle series by G.W. Langdon. The story follows Thomas Ryder and his fiancée, Sarra Chambers, as they are kidnapped by alien pirates in Alice Holt Forest in 1499. As a result, the lovers are separated...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

The Itch of the Middling Cat by R. S. Vern is for fans of literary fiction and novels about animals. Haee is a black cat with a crooked tail. Rescued by Tom and Jane when he was a kitten, Haee wants to be useful to...