In Painting Over Cracks by Lee Bukowski, Beth and Danny were in an accident. They were hit on Danny’s side of the car; he was thrown out and died at the scene. Beth survived with a few injuries but now faces life without Danny. To...

Mitchell and Michael, twin brothers, were child prodigies. In Charter Road’s Play with My Heart, Mitchell is hailed as being perhaps the greatest violinist in the world, while his twin brother, Michael, is one of the best pianists. Their father promoted the boys’ talents, wanting...

How do you move forward when wounds from the past are still open? Crooked Lines by Sally Barclay Faddis begins as Dahlia Charles gets ready for a family reunion at her inn in Coyote Creek, hoping for the weekend to go well. As she organizes...

Augmented Reality by A.R. Milton describes a dystopian world of BioCyber warfare. Headed by twin brothers, an organization had taken over society by means of an AI-driven web, becoming The Eternal Intelligence Entity (E.I.E). Designed to rule the world, it played on human desires, persuading...

In Tom Strelich’s Mustard Seed, after President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, selected American families are secretly transported into Mustard Seed, a vast underground city beneath the hills outside Bakersfield that is built to preserve civilization during an expected nuclear war. Gill Hill grows up...

In Mikael Carlson’s Finding Santa, days before Christmas, Santa Claus disappears from his office inside Santa Claus Village in Rovaniemi, Finland, after three men force him onto a private jet headed across Europe. Wyatt Huffman, a former Washington political figure now living quietly in Vermont...

In Joshua Becker’s Soul Mission, Ephraim Saltzburg teaches Spanish in Milwaukee while living with mental health issues that detach him from his wife Rachel, their young son Ari, and the ordinary rhythm of daily life. After horrifying visions connected to the Holocaust death camps begin...

In the Wake of Evil is an astounding magical fantasy prequel to Stephanie Dean’s award-winning novel The Mystic Vial. The story unfolds in the whimsical, radiantly colorful town of Snickerdoodle, where magical creatures - pixies, fairies, and gorgeous unicorns - live alongside humans. But pixies...

In This Fell Sergeant by Adam Dompierre, Lacey Matthews hires private investigator Eddie London to examine the reported suicide of her boyfriend, Johnny Sullivan, who died after falling from a balcony at the Bridgewater Hotel. Eddie expects a routine investigation until details surrounding Room 310...

Laurence Hutson’s Shattered Faces is set during the First World War, when American sculptor Anna Ladd leaves Boston for Europe after learning that soldiers with severe facial injuries are hiding themselves from families and society. In London, she studies a new process that uses sculpture,...