Damion Hamilton’s From The Bottom introduces David Henderson, a man who never really had a fair shot in life. The story starts with a fourteen-year-old David experiencing a police encounter that stays with him for the rest of his life. As an adult, he’s an...

Angela Page Conti’s Enrico G is about Enrico Giuseppe Gardini, a man whose resilience is forged in fire from the 19th-century countryside of Abruzzo, Italy, to the streets of New York City. Growing up in a village where olive groves and strict traditions are the...

In Danila Botha’s A Place for People Like Us, Hannah meets Jillian during a night out and, after reconnecting in a university class, moves into her apartment, where their relationship centers on filming Jillian’s music and building a shared routine. While studying, Hannah is paired...

In The Cuban Manuscript, Lilian George tracks the life of Liana, a woman who escapes one suffocating communist regime only to find herself trapped in another one just like it. She starts in a Soviet-controlled country where her family’s property is taken away from them...

What if reincarnation were real? What if you could look back from the present to your past lives, but also see forward from the past? What if you could repay the karmic debts you left owing in your past lives? Nine Lives: A Soul’s Journey...

Set in the Ottoman capital during the winter of 1602, Rebellion and Deceit, book two in the Empires and Kingdoms series by David Eugene Andrews, follows Aisha, sister of Sultan Mehmet III, as she leaves her residence near the Hippodrome and enters a palace system...

In Kristen A. Peters's The Shape of His World, Holding Them Both, a mother fights for her boys because the world will not listen to them. Iris is a mother raising two autistic sons, Dylan and Jesse, in a home arranged around routine, sensory needs,...

Elva of the Seas by Jordan Elizabeth is a short novella to delight the hearts of lovers of fantasy and fairy tales. Princess Elva is sent away on a holiday from the kingdom where her younger sister has just become queen. It feels more like...

Hazel Sallington is the daughter of a baron. Sadly for her, her mother passed away when she was very young, and her father remarried. When he also passed, her stepmother, the new Lady Sallington, showed her true colors, banishing Hazel to a life of servitude...

Locking Down Love by Luis Ammerman takes place in a small Vermont town during the pandemic lockdown. Readers are introduced to Bill Cox, a quiet English professor living alone, and his neighbor, Amy Hoover, a hardworking diner employee. His carefully structured, solitary life begins to...