Isabella Falconeri’s In the Mountain’s Shadow is a powerful and emotional story about survival, family, and our choices. It follows Park, an older woman who leaves her family behind in a desperate attempt to give them a chance at life when a doctor offers them...

Vindication is an absorbing coming-of-age story by Elizabeth Muir-Lewis. With his parents traveling on tour with their acting company, Jamie Lindsey, a seventeen-year-old boy who dreams of studying medicine, is forced to spend his time with his aunt and uncle in a village near Montrose....

The Painted Sand by Joe Esposito is a supernatural thriller set in a hospice, where a woman named Ruth forms an unlikely connection with a mysterious figure known as Mortimer, who is actually Death in disguise. He brings a special painting into her room, reflecting...

The Tides That Bind is a story about family, specifically siblings Emily, Peter, and Cassie. Emily, a teacher, is the one who stayed close to home. So she knows what’s going on with her family's business, specifically, that it is on the edge of disaster....

The Kissing Number by Louise Furley poses a haunting question: What if your family is determined to hurt you and ensure that you never succeed? Should one still hold on to love and loyalty, or walk away to survive? Colipatra Cassidy dreams of transforming the...

Estate: To My Once Dear Child by J. Andrew Shelley is a darkly comic literary novel that digs deep into the emotional mess that comes with inheritance. We're with Timothy as he inherits his late mother’s estate. He thinks it’s going to be a simple...

The Pentacle by Marieke Lexmond brings The Madigan Chronicles to a powerful and emotional close, drawing together the tangled threads of magic, family, and fate. As the Madigan women grapple with the aftermath of prior battles, the search for the Pentacle becomes the final test...

The Shylmahn Migration by David R. Beshears is an alien invasion novel that's equal parts war story and philosophical thought experiment. We find ourselves on Earth whilst it is under siege by the Shylmahn, a race of explorers who don’t see themselves as conquerors, just...

Bogie & Bemis by Bryn Roar is a middle-grade novel that artfully blends magical realism with heartfelt storytelling. Set across contrasting landscapes—Appalachian Maine and gritty New York City—the book tells the story of Humphrey “Bogie” Balsam, a towering, gentle young man emotionally frozen in childhood,...

Rowboat by Daran Marcella is a spare, aching novella that shows all the emotional wreckage of a life unraveling. It's a story that's told through a series of nonlinear, poetic fragments, and we find ourselves following a young man as he spirals through illness, addiction,...