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...

Our Hands Are Pale as Milk by Sara Kay Rupnik tells the story of three sisters and their obsession with the poet Percy Shelley. He is cunning and sly, but all the sisters see is charismatic charm. Hiding behind a mask of compassion, the poet’s...

Adrienne N. Neary’s Silent Crow's Cabin tells the story of Jesse Caldwell, a Rhode Island law student who enjoys many privileges in the care of his manipulative mother, Celia. His mother wants control of the billion-dollar Caldwell Foundation. Jesse’s emotional lifeline is his beloved show-jumping...

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...

Homes by Hayden Thompson follows Dr. George Harrington over more than two decades as an epidemiologist who leaves his comfortable life in France for public health assignments across Asia. Being a single father means George has to balance demanding fieldwork with raising his twelve-year-old son,...

In Marcus Conter’s A Light in the Silence, Brazilian musician Mateus has settled in Laval, Quebec, when his father summons him back to southern Brazil. Maria, the mother who held her four sons together, died only three months before her widower, Marlboro, summons them home...

Ports, Pressure & Payback (Secrets at Sea: Book 3) by Destiny Devereaux centers on Nakita, the poised founder of the Destiny Legacy Collective travel group, whose luxury cruise aboard the M/V Red Legacy quickly transforms into a web of chaos. While Nakita seeks an escape...

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....