This story begins before the outbreak of World War II and ends over two decades later. Nineteen-year-old Eleanor is groomed by her art professor in Florence while studying, thus the title The Florentine Entanglement by Pamela Norsworthy. She hides out for the duration of the...

J. Timothy Damiani’s The Dementia Diaries examines the complexities of love and loss through the eyes of a psychiatrist grappling with early-onset dementia. The story follows Dr. Will Newman as he moves from a prestigious academic career to a role at F.R.E.S.H., a state mental...

Paolo G. Grossi’s The Kaminsky Symphony is a riveting and compelling novel that begins in 1913, in Italy, and continues through the political upheavals in Russia in 1917, and briefly through WWI. The principal character is Maestro Carlo Alberto Mandelli, Count of Castagnino, Milan. In...

“Devils, gods, angels, demons. Who can see which is which?” That and many other questions are answered in The Witchfinder's Daughter, a novel by Adam Caisse. Armed with a copy of the Malleus Maleficarum and a dagger, a man named Hannes is summoned to the...

Red Flash by Kiva Wolfe tells the story of the Stanovic family, a group of wealthy gem traders with connections from the Brazilian jungle to Denver. Sérg Stanovic is the father, a powerful and controlling man trading gems both legally and illegally. His choices directly...

In Christmas Kitten Caper by Max Parrott, private detective Angela Atkinson and her lovable Border Collie, Ruff, are on another case. When Angela and Ruff go to the farm where their family always chooses their annual Christmas tree, they discover Nelson Hemlock, the owner of...

Tears of Iemanjá by Kiva Wolfe moves between Brazil, Hong Kong, and Colorado. The story opens with a failed museum theft in Salvador, Brazil, involving a stolen jeweled crucifix and a journal that triggers a chain of dangerous events. Then we move to Dominick Stanovic,...

After the Quiet: Stories to the Edge and Back by Carl Lakeland is a tightly constructed collection that examines moments when ordinary lives brush up against violence, moral fracture, and irrevocable choice. Across its interconnected stories, the book moves through intelligence work, personal loss, and...

Sean Spurlock's The Red Fields of France is a World War II novel that places readers at the center of the chaotic early days of the 1940 campaign in Western Europe. Set against the rapid German advance through France and Belgium, the novel follows British...

Mancala Moon by Asa Bowers is a fantasy about breaking a cursed cycle of pain. The story is about grief, the overshadowing presence and influence of ancestral ties, and inheritance. Micah is a 21-year-old struggling with the loss of his parents. He can’t come to...