It is 1941, nine years after the devastating Holodomor in Ukraine. Two years earlier, fifteen-year-old Konstantin “Kostya” Lysenko had missed out on the mass recruitment of the Red Army for boys over the age of eighteen, unlike his older brothers, Petro and Grisha, when World...

Elba Kramer: The True Autobiography of a Pathological Liar by Steve Goldsmith follows the true story of a youth from his early childhood to his late teenage years. Elba Kramer didn't have the most ideal childhood. His father was an Air Force pilot who met...

Patient Zero by Dr. Emil Šabanović follows the stories of five patients as they navigate their struggles with the help of their therapists. A twenty-two-year-old woman suffering from DPDR slowly starts to overcome her dissociation with reality after some therapy sessions. Intrusive, violent thoughts plague a...

It is 1954. Ten years after she left for Stockton to start a new life, Althea Sparrow has just returned to Bear River, California, her hometown, to help her siblings run the family business and care for her aging father. However, she has no idea...

In Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain, a routine shift inside a secure mountain facility becomes a desperate fight for survival when a catastrophic collapse traps a small group of workers and visitors far below the surface. Forced into the darkness beneath the ruined structure, Paul...

Author Dania Voss brings romance readers a treat with the fourth book in the Delcinia Diaries, Longing and Lipstick. Faith Wilson, the youngest of the three Wilson sisters, first met Axel Berg, the bodyguard of Crimson Shadows' frontman Sebastian Scott, at the New York Fall...

Entertaining and well-researched, A. Piper Burgi’s The Exploress and the Pillars of Eternity is a fine example of historical fiction. Set in the early nineteenth century, at a time when Egypt was just beginning to allow Europeans access to their country and its archaeological treasures,...

After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

In Soundscape by Kenneth Thomas, Nick Stern meets Hannah Wren during a summer archaeological dig in Israel, where a brief academic trip turns into the beginning of a relationship that changes their lives. After a violent attack leaves Nick injured, they return to Wisconsin, carrying...