Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...

In Diane Hester’s The Fortress of Us, after her mother dies suddenly in their Adelaide kitchen, eight-year-old Kelsey Haslett moves with her father, Ryan, to rural Port Lincoln, where a tree house becomes the hiding place for Molly, a silent child she has smuggled from...

In Spanktown Papers by Jane Hulse, Sarah constantly finds herself caught between opposing viewpoints and difficult choices. She is an ambitious young newspaper employee during a time when women are rarely welcomed into public affairs. As the American Revolution unfolds and British forces approach Philadelphia,...

Neanderthal Sunset is a historical fiction novella by Steven Burgauer. Strong Arms is the leader of his increasingly depleting clan. He strives to fulfill his duties as mate to Big Curl, father to Wide Smiles, Fast Foot, and their siblings, as well as hunting and...

In Michael O’Neill’s Lilli’s Question, an idealistic seminarian encounters a young girl, Lilli Geisler, on a bus while backpacking through Europe. Their brief connection ends in Madrid, where Lilli asks the question that would haunt him throughout his life: “Why be a priest?” Jim McGann’s...

In Andie Holman’s first book in The Laughter of the Sun series, The Mermaid's Wrath, a warrior mermaid named Scyphozoa “Jelly” discovers that she is made for greater things when the coveted Vetula Pearl awakens in her. Her rage triggers an explosion and makes her...

“You can only sell your integrity once, so you better get a good price for it,” are the opening lines of Diana Colleen’s provocative, revolutionary, and speculative thriller, They Could Be Saviors. The most consequential news of the century is brought to the world by...

In D.I. Telbat's Eve of Chaos, book one in The ELM Series, after the Meridia Virus leaves San Diego broken, nineteen-year-old Levi Caspertein lives with his father, Titus, inside a fortified high-rise. Titus turns the building into ELM, a Christian refuge named for the belief...

Orange and White by Richard J. Reese is a short story about the Holocaust. In 1943, Reinhardt Schroeder was member of the SS, someone who took great pleasure in killing Jews for the Nazi regime. Schroeder was tasked by his superiors to dismantle "Chamber II"...

How far would you go to help your child? In Gino’s Mom, Gary Markman tells the story of Rachel Carver, a woman devoted to her son, Gino. She's married to Anthony, a teacher and musician with a temper that sometimes causes problems for them. When...