Lisa has just attended her ex-fiancé’s wedding, feeling lost, weepy, and humiliated. After all, her fiancé had just dumped Lisa for her friend, whom he had just married. She needs a change; she needs to get away from the past she spent with him. And...

Elizabeth Diane Adams' Fully Average is the story of Melissa Jolene Bonetti, who, in spite of her constant sense of dread, considers herself lucky. She has a long-term boyfriend and a steady accounting job, but her life implodes spectacularly when she discovers that her boyfriend...

Jeff Nesbit’s Autocrat is satirical, grotesque, and timely; it follows a narcissistic reality TV host named Rex Vanner who launches and wins the 2015 presidential campaign. But his leverage is a network contract, and what he succeeds in summoning is the darkest impulse in the...

It is fall 1974. Emily Wells and her partner, Thomas Findlay, an ex-lead member of a popular band, have arrived in Alaska seeking a fresh start. The couple had had enough of the chaotic life they lived in San Francisco, which was full of parties...

The Fire Inside My Soul by Julia Baeten tells the story of Diana Strauss, a successful advertising executive who survived a painful childhood. She has everything anyone desires: career success, wealth, and a beautiful apartment with terrific views. But even with so much success, she...

In Bob Van Laerhoven’s The Long Farewell, in 1934, Dresden, fifteen-year-old Hermann Becht's family is affected by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. His father, Hans, serves the Nazi movement with growing devotion, while his mother, Marina, a Belarusian refugee who escaped revolutionary Russia, believes Germany...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

His Voice by Sophie Penhaligon is a psychological thriller about manipulation, the mental games catfish play, and the emotional torment their victims are left to suffer. Romance author Emily Chen wishes for more; she knows she has the potential to be the next big thing,...

Jeanne Blanchet's Rite of Passage tells the story of the 1620 Mayflower voyage through the eyes of ten-year-old Sara Ann Clifton, now an eighty-two-year-old woman, who was reluctant to undertake the journey from Leiden to the New World. The story traces the perilous adventures of...

Intrinsic by W.H.B. is a literary saga that follows the fall and redemption of Christopher Franklin. We meet Chris in the middle of his shift as a New York City taxi driver, steering his 2004 Ford Crown Victoria through Lower Manhattan, but he is a...