For Cause by Mark Shaiken is part of the 3J legal thriller series. 3J, or Josephina Jillian Jones, is a Kansas City attorney, and she’s taken on a Chapter 11 case for Paxton Energy. She’s not worried—until she sees a video of the Paxton CEO...

The Women Who Stand Between by Jeannee Sacken is a stunning novel of perseverance in the face of adversity. Top wildlife cinematographer Julia Wilde is working in Southern Africa when she finds herself in the line of fire. A tragic accident has left crew members...

Twine is a murder mystery novel by Joshua Senter. Farnas Elsemore thought he had everything figured out in his life. Owner of The Hudson County Courier newspaper in the rural town of Success, Missouri, Farnas had learnt to navigate the casual homophobia directed against him...

A Dangerous Friendship by Robin Merle is a novel about grief, obsession, and the strange hunger for connection after loss. The narrator, Tina, begins the story in emotional turmoil, newly divorced and exhausted by a series of endings. Seeking distraction and a reset, she throws...

Slipper Girl by Adele Royce is about Skylar Van Ness, a 27-year-old woman who discovers that her dark past has returned to torment her. Right before her father's wedding, Skylar reads a shocking email, and she learns that her mother knows everything about her and...

Clare’s Boutique: Three Stories and One Essay by Eric Giroux is a collection of moments of vulnerability, identity, and reckoning through the character Clare. In Ice Time, Clare and Jack O’Connor, once best kindergarten friends, reunite later under strained circumstances during a Scout troop trip...

What the Dead Remember by Christina Welbourne follows Olive Fairwater, who travels to a remote town to take care of her dying grandfather. There she finds family secrets that had been hidden over the years. Olive sorts through her grandfather’s belongings and finds an old...

Song of the Chimney Sweep by Tamatha Cain traces the life of Betty Van Disson, nee Langdon, from a winter night in Florida in 1969 through decades shaped by obligation and secrecy. As a teenager, Betty meets singer Dominicus Owens and imagines a future beyond...

Vesper by Evan Marks follows the titular Vesper, who lives in New York and works as a senior consultant. After a chance meeting overseas leads to a second encounter in the city, Vesper begins seeing Caspian, a man whose life operates on a scale far...

Poinsettia Girl by Jennifer Wizbowski is a historical novel set in Venice in the early eighteenth century. Agata Farusi was a ten-year-old girl trying to come to terms with the untimely death of her mother. Cared for by her loving Nonna (grandmother), in their neighborhood...