Palms and Pomegranates by L.S. Csida is one of those atmospheric novels that really pulls you into its setting—a North African city caught right in the middle of a tug-of-war between ancient traditions and modern hustle. Perin's first week brings everything at once: a violent...

Gap Year by Lindsey Goldstein introduces forty-six-year-old CPA Jane Greenberg, whose life is disrupted when her daughter Liza leaves for a gap year in Spain. Just then, her husband, Clark, confesses that he is having an affair. Distraught, Jane decides to leave everything behind, including...

In James Dunlop’s Plausible in Parts, Andy MacKay returns to his Camden flat after a contract mission in Kosovo that involved an attempt on General Marku Berisha, expecting to resume his routine, but the police arrest him and link the case to his actions abroad....

Animal Conquest by David Bush follows Jean, a dispossessed dog forced from his estate after his brother’s death during a confrontation engineered by another, who leaves him under judgment and sent away from home. As he moves across unfamiliar lands, he gathers a small group...

In Jason Middleton’s The Last Harmonic, at a diplomatic event in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presents a reset in relations with Russia, marked by a symbolic button that conceals a critical translation error and signals a deeper shift already in motion. Years later,...

Love sometimes appears in the most mysterious places. In The Stranger I Love by Anneka R. Walker, Estelle Lowry makes the bold decision to leave home. Set in England in the 1850s, her choice becomes clear after her brother arranges a marriage for her to...

Robert Frost once wrote, “Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” In Autumn Ridge by Micaiah Munro, that sense of home is tied to a quiet cabin in Montana, where family history and personal struggles...

Nexus is a supernatural mystery novella by N.G. Avant. Four women, strangers to each other, arrive in the city of Salem on Halloween, not knowing their lives will be changed forever. Gina, Jane, Arya, and Maria couldn't be more different. They all come from different...

The Body on the Bricks by Leonard Krishtalka is a historical crime mystery that will have readers guessing throughout the narrative. When the small town of Lawrence, Kansas, experiences three murders in one day, local reporter and amateur sleuth Mary Fanning is pressed into service...

In Beth Brookhart's The Four Queens of the Buttonbush Museum, Irene Pickett joins the board of the Buttonbush Museum after losing her newspaper role, stepping into a neglected area where Odilia Delgado is already using her political access to secure control. Their opposing decisions drive...