John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

In Eilidh MacTavish's Any Way Out, an unnamed child lives with Pop, a father who destroys her youth with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Mother, who is also a victim, still lashes out at the child and blames her for much of the abuse. As...

Deborah J. Brasket’s This Sea Within follows Lena, a young journalist who goes to San Balanque to connect with her heritage and to follow a story. What begins as a chance to learn more about the country soon brings her inside the world of the...

Justine and Becca, mother and daughter, have been close for the past nine years. Becca is the eldest daughter, and her mother expected her to help raise her two younger sisters. However, by her teenage years, Becca began to feel as if her mother was...

Life had been going well for young James Fields until his father died in 1984, when James was thirteen. Bills began to pile up, and since his mother’s meager salary could only cover so much, life became a tough struggle. They moved to Oakland in...

Can a near tragedy eventually lead to love? In Two Hearts’ Ambush by Tamara Ferguson, Lara Loughlin, a rising rock star who performs under a stage name, has returned to her hometown of Crystal Rock for a break from her busy life. She’s hoping to...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...

Chris Wind’s This Is What Happens is a rare gem. A fifty-five-year-old woman feels stuck, wasted, and wounded. All she wants is to return to a cabin on a lakeside one final September to go through journals written for thirty-five years and unravel the mystery...

Two Hearts’ Christmas Mission by Tamara Ferguson follows Oliver Berenger as he relocates to a tight-knit Midwestern community to act as a guardian for his family. His sister, Mariah, is facing an aggressive medical battle, and Oliver is determined to shield his young niece, Amelia,...

Dorothy Van Soest’s Until It’s Over is an enthralling thriller told through two distinct timelines that rise and ebb like the tides of a turbulent sea. Sylvia Jensen is an octogenarian activist who suffers a heart attack at a rally at the state Capitol when...