Lady Ghost by Kara Jacobson follows Mike Johnston, a maintenance worker in Red Wing, Minnesota, who starts seeing a mysterious female spirit on the third floor of an abandoned hospital in 2019. Mike has a gift for sensing things others can't, and when he finds...

Landry LeBlanc is a successful lawyer in a big firm. He intends to become a partner as soon as possible. Achieving this goal is so important to Landry that he sacrifices even his conscience. Landry is notorious for dumping his girlfriends right before New Year's....

Cracks, book one in the Saga of the Spheres, by L.A. Prendergast follows Travis Black, a twenty-two-year-old human who survives a fatal stabbing when an ancient incorporeal being called Marrow merges with him, giving Travis powers and casting them into another universe. There, Travis reaches...

Love Amongst Realms by Jennifer Box caught my eye because I am immediately drawn to metaphysical, supernatural, and speculative stories, and, in this case, a cast of the most unusual and imaginative characters I've ever encountered. Marie's world, and her love affair with Hector, is...

The Dread from the Drows by Erich Sanchack and Dani Sanchack is the continuation of The Orphans of Nilad. EoC and Kaida Nosam’s journey takes them to the Drows as they search for the Amulet of Planes. Instead of getting closer to home, they find...

Ratcatcher by K.J. Fieler introduces a small, fierce street child in Victorian London who's carved out a fragile independence, catching rats for shopkeepers in exchange for bread and drippings. When a baker refuses her a scrap of charity, she throws two live rats into his...

In The Serpent Stirs by Ankusha Sutey, Indira is a young, cosmopolitan designer from Mumbai who wins an expenses-paid holiday to the eastern coastal state of Odisha, which has a rich historical and architectural heritage. The days pass in a whirl of sightseeing, temple visits,...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

The Time Between Blinks is a remarkable fantasy by talented author Russell Chappell. The story takes us to California, where we meet twenty-three-year-old Ethan Weghorst. It’s been four months since Ethan graduated from college, but he is still trying to figure out what he will...

In T.V. Holiday’s Slaying Paradise, San Diego police officer Travis is driving home when a crash leaves him face-to-face with Mark, a mysterious man who says God has chosen him for a hidden supernatural war. Mark leads Travis to Carnage Coast, a hidden city where...