I Wasn’t Ready to Lose You by Brady E. McGiffin is a thought-provoking exploration of grief. Asher lost his grandpa, E.R., at the tender age of nine. Ever since then, he has lived with an otherworldly silence. Shortly after his grief began, he felt...

Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers traces the interwoven paths of the Heber family and the Mì’kmaq during the French and Indian War. The story centers on the son, Christian, whose kidnapping becomes the doorway into a new family and a new identity. In his adopted...

In When They Came Home by Terri Lewis, we follow Milton, a standard American farm boy whose life is split in two after he gets shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in 1918. He survives the fighting, but the terrifying sights and sounds follow...

In Mitchell Hadley’s The Book of Revelations, at age eight, Nan Jaffe loses her parents after one frightening night in Indianapolis. She is taken to Illinois by her grandparents, who rename her Robin and sever her past. Years later, she lives in San Francisco as...

In Diane Hester’s The Fortress of Us, after her mother dies suddenly in their Adelaide kitchen, eight-year-old Kelsey Haslett moves with her father, Ryan, to rural Port Lincoln, where a tree house becomes the hiding place for Molly, a silent child she has smuggled from...

Green by Chuck LeGrande follows a quiet teen named Jamie, who flees his home in Queens after a confrontation with his father, carrying nothing but a hidden draft board letter and a book of drawings. His aimless wandering brings him to the rough edges of...

Wayne Clark’s El Gordo follows a veteran private investigator, Humph, as he attempts to unravel a highly complex and troubling criminal conspiracy operating in New York’s post-war jazz community. Everything starts when a talented neighborhood musician and painter named Roberto turns up dead. The murder...

The Doll House Brides: Soleil is a fantasy romance novella by S.M. Webb. Soleil and her sisters grew up in the Northern Nymph Lands, raised by their adopted father, Cherub, a wizard. Cherub arranged marriages for his daughters. One of them is Soleil, who married...

Muriel Finch and The Missing Key by Deborah Erdmann introduces us to Muriel, a sharp-eyed retiree who notices absolutely everything and has zero filters. Her peaceful retirement in Seaglass Cove takes a bizarre turn when a stranger (Norman) wakes up in her flowerbeds smelling like...

The Long Stall: Out of Phase, an intriguing science fiction story by Matt Rook, is a slow-burning narrative that offers a more mysterious take on a disturbance that is not from this world. Lucas’s family owned the Laguna Lodge near a lake, which had a...