Who said competition must be fair? In Lethal Succession by Ruben Elustondo, John Whitney, CEO of Whitney Corporation, decides to retire when he is diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. To determine his successor, he sets a challenge for his right-hand man,...

In The Final Days of Wynter by Carolyne Lark Swayze, readers meet Wynter Lang, a tough, hundred-year-old woman whose comfortable life at a luxury retirement home north of Chicago gets turned upside down after a health scare. After surviving a near-death experience, Wynter decides to...

In Shards of Ember by Mitchell Lecoultre, Alexa is one of Elgion's dedicated Rangers, patrolling the untamed Eukarian Forest alongside her close friend and fellow ranger, Gilneas. Far from the safety of the growing frontier settlement, the pair rely on each other's experience and unwavering...

Echoes of the Forgotten Relics by J. Whitaker follows Gildan, a young hunter from the quiet village of Raven, who has always felt destined for something beyond the ordinary life his father expects him to live. After experiencing a haunting dream that urges him to...

Sparks by Jae follows Willow Greene, a reserved and socially awkward administrative employee whose unusual tendency to short-circuit computers and other electronics has earned her a reputation around the office. Her constant technical mishaps regularly bring her into contact with Scottie Prescott, a friendly and...

Isabelle Marsden, "Belle" to everyone, is thirty-four and running from a Chicago life that has hollowed her out. In The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski drops her, fresh out of a job, into a Kansas town chosen almost by accident: a...

Of Princes and Patriots: Chronicles of the Threlphax by Laura Lee Dooley is a fascinating historical novel of early Siam (Thailand) in 1864 that weaves an element of science fiction into the narrative. When Chanchai was just a young boy hiding in a sugarcane field...

In Ravi Ranjan Goswami’s Missing, we take a close look at Suresh, a young man in Orai overwhelmed by his family’s expectations. He has a university degree but no career path, which triggers a non-stop stream of cruel remarks from his mother. His family even...

Some people hit rock bottom. In Alaskan Humble Pie by Natasha Von Imhof, rock star Ryder Hartley hits it on stage, in front of a crowd, blanking out on the words of his own lyrics. He flees the stage only to run straight into a...

Raymond Hackney’s A Plea for Freedom follows Daniel Asbury, a fifteen-year-old farm boy in Bedford County, Virginia, as the Revolution reaches his family in 1777. After Judge Charles Lynch punishes two captured Tories beneath the walnut tree in New London, Daniel’s desire for liberty becomes...