In Ashes. Ashes. We Rise: The Velvet Warpath by Her Majesty Of Ink and Exit Wounds, the journey starts inside Velinwood Court, welcoming us into a fantasy kingdom shaped entirely by memory, lore, and the realm’s written files. The narrative centers on The Queen, a...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

A Third Tail by David Schecter is a delightful adventure story about two Scottish Terriers and their family. It's been a year since Piper and Mac last went to Grandma's. The two terriers live happily with their human mom, dad, and their twin children, Judy...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

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...

Robb Erwin’s A Refuge of Last Resort follows twenty-two-year-old Lorelei Rücker, a former wildlife student trapped in debt bondage at Saino-Blatt, a Florida consulting company built around corporate scams. Lorelei has hyperosmia, which lets her detect odors other people miss, but no warning prepares her...

The plan was simple: six-year-old Patrice Johnson was supposed to meet an untimely end, and Crossing, an aptly named crossing guard, was the one selected to chaperone Patrice to the afterlife. Crossing gets his assignment mixed up, and things go awry. Since Crossing needs to...

In Robert Lovinger’s The Flickering of Souls, Tiago Madeira tends the bar at the Truro Café in Cape Cod while rebuilding his life after cocaine use cost him his marriage and landed him in jail in Boston. When he begins volunteering at Gardner Hospice in...

In Ken Breniman's a three body solution, during a period of political collapse, Tâm, Chip, and TaDoo become internationally famous after presenting their committed thruple as a public alternative to fear-driven leadership and social isolation. Their rise begins with the MMMurphyBed, a futuristic invention that...