In the continent of Riolta, lustite is a useful mineral that’s always in demand. However, man-made schemes and inhuman horrors fill the mines’ depths. Nicolas Brennan lives blissfully unaware of all this, despite ruling the kingdom of Myren. As the “Daft King,” Nic stays in...

The Picture Business: Stories About the People Who Make the Movies is an insider’s look at Hollywood. In it, best-selling author Elaine Kagan, who is also a film and television actress, uses her firsthand experience in show business as the template for her fictional (though...

In Jared Morrison’s The Crossing, a struggling marketing executive, Ben Regan, looks back on the final year of his best friend, Taylor Thorne, a struggling screenwriter whose luck changes when a woman named Natalie Pierce shows up briefly at the corner of Sunset and Marmont,...

A. M. Linden’s novel, The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three, is a mix of intriguing historical fiction and fantasy, set in early medieval Britain in the eighth century. The story is set in two neighboring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Atheldom and Derthwald. The central character is...

In To Die For by Audrey Steidl, Dei Fields immediately decides that Mika St. John is the boy she must have when he walks into class at McKinley High School. Mika is already dating someone, but that hardly matters to Dei. Mika has grown up...

The Catalysts 2: Silent Night by Joseph Guzzo is a delightful adventure tale featuring talking cats. Vic, his wife Claudia, and their son Luca are still celebrating the unexpected return of their previously terminally ill talking cat, Fatty. Alongside their other talking cat, Red, Fatty...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...

The Fall of Gold by Rebecca Thompson follows Sloane Nash, a talented baker doing whatever she can to save enough money for her mother’s cancer treatment, even if that means taking humiliating side jobs like performing as Jessica Rabbit at a mafia family party. Unfortunately...

At twenty-two, Carter and Christian, childhood friends turned lovers, are graduating from Northern Arizona University. Carter surprises Christian with a marriage proposal on the same day but is left shocked and devastated when Christian turns him down. He heads to Boston, where he had planned...