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...

Warwick Gleeson's Torment Becomes Them delivers a spellbinding meld of fantasy and historical fiction. The story opens in the Bukhtarma River Valley as the greatest Kazakh magician, Zolo Bold, watches his democratic revolution crushed by black warlock Arislan Gur’s conjured rain of giants. His struggles...

William J. McCoy and his wife, Olivia (Liv), are celebrating that they’re going to be parents. But on the drive home, the car blows a tire, and Liv is killed. William wakes up in the hospital totally bereft. He receives a visit from an odd...

In Adrian Cox’s The Day of Knights, Graham Kelly is a Perth data-entry worker who loves medieval history but has no one to share it with. His colleagues dismiss his interests, his evenings are solitary, and his mother, Patricia, treats every call as a demand...

In Adrian Cox’s The Vessel, Isaac Valdez is a laboratory technician aboard a generation ship whose High Stewards teach that every conclusion must remain open. His sister Aurora, confined by a terminal illness, directs his experiments from a room and believes their research may reveal...

In J.M. Woodward’s The Holding, thirteen-year-old Anna and her nine-year-old brother Simon live between their mother’s crowded family home and their father’s basement apartment in central-southern Ontario. Anna finds relief at the barn with Bravo, the horse she rides, while Simon spends every permitted minute...

Set in the Caribbean in 1780, S.R. Staley’s The Pirate of Panther Bay follows Isabella, a young Creole woman who escaped a sugar plantation on Santo Domingo before becoming captain of La Marée Rouge, the armed brig once led by her mentor Jacob the Red....

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...

There Be Dragon by Michael Tars follows Kwe, a highly trained agent, whose final mission ends in disaster when he's caught in an explosion and seemingly dies. Instead of waking up in a hospital, he finds himself in the snowy kingdom of Kalador, where three...