The Family Speaks by Kirk Ward Robinson is an extensive, multi-generational family saga that focuses on Blaize Speaks, a fiercely stubborn Appalachian matriarch with a terminal illness, and the children she raised in the poor town of Bilbo, Tennessee. The story follows the fractured lives...

Dan Helpingstine’s The Boy Next Door follows the decade-long romantic entanglement of Don Hathaway and Alice Roland, his former English teacher, starting from the moment at the funeral of Don’s firefighter father, when the two first lock eyes across the graveside, to the local hullabaloo...

In Twisted Flip, we meet Katelyn again, the star of the Home Renovator Mystery series by M. E. Bakos. Newly married and somewhat at a loose end in the mansion she now shares with her husband, Don, and Boots the cat, Katelyn decides to buy...

The Itch of the Middling Cat by R. S. Vern is for fans of literary fiction and novels about animals. Haee is a black cat with a crooked tail. Rescued by Tom and Jane when he was a kitten, Haee wants to be useful to...

In The Last Revision, Patrick Smith centers on an aging protagonist, Bill, who spends his days tracing the footsteps of his past while confined to an isolated room. Everything changes when the sudden arrival of a childhood journal forces him to look back at the...

The Letter is a prequel novel from the McLaren Mysteries series by Jo A. Hiestand. Barry Grady is an archaeologist whose humdrum life turns upside down when he receives a letter from his crush telling him that she has married someone else. Soon, Barry leaves...

Imagine a situation where humankind stands at an evolutionary crossroads. The question becomes whether it is ready for the next step. Paul Anthony explores this significant theme in The Awakening of Humanity. He outlines humanity’s prior contact with an advanced civilization from another world. This...

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...

Can a near tragedy eventually lead to love? In Two Hearts’ Ambush by Tamara Ferguson, Lara Loughlin, a rising rock star who performs under a stage name, has returned to her hometown of Crystal Rock for a break from her busy life. She’s hoping to...

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...