One Good Thing by Kate Kaminski starts with a parent’s worst nightmare when eight-year-old Janet disappears from a restaurant restroom. She is raised as Madeline in Pennsylvania, growing up into a normal adult with absolutely no memory of being kidnapped by the woman she calls...

After spending the greater part of his day contending with a broken toilet, Fares Khalil is certain his day cannot get worse. He immediately has to take that back when a mysterious meteor strikes New York City, and an unusual creature decides to empty its...

The Trojan Mare is an unusual poetic political satire by Marina Šur-Puhlovski. The story takes us to Yugoslavia, where we meet Rosalie, the youngest daughter of a well-to-do village cooper, and the compatriots she meets along her life path. We then follow Rosalie’s life for...

Some people leave your life but never completely leave your mind. In If I Had You by Paul G. O'Connor, Nick Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to County Clare, Ireland, before he starts college. He stays with his grandmother, Una, works at his cousin's pub, and...

In Carla Beene’s The Twin Within, our seventh-grade protagonist, Cassie Cortez, has a tough time navigating school in Santa Fe while dealing with cruel school bullies and the physical limitations of mild cerebral palsy. Although her parents provide her with a loving home, Cassie has...

It is the first year for fifty-seven-year-old John Crase as a private investigator after retiring from the Spokane Police Department as a police detective. He had left the service, looking for a fresh start from the monotony of death he dealt with. However, one phone...

In Herb Guggenheim’s The Goldbach Conjecture, Soleri College enters 2023 as an experimental public liberal arts school where students shape much of their education through pass/fail academic contracts. Its progressive culture has long welcomed students who see themselves as different, but Governor Randall Delago wants...

The Ashes of Us by Ashley Baker is a compelling novel. Very early one morning, Dr. David McCall, a clinical and anatomical pathologist, receives a strange phone call. He is informed that his nineteen-year-old daughter, Addison McCall, is in the hospital. She was assaulted. He...

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...

Joshua Gamon’s Marlowe House introduces an unforgettable alternate 1930s London controlled by a ruthless, all-seeing military police department. Agent Jack King is the model of perfect state obedience, carrying out gruesome orders without hesitation while living a very isolated life in the freezing metropolis. His...