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...

Robert Brighton's The Mosquito God follows Hannah Black, a covert agent for Secretary of State John Hay, when President Theodore Roosevelt sends her to Panama to help secure the United States' control of the Panama Canal. Hannah poses as the wife of Maximilien Bellefonte, a...

I Wasn’t Ready to Lose You by Brady E. McGiffin is a thought-provoking exploration of grief. Asher lost his grandpa, E.R., at the tender age of nine. Ever since then, he has lived with an otherworldly silence. Shortly after his grief began, he felt...

Schrödinger’s Faith by Bob Seay follows Jonah, a weary high school English teacher navigating a huge personal and professional crisis in Memphis. His life is turned upside down when his school gives him a harsh choice regarding what he's allowed to teach—just when local politics...

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 When They Came Home by Terri Lewis, we follow Milton, a standard American farm boy whose life is split in two after he gets shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in 1918. He survives the fighting, but the terrifying sights and sounds follow...

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...

Somewhere Between Death and Dreaming by Christopher Sartin dives into the shadowy corners of life. The collection muses on death—it gets tangled up in betrayal, regret, guilt, and that unsettling urge for something darker. You get haunting stories: palm prints appearing where they shouldn’t, a...

In Diane Hester’s The Fortress of Us, after her mother dies suddenly in their Adelaide kitchen, eight-year-old Kelsey Haslett moves with her father, Ryan, to rural Port Lincoln, where a tree house becomes the hiding place for Molly, a silent child she has smuggled from...