In Larry Lentchner’s I Should Have Known Better, retired social worker Phil Green looks back across five decades at his recurring connection with Sheila Allenberg, the woman he first meets at an Alphabet City party during the Sixties. Their attraction begins almost instantly, yet Phil’s...

In A Bitten Plant by Liz Fyne, 29-year-old Camille Baker watches her entire world unravel almost immediately after arriving in a new metropolis. She leaves Montana for the big city and lands a job at Farms Al Fresco, an advanced indoor farming facility. Her new...

In J.M. Erickson’s Deadly Going Dark, ten-year-old David Strong lives in the Great Third Republic, a future America rebuilt after environmental collapse into sealed habitats divided by caste. Born into the ruling patrician class, David is expected to enter military school and uphold the social...

Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr.’s The Sedona Rift follows private investigator Griffin Knight after photographer Lena Petrova witnesses an impossible green flash near Cathedral Rock while searching for her missing brother, Mikhail. At the scene, Griffin’s Smart Goggles detect unfamiliar residue and a repeating signal inside...

In Çağlar Bingöl’s Longing, we follow an Indigenous woman named Hehewuti and her grandson, Huka, through a series of very dramatic historical events. The backdrop is a cold, dangerous frontier where military raids fracture families. After her first home is destroyed by soldiers, young Hehewuti...

In M. Ainihi’s Patchwork, readers are plunged into a grim fantasy realm alongside a solitary outcast named Patricia. She finds a brass key in a mundane thrift shop. This magical item unlocks a gateway into Knowhere, a ruined, decaying landscape that actually resembles a shattered...

It is the start of the MotoGP season, and thirty-two-year-old Catarina Navarro has just received the worst news: her father’s cancer is back. His condition is confirmed to be fatal. Catarina is currently working for twelve-time MotoGP champion, thirty-six-year-old Vince Vasquez, as his P.A., assistant...

Students and Secrets, Another Murder by Christa Nardi follows an intuitive academic who must use her sharp observational skills to solve a campus tragedy. Sheridan Hendley’s simple trip to visit her stepdaughter Maddie becomes a nightmare when 23-year-old Neal Fox is found beaten to death...

Rustwater by J.G. Macdonald brings wedding photographer Jane Dougherty to a small Arizona town, filling in for her cousin who’s won a prize but can’t attend the ceremony. The first things she sees are the red fountain on Main Street and Greer’s Books & Little...

Rodger Fooks’ Where the Feather Falls follows Leo Yonge, a London AI specialist who leaves work for the Greek island of Paxos after becoming uneasy about systems designed to influence human behavior. Hoping for distance from technology that predicts people too well, Leo settles into...