In Jared Morrison’s The Crossing, a struggling marketing executive, Ben Regan, looks back on the final year of his best friend, Taylor Thorne, a struggling screenwriter whose luck changes when a woman named Natalie Pierce shows up briefly at the corner of Sunset and Marmont,...

In Sedona by J.F. McCarney, the two main characters are Randall Jenkins III, known as Colt, and Meredith Slayton. Colt used to be a bronc rider, but after a riding accident, he started working with abused and feral horses. Meredith is the breadwinner in her...

Alec Taylor, the Chief Marketing Officer of Biodigm, a biotech start-up, thinks he is successful. At thirty-nine, he not only boasts an athletically toned body but also a house in one of Norwich’s affluent neighborhoods. He looks down upon overweight people and believes they’re lazy....

A. M. Linden’s novel, The Sheriff: The Druid Chronicles, Book Three, is a mix of intriguing historical fiction and fantasy, set in early medieval Britain in the eighth century. The story is set in two neighboring Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Atheldom and Derthwald. The central character is...

In To Die For by Audrey Steidl, Dei Fields immediately decides that Mika St. John is the boy she must have when he walks into class at McKinley High School. Mika is already dating someone, but that hardly matters to Dei. Mika has grown up...

The Catalysts 2: Silent Night by Joseph Guzzo is a delightful adventure tale featuring talking cats. Vic, his wife Claudia, and their son Luca are still celebrating the unexpected return of their previously terminally ill talking cat, Fatty. Alongside their other talking cat, Red, Fatty...

Monstrosity: Apartment Complex on Deadman Lane (Episodes 13–16) by KJ Walt throws Yoska Draper straight back into the madness of running a building that never gives him a moment’s peace. Paranormal trouble is rising fast, and the stairwell ghosts are causing havoc again, this time...

It has been more than a decade since the war began on Solara, a world of sprawling lands and isles. It was sparked after the Nightshade Empire, the government that rules most of Solara, launched a persecution campaign against Arcanists, people who can draw on...

If you are looking for a thriller with a lot of heart, Glorious Debris by Elisabeth Wathen is an excellent choice. The narrative introduces us to Ann Davenport, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who simply wants a peaceful life running her pier concessions and rental shop...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...