Echoes of the Forgotten Relics by J. Whitaker follows Gildan, a young hunter from the quiet village of Raven, who has always felt destined for something beyond the ordinary life his father expects him to live. After experiencing a haunting dream that urges him to...

There Be Dragon by Michael Tars follows Kwe, a highly trained agent, whose final mission ends in disaster when he's caught in an explosion and seemingly dies. Instead of waking up in a hospital, he finds himself in the snowy kingdom of Kalador, where three...

Sparks by Jae follows Willow Greene, a reserved and socially awkward administrative employee whose unusual tendency to short-circuit computers and other electronics has earned her a reputation around the office. Her constant technical mishaps regularly bring her into contact with Scottie Prescott, a friendly and...

All That Was Left Unsaid by Danielle Dragona is a compelling, heart-rending, and deeply emotional portrayal of love, betrayal, family dynamics, and secrets left untold. Katrina Johnson, at seventy years old, is at a crossroads. Her beloved husband Sam has just died of cancer. She...

Isabelle Marsden, "Belle" to everyone, is thirty-four and running from a Chicago life that has hollowed her out. In The Utterly Unacceptable Atrocity of Isabelle Marsden, Nan Sanders Pokerwinski drops her, fresh out of a job, into a Kansas town chosen almost by accident: a...

Of Princes and Patriots: Chronicles of the Threlphax by Laura Lee Dooley is a fascinating historical novel of early Siam (Thailand) in 1864 that weaves an element of science fiction into the narrative. When Chanchai was just a young boy hiding in a sugarcane field...

In Ravi Ranjan Goswami’s Missing, we take a close look at Suresh, a young man in Orai overwhelmed by his family’s expectations. He has a university degree but no career path, which triggers a non-stop stream of cruel remarks from his mother. His family even...

Some people hit rock bottom. In Alaskan Humble Pie by Natasha Von Imhof, rock star Ryder Hartley hits it on stage, in front of a crowd, blanking out on the words of his own lyrics. He flees the stage only to run straight into a...

Raymond Hackney’s A Plea for Freedom follows Daniel Asbury, a fifteen-year-old farm boy in Bedford County, Virginia, as the Revolution reaches his family in 1777. After Judge Charles Lynch punishes two captured Tories beneath the walnut tree in New London, Daniel’s desire for liberty becomes...

Eric Bush’s The Meaning of Androsia is an epic odyssey that follows Ilya Erynovich Koskayin, also known throughout his two-thousand-year-old life by thirty different names. He wakes up in a train station with no memory, yet his instinct brings back skills and knowledge that can...