The Violin begins with a visit to the home of the reclusive and elderly Elise Knight. When Lucy arrives to check on Elise, she strikes up a conversation with a fellow Chapel Grove resident and hears a tale unlike any she’s heard before. In 1871,...

David R. Beshears' The Caravan follows the story of a close-knit group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic America. Human civilization has fallen. Cities have been abandoned, while different groups of marauders have claimed various small territories for themselves. The Carver family caravan in the Northern...

Willow Rose by M. Kevin Hayden follows Alder, a debt-ridden and troubled emergency physician on the verge of burnout. In the backdrop, a strange comet, Comet Goodwin, throws the world into an unexpected twist of events. That night, Alder drives home after an exhausting shift...

In Unquiet Forest by Juliet Rose, an elderly woman named Margaret Blankenship intentionally set a building ablaze but was saved by firefighters. Margaret insisted they allow the structure to burn down, claiming it held evil forces. A group of eight children aged thirteen to fifteen...

A King’s Ransom by Jeffrey D. Parfitt takes place in a rough, unpolished version of Los Angeles. It follows the lives of Holly Ransom and her family of retired assassins as they’re reluctantly pulled back into an underground war between vampire cartels, corrupted syndicates, and the...

In Adam Wilson's Whispers of the Unseen Watcher, twelve friends are packed into a rental van as they journey to a cabin nestled in the woods. With graduation just weeks away, this trip marked their last escape before facing various deadlines. Having been friends since...

It had only been six months since Margo, an accountant in Chicago, met Sam Wailing, yet she had agreed to marry him and follow him back to Iowa to meet his parents. All Margo hopes for is that Sam’s family will accept her. But she...

In Shiny Happy Psycho by Stacy Walsh, thirty years ago, a group of friends at the Rockway High School called themselves the Rockway Five. Their peers knew them; they had beauty and brains and were athletic. Two members of the group were found murdered in...

In R.K. Jack's The Mist from Beyond, Dorothy and her fellow sorority members at Arizona State University decided to conduct a Wiccan-style ritual to summon the Damned on a Saturday evening. They all thought it would simply be an innocent initiation for their newest sister,...

Nicolas Portinari seemed to have it all as a vampire: fame, fortune, love, and eternal youth, but he has never lost his desire to live as a human. He and Giuliana, his soul mate, were linked by love, blood, and five hundred years together. However,...