Carissa Carmichael owns an apothecary/aromatherapy business in a small town. Today, at the Oak Creek Valley Playwright Conference and Festival, she is manning her booth as well as helping at Jasper’s booth, because he is ill. Unfortunately, his staff member, Lacie, is also working Jasper’s...

Mrs Barnes by Gwyn Bennett is a fast-paced thriller starring Mrs Barnes, a diligent housewife devoted to her family. Once an ambitious career woman filled with passion for her publisher job, all she does now is worry about her teenage daughter, Liv, and her husband...

Antonio Heron’s Prince of Clovers follows Axel Redwood, a Barrier Patrol soldier from the isolated Rependum, after attacks by monstrous soldiers called Sagalis expose a secret hidden behind the giant quartz barriers surrounding his world. Axel learns that the barriers separate different timelines of Rependum...

In One of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin, we follow Sterling, a mother who has spent decades putting on a brave face to protect her children from their cold, calculating father, Keith. On the outside, her life in a wealthy New York suburb looks...

Bunny, The Hidden Record by Her Majesty of Ink and Exit Wounds is set in Velinwood Court, where the Queen has withdrawn from the throne. Bunny shows us the strange world that's been formed, walking us through preserved hidden chambers and others in strange use....

In Andrew Higgins's Murder Most Necessary, after inheriting a house in the Mourne Mountains town of Killnakree, following the death of her aunt Clodagh Sutton, Belfast librarian Demelza Blaine leaves her former life behind and accepts a position at the local newspaper owned by Natasha...

The Piper's Wake by Sierra Storm follows Carmen, a young woman living a lonely, rigid life out in the soggy, fog-laden woods of Batriva. While her very strict witch-hunting grandmother raises her with careful intent, Carmen secretly dreams of escaping her tedious chores to build...

In Looking for Henry Turner by W.L. Liberman, Mo and Birdie, Gold Investigations’ partners, have several tasks to complete. When the story opens, they have just located a card dealer, employed by a local racketeer, John Fat Gai, dead in an alley. Gold’s brother, Eli,...

Truth and The Hallow by W. L. Brooks is a fantasy which centers on Ven Lee, a girl who chooses to go back to her hometown, Ingrid Hallow, a mystical town governed by magic laws and full of mythical creatures. Ven felt like an outcast...

Spiral by Randy Dean Noble is an action-packed, gory horror story about a man’s quest to save humanity from depraved game masters intent on murdering the innocent to further their warped worldviews. When he first wakes up in a strange car with a deformed creature...