The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

In Patrick C. Notchtree’s The Two Pink Sheep, Ethan Robson grows up in Bilthaven with the memory of Mark Martin, a school friend whose death teaches him how dangerous secrecy can become. At Thirlham University, Ethan meets James Boyle, an Irish history student whose family...

In The Kennedy Rule: On Thin Ice (Book 1) by K.C. Carmichael, Connor Kennedy is one of hockey’s brightest stars and a talented center for the Chicago Broad Wings. He is also pressured to live up to his father’s legacy as a former player and...

Justin is a young sales rep living in New York City and desperately missing his family back home. On a long weekend, one of his colleagues, Trevor, sensing his loneliness, invites Justin to join him at a cabin in the Catskills. Justin has had a...

The Lemon House Murders by Tucker May follows Francis, a nineteen-year-old young adult, who is sent to the Lemon House, an all-male rehabilitation center, by his religious parents. However, Francis is not a drug addict; his parents believe he has a different kind of “problem”...

There Will Be Other Summers by Tegan Anderson is a hauntingly beautiful LGBTQ novel about courage and accepting oneself despite what others say. When Asher and Ryn meet in group therapy, they both feel a shift within themselves. Ryn can’t see her, but he can...

The Color of Our Names by Mahitab Mahmoud follows the lives of four characters trying to navigate identity, faith, and secrecy between Egypt and the United States. Fareed, a 34-year-old man still living with his conservative family in Alexandria, finds fragile moments of freedom at...

Twine is a murder mystery novel by Joshua Senter. Farnas Elsemore thought he had everything figured out in his life. Owner of The Hudson County Courier newspaper in the rural town of Success, Missouri, Farnas had learnt to navigate the casual homophobia directed against him...

Paolo G. Grossi’s The Kaminsky Symphony is a riveting and compelling novel that begins in 1913, in Italy, and continues through the political upheavals in Russia in 1917, and briefly through WWI. The principal character is Maestro Carlo Alberto Mandelli, Count of Castagnino, Milan. In...

When King Madrick I and Queen Fionella of Masor decided to walk into the woods to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary, they had no idea it would be their last. The news of their demise, a few weeks later, leaves their kin—Prince Madrick II and...