Annie Dike crafts a story about what remains when the ground gives way in this big-hearted saga of trauma and grit. Clovis tells the story of Calliope “Callie” Potts, which begins with a prologue in which her brother Jude’s little sandcastle washes away in the...

Martha Conway’s novel, We Meet Apart, is a deeply haunting historical novel interwoven with intriguing speculative fiction and supernatural elements. The story, set in 1940 during WWII, has two concurrent timelines. In one timeline, Ireland is a free, neutral country. In a second timeline, the...

Mark Guillerman pens a sweeping historical novel in A Heart That’s True, set in the aftermath of the 19th-century Indian Wars. The novel follows two Lakota children, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross, named Blue Thunder at birth, and his cousin, White Cloud, as they are ripped away...

In J.R. Thibeault’s Michael’s Loop, fourteen-year-old Michael Wilson moves with his mother, Linda, away from Toronto to Southford, a small town hollowed out by closed businesses and a shrinking school. Basketball earns him a place at Eastgate, where he meets Jessica, a history-loving girl most...

True North’s Anasazi Vision follows True after she spends a year caring for her severely ill mother, whose death leaves her unable to stay in the empty Southern Oregon house. True returns to the Four Corners region and prepares for a ten-day vision quest at...

Residents in a modest group home face financial ruin in Sebastian Grey’s heartwarming Merry Band of Misfits. Agnes Cartwright, a benefactor of the Murphy Family’s house, dies, and her daughter, Charity, cancels Garth’s monthly stipend and moves to have him declared incompetent. This could mean...

Igor Stefanovic’s The Seven follows Abraham Meyer, a dying widower in Jerusalem who summons his seven adult children after a chaotic birthday party aboard the family yacht. Abraham gives each child an assignment. Each must travel to a different continent and return with a sculpture...

Clifton Wilcox’s The Black Ledger of Salem follows Eliza Harrow, whose father, Nathaniel Harrow, brings the family to Salem after leaving Andover in search of work and lodging. The town is already caught in a witchcraft panic when the Harrows arrive. The men on the...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

In Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint, Sarah Wu is a Boston neurosurgeon whose family is caught in a global rupture of time. Strange signals appear in hospital EEGs just as public reports describe birds freezing in the air and airplanes flickering midflight. When the sky...