In Solace Enough by Brian A. Brooks, Austin and Helen move from Texas to New York and open a photographic studio. They begin a new life after years apart and tragic losses: his mother’s death due to ovarian cancer and her family’s deaths in a...

Robert Dyer’s A Small Memory is set in 1975 Ohio, where Mike arrives at Appleton College as a freshman basketball recruit and takes a live-in counselor job at a group home run through the HOPE Agency. Ted Dirksen, his best friend and roommate, already works...

The Last Poet on Wall Street by Michael Goodwin follows James Alexander, an exceptionally gifted young poet from rural Tennessee who abandons a Yale fellowship to chase riches in New York in the 1980s. Lark Campbell, someone James knew in college, recruits him, and James...

The Itch of the Middling Cat by R. S. Vern is for fans of literary fiction and novels about animals. Haee is a black cat with a crooked tail. Rescued by Tom and Jane when he was a kitten, Haee wants to be useful to...

The White Light Bends by Tiffany Blaine tells the story of four generations of women and their struggles to manage their relationships with others and accept past mistakes. Ruby, the matriarch, suffers from dementia, and her daughter-in-law, Margaret, tries to maintain a relationship with her...

In The Last Revision, Patrick Smith centers on an aging protagonist, Bill, who spends his days tracing the footsteps of his past while confined to an isolated room. Everything changes when the sudden arrival of a childhood journal forces him to look back at the...

American Gyro by Jim Zervanos follows eighteen-year-old Johnny Demos, the grandson of a Greek restaurateur in Kornfield, Pennsylvania, after a school play gives him a first taste of acting. Papou’s death leaves the Old Kornfield Inn in Uncle Nick’s hands, and Johnny is expected to...

In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

Kohōpeh’s Lotus, Mud, Blade is set in the Siamese city of Vimaya. Moo Hring is a guard whose kitchen knife and public daring make her feared across the market. She secretly loves Preah Ponhea Chan, a Khmer prince pressured by Governor Luang Borommanant to accept...