In Gary A. Keith’s The Mansions on Woodlawn Boulevard, Google executive Ted Jenkins decides that the grand homes lining his historic West Austin street deserve single-digit addresses that match their stature. His proposal draws the neighbors together, yet a routine look at old property records...

The Reliable Narrator by Grace Sammon follows Darby Small as she struggles to survive. Darby is a ghostwriter living quietly in Croton-on-Hudson who has spent her entire life becoming invisible. It first started in her own family, then in the pages of other people's books....

In Craig Rostron’s Dogleg, Cole travels to Kauai to scatter his father’s ashes from the seventeenth hole of the golf course his father loved, inviting his old college friend Hayes along under the guise of a golfing reunion. What begins as a private mission expands...

Where Is Karl? by Karolis Vydmantas is about the immense struggles and wild adventures of a man named Karl. Moving to the United States as foreigners proved quite hard for Karl and his family, but they managed to get by somehow. He was introduced to...

In Curt Canfield’s The Errors of Mankind, retired Marine Will Barnes sets out to trace his mother’s German ancestry and discovers Johann Knoske, a ninety-one-year-old relative who once served in the Waffen-SS. Their meetings draw Will beyond family genealogy as he begins testing Johann’s account...

Identical twins Norma and Ofelia Castillo have spent their lives moving through the world as a pair, until adulthood pulls them in different directions. When Ofelia begins changing her body, Norma chooses a college in Long Beach, creating a distance that extends beyond geography. There,...

Alex Morton’s sweeping historical fiction novel, We Are Not Yours, pulls us headfirst into the dark times of a 1970s right-wing military dictatorship on the remote island of Mythos. At the heart of the story is Perdiki, a famous rebel composer who escapes state captivity...

In Steven Nimocks’s Severance, Elias Reynor is an investigator with the Neural Compliance Division in 2747 SoundCore, where implants regulate feeling and public order depends upon citizens remaining within approved limits. Nine years of exceptional service have made Elias a strong candidate for promotion, with...

Entangled Frequencies by Long Temple follows Maya, Zaria, Imani, and Nia, four successful Black women whose lives intersect through a close group chat named Frequency. While managing high-powered careers in the city, their controlled lives are upended when they join Sync’d, a behavioral dating app...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...