Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers traces the interwoven paths of the Heber family and the Mì’kmaq during the French and Indian War. The story centers on the son, Christian, whose kidnapping becomes the doorway into a new family and a new identity. In his adopted...

In Cynthia L. Clark's Being Laramie Buchanan, after earning her art history degree in Boulder, Laramie Buchanan takes a gallery job while grieving the loss of her mother, Maggie, and the absence of Vick Varela, the man who vanished after asking her to follow him...

Life had been going well for young James Fields until his father died in 1984, when James was thirteen. Bills began to pile up, and since his mother’s meager salary could only cover so much, life became a tough struggle. They moved to Oakland in...

In When They Came Home by Terri Lewis, we follow Milton, a standard American farm boy whose life is split in two after he gets shipped off to the battlefields of Europe in 1918. He survives the fighting, but the terrifying sights and sounds follow...

In Mitchell Hadley’s The Book of Revelations, at age eight, Nan Jaffe loses her parents after one frightening night in Indianapolis. She is taken to Illinois by her grandparents, who rename her Robin and sever her past. Years later, she lives in San Francisco as...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

In Michael O’Neill’s Lilli’s Question, an idealistic seminarian encounters a young girl, Lilli Geisler, on a bus while backpacking through Europe. Their brief connection ends in Madrid, where Lilli asks the question that would haunt him throughout his life: “Why be a priest?” Jim McGann’s...

Green by Chuck LeGrande follows a quiet teen named Jamie, who flees his home in Queens after a confrontation with his father, carrying nothing but a hidden draft board letter and a book of drawings. His aimless wandering brings him to the rough edges of...

Nothing Left to Lose by Len Joy is a moving, multi-generational tale of love, loss, reconnection, and family. When Clover Lane was just a young teenager, she ran away and headed to the bright lights of San Francisco, to Haight-Ashbury, where the anti-war, summer-of-love, hippie...

Anne Shaw Heinrich's House of Teeth is set in the small town of Poulson, where the ending of one marriage begins pulling several families into the same orbit. Judy Saunders spends years trapped in a bitter relationship with truck driver John, while he quietly builds...