Jack Rife’s In the Heart of the Beast is set in Austin in the final days of 1976, where Michael Claiborne Duval has inherited a family mansion while running Duval-O’Duggan, an underground marijuana operation with a regional network. Michael has promised military weapons to Lenín...

Mitch Russo’s Sacred Crossroads follows Noble Manning, a sixty-year-old hardware-store owner in Cedar Springs, Massachusetts, whose life has been built around routine and measurable facts. Strange shadows begin appearing inside Manning’s Hardware, then objects shift in ways Noble cannot explain. When his daughter Sarah returns...

Nataliya Falevich’s Velvet Blade follows Azarêa, a merchant’s daughter raised beside an ancient fig tree as heat begins connecting the girl to women who came before her. Her mother secretly teaches Azarêa to read memory in oil, while elderly Teta Shira offers understanding of the...

In William Amos’s The Seed of Joy, American Peace Corps volunteer Paul Harkin arrives in South Korea in 1979, where he falls in love with Han Mi Jin, an English teacher involved in the democracy movement. Their relationship comes under pressure when Mi Jin’s parents...

I Was Angry & Now I’m At Peace by Ray Toy centers on Tybalt, a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical journalist and artist who is fighting to stay afloat amid severe emotional dysregulation. Written as a sequence of intimate journal entries, the book tracks Tybalt’s attempts to heal...

The Ninth Life of Missy by Raj Shankar follows May Calloway, a twenty-three-year-old sitting in a half-packed Greenport apartment, days away from a one-way move to Ireland. Her carefully closed-off world is turned upside down when her rescue cat, Missy, suddenly starts talking to her...

In Fractured: The Other Side, author David W Hadley presents a harrowing portrait of a father trying to maintain order while his wife undergoes a full psychological and physical collapse rooted in unaddressed trauma. The mother’s abrupt behavioral shift triggers horrific road-based hallucinations, unmanaged seizures,...

The Last Pirouette: A Novel in Three Acts by Janette DeFelice is an artistically crafted work of literary fiction, chronicling Delia and her mother, Victoria. Victoria’s dreams have always dominated Delia’s life. Having failed as a dancer, Victoria returns to her small hometown and takes...

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....