“The boy was an unknown, but Claire thought unknowns could eventually make something of themselves.” Of course she did, because Claire Benson, the protagonist of The Dyer Legacy by Albert Sipes, is goodhearted to a fault. The story begins when Claire narrowly escapes two would-be...

In Danila Botha’s A Place for People Like Us, Hannah meets Jillian during a night out and, after reconnecting in a university class, moves into her apartment, where their relationship centers on filming Jillian’s music and building a shared routine. While studying, Hannah is paired...

What if reincarnation were real? What if you could look back from the present to your past lives, but also see forward from the past? What if you could repay the karmic debts you left owing in your past lives? Nine Lives: A Soul’s Journey...

Shakespeare’s Vengeance by Ion Parreah opens in 1929 New York, where Thomas Barese, a former actor burdened by doubt and past choices, is drawn back into the theater by an unusual, secretive acting fraternity. The novel blends historical atmosphere with psychological tension, following Thomas as...

Recently divorced, jobless, and living in his sister’s house in Hollywood, California, thirty-year-old Robert Donegan was looking for any job to keep him afloat. When a friend refers him to a contact named Antonio, who is willing to pay him $3,000 to drive a removal...

In Ion Parreah’s The Cost of Knowing, after the death of his childhood friend Karen O’Neil and a public declaration that unsettles his parish, Father David Callaghan leaves Newcastle West and travels to Namibia in search of an answer to a question that has begun...

Gershwin’s Bess by Lisa K. Winkler follows the ascent of Anne Wiggins Brown, a gifted soprano moving from Baltimore to the intense, competitive music world of New York. Starting with her childhood performances for WWI soldiers, the narrative tracks her through the 1920s as she...

There is a sense of loneliness when reading Ana’s words as Confessions of a Female Dominant opens. Every page and every word reveals it in a multitude of ways. She is a woman desperate for something, which she cannot name, not while in Russia and...

Bernadette Gage’s A Beautiful Sunrise begins in rural Ipole, Nigeria. Young Abi attends school because her father, Pa Okoh, refuses to accept the customs that reserve education for boys. His decision sends her away from home while she is still a child, places her in...

The Music Room by Margaret Farrell Kirby centers on Cath, a fifty-two-year-old nurse who starts to feel like something in her life just isn’t working anymore. After losing her mother at a young age, she pushed aside her dream of becoming a writer, and now...