In Opal by Jo Ann Kiser, Opal Beauleigh grows up beside Sarvis Creek in Kentucky with one ambition: becoming an artist. At fifteen, marriage to Wendell Ferguson takes her away from the home she knows, while his search for work carries their family farther from...

Valley High, Mountain Low by Ann Crawford tells the story of Mariella, who, after being married to her handsome, non-monogamous husband for more than a dozen years, decides she has had enough. During COVID-19 in 2020, she sneaks out of their lavish house in the...

Edmond Thornfield’s Atalanta of the Wild follows Atalanta, an Arkadian huntress raised in the mountain wilds, after the father who abandoned her returns seeking forgiveness. Lord Iásios invites her into the royal house of Tegea, where she meets siblings she once believed she would never...

Heritage Road by Zelmer Wilson follows Henry Ray Daniels, a forty-year-old aspiring author who completes a memoir about his pursuit of authorship after decades spent seeking publication. The manuscript identifies novelist Jasper Walker as his biological father, exposing Walker’s past relationship with Henry’s mother, Isabel...

Inside Henry Cato by Katharine English opens in present-day Manhattan, where a silver-haired man in a bespoke suit, Henry Cato, listens to the city’s footsteps from his studio, believing that his success story began in darkness. The story flashes back to 1960s rural Kansas, where...

In Elias Wynn: The Witness by Sebastian A. Guzman, we read about eighteen-year-old Elias Wynn, devastated by a rare autoimmune disease. After being hospitalized, Elias is sent home so that he can learn to understand his body’s new limitations. Elias notices a flyer promising restoration...

In Tessa Kinsela’s An Unconscious Choice of Chaos, fourteen-year-old Ashley Kelly starts Year Nine certain that every small decision can set off a much bigger result. She trusts the routines of her Queensland home and expects Landon State High School to feel just as familiar....

Hillbilly Monk’s Brisket Wisdom by Billy Monk brings us a really wild premise that perfectly blends rural American life with some heavy psychological exploration. The book follows Billy, an eccentric Oklahoma man who spends his days smoking meat, running an illegal still, and rambling about...

C.L. Rosario's Angel Letters of Esther follows Esther Consuelos, a Cuban-Italian Formula One publicist, and a lonely New York writer, Jan Luis Larose, who meet at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix. They discover their parents nearly fell in love in Ostia decades earlier. Believing their...

The Doubled Light by Tsung-Long Wu follows Elias Reeves, a salvager who makes his living picking through the aftermath of disasters out in the salt flats. One morning he comes across a scene with no explanation. A dozen people are dead with no wounds, no...