Tsung-Long Wu’s Entropy Gate follows Chen Ya-Lin as she maintains a structured lifestyle to survive a deep, silent grief that has lasted for fifteen years. Her home runs on a strict schedule, which keeps her focused and prevents her from looking back at her late...

In T. N. R. Rogers’s Life Is Everywhere, Sand Hargrove remains in Iowa after Lafay accepts a dance-teaching post in Baton Rouge and eventually takes their young son Joby with her. Sand has never recovered from the death of their infant daughter Rachel, so knowing...

True North’s Anasazi Vision follows True after she spends a year caring for her severely ill mother, whose death leaves her unable to stay in the empty Southern Oregon house. True returns to the Four Corners region and prepares for a ten-day vision quest at...

Residents in a modest group home face financial ruin in Sebastian Grey’s heartwarming Merry Band of Misfits. Agnes Cartwright, a benefactor of the Murphy Family’s house, dies, and her daughter, Charity, cancels Garth’s monthly stipend and moves to have him declared incompetent. This could mean...

Igor Stefanovic’s The Seven follows Abraham Meyer, a dying widower in Jerusalem who summons his seven adult children after a chaotic birthday party aboard the family yacht. Abraham gives each child an assignment. Each must travel to a different continent and return with a sculpture...

Clifton Wilcox’s The Black Ledger of Salem follows Eliza Harrow, whose father, Nathaniel Harrow, brings the family to Salem after leaving Andover in search of work and lodging. The town is already caught in a witchcraft panic when the Harrows arrive. The men on the...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

In Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint, Sarah Wu is a Boston neurosurgeon whose family is caught in a global rupture of time. Strange signals appear in hospital EEGs just as public reports describe birds freezing in the air and airplanes flickering midflight. When the sky...

In Solace Enough by Brian A. Brooks, Austin and Helen move from Texas to New York and open a photographic studio. They begin a new life after years apart and tragic losses: his mother’s death due to ovarian cancer and her family’s deaths in a...

Linda C. Wisniewski’s Time is a Pilgrim is set in 1830 Podhale, where Regina arrives in Biały Kot to help her daughter Marianna through childbirth as the halny, a destructive mountain wind, sweeps the villages. The baby, Halina, is born with a red mark across...