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...

L.R. Merriman’s The Truth Dancer centers on Elenden deArthis, the isolated third son of a Northern noble family whose ability to perform truth dancing draws attention from hidden spiritual groups, Imperial authorities, and ancient enemies connected to the old elemental schools. After surviving an assassination...

Dead Man’s Gospel by Reno Bachman is a riveting psychological Western that introduces us to Timothy Gospel, a man scarred by violence since his childhood and who then, as an adult, inflicted it. Timothy is on the run, seeking sanctuary in the hills and forests...

Faithful Journeys: Sisterhood, Love, and Restoration by J. Ryenae is the story of four women, Jaquell, Nikki, Kyla, and Courtni, who shared an unbreakable bond of sisterhood in high school, a bond that is tested by the challenges of adulthood. Now they are adults, and...

In Joshua Becker’s Soul Mission, Ephraim teaches Spanish in Milwaukee while living with mental health issues that detach him from his wife Rachel, their young son Ari, and the ordinary rhythm of daily life. After horrifying visions connected to the Holocaust death camps begin pulling...

What if the major world religions didn't exist today? What if Adam and Eve had a deep discussion about the nature of God, ethics, morality, and religion? That is exactly what happens in Aaron Wilkosz's The Modern Universal Faith. Adam and Eve have advanced degrees,...

‘It’s a matter of degree, that’s all. We all prostitute ourselves when it suits us; we only differ in how far we’re prepared to go.’ Two stories for the price of one await readers in The Seven Stars, a novel by Simon Leighton-Porter. And in...

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...

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...

Breathe Easy by Tammy Donahue is a touching story about Ann Montgomery, who was brought up in the countryside of Southern West Virginia. She married her childhood sweetheart, Bobby, and just as they were celebrating that they were soon going to be parents, tragedy struck....