Lauren Lee Merewether’s The Thornwyck Rose is set in the Welsh Marches in 1085, where seventeen-year-old Seren ferch Madoc leaves her Welsh family to marry Norman Marcher Lord Henry de Thornwyck under an agreement meant to preserve peace along the border. Her new home is...

Dr Leroy Lowe’s The Black Stone and the Light is set in Galilee under Roman occupation, where Mary of Magdala grows up in a fishing village beside the Sea of Galilee. Her older brother Reuben, who teaches her to read the Law, carves a small...

In Benjamin Abravenel’s The Past, Again, Judah Cohen is a Santa Barbara boy whose childhood changes after he finds Holocaust photographs in his father Brian’s study and begins answering to James instead of his given name. As James grows older, he sets his sights on...

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...

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 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...

“The truth? It don't fit clean. Life don't work like no sermon or a newspaper headline. It's messy. It bleeds.” Life does these things and more, and messy can be an understatement as The Bible Of Blackwater County, a novel by Jenny Cafaro, clearly illustrates....

The Gospel of Caiaphas by Nicole Diamond Austin is a fictional telling of Joseph ben Caiaphas, who has always been infamously portrayed as presiding over the Sanhedrin trial of Jesus. Austin recreates Caiaphas, from childhood in a priestly household, to his rise as the high...

“This was the pattern—hope, creation, corruption, destruction. Always the same ending.” Painful failure and seven frightful creatures torment an aged Creator in The Lord's Canvas by Stephen Wayne. The story unfolds in an endless void, where nothing exists save a canvas of creation waiting to...