A pair of red laces can carry a much darker meaning than anyone might expect. In Red Laces for Doc Martens by Anthony Pond, criminal defense attorney Ryan Jordan is assigned to represent Erickson, a jailed skinhead accused of a brutal stabbing on a California...

In Kenneth Bliss’ The Prodigy and the Telepath, we meet a young psionic named Eric D’Tra’val who’s overwhelmed by personal grief while also dealing with unpredictable, painful bursts caused by his psychic powers. His path intersects with Sarah, a newly awakened telepath who is similarly...

I Can See It In Your Eyes by J.R. Abella opens with a nameless predator who lures and murders a woman named Anna in New Orleans, and closes the loop later with a traveling salesman meeting the same fate at the same hotel. The title...

The Iron Vault by S.F. Baumgartner introduces readers to a high-stakes suspense story starring Navy Lieutenant Eli Mercer and forensic investigator Rosalie Tanaka. They’re brought together by a search for the truth behind the Blackwater offshore rig explosion, a disaster Eli needs to solve to...

Marc Hampson’s Solo throws readers into a heavy, emotional night in suburban Southern California during 2003. The plot centers on Alex, a nineteen-year-old musician who faces a heartbreaking betrayal when he learns that his band secretly dropped him right before a major show. Full of...

Grief can change a family, but sometimes the right person can help everyone begin finding their way forward. In Not My Child by Denise Jett, Charlotte is trying to figure out what comes next after losing her mother to cancer. The former first-grade teacher leaves...

The Lost Claim is the second book in The Mercer Files series by S.F. Baumgartner. At the Longreach offices' 1974 lease register, Lori Callahan, a contract archivist hired by the district, found an altered date with ties to her father's claim. Someone had messed with...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

The Secret of the Smiling Rock Man by Joe Cappello is a collection of 14 short stories that readers will enjoy. All the stories are built around characters his father used to describe as having “rocks in their heads,” people who refuse to settle for...

Ursula Bloom is the editor of a gutter rag with flagging sales. Desperate to have a win, she decides to print a fake news story about celebrity children’s author Emmie Hobson. The story starts small: a doctored image of an overweight child who died 30...