All Things Green by John Westren is a story on two levels. Jack Adams has a major problem to solve, which will impact his life and that of his family, who depend on him. He has promised to defend the pharmaceutical company he works for...

A Life Worth Living by Don Lehmkuhl follows the story of an eccentric professor and his young protégé over the course of two decades. Kameron Burkhardt attended Saint Augustine's University in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 1980s. With youthful vigor, Kameron delved into university life...

A Dangerous Friendship by Robin Merle is a novel about grief, obsession, and the strange hunger for connection after loss. The narrator, Tina, begins the story in emotional turmoil, newly divorced and exhausted by a series of endings. Seeking distraction and a reset, she throws...

A Brief History of Wasting Time by Gary C McAuley follows Cyrus, a man who decides that doing as little as possible will govern his days after finishing a long-postponed physics book. He stays indoors, organizes his hours around television, minor contests, and talk, then...

After the Quiet: Stories to the Edge and Back by Carl Lakeland is a tightly constructed collection that examines moments when ordinary lives brush up against violence, moral fracture, and irrevocable choice. Across its interconnected stories, the book moves through intelligence work, personal loss, and...

A World of Slanted Light by Marvin Brauer is a delightfully clever and warm coming-of-age story set in the harsh environment of 1960s coal country in Congress, West Virginia. Marty Barber is a sensitive fifteen-year-old growing up in a town committed to their one industry...

A Foolish Proposal by Kasey Stockton is the first book in the Regency series, The Gentlemen’s Gamble. What started as a foolish bet among friends, when survival was uncertain, became a serious wager that Tristan Shepherd could not afford to lose. He had to find...

A Modern Odyssey by Aaron T. Knight is a supernatural drama about making a deal with the devil. Frank Fowler finds himself the sole survivor of a plane crash caused by a storm, washed up on a beach, and face-to-face with the devil, who calls...

A Life in Too Many Margins by S.E. Thomson is a bittersweet LGBTQ+ story of a young person torn between their birth gender and their absolute certainty that they were male, not female. David is also plagued by several pain-filled disorders and conditions, such as...

Against the Wind is a historical romance by Ann Nolder Heinz set during the American Civil War, when the Union fought the Confederacy. It takes place in 1863 and 1864, during which the author unravels the lives of Lieutenant Carl Fielding and his betrothed, Gwendalyn...