At forty-eight, Melissa McNulty Fairmont lives paycheck to paycheck, working a day job in Los Angeles. As a fine artist, she also sells commissioned paintings on the side and dreams of becoming a full-time artist. Her mother and two sisters, with whom she has had...

A spy is caught in a dangerous web of secrets in Into the Shadows by R.M. Jerome. The novel is set just before WWII starts, during the rise of Nazi Germany. It begins with Ella Vogel, a young Swiss teacher, being recruited for a mission...

In Her Own Backyard by Ashley Hanna-Morgan is the story of clinical social worker Marlowe Moore, who is still dealing with a new birth when she is forced to investigate a cold case. She has a condition that causes panic attacks during breastfeeding. She also...

Daniel Ellrick's Interstellar Refugees Omnibus combines the three books in the trilogy into one. It follows poker-playing telescope jockey, Miharu Nakayama, who is thrust into a role she never imagined, becoming one of the most important people in the solar system. An arkship delivers 500,000...

In Infanticide by Christopher Everidge, Jacob arrives at Rose and Miles’s wedding slightly confused and very distraught. His name isn’t on the guest list, and the only woman he has ever loved is getting married to someone else. But Jacob has not come unprepared; he...

In Dottie Lee’s In the Mountain, a routine shift inside a secure mountain facility becomes a desperate fight for survival when a catastrophic collapse traps a small group of workers and visitors far below the surface. Forced into the darkness beneath the ruined structure, Paul...

Twenty-four-year-old Nina Brandt, a paralegal in Salt Lake City, Utah, is dissatisfied with her ordinary life. While her job paid the bills, she didn’t particularly love it. If only she were better at mathematics and didn’t wear glasses, she wouldn’t have abandoned her childhood dream...

Jill Carol’s Is It Someone You Know? starts with a crime that turned Levittown upside down when a young boy was found brutally beaten to death with a blunt object. The body was thrown in a trash bin, and it was the town’s first murder....

In Bad Faith by Geoffrey Carter follows the fortunes—and misfortunes—of Nelson West. Once a homicide detective in Chicago, West now works as a private investigator. When Lionel Bing hires him to investigate a large loan, West finds himself deep in a conspiracy that stretches from...

In J.E. Spina’s In a Second, Athena Stone wakes up in a hospital after a violent car crash during a storm and insists her boyfriend Justin was with her, though authorities claim she was found alone. As she recovers, fragments of memories surface that point...