Descendants of the Big House by C. Vonzale Lewis is a darkly lyrical novella that fuses family legacy, buried trauma, and the supernatural into a taut, gripping mystery. We’re with Beatrice Monroe, who is a law enforcement officer grappling with a powerful ancestral gift. She...

The Testers: The Poison Remembers by Gene Scott is a riveting dual-timeline thriller that spans centuries and continents, stitching together Tudor intrigue and modern-day pharmaceutical corruption. We first find ourselves in 1521, where Thomas Tester, a royal wine taster at Hampton Court, uses his family’s...

The Iris Code by Anita Dickason plunges readers into the heart of a chilling mystery. Journalist Riley Phillips discovers a corpse on a canine training exercise, only for the body to vanish shortly after. Armed with her camera, her crime-scene instincts, and a tenacious cadaver...

In Empire of Ache & Ruin, book one in the Empire of Ruin series by Diana A. Hicks, Tristan “Archer” Sallows returns to New York after years of exile, bent on bringing down the man who destroyed his family. Maurice Davis, the powerful senator who...

Morgan’s Landing by Linda Griffin is a tightly plotted, atmospheric mystery set in a seemingly quiet Maryland town. We find ourselves in a small town, shattered by the disappearance of 14-year-old Julie Morgan. When she vanishes on her way to school, suspicion spreads like wildfire,...

The Horseless Horsemen: Germaine by Ross C Miller is the third book in the series. The story follows Germaine, a young girl who is caught in things that are far too dark and dangerous for her. Growing up, she had no idea that one day,...

Michael Golvach’s latest novel, Runt, follows a series of four noir crime thrillers starring the enigmatic lead character, Payden Beck, a police department detective with the intuitive sense of Sherlock Holmes and the moral instincts of a cat, who is independent in the extreme, but...

Edelweiss by Lloyd Hall is a young adult romance set in a post-apocalyptic world where the protagonist battles some internal struggles. The story opens centuries after a global flood reshaped Earth. Life in the snowy, isolated town of June seems idyllic, at least on the...

The Furnace by Timothy S. Johnston introduces us to Lieutenant Kyle Tanner, a no-nonsense homicide investigator recruited by the Security Division of the Confederate Combined Forces (CCF). This mesmerizing tale takes place in 2401, in the far reaches of outer space, where Tanner's most recent...

David R. Beshears' Broken Sky is a survival story about a group of people living in the middle of nowhere on a barren planet. Mannie Alvarez used to be a third-grade teacher when he was inexplicably snatched and brought to this world with an alien...