The Goat of Magalies: Home Is Where You Owe Something by Julian Redwood centers on Marie Botha, a deeply traumatized South African woman who is working as an English teacher in Taipei. Marie has spent most of her adult life running away from the dark...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

Public Record by Marc Hampson is about Elijah Wolfe, a CPA whose life is turned upside down. Elijah receives a call from attorney Martin Fenwick concerning a lawsuit filed against Elijah, his father, and his sister. The family did not know the plaintiff and had...

The House That Fire Built by Kirk Glaser is a collection of narrative poems that tells a story about family trauma. It follows a man who inherits his father’s house and moves in with his wife and daughter. His father died of cancer and left...

Tom Dom’s Dark Kitchen takes us into a rain-slicked city, where a silent, watchful host runs an anonymous, night-only spot hidden among deteriorating downtown buildings. It’s a mysterious restaurant that becomes a sanctuary for broken people—like an arrogant politician, a heartbroken woman, a panicked young...

In Mike Michalak’s gripping novel, My Name Is Davis, the world’s political landscape shatters when coordinated stealth air strikes target the military parades of foreign adversaries to instantly end the leadership regimes in North Korea, Russia, and China. With a modified emblem left behind to...

Life had not been easy lately for Ellena, an EMT based in Georgia. Her ex-husband, now in prison for embezzlement, had gambled their house away. And aside from losing her child at birth, she had also lost her EMT license over a mistake while on...

In Michelle Ian’s Shadows Are Falling, we follow Dr. Robert Qiu, a brilliant forensic pathologist who is carrying a lot of psychological trauma from his past. The nightmare begins in the quiet town of Fishbone, Montana, when a ten-year-old child named Benji Larsen is found...

The Thief and the Cursed Prince by B.A. Chapman follows Arantha Teely, a fearless tomb robber who breaks into a Maya tomb expecting gold. Instead of finding gold, she finds Balam, a six-hundred-year-old warrior-prince sealed away and cursed by a witch he once wronged. The...

Clara Whitmore, a solicitor’s assistant at the London firm of Dallow & Fiske, has been sent to Ravenscroft Hall, an estate in a remote village, to settle a will. She thinks it is a quick assignment, but has no idea how wrong she is. On...