Hal Koufax, a veteran journalist for the Cincinnati Bugle, was still recovering from a near-death experience at the hands of Frank Miller, a gangster who was after a controversial list in Koufax’s possession. The list, strategically planted in Koufax’s way, not only had ties to...

Patient Zero by Dr. Emil Šabanović follows the stories of five patients as they navigate their struggles with the help of their therapists. A twenty-two-year-old woman suffering from DPDR slowly starts to overcome her dissociation with reality after some therapy sessions. Intrusive, violent thoughts plague a...

It is 1954. Ten years after she left for Stockton to start a new life, Althea Sparrow has just returned to Bear River, California, her hometown, to help her siblings run the family business and care for her aging father. However, she has no idea...

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...

After a hard time processing loss and change, Chance Cormac, an attorney and author, was now volunteering with the Immigrant Defense Project, filing habeas petitions for immigrants detained by ICE. His latest client is Lyla Abda, a Lebanese doctor on a visa, arrested and detained...

Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

Lies to Forever by Marlene M. Bell is a suspenseful murder mystery blended with romance. April Manning took leave from a firm of architects to look after her landlord, who was recovering from a major accident. But one day she found her landlord gone. An...

Misconstrue by Denise Forsythe propels you straight into Cassie Nichols’ reality, and it is not a comfortable place to be. Cassie has been incarcerated for nearly four years for her husband Jake’s death. She’s stuck inside Palmer Women’s Correctional Facility, while her son, Lucas, is...

In Steve C. Posner's Questioner, attorney Martin Bavarius takes on the defense of Mark Ryder after the shooting of fellow lawyer John Mudge. The case turns on a disturbing claim: Ryder believes the killing began inside QuestGame, a hyper-immersive virtual reality simulator. As Bavarius works...

Party of a Lifetime by Henry Corrigan follows Becca Longford as she heads back home from college, hoping a beach weekend with her old crew will make up for how badly their high school prom went. That prom night was horrible, marked by bullying, a...