The Vatican Deal by Michael Balter is part of the Marty and Bo thriller series. Marty and Bo are back with a bang, and this time they are on their way to Italy. They need to close a multi-million-dollar deal with the Vatican, but things...

Tears of Iemanjá by Kiva Wolfe moves between Brazil, Hong Kong, and Colorado. The story opens with a failed museum theft in Salvador, Brazil, involving a stolen jeweled crucifix and a journal that triggers a chain of dangerous events. Then we move to Dominick Stanovic,...

The Crossing by Adrian Cox is the story of a young woman struggling to survive the baggage of her past. Mary Patterson is on the Great Eastern Highway with her thumb out and a small brown leather suitcase at her feet. She notices a Volvo...

In The Lines Between, Danielle M. Wong tells a suspenseful Hollywood story through Stevie Young, a personal assistant scraping by, and Lana Lim, a movie star, revealing the tricky, sometimes dark world behind fame. Stevie, weighed down by debt and desperation, lands a job with...

In The Glass Marble, by Ozzie Logozzo, haunted by ghosts from her past, Police Detective Francesca Bruno must reconcile with tragedy and the knowledge that she is part of a system that failed. Life quickly spins out of control for Detective Bruno when New York...

The Crucifix by Naomi Cashman follows Katherine, an orphan who was sent to the Convent of Mercy in Ireland in 1865. There, she meets Sister Nora, the Reverend Mother who oversees the orphanage. Katherine quickly discovers that not everything is as it seemed in the...

Michael G. Barash’s The Price of Perfection is a riveting and immersive philosophical and speculative science fiction story set in a futuristic, dystopian Earth. Groundtown is the smog-polluted lowest stratum of California City, where Erika Verne lives. She protects her newborn baby, Veronica, from the...

When Cyrus Darian saves Brent's life, he has no idea how his actions will affect his own life. Brent unexpectedly dies, and Cyrus is left to inform Brent's commune members of his passing. Cyrus receives a lukewarm welcome at Reckoning Grove, and some residents are...

After returning to her hometown, Marisol Espinal struggles to put the ghosts of her past to rest. The Espinal family has always been one step away from being ostracized because of the longstanding rumors of magic and mysticism surrounding them. Dealing with the grief following...

The Other Lotus Girl by Daniel A. Riddle is about an Asian girl who was trafficked to pay off her parents’ debt. Vân and her sister were promised jobs at a nail salon, but instead were forced into sexual exploitation. For nearly two years, Vân...