“She knew she was good. And it appears the good are not rewarded. The good are damned.” This statement rings true in The Curses We Keep, a novella by Dakota J. Miller. The story begins in darkness as an old hag drags a rope...

E. R. Sanchez's Tell Them Goodbye follows Sino and his cousin, Martin, two teenage boys who run from their remote ranch in Michoacán after violence makes their home unsafe. Sino’s early life is marked by control, fear, and silence, and Martin ends up as his...

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 Portal by Lou Pugliese, after an unfortunate water skiing accident puts her in a coma, Vicki Roadcap discovers she can see beyond the real world. In her unconscious mind, Vicki roams the realm between the afterlife and Earth known as the Portal. She...

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...