Paper Dolls by Kara R. Hunt tracks a huge collision between historical trauma and a family’s fight for survival. The story follows January Eller, who is navigating a hidden spiritual breakdown months after her daughter, Laynee, accidentally drowns in a backyard swimming pool. Her fragile...

Fox Michaels’s Live Feed follows Miguel Santos, a Miami factory worker whose eight-year-old daughter, Sofia, is awaiting surgery when federal agents raid his workplace. Although Miguel is an American citizen, his stolen identification leaves him unable to prove it during the sweep, and he is...

Matthew Galgani’s Doubting Nikki follows Michael “Cami” Camigliano, a filmmaker whose dying grandmother secretly gives him a vial she says contains the Blood of Christ. Soon afterward, Cami’s wife, Nikki, suffers a head injury during a ski trip and later collapses, leaving doctors concerned about...

It is early spring, 2017. Three twenty-two-year-old seniors at MIT—Charlie, Jack, and Nik—are due to graduate in a few months. Charlie wants to build something that makes a difference and believes it is the right time to act. Lately, he has been following digital finance...

Johan Ottosen’s Antichaos, the third and final book of The Mirrin Bank Trilogy, follows journalist Kurt Østergaard after the secrets left by his late stepfather, Professor Bjarne Arnesen, place him at the heart of Mirrin Bank’s race against The Church. The clandestine agency now knows...

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...

Tim Schooley’s novel, The Wool Translator, is an interwoven coming-of-age story of two young savants and their forbidden romance, set in the chaos of war in Europe and England of the 1480s. The story includes fictional characters as well as reimagined historical figures with fictional...

Aleksander Szeser’s Dissonance follows Kira Hunt, a thirty-six-year-old Los Angeles physical therapist whose home life with philosophy-professor husband Max revolves around their three-year-old daughter, Rebecca. At a child’s birthday party, Rebecca hands Kira a message from a stranger who somehow knows where to find her....

Holt Ashcroft’s Zero Footprint follows Cole, a field operative sent into a compromised industrial facility at midnight to extract Sarah Lin, an injured systems engineer carrying a code package inside a failing mastoid interface. Sarah needs the package copied at Holtwood, an isolated legacy archive,...

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...