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...

The Foundling by Amy Meitz begins in 1978 Detroit, where nine-year-old Sunny Berry has spent years hidden inside a failing apartment. Her mother, Roxanne, insists the child she once loved has been replaced by something evil. Hungry and cut off from the outside world, Sunny...

Wouter van Wyk’s Legacy of Ash is the first book in the Brotherhood Chronicles. Adrian Ward is a brilliant but deeply wounded foster kid, and the discovery of a water-damaged grimoire in the church basement costs him everything. But it also awakens the genius in...

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...

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....

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...

Freedom Was Never the Plan by Vasyl Kazmirchuk follows Max, a university student who becomes convinced that debt and obligation quietly control most of people's choices, something he starts calling "the Plan." Determined to break free of it, he teams up with Jordan, who's buried...

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...

Scott Brody’s Keeping Pepper follows Ed Silver, who visits his old college friend Michael Pepper, known simply as Pepper, at a Las Vegas assisted-living facility during a motorhome trip with his wife Stacey. Pepper is seventy-one and living with dementia, yet flashes of the man...

The Time Between Blinks is a remarkable fantasy by talented author Russell Chappell. The story takes us to California, where we meet twenty-three-year-old Ethan Weghorst. It’s been four months since Ethan graduated from college, but he is still trying to figure out what he will...