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 Her mother, Roxanne, insists the child she once loved has been replaced by something evil.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...

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...

The Ashes of Us by Ashley Baker is a compelling novel. Very early one morning, Dr. David McCall, a clinical and anatomical pathologist, receives a strange phone call. He is informed that his nineteen-year-old daughter, Addison McCall, is in the hospital. She was assaulted. He...

Martin (not his real name), like many others, leads a double life. By day, he’s a rather average middle-aged man who runs a business installing and repairing climate systems. He’s also married and is a reasonably good husband and provider. But he has a darker...

The Cauldron of Anastasis is the fifth book in William P. Blake III’s The Blood and the Seed series. The story weaves sixty years of occult mystery into one epic showdown. The story opens in 1930s Bucharest, where the immortal sorceress Morgaine Lefey evades the...

In To Die For by Audrey Steidl, Dei Fields immediately decides that Mika St. John is the boy she must have when he walks into class at McKinley High School. Mika is already dating someone, but that hardly matters to Dei. Mika has grown up...

The East Wing by Danielle M. Wong follows Wren Lee, a Boston barista who learns that the grandfather she believed died years ago has only recently passed away and left his mansion in Dukette, Virginia, to her. Hoping the inheritance will offer distance from the...

Shane Curtin’s The Mirror Thesis follows Vivian Prespertine, a wealthy young woman raised among the manicured estates and social rituals of Barrow Island. At her father’s birthday party, she notices Patrick Weilston, a brilliant young broker whose reputation has already secured him a place among...

Ronnie Sacco’s The Resonance Crossing is set in the authoritarian surveillance state of Dominia, and it follows a low-tier reclamation worker named Luca Ashbourne. In a world where people are forbidden to feel and where emotion is medicated, scored, and suppressed by the National Dominia...