Luxuries and Lies by Long Temple is a thought-provoking story about the invisible labor and emotional endurance that often go unseen in the workplace. Mercedes is a hardworking woman whose work is taken for granted. When the company's leaders try to erase her name from...

In The Butcher and the Liar, author S.L. Woeppel tells the story of Daisy Bellon, a woman living in the long shadow of her father’s gruesome reputation as a serial killer. Growing up in the gritty reality of her father’s butcher shop in Hellene, Nebraska,...

I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t usually go for horror just for the sake of a scare, but Smile So Red and Other Tales of Madness by Mia Dalia is something else entirely. This isn't just a collection of "scary stories"; it...

The Fixer: The Shape of Her by Ozzie Logozzo is one of those books that hits you with its intensity right from the very first page. It isn't just a story you read; it’s one you feel. I was completely floored by the prose here....

In Don Lehmkuhl's The Angel of Justice: The Ragman Book 2, Josef “Joe” Schatz lives in Cincinnati with his wife Bella and their daughter Claire while working as a philosophy professor at Saint Augustine University. Years earlier, Joe carried out a series of killings under...

Joy Michelle Austin’s novel, Half Agony, Half Hope: Dear Lily Edition, is a gripping psychological story of the survival of a father and his daughter under horrific circumstances. The shocking story emerges through letters that Rick Wentworth wrote to his daughter Lily over ten years...

When Henry Jekyll, a doctor in London, awakens in a morgue, he reels in disbelief that he is still alive as memories of what had transpired earlier slowly settle into his disoriented mind. Not long ago, he had been a wanted man on serious charges....

In Eva Barber’s Misunderstanding: The Tiger in Me, Alice Williams forms a bond that feels unbreakable with Lilly Labarre, even though their homes and upbringings could not be more different. Years later, after meeting a man known as Colin Carter, Alice suddenly vanishes. When Alice...

The Ragman by Don Lehmkuhl introduces Joey Schatz, who became an orphan after witnessing the murders of his parents. He was raised in the same home that gave shelter to his father, Our Lady of Providence Children’s Home. Here, he becomes friends with Tony Rosetti,...

In Borderline Human: Persona by Oxsana Palatskaya, Lena Dyal works as an analyst inside Persona Tower, a corporate system that monitors cognition and behavior through an interface called Reflex. When her clearance is reduced after several unexplained legacy server accesses, she traces anomalies linked to...