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...

Anthony S Roccato’s Among the Crows is gripping, character-driven historical fiction set in Stalingrad in 1942 during WWII. Anya, Ivan, and Yuri are close friends, living in Stalingrad, struggling to survive. On 23 August 1942, the Germans launch a devastating, massive air attack on Stalingrad....

Killing Time, by M.W. Taylor, begins with the discovery that reincarnation is a fact and that past lives can be accessed through a connection to the present. But as so often occurs in newly developed sciences, they tend to have a downside: they are not...

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...