Charlotte Woodland’s Eight Weeks features Chloe Moore, a dental assistant who is unsure about her life's purpose. Randolph Dunne is a patient at the dental clinic, and Chloe is fascinated by his perfect teeth. Unbeknownst to her, he too has an interest in her, but...

Everbound by Kari Chaplin opens with what seems to be a quiet marriage that is going slightly strange. Sydney makes breakfast for her husband, Caleb, and their two children, Jack and Gracie. Yet small things keep slipping. Coffee returns to the counter after she pours...

Grace is a widow. Her husband, Mitch, died last year, and she has their farm up for sale. She is struggling with the sale process as the first offer, which seemed firm, is now in jeopardy. The property manager quit, and the potential buyers are...

In A Bitten Plant by Liz Fyne, 29-year-old Camille Baker watches her entire world unravel almost immediately after arriving in a new metropolis. She leaves Montana for the big city and lands a job at Farms Al Fresco, an advanced indoor farming facility. Her new...

Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr.’s Shadows in the Rain is a twelve-story collection of psychological urban thrillers built around people confronting crimes that go beyond ordinary explanation. In Soaked, retired detective Jerry Crowder returns to New York after a murder connected to Amy Colley draws him...

M K Boers’ Sleep follows Lizzy Dyson, a woman held in a psychiatric prison wing while a court considers her responsibility for killing her husband, Tony, and his lover, Sally Bryant. Lizzy has pleaded guilty, but the question before the court is how her state...

Operation Nightfall by Ty Mitchell is the second book in the V.E.N.O.M. series. This story finds Jake and Zasha in a quasi-normal life. As DIA assets, they have handlers and must be ready for assignment in the blink of an eye. But Do Shen, believed...

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...

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...