David Z. Pyke’s All Hot and Bleeding is set in the Republic of Texas in 1840, where sixteen-year-old Silas Grant returns to his family’s Brazos Valley homestead after an expedition into Mexico leaves him wounded and haunted by the men he killed. Silas hopes to...

Tim Schooley’s novel, The Wool Translator, is an interwoven coming-of-age story of two young savants and their forbidden romance, set in the chaos of war in Europe and England of the 1480s. The story includes fictional characters as well as reimagined historical figures with fictional...

In William Amos’s The Seed of Joy, American Peace Corps volunteer Paul Harkin arrives in South Korea in 1979, where he falls in love with Han Mi Jin, an English teacher involved in the democracy movement. Their relationship comes under pressure when Mi Jin’s parents...

Some dreams are harder to reach when others have already chosen your future. In The Last Gypsy Queen by Linda Paul, ninety-year-old Marisol Mazaria returns to Buckeye Lake, Ohio, where memories of her youth begin to surface. More than seventy years earlier, she’s a young...

Heart of the Wild Gods by Kendall Brooks is a sweeping, epic tale of life in a small part of the Kingdom of Wessex in the ninth century. Three years after the Battle of Edington, where the Saxons established their control over the Kingdom of...

Reincarnation is scientifically an unproven but popular phenomenon that has stirred continuous interest and debate among both the spiritual and scientific communities for centuries. Lilith: The Woman Who Walked Between Worlds by Margarita Yaz is the basis for the first-person stories that underpin this story...

Stephen Millory is trying to figure out how to move forward after losing his wife in What Mends the Heart by Karen A. Wyle. It’s 1886, and the widowed tailor has been struggling since Mary’s death. When another tailor must leave Cowbird Creek temporarily, he...

Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

In M.J. Azinger’s Fae of Legacy and Lies, at twenty-three, Mary is the Maiden of the Triple Goddess on Avalon, a sacred island where she has spent her life secluded from men and convinced her half-fae blood has no magic. After her mother Caerllion dies,...

Lady Scandal by Kate Serzenta is a compelling historical novel. Felix wants to save his indebted estate. He must convince Lord Colborne to become his business partner to secure capital. He also wants to find a wife. Georgiana Hargreaves is happy that she can still...