In The Road Beside by Fred Gracely, Willow Barnes wakes up in a grim Warwick apartment to an “URGENT!!!” message from the father who vanished after her mother's death. It is her first birthday since her mother died, and she wants nothing to do with...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a tiny animal-being known as a Ses, who belongs to London’s Pride, disappears after receiving a forged message that sends him to Venice on a secret assignment. His friend Jaspa, the primary protagonist, leads a small group...

Cities are burning across the world, while their inhabitants die from a strange and terrifying madness that leaves nothing standing. No one knows where the sudden onset of insanity comes from. It’s like an unidentified virus creeping through the population. Emile and Ian are outliers...

In Carla Beene’s The Twin Within, our seventh-grade protagonist, Cassie Cortez, has a tough time navigating school in Santa Fe while dealing with cruel school bullies and the physical limitations of mild cerebral palsy. Although her parents provide her with a loving home, Cassie has...

In Orphan of Empire, author S. A. Melia tells the story of Guy Erma, a young undocumented teen raised in a fashion house who dreams of enlisting in the elite Dome Militant defense force. His life suddenly changes during a sparring tournament on Space Platform...

Eduardo Valdés Escoffery’s The Children of the Fourth Dimension: The Legacy of Saint Germain follows Dr Max Murphy, an American economist with the International Red Cross in Geneva, after intelligence officers discover every official memory of his extraordinary mental abilities has disappeared. Max shares those...

Phillip Mauldin’s A Dangerous Game sends seventeen-year-old bard Kevin Dobbs from Mauldonion Province to the desert kingdom of Selvarash beside Princess Bree, whose father, King Tharion, must approve their marriage. Bree was betrothed to Prince Maelor before meeting Dobbs, so the couple arrives knowing their...

A Third Tail by David Schecter is a delightful adventure story about two Scottish Terriers and their family. It's been a year since Piper and Mac last went to Grandma's. The two terriers live happily with their human mom, dad, and their twin children, Judy...

I have just finished reading Imprisoned World by William L Frame. I found this book to be a fascinating piece of science fiction. Imprisoned World introduces us to the basin of Amora, where the people live trapped behind mountains, completely unaware that there is a...