"Don't whistle at night. You'll call something." Leakhana Doung, a twenty-eight-year-old dental hygienist from Fresno, often hears warnings like that from her mother, who honors her Cambodian heritage. Leakhana doesn’t take them seriously. But then she finds herself in the middle of a medieval village...

Emerald Spirit by Som Phin follows Sathea, an eighteen-year-old Berkeley student who falls asleep while playing a Cambodian-inspired fantasy game and wakes inside Srok Moreakot as the peacock spirit Peakea Thmey. The spirit realm is protected by a network of wards, but its eastern boundary...

Caroline’s Lighthouse by Erica Zaborac is about a young girl who suffers a serious injury while competing in a show jumping competition in which her horse, Beau, is killed. For a time, Caroline turns her back on the sport that she enjoyed with her mother....

Lindsay Flanagan brings us a young adult romance with a touch of paranormal fantasy in Under the September Sky. As her brother’s best friend, Jack Murphy is off-limits to Sapphire Sullivan. That hasn’t stopped her from feeling the way she does about him. And the...

Extropia by Jae Darcy is set in a future where the wealthy live wired into a virtual world called the Inside while everyone else survives in the ruins left behind. Bache Parker lost his own connection to that world years ago after a hack went...

The Time Travel Academy: The Time Travel Dating Agency by Reginald Williams follows Layla Samson, a data analyst who approaches her romantic life with the same meticulous, high standards she applies to her work. When she becomes a client of a new agency created by...

Mina Rubenstein has been through her fair share of challenges. Seen as a freak by her peers at St. Benedict’s Catholic School, there is little to look forward to in her school life. Her only reprieve from the relentless bullying by the popular group is...

The Girlfriend Agreement by Rowan Croft starts with a drunken one-night stand that Lexi Dornan wishes to forget, until financial desperation pushes her back in contact with the very man who humiliated her once before. Damian Navarro needs to prove to his family that he...

Salt & Honey by Candi Miller is a well-researched historical novel set in South Africa in the 1950s and 60s. I knew very little about this piece of history, and it is exactly as sad as I thought it would be. The story follows Koba,...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...