Vicky’s Victory by Nadine C. Keels is the first installment in the Malt Shop Milestones series. It opens with sixteen-year-old Vicky Phillips spending the last Saturday of summer vacation at Bro Brown’s Burgers and Malts, sipping her favorite strawberry ice cream soda just before junior...

Wooden Dolls Game by Ivonne A. Hoyos follows twins Mary Jane (“MJ”) and Antonia, with a bedroom assignment dispute catalyzing a lifelong rivalry. MJ receives a wooden doll set that each child paints. Later, Antonia also paints MJ’s pink room black. Over time, MJ succeeds...

In Falling IN by Lucinda Brant, Aurora “Rory” Talbot meets Alisdair “Dair” Fitzstuart during a staged raid he orchestrates, where an accidental collision sparks their first moment of connection. Dair begins appearing in her life more frequently, often under the pretext of social duties or...

A Summer Lasts Forever by Tamar Anolic is a heartfelt coming-of-age novel told through alternating perspectives that capture the emotions of a teen uprooted from her familiar life into a very different one in a small Vermont town. Readers meet Ginny and Sam as they...

Falling UP by Lucinda Brant follows Lisa Crisp, a young woman working at Warner’s Dispensary, who becomes entangled in an incident involving the theft of ribbons and silk garters at Lord Westby’s house. She intervenes to return a valuable auction catalog, witnessing Henri-Antoine Hesham, a...

The Cartography of First Love by Angela Grey is an unusual, but completely compelling story of first love encountered in a most unusual location – a psychiatric institution. Fifteen-year-old Zibby is confined because of her eating disorder, and sixteen-year-old Nico suffers from depression and anxiety....

Between ensuring her mother's late-night sleepwalking episodes don't end in tragedy and deciding whether she likes her colleague Judd enough to date him, Chumana Ironvein's days are hectic. It doesn't help that she lacks her father's support, as he has been absent since her parents'...

The past few days have been Lyssa's worst nightmare. She was nearly devoured by the ferocious Juguai, got separated from her sister, Sage, and, after being struck by dragon fire, she later woke up to find herself captive in a dragon's cavern. Then, along came...

Some stories don’t shout—they hum softly until your heart can’t help but listen. Notes of Her Heart by Goutham Kool Monk is a love story about two people brought together through music. Rahul Arora is a gifted composer who has built some emotional walls around...

The Duchess of Kokora by Nikhil Prabala follows Phera Ylir Mdana, who maneuvers through Ryene’s elite court to consolidate political power and win the Rounds—a public, strategic contest of influence, alliances, and combat. After striking Ser Vloram to protect a servant, Phera uses the scandal...