Slipper Girl by Adele Royce is about Skylar Van Ness, a 27-year-old woman who discovers that her dark past has returned to torment her. Right before her father's wedding, Skylar reads a shocking email, and she learns that her mother knows everything about her and...

Dual Convergence: Witness to History by Angel Giacomo is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time. The author has brought to life the history of the Roosevelt family in a very down-to-earth way – warts and all. Internal family...

For Cause by Mark Shaiken is part of the 3J legal thriller series. 3J, or Josephina Jillian Jones, is a Kansas City attorney, and she’s taken on a Chapter 11 case for Paxton Energy. She’s not worried—until she sees a video of the Paxton CEO...

Smiley had a lot to learn. He didn’t know why he was in a dog shelter. Had he done something wrong? In Olena Kagui’s What Smiley the Rescue Dog Didn’t Know, Smiley is quickly adopted into a loving family, so he doesn’t have to feel...

Vesper by Evan Marks follows the titular Vesper, who lives in New York and works as a senior consultant. After a chance meeting overseas leads to a second encounter in the city, Vesper begins seeing Caspian, a man whose life operates on a scale far...

There is no time for rest for the Guardians of Time and Magic—Catriona, Mandalee, and Dreya the Dark. Reeling from the aftermath of the attack on Melrose Academy, it is now clear to the trio that their real nemesis is from the future. However, acknowledging...

Lion’s Den by Neil Citrin is about Johnny Salter, a teenage kickboxer dealing with life after a brutal attack on his family’s dojo takes his father’s life. Johnny and his older brother, Benny, are left on their own and must deal with their grief and...

Wishes Gone Awry by M. Ainihi is a collection of short horror and dark fantasy stories. It focuses on people who wanted something, but their efforts in obtaining their desires ended in tragedy. In the first tale, Jimmy, a young man promised a share of...

Life can be exciting, challenging, or dull, but for Sandy Pearl, it was always eventful. She shares her story in Then the Phone Rang: My Journey from Hitchhiking Hippie to the Hollywood High Life. She begins by taking readers back to the family dinner table...

How often are mental health issues pushed under the carpet and ignored? In Breaking Perfect, Elyse Heartwell brings the pain and suffering out of the shadows and into the light. The Dawson family appears perfect on the outside, wealthy and successful, but behind closed doors,...

In Enemy at the Helm by Mark Dickson, coordinated maritime attacks strike major American ports and key global canals, beginning with the destruction of the cruise ship Leviathan off Miami. As the shipping channels are blocked and infrastructure collapses, investigators trace the operation to a...

Colm O'Connor's Ballyloo's Finest: A Tale of Chaos and Charm is a delightful, eccentric journey into the fictional Irish village of Ballyloo, where chaos reigns. The story centers on Guard Ollie Berry, a well-meaning but often hapless officer tasked with maintaining order in a town...

Old Friends and Other Broken Things by Leah Cohen is a collection of thought-provoking stories about fractured relationships, societal expectations, and psychological turmoil. Two friends who have been apart for 11 years discover how one’s life has changed while the other’s has remained stagnant; a...

The Drowned Queen by Elspeth Gregorsdóttir introduces us to Myr’Caenith, a woman who survives a century of captivity in the deathless realm of the Duskhold. She goes into the Whispering Sea, where her body dissolves and reforms with command over shadow and starlight. She crosses...

In The Secret of Spirit Lake by Jane Haltmaier, the story moves between two girls living decades apart in the same lakeside house. In the present day, fourteen-year-old Amy struggles after her parents move the family to a small town in upstate New York to...

The Procrastination Solution by Bobby L. Butler is a practical guide for anyone who has ever watched a deadline creep closer while somehow still not starting the work. Butler spent years trapped in his own cycle of delay before hitting a wall with a missed...

In Borderline Human: Persona by Oxsana Palatskaya, Lena Dyal works as an analyst inside Persona Tower, a corporate system that monitors cognition and behavior through an interface called Reflex. When her clearance is reduced after several unexplained legacy server accesses, she traces anomalies linked to...

Elizabeth Kellam's Chopin’s Last Manuscript begins in 1971, when a Polish craftsman renovating Eugène Delacroix’s Paris studio discovers a hidden leather portfolio beneath the floorboards. Inside are a manuscript signed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin and a diary that appears to chronicle his private account of...

Arklight: Templar Underworld by J.M. Myrick is a deep dive into the secrets, myths, and mysteries left behind by the Templar Knights as well as the modern-day Templar Secret Orders that keep those traditions alive. It is 1990, and thirteen irreplaceable masterpieces are stolen from...

Ancilla is the first book in a trilogy by Sera Maddox Drake. After a religiously constrained childhood, a young woman begins experimenting with sex and learns that she enjoys a wide range of partners and activities. With each lover, she becomes less inhibited during the...