In The Masks of Icesia, Naya Stavridi describes good and evil elements displayed in figures so different from each other. You see how the six characters, John, Maximus, Eve, Joanna, Antricio, and Katerina, demonstrate their interaction with life. They board a carriage, each one immersed...

The Adventures of Connor and Sparky by David Armitage is a heartwarming and imaginative tale that invites readers to embark on an intergalactic journey full of whimsy and wonder. The story centers around Connor, a young boy struggling with sadness and confusion due to world...

The Worlds of Origin by Becheru D. Dan is a sweeping science fiction epic spanning over nine hundred thousand years. The story chronicles the rise and fall of the Galactic Empire, beginning with the mysterious creation of the Origin Worlds and culminating in the cataclysmic...

Joie Lesin's The Passenger is a captivating tale set in the 1940s. The protagonist is Elizabeth Reilly, a young widow who can communicate with the dead. She meets a kindly senior man, Paolo Clemente, and witnesses his death. His ghost desperately needs Elizabeth's help to...

The Monarchs by Mark Sabbas is a science fiction novel set in a war-torn world, where a new generation of children possess extraordinary psychic abilities. Samuel, one of these children, struggles to control his powerful telekinesis under the watchful eye of military scientists. His only...

The Pandora's Box is the first book in L.S. Franco's Conjurer's Prophecy Trilogy, in which readers meet Liam Hale, an ordinary teenage boy. His adventure begins in the magical town of Downtown, where he meets a group of unique individuals: Ada Simmons, a mysterious girl with...

The Catalysts by Joseph Guzzo follows Orville, a shelter cat adopted by Luca and his parents Vic and Claudia, who forms a bond with the family, is renamed Red, and enjoys a comfortable life in their home. Red meets a stray cat, hungry and cautious...

In Roxana Arama's The Regolith Temple, the narrative unfolds during the Lucretian Era. Yamir, a neuroscientist, transfers a copy of his brain into an android named Y1. In this android form, Y1 regrets not previously spending quality time with his wife and son while in...

The Moon Goddess's Smile by Catherine C. Wu tells the tale of a Chinese American biomedical researcher, Mei, who returns to China to fulfill a family duty: transferring her late grandmother's apartment to her male cousin so he can marry. But what should be a...

Wilson Kincaid's The Murder Algorithm is set in the foreseeable future, where people's lives are streamed onto social media platforms nonstop, all thanks to tech giant StarSee corporations. The Los Angeles-based protagonist, Roman Glass, is a skilled IT tech accused of murdering a well-known celebrity,...

Cristina Garcia teaches children the importance of teamwork in The Pesky Problem, a delightful children’s book. Various pumpkins and gourds live at the top of a nice, sunny hill in the countryside. This would be a perfect place to live except it has one big...

An error in programming the nanobots almost causes the extinction of the human race. Can they be re-programmed to save the rest of humanity? A woman investigates the murder of a man of the cloth, only to discover that she was the intended target. Can...

The Gold Rose is a work of fiction in the historical fiction and interpersonal drama subgenres. It is suitable for the general adult reading audience owing to some very mild language and delicately handled scenes of wartime violence, and was penned by author Jodi Lea...

Pinche, a smuggler working for Colombian drug lords, had fallen out of favor with his bosses, an outcome of failures in his operations. Given a last chance to redeem himself, Pinche is tasked with smuggling a group of immigrants, alongside “merchandise”, through the Gap, a...

The Lights of Greyfare by Juno Guadalupe is a gothic horror novel set in a Northeastern coastal town where mysterious "lights" have appeared. Needful of change, anything to pull her out of a deep depression resulting from a nasty and brutal divorce, journalist Katherine "Kat"...

The Grotesque by Sean Foy is a dark thriller that follows Katrina, Jared, and Michael. Katrina is a dancer with a difficult life who uses tattoos and dance as a way to hide her pain and disappointments and express herself. Jared is a young man...

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....

When King Madrick I and Queen Fionella of Masor decided to walk into the woods to celebrate their fortieth wedding anniversary, they had no idea it would be their last. The news of their demise, a few weeks later, leaves their kin—Prince Madrick II and...

The Crucifix by Naomi Cashman follows Katherine, an orphan who was sent to the Convent of Mercy in Ireland in 1865. There, she meets Sister Nora, the Reverend Mother who oversees the orphanage. Katherine quickly discovers that not everything is as it seemed in the...

The Madness by W.W. Hennemann starts with Devon-7. He had read the ancient books and knew about love, sex, and marriage – reserved only for the Reproductive Caste – and the knowledge was driving him mad with released desire. He considered resuming his daily Morning...