Awakening by Terrell Chafin is a darkly comedic horror novel that follows Rage Sutherland, a foul-mouthed, aimless 30-year-old, whose life takes a terrifying turn when a strange mushroom appears in his yard. Unbeknownst to him, the mushroom is part of a massive underground fungus called...

Armored Hours: Reincarnated Souls Book One by Stephanie Hansen is a fantasy/sci-fi romance set in the 1920s. The story follows Claudia, Kiersten, Lina, and Florian, four women leading a feminist movement, who mysteriously vanish. Alexander, a bootlegger deeply connected to the group and secretly in...

Elizabeth St.John brings us brilliant historical fiction in The King’s Intelligencer. Set in London in the year 1674, Franny Apsley is the favorite of Lady Mary Stuart, the future Queen of England. When bones are found by the stairs in the Tower of London, Franny’s...

Mail-Order Monsters: Crash Course by Silvia Acevedo is a whimsical story about 10-year-old Marco Torres, who, feeling lonely after a fight with his best friend Tinker, impulsively orders monsters from an advertisement in an old comic book. To his surprise, the monsters arrive and come...

Asher's Christmas Wish by Cindy J. Vanous is a children's picture book that follows the adventures of an adorable puppy. Although it's a Christmas tale, the story begins in summer, narrated by Mrs. Claus. Deep in the woods, Mrs. Claus' husband, Santa, was playing reindeer...

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"...

Slickrock by A.W. Baldwin follows Malia, who is abducted from a nightclub by a criminal group attempting a ransom scheme. She is confined in a trailer and later escapes with the aid of Relic, a local man who guides her across difficult canyon terrain. Meanwhile,...

The Boy by Reno Bachman is the story of a young boy who carries the heavy burdens of fear, anger, and grief after losing everything he holds dear. On a fateful night, he witnesses his father's murder and the destruction of his home. However, the...

Hypocrisy by A.J. Thibault is an imaginative journey that combines science fiction, mystery, and elements of political intrigue. Set against the backdrop of intergalactic exploration and earthly chaos, the novel introduces readers to Alen Innocent, a professor with extraordinary abilities, and his niece Leticia, a...

In Dark Place by Christopher Kell, when Ros is taken in the night after her government rating as a compliant citizen suddenly collapses, her friends, Femke and Domhnal, follow through on a dangerous plan to discover where the dispossessed are sent. They deliberately trigger their...

Murder in the Mix by Carolyn Eichhorn follows Gina Morrison, a Baltimore ghostwriter hired to help Manhattan chef Marisol St. James write her memoir-cookbook. Before the project is completed, Marisol is found brutally murdered inside her restaurant kitchen, turning her life story into an unfinished...

The Reckoning at Ravensmoor by Samuel Riding is the story of a solicitor's assistant who finds herself overseeing a property dispute on northern moorland. Every time Clara Whitmore tries to copy the documents related to the case of Partridge versus Stone, the writing itself seems...

Belle is only a little dog, but she’s full of curiosity. In A Christmas for Belle by Cindy J. Vanous, the little Yorkie begins to notice all kinds of changes when she goes out for a walk. There are men in red suits everywhere and...

In Caryn Green’s Better Angel, a sixty-six-year-old Chicago journalist sets out in 2017 to cross America by train while researching a story about the Transcontinental Railroad. Lost in Washington, DC, she meets a lanky thirty-one-year-old man who claims to be Abraham Lincoln, physically returned from...

Karen Hulene Bartell’s Indigo follows Chicago editor Raluca Olson to Birch Lake, Wisconsin, after an inheritance from great-aunt Winifred Nelson gives her a lakeside cabin from a relative she never knew existed. Raluca plans to sell the property and return to Chicago, but the cabin...

The House That Fire Built by Kirk Glaser is a collection of narrative poems that tells a story about family trauma. It follows a man who inherits his father’s house and moves in with his wife and daughter. His father died of cancer and left...

K M McFarland’s Beyond the Veil follows Gabe Stone, a struggling New Orleans singer whose life ends abruptly in a violent shootout. Instead of crossing over, he encounters Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Loa of Resurrection, who offers him a second chance at life on the...