The Thin Door by Rho Weber Mack is a coming-of-age story as Ramie discovers herself. Ramie is a 15-year-old high school sophomore living in poverty and just hoping to survive. She has an absent mother and a younger brother who is involved in street...

Rise: Living Life Over Cancer is an essential memoir in which Betty Jean Aucoin, M.Ed., shares her experiences, lessons she learned along the way, her approach to living with stage IV breast cancer, and changes that helped her to move forward and live an abundant life....

I Always Knew We Were Meant for You by Michelle Gillitzer is a heartfelt story following adoptive parents preparing for their adoptive children. Mama and Papa Bear prepare in every possible way to love their children, who are on their way and know that they...

The Star Thrower by Kathleen Welton is a fast-paced mystery about three young graduates who are best friends. Sam, Leo, and Ava are uncertain about the career paths they want to pursue, so they decide to take an impromptu trip to Bali. They hope this...

The world is a confusing place with lots of moving parts. Every few weeks, it seems people are angry or worried about something new. What’s up with tariffs and trade wars? What’s the deal with AI? Why the interest in Greenland? How does all this...

Where Shadows Breathe, and Truth Sleeps by A. Gavazzoni is the fourth book in the Hidden Motives series. Dr. Simone Bennet believed she had found stability after the traumas that almost destroyed her. Simone returned to her psychiatric practice and embraced an exhilarating new chapter...

My Sister’s Quilt by Janet K. Shawgo is a collection of interconnected short stories that use quilts as both objects and narrative bridges. The story centers on two sisters, Lillian and Violet Claridge, whose childhood in an English noble household is shaped by contrasting dreams....

In The Boy Who Counts His Mistakes by Kim Adams, readers meet young Alex, who’s wearing two mismatched socks. He sometimes counts his mistakes. He begins his day pretending to be an astronaut for a little too long, which is his first error of the...

The Crucifixion was one of the most dramatic incidents in history, and it continues to cast a long shadow in Daniel Grace’s novel In the Wake of Golgotha. As the book begins, we meet Jude Issachar, a New York social worker and adjunct professor who...

In all the time Liam Mayfield had taken on the identity of the Iskander, the former air force officer had never experienced a situation like this. Reporter Onyx Sleater's attempts to garner sympathy for his cause have backfired as the people he once trusted turned...

E. R. Sanchez's Tell Them Goodbye follows Sino and his cousin, Martin, two teenage boys who run from their remote ranch in Michoacán after violence makes their home unsafe. Sino’s early life is marked by control, fear, and silence, and Martin ends up as his...

A Sanguinary Rose by E. L. Luengo follows Scarlett Rosenbaum, a high school student who lives in Farpoint, Washington. After a terrible night at a party, she is attacked while walking home and wakes up as a vampire. As she tries to manage new urges...

“This was the pattern—hope, creation, corruption, destruction. Always the same ending.” Painful failure and seven frightful creatures torment an aged Creator in The Lord's Canvas by Stephen Wayne. The story unfolds in an endless void, where nothing exists save a canvas of creation waiting to...

When Doctor Anna-Claire Carden walks into the offices of Shepherd and Associates seeking Jake Shepherd's help in tracking down her parents, he is reluctant to take the case. His colleague Scarlett, on the other hand, cannot wait to dig into a potential mystery packed with...

The Villain's Journey: How to Create Villains Readers Love to Hate by Debbie Burke examines antagonists as the initiating force of the plot and argues that effective stories require a detailed understanding of their villain. Burke tells us that focusing solely on protagonists produces inactive...

Leaving Naples by Brian Hackett is a mystery/thriller that follows Lieutenant Dylan Parish. Dylan had a lifelong dream of living in Europe, and he fulfilled that by moving his family to Naples, Italy. With the promise of adventure and a beautiful life awaiting them, Dylan’s...

Sometimes in life, we feel like we're all alone. Problems seem so big that we start to think there's no way out. However, in adversity, we can be sure that God is always taking care of us. He puts obstacles in our way so our...

Fractured Valor is an action-packed, romantic thriller by AA DaSilva. Xavier Mastroanni is a former US Army veteran. For two years, Xavier has carried the guilt of failing to complete his assigned mission of assassinating a cartel drug lord. He finally finds a path to...

A Tale of Paris and Paris by Edmond Thornfield is set in fifteenth-century Cortona, where Lorenzo di Ranieri returns from Florence to a city under ecclesiastical scrutiny. Quiet warnings reach him that the Inquisition is preparing accusations meant to divide households and strip the town...

Michael Pedretti’s Nonpareils: 53 Panegyric Poems is a collection of panegyric poems centered on people whose lives are defined by giving rather than taking. Organized into carefully structured sections, the book moves through exemplars, performers, creators, family, biblical figures, and reflective self-portraits, presenting individuals whose...