To Catch A Monster by Rale Miller takes place in the seemingly quiet town of Lexington, Virginia, where Officer Chrissy and her bike squad suddenly find themselves caught up in a strange murder investigation. The town's usual calm is shattered when a victim is discovered...

“The world didn’t leave us much, but it left enough. Enough to remind us that maybe, just maybe, we still matter.” Perhaps, but the novel Seeker by Glenn S. Robertson would indicate that we are a long way from what we once were. The world...

In Showboat Soubrette by Brodie Curtis, the story begins with Stella Parrot, a talented, popular Native American showboat singer, performing aboard Lady J along the Mississippi River. Taking place in the years leading up to the Civil War, she travels from town to town, captivating...

In Bound By Love, Faith and Hope, the first volume in Maurius Muze's Two Hearts Within One Soul series, after Queen Gelsomina’s death, King Marici’O rules from Turin under the shadow of grief, moving through palace halls and gardens still shaped by her presence. On...

Two Hearts Within One Soul: Bound By The Invisible Red Thread by Maurius Muze opens in post-WWII Hampshire, England, where the main character, Layla, has settled into a life that is as predictable as the ticking of a clock. In her early fifties, her days...

Sketch by Ros Hill is a unique adventure that describes what happens when magic and superheroes collide. Charles was just an average art student on a trip to Egypt when a discovery changed his life forever. It all started when he met the beautiful Heba,...

Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is based on D. L. Norris’s own family history, and rings with authenticity. Opening in nineteenth-century Norway, like so many of their compatriots living in poverty, Kittil and Marte Dyrebu decide to emigrate to America. They have an extended bureaucratic battle...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

In Joel Canfield's Brain Worm, as far as the world knows, former CIA officer Max Bowman is dead. Really, though, he's in Long Beach with a fake name and modest life as the private investigator, Hank Sinatra. That facade collapses when a client complains about...

In Pinkie the Pink Elephant by George J. Linsenmeyer III, Pinkie is born as Sarah in a peaceful jungle herd, but she is different from the other elephants the moment she arrives. Her bright pink skin sets her apart, leaving her isolated while the other...

Amy and her family are off on a beach vacation for an entire week. And her two best friends, Lilly and Dawn, and their families have been invited, too. In Nirja S. Khemka’s Amy’s Sandy Summer, Amy learns that sometimes besties can be a challenge....

Laurence Hutson’s Shattered Faces is set during the First World War, when American sculptor Anna Ladd leaves Boston for Europe after learning that soldiers with severe facial injuries are hiding themselves from families and society. In London, she studies a new process that uses sculpture,...

Writing your memoir is a big undertaking. For one thing, no matter how old (or young) you are, you have a lot of stories to share. So, where do you start? Lita Kurth’s Writing Memoir in Flashes is a good place to begin your memoir...

Hook, Line, and Murder by GG Calpo opens when an ordinary spring morning in Whitman's Port turns grotesque in an instant. A fisherman's line pulls in a severed human hand. Meg Brightbook, a retired kindergarten teacher, recognizes the diamond-encrusted signet ring on the hand as...

A reset session is a focused session of reading positive quotes for a fixed number of minutes, without interruption. Reset practice should be time-bound, done alone, focused, and with a clear intent of feeling better. To better understand reset, it is essential to experience it...

In This Fell Sergeant by Adam Dompierre, Lacey Matthews hires private investigator Eddie London to examine the reported suicide of her boyfriend, Johnny Sullivan, who died after falling from a balcony at the Bridgewater Hotel. Eddie expects a routine investigation until details surrounding Room 310...

We’re Survivors by Mona Risk opens with a gut punch. Angely Carlisle stands at the altar in her wedding dress, bouquet in hand, but the groom never comes. He sends his brother, Dr. Chris Tanner, instead. It is a beginning that tastes bitter before the...

In Dogfish and the Goodbye Wave, Rita Reed entices children with a setting in the sun-soaked shores of Maui. Dogfish swims off enthusiastically to see cousin Milo in Maui, and discovers a magical summer filled with dancing, giggles, and the delightful company of Hula, Milo’s...

Essie Redcup’s Extremely Secret Diary! by S K Sheridan follows a spirited young girl as she navigates a dangerous world while seeking answers about her past and her place in it. Set in Deal City, a place marked by inequality and hardship, the story unfolds...

The Inhabited Arc by Joe Trabocco is a collection of three short stories, all standalones and each enveloped in the singular consciousness of its narrator. In Epiphany, Lydia is in a coastal house where daily life by the shore slowly awakens an inner awareness, leading...