Patriots in Shadows by Krishna Kumar is set in 1940s British India, where Les Filles en Jaune, a secret circle of wealthy Indian women, make use of their extensive privilege and social access to support Subhas Chandra Bose, the exiled independence leader commanding the Indian...

Sparks by Jae follows Willow Greene, a reserved and socially awkward administrative employee whose unusual tendency to short-circuit computers and other electronics has earned her a reputation around the office. Her constant technical mishaps regularly bring her into contact with Scottie Prescott, a friendly and...

Grave Intentions by Lilith Daniels is book 2 in the Grave Affairs series. Kinsley has taken a step back into the world of private investigation thanks to the trauma of being taken by mercury dragons. And just in time, too, as the dead are getting...

Susan Copperfield’s The Prince of New York follows Ian Ambrose, New York’s royal heir, after Queen Rachel pulls him back into palace work that exposes how badly his own protection has been neglected. Ian is a powerful flameweaver with a history of shielding his siblings...

It’s an ordinary day at the police precinct for coffee connoisseur and adept magicker Detective Valor Lovell. The robberies of high-end homes in the district continue to stymie him and his elephant‑shifter partner, Paul. That is, until Lovell is assigned a new partner who shakes...

Dragon Her Heels by R.J. Blain is the twenty-third book in the series. Crystal Culling thought moving to Lake Hancock would be a fresh start. But now she wonders if she should have listened to her realtor, who tried to tell her the property was...

In Kerie Logan’s Becoming a Divine Messiah, on New Earth, Danica turns twenty-five and enters Becoming, the rite that begins adult life after humanity’s Great Awakening. Her guide, Paula, introduces her and her twin brother, Ryan, to the history behind their communal world, where money...

Ours by Laciann Delacroix is a literary, deliberately fragmentary work of fiction about the relationship between Rui, the narrator, and Franco, a salesman she meets online. Rui is an equestrian and a hyper-observant designer who captures experience through sensory details of touch, taste, and smell....

M.L. Condike’s The Doll from Dunedin: A Genealogy Mystery follows forensic genealogist RaeJean Hunter. A jogger discovers the body of Jill Harriet Hamilton in Central Park, with her loyal dog lying beside her. A lawyer hires RaeJean to locate the primary beneficiary named in Jill’s...

In Robert Lovinger’s The Flickering of Souls, Tiago Madeira tends the bar at the Truro Café in Cape Cod while rebuilding his life after cocaine use cost him his marriage and landed him in jail in Boston. When he begins volunteering at Gardner Hospice in...

Love Travels With Mommy by Natalie Burns begins with the cutest scene of a mom and her two young sons building a racetrack together! Then—boom—she has to break the news that she’s going away on a business trip. To keep the tears at bay, she...

Have you ever had to start your life over again? In Forever Kind of Love by Susan Elizabeth Bagby, Willow Mason heads back to her small Ohio hometown to do just that. Once there, she’s forced to take a job managing a local bookstore after...

Night Shift by Allie McCormack is the ninth book in the Magic of Wishes & Dreams paranormal romance series. The story is set in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, where shifters have been exposed to the world, and anti-supernatural extremism is quietly...

In Bruce L. Thomas's American Insurgent Ukraine, after CIA Director JoJo Brunel orders a secret killing in Ukraine, the disappearance of Lubosh Chumak, a government employee selling American secrets, threatens to expose a hidden arrangement with Catalan, the alias of arms dealer Bart Westinghouse, who...

Cucina Italiana Comes to Brooklyn by John Agresto is by far the most interesting cookbook I’ve ever read. This isn’t just another Italian cookbook; it’s a memoir of John’s culinary adventures as he learns all there is to know about his national heritage. Before he...

In Tracey Magruder’s Between the Lines, Sadie Reed accepts a temporary editing assignment in Great Missenden after leaving Nate, her controlling ex-fiancé, in New York. Her job is to help Corbyn Pearce, a reclusive British mystery author, finish Echoes of Ash before his publisher cancels....

Sun, Sea, & Blueberry Tea by Kerry Evelyn follows Zaki Marsch, a professional hockey player, his fiancée Arwyn, and his twin daughters Isla and Amelie as they travel to the charming seaside town of Crane’s Cove in Maine for a friend’s wedding. What starts as...

Alex O. Harb’s To Spare A Dragon follows Celia of Rellan, a paid monster hunter whose sister Emilia is dying from orange plague. Celia wants money for a healer, and has no interest in royal ceremony, yet King Talbert names her Dragon Slayer after Tallanor...

Quest for the Code by Heather Bradley follows two girls, Brenda and her best friend Arpita, as they try to decode a note they found by coincidence. These two best friends liked to play detectives, and having this strange note blow their way was like...

Math Is A Blast! by Wendy Chen is a well-written book that teaches maths, numbers, as well as other mathematical operations, in a fun way to children through rhymes and repetition. Wendy starts by presenting the concept of math, which involves positive numbers, negative numbers,...