Hemangi Sawant’s Denver to Mumbai follows Sawant after thirteen years in America, when she leaves a comfortable life near Denver with her husband, Neeraj, and their ten-year-old son, Ronak, to return to Mumbai. The decision begins with grief after a call from her sister Shyamal...

The legal profession seems to attract its fair share of characters. Kevin O'Donnell has seen more than most and entertains readers with his reminiscences in Tales from the Oldest Profession: As Told by a Very Common Lawyer. He reflects on his student days, playing pranks,...

Kevin O’Donnell’s Hostage follows Morris “Mo” Miller, a commercial lawyer at Melbourne firm Tucker & Frood, whose Tuesday changes when his assistant reports a gunman in reception. Barney Peterson has arrived furious over the firm’s handling of his estranged wife Leila’s family-law case, leaving receptionist...

A Collection of Poems by Kauveh Rusta brings together thoughtful poems about life, exile, love, death, and the search for identity. Every poem is accompanied by an abstract painting, which gives the words a visual story. Kauveh takes readers to Iran, a country he still...

In M. Ainihi’s Patchwork, readers are plunged into a grim fantasy realm alongside a solitary outcast named Patricia. She finds a brass key in a mundane thrift shop. This magical item unlocks a gateway into Knowhere, a ruined, decaying landscape that actually resembles a shattered...

Life Is an Upward Spiral by Ansar Yawar begins with the problem of human misery and the question his Nana placed in his mind: why do so many people fail to be happy? Yawar answers through the image of life as an upward spiral, where...

The Creative Way by Steven B. Wills is a portfolio of digital images. But it is first and foremost a meditation on creativity as an act of resilience, remembrance, and transformation. It combines photography, digital enhancement, abstract experimentation, and AI-assisted imagery. This allows Wills to...

In Elias Wynn: The Witness by Sebastian A. Guzman, we read about eighteen-year-old Elias Wynn, devastated by a rare autoimmune disease. After being hospitalized, Elias is sent home so that he can learn to understand his body’s new limitations. Elias notices a flyer promising restoration...

Have you ever gone down a path that led you somewhere completely unexpected? That’s exactly what happens to a group of young explorers in Capybaras: Guardians of the Jungle by Adam Koss. It begins as they set off on an ordinary field trip into the...

Joshua has autism. He’s nervous about a lot of things, and school can be a strange, scary place. But, in Hyeyoung and Sophia Lee’s My School Has Superheroes, Joshua learns that it’s okay to be nervous, scared, and to worry about the simple things in...

Anna of Bethsaida: The Arimathea Chronicles by Susanne Blumer tells the captivating story of Anna, the wife of the disciple Andrew, and her unwavering faith and loyalty to Jesus Christ. Andrew and Anna are expected to travel with Jesus to preach the Word. But as...

Jo-Anne Duffett’s novel, Adrift in Time, is a captivating and thrilling romance of two time travelers from two very different centuries. In 1626, Ralph Exmore, 32, of Oarlyn, England, is aboard the merchant ship Zest, bound for India. The ship is under attack by pirates...

In James Kinsley’s Parallels, Jeff is a programmer in England whose relationship has ended when unsettling episodes place him inside the life of Jezz, a mercenary fighting the Eltiy’ch, alien invaders occupying western China after First Contact. Jeff wakes up from battles with sensations and...

The Youngster by Bibi Berki is a story of love, belonging, and loss. Cherry has been diagnosed with dementia. She is a single mother with only one child, Georgie, and they are more like buddies than mother and daughter. Cherry is already showing signs of...

Lena Atoug’s The Grieving Eye is a memoir about childhood bereavement, family memory, and exile. Atoug grows up in Yugoslavia with a beloved father whose presence fills the house, a mother who is always alert to danger, and a grandmother whose stories keep earlier losses...

Michael’s father has recently passed away, and his brother Roy delivers one final request from their dad: an old shoebox full of family memories. Nothing in the shoebox appeals to Michael except an old dictaphone and some tapes. There’s nothing remarkable on the tapes, but...

The House of All Sorrows: Gothics Undead by Richard Gadz brings readers a tantalizing version of the cult classic, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Something terrifying is going on at Westwych House, but the servants are excellent at turning a blind eye. There is only...

In Six Mile Store, A. M. Belsey tells the story of Honey, a recent college graduate with a job at a rural convenience store in Arkansas. She’s struggling to figure out what comes next. At work, she spends her time ringing up customers and stocking...

In Pleasure Submission, BJ Masterson introduces Emily, a divorced schoolteacher, as she continues to explore BDSM. She becomes intimately involved with Dominic “Titan” Vale, the man considered to be the king of kinkdom. Their romance is electric, starting in a New Mexico club and involving...

Tyrolin Puxty brings us fantasy fiction without bounds in Immortal Cells. In a world where immortals are seen as monsters, Malin has had a target on her back for too long. Being a northerner has kept her on the run, tired and always hungry. When...