The Music Room by Margaret Farrell Kirby centers on Cath, a fifty-two-year-old nurse who starts to feel like something in her life just isn’t working anymore. After losing her mother at a young age, she pushed aside her dream of becoming a writer, and now...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight begins in Winnipeg with Alex, a shy high school senior who simply wants to slide under the radar and maybe talk to his crush, Ally. Instead, an ancient artifact and a bizarre cosmic storm rip him away...

In Honeycomb by R.A. Van Vleet, thirty-two-year-old realtor and part-time actress Sam Williams is in danger long before she realizes how precarious her life has become. Unbeknownst to her, two men are surveilling her on the orders of her jealous and manipulative agent, Ray Calderon....

The Secret of Tu'ku's Peak: A Tortoise Odyssey by Randy Stollar follows a curious tortoise on his quest to discover a nearly forgotten treasure. Tyler is old enough to want more from life. He doesn't like the ancient rules that all tortoises live by or...

Fearless Fred and the Last Dragons is a children's fantasy adventure by Aurelia Szeto. The kingdom of Velum used to be known for lavish parties, especially the dragon-spotting ones. But after Lady Dragozanah wormed her way into the court to become King DJ Terrance's personal...

The Moonlit Rose of Isfahan by Jamila Mikhail is a love story that shows the enduring power of love and rehabilitation rising from the horrors of war. Set in Isfahan, Iran, both during and after the Iraq/Iranian War of 1980, the story focuses on two...

The Kikiloa Chronicles: Book One by Erik D. Larson is a sweeping, time-bending adventure that opens at the end of time and then doubles back to San Francisco, two hundred thousand years ago, and everywhere in between. At its center are two characters: Kiki, an...

In B.A. Chapman’s What Remains in the Dark, a city called Vorrith is hidden beneath the surface of ordinary life, and it is here that a magical community thrives. Evyn Marre is a gifted “Reader,” capable of reading minds with forensic accuracy. Sael Draven returns...

Jonathan Sears’s Legend of the Last Star Knight: The Dark Realm follows Alex Stone, a Winnipeg teenager flung across time into a galaxy where the ancient Star Knights have become prophecy. Aboard the mining ship The Avenger, Alex works beside Maggie Anderson while hiding how...

In Reality X by DC Wince, what starts as a reckless drive into the deep desert for an underground party quickly spirals into a subterranean nightmare. A group of strangers awake to find themselves locked inside an enormous mansion built nine stories underground, each fitted...

Somewhere Between Death and Dreaming by Christopher Sartin dives into the shadowy corners of life. The collection muses on death—it gets tangled up in betrayal, regret, guilt, and that unsettling urge for something darker. You get haunting stories: palm prints appearing where they shouldn’t, a...

The Girlfriend Agreement by Rowan Croft starts with a drunken one-night stand that Lexi Dornan wishes to forget, until financial desperation pushes her back in contact with the very man who humiliated her once before. Damian Navarro needs to prove to his family that he...

Catherine Meyrick’s And the Women Watch and Wait is a historical novel set in Australia during World War I. Kate Burke moves to Melbourne to help her Aunty Mary run the family shop while her cousins serve overseas. Before long, Kate’s sweetheart, Jack Sheehan, leaves...

Water is a very important part of our lives. It’s here one minute and disappears mysteriously in the next minute. In Milagros Wallace’s Gregorina and Her Glass of Water, a young girl, Gregorina, learns the importance and growing mystery of water. She also learns it...

You’ve Been Warned: Scary Stories Off the Beaten Path by Eric Kernish is a series of horror stories that will leave readers both entertained and disturbed. There’s something about being dragged through a forest by rotting flesh that will have even the toughest traveler whimpering...

Some journeys change far more than your destination. In Forsaking All Others, Jo Horne takes readers back to 1858 Missouri, where Annabelle “Belle” Carrington's life appears carefully planned. However, as her engagement approaches, she begins to have doubts. At the center of her world is...

Murder in Maverick Bay by Louise Furley is a murder mystery that follows Giancomo “Gian” Montanero in the coastal town of Chicory Landing, Maine. Gian is a former Marine Raider and a detective who is learning how to be part of the family he was...

The plan was simple: six-year-old Patrice Johnson was supposed to meet an untimely end, and Crossing, an aptly named crossing guard, was the one selected to chaperone Patrice to the afterlife. Crossing gets his assignment mixed up, and things go awry. Since Crossing needs to...

ABCs You Can Feel by Laura Emanuel is a picture book that uses the alphabet to introduce babies and toddlers to simple ideas they can share with a caregiver. Each letter offers one word and a short line of text, moving through everyday concepts like...