Perfectly Yours, Mrs. Wilcox by T.L. Forsyth is set in the 1950s in Willowbrook Heights, where Evelyn Harding arrives with her husband Richard, expecting a fresh start, only to discover that neighborhood life is governed by Patricia Wilcox, the homeowners’ association president. Patricia gives Evelyn...

If you are looking for a thriller with a lot of heart, Glorious Debris by Elisabeth Wathen is an excellent choice. The narrative introduces us to Ann Davenport, a 68-year-old cancer survivor who simply wants a peaceful life running her pier concessions and rental shop...

A Debt Refused by Bryan James Beck is the fourth book in the Ancestral Debt Anthology. Marie‑Yvonne Rousseau has spent her whole life refusing the magical chest that tore her family apart, and she has no intention of becoming another time traveler bound by an...

Did you know that poetry can, and does, heal? Perhaps you haven’t read or written any recently, so you may not know this simple fact. In Claudia L'Amoreaux’s Red-winged Blackbird Calls Me Home, the poet reveals a deeper understanding not only of herself but of...

Tuesday in Trussville is Robert L. Mason's account of how he built SPOC Energy, a power conversion company in small-town Alabama, around a philosophy he calls "Lift Up." The book opens on a single dramatic morning when a company-wide drug test leads an employee to...

In You’re Not Losing Love... You’re Losing Time, Jeff and Teresa Fields explore the quiet distance that creeps into Christian marriages. They explain how couples do not usually experience a sudden, dramatic collapse of affection. Instead, the drift usually happens when ordinary routines, daily busyness,...

Lethal Obsessions by Sarah Stuart is a DCI Gerald Croft Thriller that pulls Croft into a series of disturbing cases triggered by the discovery of human bones at a worksite. A young woman is left traumatized by a rape no one will admit happened, a...

Little Memory Keepers, written by Mahkiah Barley and Kitty Arceneaux, is a picture book for young readers. One night, a little girl named Aurora has a magnificent dream. She heads into a place called Memory Meadow and sees snippets of her memories in little bubbles...

Brent Golembiewski’s Flick of the Switch follows fourteen-year-old Sydney “Syd” Yazzie, a Michigan gamer whose mother accepts five million dollars from a government recruiter to send her to an exclusive academy. Syd expects a school built around video games, but the students are called cadets...

Opium Dreams by Tom Crowley is a crime thriller set in the opium triangle of Northern Thailand and Myanmar. Matt Chance is a retired American special forces soldier who, after numerous deployments in the Middle East and elsewhere, has retired to Thailand, his mother’s home...

Where Is Karl? by Karolis Vydmantas is about the immense struggles and wild adventures of a man named Karl. Moving to the United States as foreigners proved quite hard for Karl and his family, but they managed to get by somehow. He was introduced to...

Robert F. Glahe’s Rattz On The Prowl follows Christopher “Sludge” Dragoon, a veteran Frontier Space Marine whose mission on Genesis Minor ends with his squad dead and his body carrying ten young Rattz. The creatures are hybrids of Earth rats and Blazant biology whose spread...

How to Make Your Insurance Company Pay by Aram Shah is a very comprehensive guide to the way insurance companies operate. A table early on in this book shows us the shockingly low level of claims that are actually paid out, less than fifty percent....

Jeff Whelchel’s The Long Road to Surrender depicts the silent breakdown and ultimate restoration of a committed family doctor. After spending more than twenty years as a primary care physician based in Texas, the author finally reached a breaking point where his inner strength was...

Catherine Marshall-Smith’s The Resilience of Red Thread follows twenty-one-year-old Emily Miller, who finally musters up the courage to leave her abusive husband, Lee. Lee keeps violating his restraining order, and when a hornet’s nest threatens Emily’s home, she hires an exterminator named Jake Clayton, a...

The Farmer's Wife and the MenoClucks by Barbara Elizabeth takes the touchy subject of menopause and explains it through her hens as they grow older and can no longer meet the demands of a rooster who rules the yard. He doesn't account for the fact...

In The Aerie Protocol, a photojournalist, Mac, launches an investigation into the plane crash that killed his friend and uncovers something shocking—a cloaked Sky City named Aerie, inhabited by the advanced ‘Sky People’ who for centuries have been harvesting Earth’s energy and controlling its weather....

In S.E. Palmer’s Breaking for Breath, Kaiya Parks is one of three Power Wielders protecting Tynewood from creatures born from shadow. Her water power works beside Benji Reyes’s wind, with fire wielder Ross Mackay completing their Triad. An attempt by rival leader Jax Mercer to...

Salvatore A Trancucci III’s Sonny and Teresa begins in postwar Leavenworth, Kansas, where Sebastian “Sonny” Grasso has returned from Army service in Japan to play for the minor league Leavenworth Braves. Teresa is an Iowa-born student nurse at St. Mary’s when a baseball game introduces...

In Frederick Groya’s Good Intentions, Tom Rudnik is a corporate lawyer determined to build the family life expected of him after refusing his attorney father’s plans for his career. He meets Amelia Stanford, a graphic designer from rural Iowa who has built the future she...