Sometimes the hardest part of finding the right person is figuring out what kind of love you really want. In Chasing the Perfect Spark by Dana Lucka, Daniella “Dani” Babich is starting over after a broken engagement leaves her questioning what comes next. She starts...

In Collateral Wife: A True Con Marriage by Anne Stark Gallagher, Anne’s life spirals into a nightmare after her marriage. Anne married Ben, a man who appeared to be sincere, impulsive, and guided by his heart. Anne did not know her charming husband was a...

Toward the Light: A Year in Paris by Deborah Svec-Carstens is a thoughtful, honest, and refreshingly positive memoir of one woman’s journey to Paris as an American au pair during the early 1990s. The author had just graduated from college and was working alongside her...

Love in a Hurry by Mari Jane Law introduces Miranda Morton, a thirty-nine-year-old single mother desperate to give her son, Oscar, a sibling. She conceived through a turkey baster with her gay friend Luke. She has never been kissed, and her romantic prospects are slim...

In Forward Only, David Watson recounts growing up in Texas with his grandparents, Grandma and Pawpaw, whose home gave him his first sense of belonging. Losing Pawpaw at twelve changes that home, and adolescence is marked by a habit of leaving whenever he cannot see...

Unlike some stories that begin with a bang, The Fleet Answers: Astraea's First Signal by Ultra Lumen Studios begins with a heartbeat as a mother must choose between her daughter and her world. Generations after conductor Arien Solara closed the rescue corridor, holding her daughter...

Love may be simple in theory, but relationships rarely are. In The Big Day: Saying “I Do” Only to Discover I Didn’t by Lisa Cheek, the author is walking down the aisle for the first time at forty-nine. She never grew up dreaming about her...

In T.R. Schneider’s Siren’s Legacy, the third book in the Zhiva Legacy series, Sirelda Patel, known as Siren Succubus, was raised by pirate warlord Q. Kraig after he killed her family and concealed her true identity. Years later, Siren discovers that Kraig plans to attack...

Andrew Tartar’s The Next Shift is a youth hockey coaching guide about helping volunteer coaches create a team environment where players can learn the game and want to return. Tartar begins with why children come to the rink and how coaches should define success. Trust...

K M McFarland’s Beyond the Veil follows Gabe Stone, a struggling New Orleans singer whose life ends abruptly in a violent shootout. Instead of crossing over, he encounters Baron Samedi, the Voodoo Loa of Resurrection, who offers him a second chance at life on the...

In M.N. Wiggins’s El Dorado, Harry’s siblings wanted nothing to do with him when he went to prison. While serving time, Harry takes his cellmate Clyde under his wing. Clyde becomes the brother to Harry he always wanted. Together, Harry and Clyde learn how little...

Max Willi Fischer’s Working the Angles is set in 1937 Akron, Ohio, where eighteen-year-old Deet Jenkins leaves high school for a job at Consolidated, one of the city’s enormous rubber factories. He enters factory life as a battle over union representation spreads through Akron’s rubber...

After an alien force attacks Earth’s massive orbital shipyard dubbed the Forge, a few Interplanetary Security Alliance (ISA) officers and other survivors escape aboard the test ship Cosmic Explorer. A senior crew member promotes Ryan Anders, a newly commissioned ISA officer, to captain and places...

Yance Wyatt’s The Watersmith centers on Jack Calloway, a handyman trying to stay sober while navigating one family heartbreak after another in the Tennessee Valley. He finds an old moonshine still his grandfather hid behind a lone cabin, and he and his rebellious teen son,...

Bernard Doucette’s Higher Intelligence follows Jeremiah Reese, the scientist who created Archi, a synthetic mind that ended civilization seventeen years earlier. Living alone in the mountains of western North Carolina, Jeremiah hides from the machine that calls him Father, using his secluded position to help...

One Taste of Euphoria by Robert A. Walker follows Marshal Erik Carson as he tries to untangle the remaining mysteries surrounding the Takers’ Guild. With Ruler Three still elusive and a fortune missing, Carson must follow the clues left behind by the Guild while trying...

The death of a celebrity sends a nurse spiraling into a chaotic world of deception and betrayal, and only one man stands between her and a killer in the thrilling suspense novel Duplicity by Debora Dale. Jaxton was secretly hired to guard Cassandra, a private...

Matthew Galgani’s Doubting Nikki follows Michael “Cami” Camigliano, a filmmaker whose dying grandmother secretly gives him a vial she says contains the Blood of Christ. Soon afterward, Cami’s wife, Nikki, suffers a head injury during a ski trip and later collapses, leaving doctors concerned about...

Grace is a widow. Her husband, Mitch, died last year, and she has their farm up for sale. She is struggling with the sale process as the first offer, which seemed firm, is now in jeopardy. The property manager quit, and the potential buyers are...

Hauntfest at Harbor’s Hope by Angie Tompkins is the second book in the Coastal Fresh Start Romance series, but it can be read as a standalone. Cass Whitley is a glass artist who has been put in charge of the lantern ghost walk for Hauntfest...