In John Cheyenne Wilbur's Grace Notes, Jerry Cradleman is a New Jersey athlete whose path changes after his best friend decides he no longer wants to live, and Jerry's own inherited faith begins to fail. He enters Princeton Seminary hoping the ministry will give him...

In B.A. Bellec’s Cobalt Lungs, after cobalt spores make outdoor air deadly, twenty-four-year-old Maddy lives inside Vancouver’s Rogers Arena, which has been converted into a crowded Safe Zone. Her father died there, her mother is gone, and her grandmother can no longer travel, so Maddy...

The Siege of Mauldonion follows Kevin Dobbs, a seventeen year old travelling bard whose visit to the Mauldonion Province becomes part of a war for the kingdom’s survival. After Velmordian soldiers cross the border, Kevin joins Phill, the province’s Master Ranger, in warning King Gene...

What happens when fear and gossip become more powerful than the truth? In A Little Grace by Janet R. Macreery, a girl called Dory Cooper is living a simple life with her Aunt Orlie and Uncle Justin in colonial Virginia. She has recently moved there...

Some books entertain you, and others, like A. B. Watts’s Become As God, rewire you. Welcome to Modrinia, the Delivered Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and dreaded to the extent that the citizens only refer to it as “the m-word.” Sleep is a thing that...

It is 2550. Humans have spread into space, colonizing hundreds of worlds. The Human Systems Alliance (HSA) has been governing this vast network of planets for generations. However, for three decades, the HSA has been stuck in a brutal war with the Ascendancy, a powerful...

Phillip Mauldin’s A Dangerous Game sends seventeen-year-old bard Kevin Dobbs from Mauldonion Province to the desert kingdom of Selvarash beside Princess Bree, whose father, King Tharion, must approve their marriage. Bree was betrothed to Prince Maelor before meeting Dobbs, so the couple arrives knowing their...

"This wasn’t some lazy mist drifting in for a nap. It slithered, serpentine and intentional -- malevolent as a living thing with a grudge.” Malice and death arrive hand in hand in Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution, a novel by J.R. Larriba. And when they do,...

In Kritanut Wattana’s Six Days Out, six days before his scheduled release from Ashford Correctional, structural engineer Ethan Cole watches a mysterious illness tear through the prison and escape into a country where systems have collapsed. He sets out for Harlow, two hundred and ten...

Kritanut Wattana’s After Us follows Owen, a programmer living in a near-future where artificial intelligence has become part of everyday life. Recently laid off and separated from Jordana and their child, Rowan, Owen is alone in his apartment when every screen delivers the same order:...

Voices Within: Life Before and After by Lana Stasek tells a deeply personal story of survival, mapping out the inner lines that can divide a person’s life into two distinct halves. Stasek walks us through her past by exploring complicated family relationships and major historical...

Wouter van Wyk’s Legacy of Ash is the first book in the Brotherhood Chronicles. Adrian Ward is a brilliant but deeply wounded foster kid, and the discovery of a water-damaged grimoire in the church basement costs him everything. But it also awakens the genius in...

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...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

Songs of Yeak and Kinnari Book 1 by Som Phin is the first installment in the Khmer Legend of Love and Destiny series. At the dawn of the world, a Kinnari and a Yeak warrior joined forces to stabilize chaos and bring order. Thus, the...

"Don't whistle at night. You'll call something." Leakhana Doung, a twenty-eight-year-old dental hygienist from Fresno, often hears warnings like that from her mother, who honors her Cambodian heritage. Leakhana doesn’t take them seriously. But then she finds herself in the middle of a medieval village...

Emerald Spirit by Som Phin follows Sathea, an eighteen-year-old Berkeley student who falls asleep while playing a Cambodian-inspired fantasy game and wakes inside Srok Moreakot as the peacock spirit Peakea Thmey. The spirit realm is protected by a network of wards, but its eastern boundary...

Count to Ten by Raul Quintana Selleras is about Evan Morris, an ordinary man. Evan wakes up tied to a chair in a dark, abandoned warehouse. He was kidnapped by the "Chaos Killer" for a twisted psychological game. In front of Evan are ten numbered...

In Som Phin’s The Naga Sisters Chronicles, six Cambodian American sisters travel to Cambodia, their late mother’s homeland. During a sunrise visit to Angkor Wat, eldest sister Chanda Seang remembers the stories their mother told about naga guardians and the princess who helped establish a...