The Buried Relic is a paranormal romance novel by Steve Lindahl. Ellie is a religious studies student pursuing a career in the ministry. She inherits a lakeside house from her estranged uncle. Despite the distance between her studies and the new house, she moves there...

Time Travel Academy: The Genius List by Reginald Williams is a breakneck sci-fi thriller for fans of time travel. Cindy Sanders is a high school student in Dallas, with the IQ of a genius and a disastrous JROTC record. After solving a time-travel equation, she...

In his memoir Last August, Joe Gulla shares the month he believes will be his mother Mary Ann’s final one at Calvary Hospital in the Bronx. Alzheimer’s has brought Mary Ann to the hospice, where ordinary conversation has stopped, yet Joe keeps arriving with the...

If puffins could bake, what would they make? Poppy Puffin’s Pastries by Ruth Amanda is about a pastry shop in Scotland owned by a bird named Poppy Puffin. Through playful rhymes and a bunch of puffin characters, the story introduces a delicious-looking assortment of baked...

The Outside Voice by C. S. Zolondek is a psychological thriller with a twisty plot and a family that implodes with a secret. In spring in Ann Arbor, Michigan, four-year-old hyperlexic Blythe Daye hears voices in her head, and at first, she thinks it is...

The Havana Syndrome: The Malecón Fall is a spy thriller novel by Dirk Marks. When the ambassador for the Kingdom of Tabari, Julius Jumaane, dies under mysterious circumstances in Havana, Cuba, Alex Simba, an intelligence officer, is called upon to solve the mystery. Alex is...

Dwayne E Hackett’s People of Nyame: The Emissary begins in 2495, after descendants of the African Diaspora have built the Umoja Compact across the Nyame Cluster. Ashley Walker, a scholar on Ubuntu, waits for permission to study the Dyson Almond, an alien archive vessel near...

In the literary fiction novel, I Am Danvers by Kate Kaminski, Marie “Danny” Danvers makes a living as a live-in companion inside very wealthy homes. After a job with the Whitaker family ends in accusations, art adviser Ian St. Martin sends her to Los Angeles...

What would you do if you woke up without any memory of who you are? In Between Rooms by Adrian M. Mompoint is the story of a woman who experiences that phenomenon. The story begins as she’s waking up. She’s somewhere she doesn’t recognize, and...

When Amber Black was six years old, she heard the story of Cain and Abel. The story moved her so deeply that she has sought to maintain a close relationship with God ever since. After going through various life experiences, she has come to understand...

The Lord of Records is Adria Sanders’s account as a former skeptic of the metaphysical who begins receiving telepathic teaching from an entity she understands as the guardian of her soul’s Akashic file. The book explains, through her conversations with this being, that human life...

John Malone’s An Ascendant of Kings follows Adofo Abas Akopian, a prince of Akopia who was believed dead after the Carth Dominion shattered his homeland at the Crimson Bluffs. Taken into slavery as a boy, Adofo survives years inside the Dominion’s military order before returning...

You’ll be going straight to Dragon’s Whiff Campground in the fun pages of A Dragon in My Campground to see if there’s really a mythical beast hiding just off the trail. Meru is totally sure there is a dragon out there because he keeps finding...

Denise Thompson-Slaughter’s memoir Since You Weren’t There & Other Memories charts her personal path through the social landscape of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. She recounts explicit moments such as her teenage uncles shooting rats from a Kenilworth dining-room window, buying Little Golden Books at...

There Be Dragon by Michael Tars follows Kwe, a highly trained agent, whose final mission ends in disaster when he's caught in an explosion and seemingly dies. Instead of waking up in a hospital, he finds himself in the snowy kingdom of Kalador, where three...

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by...

Every family has a story of courage somewhere in its past. For the Swarts, theirs begins in 1912 in the Netherlands. Inspired by the experiences of the author's own ancestors, eight-year-old Helena Swart is at the center of it all in Penny S. Ledbetter's De...

Mihail Băeșu’s Pastborn follows Adam Connor, who wakes up in 2199 with almost no memory of his life and discovers that Earth now belongs to robots. Humans have been illegal since Bill 1 was passed in 2113, yet Adam is technically permitted to exist because...

Matthew West-James’s Burning Salt begins with the Jaka, an ancient civilization that has learned to cross between universes through the Nexus after earlier expansion nearly destroyed them. When a rupture starts sending three-dimensional matter into a planar universe, every crossing tears through the two-dimensional environment...

Daniel R Hersch’s The Witch-Bane, book two in The Death Keeper Chronicles, takes Alexander Wren and his vampire wife, Yiyao Shi, into a Phoenix murder investigation narrated by Death himself. When five-year-old Morgan Fowler is killed in her bedroom and occult markings cover the walls,...