In her memoir The Great Triumph, Jeanne Estelle Saddler follows the life of her mother, Thelma, from a childhood in a South Carolina sharecropping family to adulthood in Detroit. After the Osborne family joins the Great Migration, Thelma's intelligence brings her into the home of...

In Sleepers, J. B. Velasquez introduces us to Hugo, a single father whose life in Tucson is currently being held together by sheer luck and a dwindling bank account. To save what’s left of his world, he signs on with Lunatech to earn money while...

In Kevlar, Tattoos and Invisible Scars, Matthew West-James gives us a zero-filter look at the mental conflict of coming home from Iraq and feeling like a complete fraud. As an 88M truck driver, he saw combat and earned the medals, yet spent years convincing himself...

In Andie Holman’s first book in The Laughter of the Sun series, The Mermaid's Wrath, a warrior mermaid named Scyphozoa “Jelly” discovers that she is made for greater things when the coveted Vetula Pearl awakens in her. Her rage triggers an explosion and makes her...

In John Wesley Wilson’s Straight to Hell: Memoir of an Ex-Evangelical Pastor, Wilson grows up in rural Alabama inside a world shaped by Pentecostal religion, family violence, poverty, and fear of divine punishment. After becoming a pastor, husband, and father, he spends years trying to...

A Fine Madness: A Novella in Stories and Other Mad Stories by Jeffrey Feingold is a collection of thought-provoking tales that explore human fragility, masculinity, loss, and identity. You meet characters like B, a bald Jewish guy trying to make sense of life and loneliness...

Muriel Finch and The Missing Key by Deborah Erdmann introduces us to Muriel, a sharp-eyed retiree who notices absolutely everything and has zero filters. Her peaceful retirement in Seaglass Cove takes a bizarre turn when a stranger (Norman) wakes up in her flowerbeds smelling like...

Fated by Adeline Bryant is not your typical werewolf romance story. Fated follows a group of young werewolves who are each about to step into their respective roles of power and face the harsh reality that comes along with it. As I read the story,...

In M. Ainihi’s Patchwork, readers are plunged into a grim fantasy realm alongside a solitary outcast named Patricia. She finds a brass key in a mundane thrift shop. This magical item unlocks a gateway into Knowhere, a ruined, decaying landscape that actually resembles a shattered...

In Elias Wynn: The Witness by Sebastian A. Guzman, we read about eighteen-year-old Elias Wynn, devastated by a rare autoimmune disease. After being hospitalized, Elias is sent home so that he can learn to understand his body’s new limitations. Elias notices a flyer promising restoration...

In Matt Aynes’ The Novian, Charles Ferguson is a university professor still recovering from imprisonment inside a secret technological experiment. He learns that the Magnus Foundation has established a hidden island in the Pacific where artificial intelligence now directs a plan capable of reshaping civilization....

Professor Green returns for another unusual mystery in Kateryna Rakova's The Secret of the Bubbles, the fourth book in The Adventures of Professor Green series. A mysterious sickness is appearing across the city. No one can figure out why people are suddenly foaming. Detective Nick...

Scott Fleuter’s Behind the Badge: From Police Chief to Opioid Addict follows Fleuter from a childhood where danger teaches his body to react before thought into a law-enforcement career that makes protection his public role. He starts as a street officer and eventually becomes a...

Under The Apple Tree by Kathleen J. Easley opens with Kate Ecklund, recently divorced, buying an old Victorian mansion in the small town of Salmon Falls, Washington, hoping to turn it into a bed and breakfast. As she and her brother Jared start the renovations,...

Diddly Duggins and the Great Memory Misplacement by Daniel Robert Long is a unique and exciting adventure where magic, books, and fantasy come to life. Diddly Duggins doesn’t want to waste his time learning about the Great Memory Misplacement. Not when he could be spending...

In Diane Hester’s The Fortress of Us, after her mother dies suddenly in their Adelaide kitchen, eight-year-old Kelsey Haslett moves with her father, Ryan, to rural Port Lincoln, where a tree house becomes the hiding place for Molly, a silent child she has smuggled from...

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...

In Fun With A Monster, we are introduced to a little boy who is ending his day and getting ready for bed. He has a nightly ritual: searching his room for anything that might be creepy in the dark. Once he feels satisfied, he climbs...

In Amira Vasileva’s Chosen by a God, eighteen-year-old Valia lives with her ailing mother in the village of Endra outside Clahmore. Valia takes a job in a small bookstore as a mysterious figure begins appearing whenever she is alone. Her life changes after an envelope...

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...