“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

Lord March Rain: The Borders of Existence by Richard Meillear is a sense-awakening journey into the unknown and explores that age-old, burning question: what happens when we die? When just an ordinary, average human being, who had achieved no notoriety, success, or fame in his...

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...

C.L. Rosario's Angel Letters of Esther follows Esther Consuelos, a Cuban-Italian Formula One publicist, and a lonely New York writer, Jan Luis Larose, who meet at the 2025 Miami Grand Prix. They discover their parents nearly fell in love in Ostia decades earlier. Believing their...

Dorianne Ashe’s The Eden Falls Chronicles begins in 2037, when a routine blood test on newly sworn-in President Marcus Hale leads White House physician Dr. Elias Renn to an ancient genetic marker in his DNA. The sequence appears engineered, connecting Marcus to human bloodlines altered...

Edd Ahearn's In the Shadow of Beauty takes readers to the Yorkshire village of Norton, as veteran Tomasz “Ski” Bankowski enters a burning tradesmen’s office, where electrician Ben Carmichael lies dead beside scattered diamonds. After Ski rescues injured plasterer Aiden Anson, he learns that the...

Anna Lamnari’s The Last Labor is set in the legendary Mycenaean age, when Herakles returns to Mycenae believing ten years of punishment have bought back his life. King Eurystheus has other plans. After rejecting two completed labors, he orders his cousin to steal Hera’s golden...

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...

After completing their first assignment, the six candidates of the Order of the Steel Rose—Mr. Carnby, Dr. Whitehall, Axel, Percy, Emma, and Jane—are accepted into the Order. However, they have many questions about the evil they encountered and the culprits in their custody. They soon...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...

In Kris Paulsen's Galaxy Walkers 2: Unity of Worlds, Lyra and Archie are Universe Walkers, humans whose awakened minds let them cross galaxies using extraordinary abilities. Their enemy, Saros, is a Walker who is Archie’s presumed-dead mother. Archie builds a device intended to stop her...

Do you dream? Do you ever wonder what your dreams really mean? In Slavica Joković’s Dreams, the author explores some of her own dreams, beginning with a dream about an earlier era, walking with someone special, only to run into the same person in the...

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 Dating (Again), author Dr. Paula Caligiuri shows us how our prehistoric survival wiring impacts modern online romance for people starting over in their middle years. After going through a mid-life divorce, the author fell into the chaotic world of matchmaking apps, witnessing a culture...

“Sometimes being unschooled is an advantage in art: you have more freedom to unlock your emotions . . . to not know when you’ve crossed a boundary that probably shouldn’t have been there in the first place.” Boundaries fade in Vaulted Night (A Novella of...

In Michael Aloisi’s Willow Circle, seventy-four-year-old Mary Belmont has rebuilt her life nearly five years after the death of her husband Harold, finding an unlikely best friend in sixteen-year-old neighbor Tina Tanner and surprising herself when younger retiree Ted enters her world. Across their Tallwood...

If you want a fresh take on a classic journey through the forest, The Rizzas deliver a beautiful version in their book, Little Red and Benny the Wolf. We meet Ruby, a cheerful little girl whose mom sends her out to deliver a basket of...

The Ugly Duckling and the Missing Hat, written by The Rizzas, is a picture book for young children. A duckling feels like the odd one out. He is constantly bullied for the way he looks and begs the author to design him differently. But the...

Twenty-eight-year-old Eleonora McFarland had had a rough time in graduate school trying to escape the shadow of her parents, the McFarlands, a household name in New York theaters. She had always wanted recognition for her own work and talent. That's why, now, as an assistant...