Cold, Dark, and Silent by David C. Reed is set in the rural area of Seacord in Hurrt County at the end of the Covid 19 lockdown. Ashe has retired from police duties in the nearby Metro to nurse his father in his last days....

In Kimberly Wenzler’s Letting Go, after Lucy Buchanan dies, her husband Max raises their son Sammy while attempting to resume his writing career. Lucy narrates as a silent witness to their daily routines, observing as Sammy insists she still visits him, and Max questions how...

When a spacecraft lands at the Washington Fairgrounds, Rosaline Browning discovers gray aliens standing inside her bakery, humming at her display case and the muffins they've been eating in Baker's Dozen by Nathan Lee Trautenberg. News of the landing spreads quickly, drawing Eugene Schumaker, whose...

Richard Robbins’ First Lady of the New World is about Felicite St. Maxent, a young woman trying to make her way in colonial New Orleans. After her husband dies young, she has to manage her life while politics and society around her are constantly evolving....

All young Artemis knew about her mother, Letoa, came from the stories her Aunt Sophia told her. According to Sophia, the two sisters had been sent to the court of King Ethelbert of Cantwareburh following the demise of their parents. But then, after Letoa gets...

Elizabeth Kellam's Chopin’s Last Manuscript begins in 1971, when a Polish craftsman renovating Eugène Delacroix’s Paris studio discovers a hidden leather portfolio beneath the floorboards. Inside are a manuscript signed by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin and a diary that appears to chronicle his private account of...

No Man’s Land: This Hallowed Ground Book Three by Donna E. Lane is a continuation of the generational saga of the MacAlister family, set in the early 1900s. Fin, Buck, and Ian have emigrated to New Zealand along with their parents. A deliberately set, tragic...

In J.E. Spina’s In a Second, Athena Stone wakes up in a hospital after a violent car crash during a storm and insists her boyfriend Justin was with her, though authorities claim she was found alone. As she recovers, fragments of memories surface that point...

“How could I have been so obtuse, so neglectful that my dying son hated me until the end?” For Joe Fredericks, the protagonist of Wayne Feinstein's novel, Turning, it took little effort to be such a sleazeball. Joe is the definition of success in one...

Dog Days of Summer Love by Steven F. Freeman follows neurologist Allan Shaffer, who works at Melgen Therapeutics. He’s trying to navigate pressures from corporate science and conduct his secret genetic experiment with an enhanced dog named Louie. As if his life isn’t already busy,...