Phantom’s Revenge: The Adventures of Air Angel by John Witcher tells the story of Angela Carter, who suddenly becomes a superhero overnight. One stormy night at the Wilmont University lab, Angela is deep in researching a strange artifact covered in odd markings. Suddenly, lightning hits...

Stephen Panus’s novel, The Circles We Carry, is a heart-wrenching and profoundly thoughtful story of a family’s unexpected, deep loss and their harrowing journey through grief in search of a way forward. Jesse Brennan is 17, a junior in Naperville High School in Illinois. He...

Yance Wyatt’s The Watersmith centers on Jack Calloway, a handyman trying to stay sober while navigating one family heartbreak after another in the Tennessee Valley. He finds an old moonshine still his grandfather hid behind a lone cabin, and he and his rebellious teen son,...

In 2012, newlywed Rachel Barnes, a big-time executive coach for business leaders, and her husband Rob Bukin, a successful businessman, were on their honeymoon in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Barely a year later, they divorced after a major fallout and betrayal. During their honeymoon,...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

A Death in Cambodia Town by Christine Burrill follows Kat Hicks, a Marine veteran and homicide detective investigating the murder of a young Cambodian American dance student. Satya’s body was found hanging from an oil pump in Long Beach. Although graffiti at the scene indicates...

I Was Angry & Now I’m At Peace by Ray Toy centers on Tybalt, a Philadelphia-based pharmaceutical journalist and artist who is fighting to stay afloat amid severe emotional dysregulation. Written as a sequence of intimate journal entries, the book tracks Tybalt’s attempts to heal...

One Good Thing by Kate Kaminski starts with a parent’s worst nightmare when eight-year-old Janet disappears from a restaurant restroom. She is raised as Madeline in Pennsylvania, growing up into a normal adult with absolutely no memory of being kidnapped by the woman she calls...

Tawni Alexander, a teacher and aspiring singer in Cleveland, is surprised to learn from her friends that her lover, Dante, recently proposed to someone. She knew their relationship was dying, but she is disappointed that Dante never mentioned his engagement to her. She ends things...

The Ninth Life of Missy by Raj Shankar follows May Calloway, a twenty-three-year-old sitting in a half-packed Greenport apartment, days away from a one-way move to Ireland. Her carefully closed-off world is turned upside down when her rescue cat, Missy, suddenly starts talking to her...