Zara’s Gothic by Karina McRoberts follows Zara, a traumatized ex-EMT who’s drowning in guilt and trying to escape her old life. When she loses her shared housing, a slick but bizarre real estate agent named Jenner steps in with a strange offer; he lets her...

Detective Winston Radhauser faces the worst nightmare that can befall any parent in Susan Clayton-Goldner's A Harbor of Hope. In the dead of the night, someone wounds their stallion, Ameer, in the barn. Radhauser and Gracie go to bed tired that night after having the...

It has been five years since seventy-year-old Loretta Willis buried her husband and decided to remain single, only entertaining the company of family and friends. She enjoys hosting parties at her house in Lakeview, New Orleans, especially during the holidays. The festive season has arrived,...

Murder in Maverick Bay by Louise Furley is a murder mystery that follows Giancomo “Gian” Montanero in the coastal town of Chicory Landing, Maine. Gian is a former Marine Raider and a detective who is learning how to be part of the family he was...

Tethered Spirits by Corinne Hoebers traces the interwoven paths of the Heber family and the Mì’kmaq during the French and Indian War. The story centers on the son, Christian, whose kidnapping becomes the doorway into a new family and a new identity. In his adopted...

Two Lefts Don't Make a Right by Dan Romanello is a sharp, entertaining thriller that drops readers right into the world of Dylan Tomassi, a self-made Florida investor with a generous heart and an uncanny ability to attract trouble. When Dylan travels to Connecticut to...

In Steve Doherty’s Crossroads, in 1948, American counterintelligence officer Jonathan Preston learns that Uchito Tsukuda, a former Japanese intelligence commander, is moving weapons to North Korea while searching for a legendary Masamune sword. Tsukuda believes the blade can restore his power, but Preston sees a...

John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

In Eilidh MacTavish's Any Way Out, an unnamed child lives with Pop, a father who destroys her youth with physical, sexual, and emotional abuse. Mother, who is also a victim, still lashes out at the child and blames her for much of the abuse. As...

Deborah J. Brasket’s This Sea Within follows Lena, a young journalist who goes to San Balanque to connect with her heritage and to follow a story. What begins as a chance to learn more about the country soon brings her inside the world of the...