It is the 1013th year of the Witchlands, a realm of three nations, Dynestra, Lost Lloryn, and Khas, and ten years since Spellfall, when all magic vanished from the realm. Jalara “Jal” Riago, a Llorynese refugee hosted by the Velmont family, the nobles of Fairhold...

The Casserole Code is a fabulous debut cozy mystery by Maissie Wren. The whimsical town of Harmony Creek in Tennessee is known for its long-standing traditional Annual Church Potluck. Nora Beth Hensley, the town’s nurse practitioner, bakes her grandmother’s Blueberry Buckle for the event. At...

Tsung-Long Wu’s Entropy Gate follows Chen Ya-Lin as she maintains a structured lifestyle to survive a deep, silent grief that has lasted for fifteen years. Her home runs on a strict schedule, which keeps her focused and prevents her from looking back at her late...

The Gift follows Butch Blackwell, a boy raised by his mother, Pansy, inside the strict world of the Jehovah’s Witnesses after his father, Ace Sharkey, disappears before his birth. Butch grows up in rural California under rules that shape his life, while rancher Steve Bultemeyer...

Matthew West-James’s Burning Salt begins with the Jaka, an ancient civilization that has learned to cross between universes through the Nexus after earlier expansion nearly destroyed them. When a rupture starts sending three-dimensional matter into a planar universe, every crossing tears through the two-dimensional environment...

Robb Erwin’s A Refuge of Last Resort follows twenty-two-year-old Lorelei Rücker, a former wildlife student trapped in debt bondage at Saino-Blatt, a Florida consulting company built around corporate scams. Lorelei has hyperosmia, which lets her detect odors other people miss, but no warning prepares her...

Held in the Vanishing by Ti Mougne is a memoir about a dutiful daughter who becomes her parents' caregiver. In this book, Mougne talks about the wonderful, unpleasant, draining, and heart-wrenching moments she, her husband, and her son experienced while living with her parents. Mougne...

Guardians of Destiny, the first book of Louise Briony Hallam’s Stone of Souls trilogy, presents the celestial world of Asteria, a realm now threatened by Chaos. The universal forces of creation (Light of Being) and Chaos once fought, and Chaos was defeated. But now the...

Mickey Jenks, a private investigator, receives an anonymous tip about Claudia Danvers, a missing woman in a cold case. The tipster says he witnessed her murder two decades ago but fears the killer will come after him if he speaks to the police. He asks...

It is 1891. Richard Carnby, Terrence Alexander “Axel” Hastings, Percival Wallace, Dr. Stanthorpe Whitehall, Emma Westover, and Jane Halifax each receive a letter offering membership in a clandestine organization. To accept, they must appear at a specific address. As they heed the invitation, they meet...