"That’s the cruelest trick the system plays: it teaches you that truth alone can win. Then it buries you with the paperwork.” But if the paperwork isn't enough to bury you, Owen Parr's novel The Shadow Ledger (A Jack Ryder Thriller) shows just how deep...

When Doctor Anna-Claire Carden walks into the offices of Shepherd and Associates seeking Jake Shepherd's help in tracking down her parents, he is reluctant to take the case. His colleague Scarlett, on the other hand, cannot wait to dig into a potential mystery packed with...

Lonely World by Megan Hale begins in nineteenth-century London. A school outing ends in disaster when a carriage is deliberately wrecked, leaving a young girl named Cristal blind and quietly reclassified by the Crown. Removed from her family, she is absorbed into a state system...

In Christmas Kitten Caper by Max Parrott, private detective Angela Atkinson and her lovable Border Collie, Ruff, are on another case. When Angela and Ruff go to the farm where their family always chooses their annual Christmas tree, they discover Nelson Hemlock, the owner of...

Sharp Turns Ahead: Ventures Beyond the Beaten Path by Daniel P. Douglas is a curated collection of short fiction spanning speculative futures, quiet human moments, moral puzzles, and imaginative what-ifs. Organized into four sections, the book guides readers through stories that range from science fiction...

The Tuscarawas County Baking Contest is coming up. Miss Fannie is set to enter with her special biscuits. She’s come close to winning in previous attempts. In Wanda E. Brunstetter and Martha Bolton’s The Rise and Fall of Miss Fannie’s Biscuits, will Miss Fannie stand...

In Picasso's Hidden Legacy by Beatrix Koch, Marilyn Hendrickson, a New York art historian, time-travels back to 1925 Antibes with Boris Latsky, a brilliant scientist and her longtime partner. The goal? To persuade Pablo Picasso to paint one hundred secret works that would be buried...

Lyric Ginsberg’s Into the Breath of the Wind follows a man slowly navigating complicated relationships, including Adriana, Hunter, and Serene. The story shifts from inward reflection to emotional closeness and dreamlike scenes where imagination and reality begin to overlap in subtle, simple ways. The narrator...

In Power There's Silence by Adam N. Dix starts when Billy White stepped into Trina Rose’s cantina. After a while, Billy proposed to Trina, and a year later, their son, Blythe, was born. When Blythe was eight years old, Billy drove away toward the big...

Afterglow by Troy Kotanides is a psychological drama following Edyn, a 32-year-old man who has psychogenic amnesia, a very rare form of retrograde amnesia in which one loses all memories after some traumatic incident. Coming back to his psychologist, Dr. Gordon Raine, after a gap...