In C. L. Schneider’s Rise, Esilda lives in seventeenth-century Encastle, where suspicion of witchcraft turns deadly after her secret relationship with Marion, a woman born with magical power, is exposed. After suffering a terrible loss, Marion devotes her life to regaining what was taken from...

In Where the Door Is Thin by Chuck Morgan, a priest's body is found beneath the Black Water Bridge. The crime scene prompts Chief Alexis Calder to call in the Denver FBI field office. Calder specifically asks for an agent experienced in dealing with religious...

The Cauldron of Anastasis is the fifth book in William P. Blake III’s The Blood and the Seed series. The story weaves sixty years of occult mystery into one epic showdown. The story opens in 1930s Bucharest, where the immortal sorceress Morgaine Lefey evades the...

In The Awakening of Fear by Michael Decesare, six-year-old Michael Toscani experiences fear for the first time, and it comes peacefully, a thought he had never had before, slipping into his mind. He hears something whisper his name in the dark and realizes fear isn't...

"This wasn’t some lazy mist drifting in for a nap. It slithered, serpentine and intentional -- malevolent as a living thing with a grudge.” Malice and death arrive hand in hand in Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution, a novel by J.R. Larriba. And when they do,...

Sol by DiVitto Kelly follows Sol, a stubborn senior citizen who has recently retired from running a Queens deli to enjoy his golden years in Miami Beach. A family vacation to his wife Myrna’s ancestral home in Romania disrupts this peaceful retirement when a vampire...

William J. McCoy and his wife, Olivia (Liv), are celebrating that they’re going to be parents. But on the drive home, the car blows a tire, and Liv is killed. William wakes up in the hospital totally bereft. He receives a visit from an odd...

In Joel Hopkinson’s The Devil of Dark Dreams, book one of The Otherworld Portals series, Afghan-Australian widower Yasir Nassim owns the Dead Palomino, a Brisbane steakhouse built around his love of country music. When employee Albert arrives bruised and exhausted, he claims a creature sits...

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...

Dona Masi’s The Taking follows Vera Diparma, a girl in rural New England whose childhood is marked by lights in the sky and missing hours she cannot explain. Her father, John, raised her in an old house near Pangea after her mother, Suzy, disappeared under...