May 30, 2023
W. Royce Adams’ Scar Songs is an engaging collection of short stories that showcase characters coping with life events and the residual feelings stirred by those happenings, including loss, regret, jealousy, betrayal, and even an ultimate breakdown.
In the opening story “Thief Catcher,” a young grocery store clerk has second thoughts about reporting an elderly […]
May 30, 2023
A shocking violation of faith and innocence forces an Italian-American Catholic priest to reflect on the course of his life—and the paths not taken—in Vincent Panettiere’s decades-spanning contemporary novel.
Readers are introduced to Monsignor Steven Trimboli in 2006. The 70-year-old pastor of Brooklyn’s Queen of Peace is disturbed by the Catholic Church’s growing list of […]
May 24, 2023
J.S. Wilson’s A Hundred Honeymoons takes readers into the world of teenage love, lust, and angst in small town San Luis Obispo, California, during the ’60s.
Todd, 16, a worker on his uncle’s ranch, falls for local girl Sally, 14, who lives in the suburbs nearby. Along with her two sisters, Sally is being raised […]
May 23, 2023
This fun, fast-paced mystery adds a fantastic twist to adult detective fiction as furry protagonists in an alternative New York City seek justice in life and the afterlife.
In the sweltering summer of 1954 in Greenwich Village, Morton Digby, junior detective and border collie mix, breaks in his new partner, Scottish terrier J.B. Puddleworth, with […]
May 23, 2023
Set predominantly on Nera, a nanotechnology-powered planet comprising socially stratified super-cities called Metros, Justin Hale’s Runners is a cyber-punk thriller chronicling the exploits of a group of outlaws led by the charismatic captain of the spaceship The Misnomer.
Mr. Zan and his motley crew are gunrunners trying to make ends meet. They trained as elite […]
May 23, 2023
Attending the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago is a life-changing experience for shy widow Junaluska Lewis and her 14-year-old son, Henry, in this pleasing historical novel.
When Juna’s father-in-law tells her he’s arranged a three-week trip to the world’s fair for her and Henry, she agrees, despite her concerns about her the health of […]
May 23, 2023
J. Brandon Lowry’s debut fantasy novel, set on an island, follows the struggles of orphaned siblings who embark on a quest to find their destiny and understand their deceased parents’ dark past.
Sophie Farrier, 14, and her older brother Damon live with their aunt and uncle in the small village called Seaside, a place where […]
May 20, 2023
Gutted, by Anna Madorsky, is a psychological thriller about two damaged young people who meet late one night and are drawn into a strange, dark romance.
Elliott, emotionally damaged by her family, constantly berates and belittles herself. She thinks she’s unlikeable and unlovable, yet she has friends who care for her, and she provides support […]
May 20, 2023
In J.L. Askew’s crime story, Alaska Deadly, private investigator Race Warren uncovers sinister goings-on as he attempts to find a missing man in Alaska.
Claire Billings hires Race to find her estranged husband, Ron, who had left for Alaska, and give him a message. While traveling, Race overhears a man in a bar recounting his […]
May 16, 2023
Author Nicola Tyche introduces an engaging protagonist and expansive narrative universe in her epic fantasy North Queen.
Tyche’s first installment of a promised series opens with Norah Andell awakening in a mysterious setting with no memories of her life to that point. After then being rescued in the wilds of the Shadowlands by Alexander Rhemus, […]