July 21, 2026

Ice in Moonlight

In Ice in Moonlight, author Emilia Farrow explores a brutal fantasy world.

In the Borealia realm, the natural elements are dangerous. When the sun sets and conditions turn to what’s known as Midnight, mortal beings still outdoors perish from the brutal cold—and plenty of humans suffer that fate. That’s because all priority for safety goes […]

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July 7, 2026

A Dark Slip of Time

A Dark Slip of Time is a haunting, absorbing novel that follows its protagonists’ souls as they slip through modern-day Toronto and into long-ago time periods.

Allie Sutherland is a single mother and student in Toronto researching medieval Scottish history. Shortly after she has a strange encounter with a man at a hockey rink, the […]

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June 25, 2026

This Never Happened: A Call Girl in D.C.

Kent Heckenlively’s book follows one woman’s plunge into a world where the foreign intelligence service, big-shot politicians, and organized crime collide in ways that are both thrilling and unsettling.

In an Editor’s Note prior to this story, Heckenlively explains how the book came about. He recounts meeting Heidi Scherzinger at his mother-in-law’s senior community. When […]

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June 18, 2026

Come Back and Haunt Me

Kim Catanzarite’s novel is a sort of love story, but right from the get-go, she indicates it’s not necessarily the happily-ever-after type. In the Prologue, the novel’s heroine tells readers that her young dreams of meeting her soulmate weren’t accurate. “I know (love) can be a blessing,” she says. “The problem is, I also know […]

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June 9, 2026

Adapt and Overcome, Dear: Oh, Victoria!

Set after the Vietnam War’s end, Brendan Bey’s historical, military-themed novel follows two recent graduates as they undergo military training and endeavor to live out the soldiers’ motto of “adapt and overcome” during their training and beyond.

After graduating college, Jack Behan is accepted into the Army’s Officer Candidate School (OCS). He begins at Fort […]

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June 9, 2026

Heart of the Ash Wood: The Mythic Bones Duology, Book Two

Blending paranormal fantasy with steamy romance, the second and concluding installment of Kate Gateley’s Mythic Bones duology (after 2025’s Shadow of the Yew Tree) ends the love story between Druid doctor Ronan Gallagher and Phoebe Ashburn, a woman struggling to find out who—or what—she is after surviving brutal experimentation from the evil Wraiths.

Phoebe has […]

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May 26, 2026

Laura

Laura is an old-fashioned, generation-spanning tale set in lush Napa Valley and France’s Bordeaux region. A rich, calorie-laden feast, the novel recalls the bestselling family sagas of the ‘70s and ‘80s filled with glamorous people with salt-of-the-earth values, fierce passions and equally fierce ambitions.

This ensemble novel begins with a chapter focusing on Alejandro (“Alex”), […]

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May 26, 2026

Bands of Time

In A.G. Graham’s decades-spanning novel, five people connected by family history and buried secrets struggle to reconcile the past.

For history professor Beth Stewart, heartache is a known companion. Beth’s mother and father divorced when Beth was eight. Despite entering new relationships, Beth’s parents remained on-again, off-again lovers.

Beth’s romantic track record is also marked […]

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May 18, 2026

Never Tell a Soul

Darlene Pierre-Louis’s novel, Never Tell a Soul, centers on a close-knit circle of friends, examining the complexities of their lives and how their marital relationships and friendships evolve over time.

The novel features four couples: Terri and Keith, Angela and Ethan, Denise and Clark, and Ava and Wyatt. They meet for a retreat at Martha’s […]

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April 21, 2026

Eternal is the Night

Eternal is the Night is a propulsive romantasy featuring a young woman seeking to uncover the secrets of her mother’s past while navigating the dangerous politics of an arcane society and her growing attraction to a man with secrets of his own.

Anna Kamoria has lost both her mother and the memory of what happened […]

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