June 30, 2026
In Amanda M. Cetas’s Charting a New Course, two families face financial difficulties as they attempt to establish themselves in the New World of 17th century America. Calling upon their young sons to pitch in, they unintentionally endanger them.
As the novel opens, young Etienne is marooned in the Caribbean after being tricked into working […]
May 26, 2026
A.G. Graham’s Demon’s Flight aims to explore the complexities of grief, addiction, and blended families through an intergenerational drama set in California’s wine country and Arizona.
The novel chronicles the custody battle and emotional fallout surrounding Lizzie, an infant whose birth mother Laura dies unexpectedly, leaving guardianship to her cousin Lia Best, a retired rock […]
May 26, 2026
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”), […]
May 26, 2026
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 […]
May 18, 2026
Daniel Rirdan’s short, 22-page story—featuring striking artwork by Gennadi Erkulis that complements the folkloric tone perfectly—is a whimsical tale about a woman who attempts the impossible by building a spaceship to harvest “golden liquid” from the sun. Why would she want to risk her life for such a dangerous mission? Her simple answer is: “Because.”
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February 10, 2026
Tonally and thematically reminiscent of landmark science fiction releases like John Varley’s Gaea trilogy, Larry Niven’s Ringworld, and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, Daniel Rirdan’s latest novel reads like an unearthed ‘70s classic.
More than 2000 years after tens of thousands of Hellenistic Age Earthlings boarded a celestial ark carrying the planet towards a […]
January 20, 2026
In The Gray Sheep, S.M. Somerset offers an intricately imagined world that expands the standard boundaries of the fantasy genre.
The action takes place in Marenburg, a coastal city bearing, simultaneously, marks of a medieval port, ancient market mecca and thriving capital in the throes of an industrial revolution. The book opens six months after […]
December 9, 2025
Hope on the Border delivers an instructive, visually engaging account of an American philanthropist’s decades of charitable work on behalf of Mexicans.
Author Gil Gillenwater is an Arizona entrepreneur and world adventurer whose practice of Eastern religions helped him empathize with the suffering of migrants in his backyard and commit to sustained action. In 1987, […]
October 14, 2025
Set against the backdrop of 1970s Singapore, Phineas Cricket’s third novel, aimed at young adults, focuses on a 13-year-old American boy who reluctantly agrees to espionage.
Mike Turner’s parents are missing. Mr. Turner, an American diplomat, worked for the Public Safety Division of USAID. Mrs. Turner accompanied her husband to Da Nang, Vietnam, leaving Mike […]
September 9, 2025
As the title might suggest, Richard Davis’s Assassin Royale is a fantasy tale centered on an assassin named Killian Lord, who serves King Ember Starfire.
Ember sends Lord to investigate an independent duchy that’s been taken over by a rogue knight, Maximilian Durandal, who attacked the elderly royals living in the duchy. A servant who […]