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Persona by William J. Cook

A haunting, intelligent, slow-burning thriller that explores memory, trauma, and identity. Cook weaves psychological tension and mystery in this story of a psychiatrist drawn into a case where identity itself becomes suspect. Psychiatrist Carter Lane inherits his best friend’s patients…
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A Real Life American Dream: The John H. McClatchy Story by Susan Marie Chapman

Quietly authoritative, richly detailed, and deeply reflective—a vivid portrait of grit, enterprise, and family. In Chapman’s compelling work, a Philadelphia builder rises from childhood poverty to create one of the region’s most influential real estate empires. Born in Baltimore in…
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Across a Starlit Sky by Susan Shalev

Atmospheric, poignant, and deeply humane… Shalev’s latest is a sweeping historical drama that carries readers from wartime Amsterdam to Inquisition-era Portugal, where love, faith, and survival are tested across centuries. As war engulfs Amsterdam, Mirjam, a gentile piano teacher, risks…
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Too Deep to Drown by Stacy R. Ward

Atmospheric, emotionally astute, and quietly powerful… A determined teenager seeks freedom on the open ocean in Ward’s brilliant YA novel. Seventeen-year-old Meg Pullman has emancipated herself from a difficult childhood and signs on as an intern in the engine room…
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The Book of Mirielle by Lowell Nekko

Inventive, unsettling, and darkly fascinating… In Nekko’s imaginative vision of the afterlife, an unexpected event breaks the calm continuity of Heaven and leaves a grieving father to care for a mysterious child. A miracle disturbs the quiet order of Heaven’s…
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Metal Viper (Dangerous Places Book 1) by Sarah Lovett, Ron Schultz

Urgent, haunting, and relentlessly suspenseful… Lovett and Schultz launch their Dangerous Places series with a taut political thriller in which a child’s hopeful poem becomes a dangerous act of defiance against Myanmar’s brutal military regime. When twelve-year-old Vika, the son…
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The Fall of Two Houses by Ken Harrow

A brutal, unflinching, and morally haunting dark fantasy of power, tradition, and ruin… In Harrow’s dark fantasy novel, a dying lord’s attempt to secure his legacy triggers a chain of political betrayal that threatens to destroy two noble houses. In…
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Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done by Suzanne Domel Baxter (Author), Cheryl Iny Harris (Author)

An inspiring yet unsentimental portrait of perseverance, advocacy, and clinical excellence. Credentialed Dietetics Practitioners with Disabilities Get the Job Done is both a professional guide and a deeply human collection of stories that expand our understanding of who belongs in…
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Life On Life’s Terms by zO-AlonzO-Gross

A quietly powerful collection that navigates sorrow and renewal on the path to profound inner freedom… Multi-award-winning writer and performer zO-AlonzO-Gross turns inward in his latest book, a meditative poetry collection that explores mortality, surrender, and spiritual rebirth. Divided into…
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Requiem at the End of Time: A Sanguinary Rose by E. L. Luengo

An atmospheric, high-stakes supernatural thriller pulsing with tension and dangerous allure. Luengo launches a brooding supernatural saga set in a small Pacific Northwest town where monsters move quietly among humans and high school politics can be as dangerous as ancient…
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Twenty Angels on Her Roof by Alex Charns

A blistering, audacious, darkly luminous tale of defiant faith, ferocious innocence, and celestial rebellion.  In Charns’s latest novella, a razor-sharp, unbreakable 12-year-old dares to marshal angels against the iron cruelty of the Third Reich. In 1942 Nazi-occupied Suwałki, 12-year-old Basia…
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Dear Missing Friend Susan McGuirk

Raw, authentic, and atmospheric; an unsparing look at the immigrant experience from a distinctly female perspective. McGuirk’s debut thrusts readers into the brutal realities of 19th-century America through the unrelenting struggles of an Irish immigrant. In 1841, Catherine McGuirk leaves…
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For Cause (3J Legal Thriller) by Mark Shaiken

Relentless, razor-sharp, and compulsively readable; a legal thriller that never lets up. In his latest novel, Shaiken offers a sharply drawn courtroom drama that exposes the fragility of truth in contemporary justice. Kansas City bankruptcy attorney Josephina “3J” Jones expects…
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Bolted to the Bone by Bart Carroll

Immersive, atmospheric, and emotionally resonant… Carroll creates a striking world where faith, machinery, and myth exist side by side beneath a fragile artificial sky. When a panel of the artificial sky falls and destroys an entire town, Saint Alexandra, a…
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Moonlight Desires: A Cinderella Retelling by David Tocher

Elegant and restrained, with quiet emotional depth… Tocher’s latest transforms a well-known fairy tale into a restrained meditation on compassion, pride, and the uneasy boundary between virtue and self-interest. Trapped in a life of cruelty, Aurelia never believed escape was…
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Exit Tickets: A Novel by Kenneth Chanko

Measured, intelligent, and quietly powerful. Chanko’s compelling novel is a thoughtful and grounded portrayal of teaching at its most demanding. When Mr. J arrives at P.S. 961, he is determined to reach students others have written off. His connection with…
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Will the Devil Help Me Now? By Caytlyn Brooke

Lean, vivid, and relentlessly absorbing… Set in 17th-century Scotland, Brooke’s stark, unsparing story traces how fear, grief, and institutional authority can transform care into a punishable offense. In Fife, 1649, sisters Isla and Elspeth Blackwood serve their community as herbal…
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Love and Laughter in Ransom Canyon by Mary Lou Cheatham (Author), Christie Marie Underwood (Author)

Witty, heartfelt, and impossible to put down. In their latest, Cheatham and Underwood turn a simple mistake into the gentle beginning of a second chance at love. Olivia Finley isn’t looking for love—she’s raising two girls and surviving loss. But…
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Blood Rivalry by Paul Attaway

A high-stakes, compulsively readable political thriller. Attaway’s third installment in the Atkins Family Low Country Saga takes readers into a tightly coiled narrative where reputations harden into myth, power is exercised quietly, and old violence continues to dictate present-day lives.…
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Prison of Now by Jon F. Harmon

Controlled, reflective, and psychologically precise… In his latest book, Harmon examines what happens when a man can no longer outrun the consequences of his own hesitation. Fifty-seven-year-old Tyler Manion is overwhelmed by a life closing in on him from every…