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midnight's simulacra

by nick black

It was initially about the science. It became about the cash. Then it was about personal LSD supplies, and then the world's LSD supply. Somehow it became about uranium. But understand: it was always about the science. And the lols.

Michael Luis Bolaño is the scion of Mexican oil wealth gone to rut in Texas. Sherman Spartacus Katz is the hyperliterate son of evangelical eccentrics from the North Georgia mountains. One hopes to restore what's been lost, the other to attain ... more

Guardian Angel

by Eric H. Bowen

For the past thirty years, Dawn has served as Mike’s guardian angel, watching over him, pouring her heart into encouraging notes he may never see, and dreaming of the impossible—meeting him face to face. But when Mike’s life is threatened by a nest of drug-dealing demons, Dawn’s warrior instincts drive her to crash the forbidden barrier between realms to save his life. Her split-second decision stirs up a hornet’s nest of infernal proportions, driving a wedge of doubt between their hearts. And t... more

Fast-Food Cowboys

by Darby Guise

Twin brothers take revenge against a local butcher and set off a series of violent events involving a determined grandmother, her simple dog, the devil himself, and a maverick painter.

Madam Josefina's Social House

by Dan Jakel

A Spanish aristocrat is accused of a horrible crime, and flees the country in a state of devastation. She takes refuge in a brothel of Buenos Aires, working as its bookkeeper. While rebuilding her life, she discovers a murderous conspiracy between corrupt government officials. To save innocent citizens she must out-wit and out-last powerful men and their minions, risking the lives of those she has come to love. This story takes the reader from the enduring poverty of rural Spai... more

Wild Irish Yenta

by Joyce Sanderly

Do murderers, stock manipulators, and kidnappers stalk Temple Israel in Rockville, Maryland? When the body of custodian Roberto Gomez is found in Temple Israel’s parking lot, Patricia Weiss, nee Reilly, exchanges her suburban-mom sneakers for gumshoes to investigate the hit-and-run. A new convert to Judaism, Patricia is grappling with her outsider status at the upscale Reform congregation. Inspired by her detective dad, Patricia is compelled to find out who-dun-it and why. Before she can prog... more

Eddie Hest vs. Suburbia

by Catherine Castoro

It takes someone different to make a change. Eddie's new suburban town is far from normal. She thinks it's her purple hair and tattoos that make her and her 9-year-old daughter outcasts. What else could it be? She tries to be a good mom, but gets sucked into what the town is hiding, even though she knows it's wrong. She's finally had enough, and now she's in the fight of her life. It's up to Eddie to battle the status quo, but can she beat the Psycho Soccer Mom who controls suburbia? She has to ... more

Less Than

by A.D. Long

When he reached into the medicine cabinet for that first dose of OxyContin, Evann hadn’t thought about everything the drug might take; all he could see was the escape it might offer. Hoping to prove himself as an artist, Evann moves to the city, only to discover that physical distance from his family can’t sever the emotional ties binding him to a past fraught with pain and rejection. Desperate to silence his anxious thoughts and his mother's relentless criticisms, he enters an insidious spiral ... more

La Belle Famille

by A.M. Vergara

It’s 1759, and the French are at war with the British over the Great Lakes Region. When the British besiege Fort Niagara, three reluctant allies—a French marine deserter, the wife of a British Army translator, and the survivor of a brutal French attack—must brave the unforgiving wilderness to warn the British of advancing French reinforcements. The success or failure of their mission will decide the war and the fate of a continent.

The Faeries of Fable Island

by Alicia Cahalane Lewis

Truth and storytelling collide in this modern-day adventure when sixteen-year-old Megan Elida Fay, the great-great-granddaughter of Wendy Darling, must learn to embrace the possibility that forgotten Fable Island exists and that Peter Pan and the Faerie Queen are real. But Meg, living in the attic of her aunt’s weather-beaten house on the Maine coast, alongside the nursery toys and memories of her ancestors’ past, is haunted by her mother’s death and her father’s sudden disappearance. Will... more

Adam Driver and the Million Dollar Haircut

by R.M. Usatinsky

R.M. Usatinsky's debut novel, "Adam Driver and the Million Dollar Haircut" takes readers on a whimsical journey into the world of one man's improbable dream. Meet our protagonist, Charlie, a charming yet eccentric barber, who sets out on a daring quest to pen a Broadway musical that will serve as the ultimate bait for his favorite actor. As the tale unfolds, the author seamlessly weaves semi-biographical and fictional threads, blurring the lines between... more

The Music of What Happens

by Greenleaf Book Group

Irish Americans in turbulent times In The Music of What Happens, author Charles Fanning relates what it felt like to be a member of an Irish working-class community in a dynamic, expanding American city in the late nineteenth century. Irish immigrants John and Eileen O’Malley Farrell live in the Chicago South-Side neighborhood of Bridgeport with their three children: Jimmy, twelve, Mary, ten, and Margaret, five. Their family experiences turmoil and tragedy and responds with unrelenting enduranc... more

A Beautiful Noise

by Sam Collins

A Beautiful noise is a literary commercial / book club novel about the difference between hearing and listening, the challenges we face when we get it wrong and the transformative power of love and insight. It is an ensemble piece following four main characters who are each defined by their abilities to use, or not use, sound. Set in the heritage Hampshire village of Bedingford - the Quietest Village in England - at war over an opera festival being staged by the bankrupt Earl, Matthew Wolstenhol... more

The First Lights of Eventide: A Mystical Journey Through Time

by Jaye Burke

Can an old Southern legend be discovered without mystical intervention?

Enter the enchanted world of the ‘mystical eventide,’ where an esteemed historian will prove that fiction can become fact and will confirm something theoretically impossible.

Alabama 2016

For Dr. Neely Shaw, countryside outings just might pay off one day—not monetarily, but historically. As the senior project reviewer for the Alabama Commission of Majo... more

Why Ruin Another Life

by Anthony Weathers

Anthony Weathers was told a story years ago. Upon hearing it, he felt compelled to write a novel based on the true events. This novel delves into themes of domestic abuse and violence, shedding light on the social taboos and inequalities of the time. Step into the haunting world of Why Ruin Another Life, a riveting tale that transports you to 1950s Black Mississippi.

Brace yourself for a captivating generational odyssey where a single event had the power to reshape destinies. Witn... more

In the Day of Trouble

by Taj Magruder

On the night of March 17, 1934, in a small town in rural Pennsylvania, a man crept to a window and shot a woman through her heart. Her name was Susan Mummey, but she was better known as the Witch of Ringtown Valley. The shocking true story of her life and murder has never been told…until now. The cold-blooded shooting of a woman in her home would have been news on its own. But the victim who lay on her sitting room floor wasn’t just any woman. For years, the people of Schuylkill County whispe... more

Celia's Room

by Kevin Booth

When the freedom of the night turns to deadly obsession ... 1990. Two young artists in Barcelona – one gay, the other straight, both addicted to a nightlife that thwarts their ambitions to create – fall under the aura of the enigmatic Celia. The games they are learning to play, against the backdrop of a city that is also rehearsing a new identity, draw all three into conflict, leading them inexorably towards the truth of Celia’s Room. “successfully captures the Barcelona zeitgeist”

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