Category: fiction

Review & Giveaway – And the Walls Came Tumbling Down by WM Gunn

  And The Walls Came Tumbling Down By W.M. Gunn   Alternative History / Historical Fiction / Family Saga Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: September 15, 2026   Synopsis And the Walls Came Tumbling Down reimagines the twentieth century as it might have unfolded if fate had shifted—and mercy had not. Two families, one American […]

Review – The Laboratory Assistant by Natalia Loya

  Synopsis In a city on the brink of revolution, science and passion offer their own strains of violence. Petrograd, 1916 After her aristocratic family’s fall from fortune, Mariya is desperate to survive – and to support her widowed mother and sisters. Matters alleviate when she finds work as an assistant to Dr. Nikolas Rodin, […]

New Release & Excerpt – When Paris Whispers by Marianne Bohr

  Synopsis Twenty-two-year-old Catrine arrives in Paris, the city she’s dreamed of since childhood, and it speaks back—but not in ways she expected. Drifting through the streets of 1981 Paris, the voices of French writers she once read in solitude whisper back, intimate and insistent. Rather than reassure her, they unsettle her, exposing cracks in the person […]

New Release – The Hocus Pocus Handbook by Ann Aguirre

  Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author Ann Aguirre comes a cozy fae fantasy romance featuring a sunshine-shadow slow burn, a grumpy-butsecretly-tender love interest, an unforgettable found family, and a world lush with wildcraft magic. Thea Winter didn’t choose to be a changeling ― stolen from the mortal world as a baby, raised in […]

Excerpt – The Long Way by L.B. Phillips

  Synopsis Some places are worth the long way around. Miles Donovan notices things. It’s a harmless habit — until a stranger presses a fifteen-year-old postcard into his hand and points him toward the vanishing Florida the rest of the world keeps paving over: the fish camps and tiki bars, the hand-painted motels and one-of-a-kind […]

Review & Excerpt – You Know Why by J.T. Ellison

  Synopsis From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a suspenseful domestic thriller about identity, revenge, and the dangerous secrets kept hidden from the ones we love most. It’s the holidays, and photographer Brooklyn Locke is bound for Italy with her husband, Trey, and their two children. But when Trey vanishes from the airport, missing […]

Excerpt – Less the Horror than the Grace by Robert Owens Scott

  Synopsis A modern retelling of the Medusa myth set in a snake-handling church in Tennessee in the summer of 1920 as they vote to ratify women’s suffrage for the entire United States. It’s the summer of 1920 and the hollers of Tennessee are dripping with humidity and tension, the electricity in the air broken […]

Review – Appetite by P. Paramita

  Synopsis A propulsive, heartfelt, and utterly original debut about a young chef trying to find her way in a world that’s not built for her to succeed—and the pro wrestler she idolizes who derails everything Zarina, a prep cook at a fancy New Haven restaurant, is underpaid, overworked, and might as well be invisible. […]

New Release & Excerpt – A Penance for Crows by Shannon Morgan

  Synopsis An unnerving, hypnotic, modern gothic thriller set on a remote Irish island, where an artist is caught between deadly secrets, ancient superstition, and echoing madness . . . Off the southern tip of the Beara Peninsula lies Beanna Dubh, an island of savage beauty, its jagged cliffs lashed by Atlantic winds and infested […]

Review & Giveaway – The Frequency by Randall D. St. Claire

  The Frequency By Randall D. St. Claire   Mystery / Speculative Thriller / Thriller / Suspense / History Publisher: Atmosphere Press Publication Date: July 21, 2026   Synopsis He didn’t expect his life to change in a single moment. He didn’t expect it to ask anything in return. Bronx Rousselle built his small life […]