For sale: financial freedom. Price: everything. How much of yourself would you trade to finally be free? And would it still feel like freedom when you get there? In Debt, Wade Parrish explores these questions and more through the actions and private thoughts of a high-achieving couple who would do anything to secure the life […]
A freelance journalist covering a Quebec poetry festival is pulled into a dark web of intrigue and murder that may be his last story. In Lonely When You’re Dead by Roy Chaney, a Boston journalist seeking his next big story is assigned to cover the raucous atmosphere of the Quebec City Poetry Festival, but when […]
There is a particular kind of dread that Lisa Jewell does better than almost anyone, the dread that hides inside ordinary domestic life. A school run. A pub lunch. A stray dog trotting out of the bluebells. It Could Have Been Her by Lisa Jewell opens on exactly that sort of quiet, sunlit afternoon, and […]
Lyrically stunning and psychologically thrilling stories that blur the lines between reality, the imagination, and all the realms in between Lauren T. Davila’s debut short story collection The Patron Saint of White Menageries depict financial and social desperation, complex identities, and life-altering circumstances and decisions—all set against Hollywood and Los Angeles’s glitzy backdrop. Blending the […]
A winning fantasy adventure with affection for pirates, prophecy and heroines who don’t surrender to wonder without a fight The sea has always been a place to conceal things: bodies, treasure, grief, family history. In Tilly Hornsby’s Guardian of the Depths: Book I, the ocean isn’t just scenery or atmosphere. It’s inheritance. It’s threat. It’s […]
Every kingdom loves a champion, and the kingdom of Avoury adores Ellinore the Brave. She slays monsters. She hauls back cursed relics. The bards will not shut up about her. There is just one snag, and it is a whopper: most of her legend is invented. That cheerful, load-bearing lie anchors The Last Best Quest […]
A hero is not defined by alien power but by human compassion in The Extraterrestrial. Peter Van Oossanen explores what happens when extraordinary responsibility collides with deeply human desires for love, privacy, and belonging. Telling the story of of an extraterrestrial raised on Earth to combat crime and corruption, The Extraterrestrial examines sacrifice, justice, and […]
A useful business conversation that illustrates how AI is only as effective as its human lead Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a part of business already. Owners and leaders are using AI tools to save time in organization, communication, and customer experience. They’re hiring people to work with AI and are looking gleefully into a future […]
There is a particular pleasure in watching a heroine ruin her own life in the first three pages and feel only the smallest twinge of regret about it. Lady Ruby Ballimore does exactly that, dressed in a sparkling green gown she compares to tropical fronds, by announcing to a roomful of London’s finest that a […]
Some crime writers frame a mystery the way a contractor frames a house. Square corners, load-bearing walls, everything sitting where you expect it. Karin Slaughter builds hers the way grief actually shows up, sideways and out of order, landing the blow before you have braced for it. Her second North Falls novel opens not with […]