Before the Joads have left Oklahoma, a man who used to be a preacher tells Tom what he worked out in the wilderness. He went looking for his own soul and could not find one that belonged to him. What he found instead was a fragment of something much larger. “Maybe all men got one […]
Synopsis: Never hook-up with a woman from Landmere, and under no circumstances do you sleep with your best friend’s little sister. Firefighter Elijah Barnett had easy rules when it came to women. Then Dr. Georgia Cross came home. She’s sunshine wrapped in scrubs and managed to get under Elijah’s skin within five minutes of meeting […]
In January a book club of eight agreed to read twelve books together across the year. They chose the first three at the meeting, put them in a group chat, and felt pleased. By early October they have finished four, the chat has gone quiet on the subject, and nobody has raised it since July, […]
Rumors & Whiskey by Victoria Wilder on June 16, 2026 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads This one took me a minute to get into. The beginning definitely grabbed my attention, but after that I spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out where the story was going. There is a lot happening […]
Three people stand at a gate in the wilds of a country that executes anyone born with magic. Above them, perched on a thirty-foot wall, sit winged stone creatures with hooded brows and full sets of teeth, shifting to lower ledges as the visitors talk. They have not been fed for some time. Each of […]
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A Houston garage, a day of chores, a seventeen-year-old shifting a stepfather’s boxes to the curb. Then a box that is not his: lid torn, a peppery smell coming out of it, and inside, under a few Russian horoscope pamphlets, a magazine she has seen exactly once before, when her mother showed it to her […]
Halfway through, there is a costume ball in a medieval cloister at the northern tip of Manhattan. The theme is Edith Wharton. A girl from a small town has come dressed in red, which in Wharton’s world is how a society marks a woman as finished; the boy who is in love with her has […]
A suspense-filled urban fantasy where three divergently willful women take an episodic trek across the American west to face a myriad of otherworldly entities Between aloof sword-wielding Clara Nordstern, hardened shotgun aficionado Selene Shields, and forensically-armed skeptic and science student Jill Hamilton, an eclectic trio forms—one that’s complementary in purpose, if not method. Their genesis […]
Thirty children walk out of the woods on a cold night, line up at the edge of a mountain village, and start to sing. Word spreads and the village comes out with lamps. Twenty-three people are certain they recognise a child who died. The children will not answer, will not move, and will not stop; […]