Lindsay Merbaum’s funny horror novella "Vampires at Sea" follows the challenges a vampire couple’s relationship faces on a queer, sex-filled vacation cruise. Rebekah and Hugh are vampires who have been together for as long as they... Read More

Christopher Hawkins’s punchy speculative novel "I Contain Multitudes" mixes a heady multiverse concept with an intimate story of self-discovery. Trina is on the run from a past she can’t remember. With each passing day, she finds... Read More

An interwoven father-daughter story, Mphuthumi Ntabeni’s ambitious novel "The Wanderers" is a philosophical examination of the legacy of South African apartheid. Although apartheid ended when Ruru, now a doctor, was still a child, she... Read More

Dennis E. Bolen’s insightful, beautiful coming-of-age novel "Amaranthine Chevrolet" is a hero’s journey filled with danger and yearning. In 1967 on a Saskatchewan farm, fifteen-year-old Robin responds to the death of his... Read More

In Irena Karafilly’s haunting novel "Tunes for Dancing Bears", a woman gives birth to a stillborn child and struggles with the shock and grief that follows. In September 1991, Lydia delivers a full-term baby in a Montreal hospital.... Read More

Set among people whose worship is based on sacred reciprocity with the earth, K. M. Huber’s rich novel "Call of the Owl Woman" follows as a powerful girl embraces her destiny. Patya comes from a long line of medicine women, but she... Read More

Mary Noé’s keyhole true crime book The Man Who Shot J.P. Morgan is about false identities, radical politics, and the prewar tensions of the early twentieth-century US. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 16, 1906, Leone Krembs... Read More

An inventive, fabulistic novel, "North of Sunset" sets a dark scientific experiment against a background of glittering opulence. In Haley Ahern’s alluring futuristic novel "North of Sunset", a young man becomes involved with a tycoon... Read More