Morgan Shamy’s fantasy novel "The Stricken" introduces an atmospheric world in which people lead multiple existences. In one life, Clara’s only friend is a mysterious voice, Cael, that she’s heard in her mind her entire life. He... Read More

Fluid and immersive, the series-opening fantasy novel "Remember Pompeii" follows a powerful reincarnated teenager who resists coming of age. Ancient truths wait to be discovered in Kika Emers’s fantasy novel "Remember Pompeii", which... Read More

A father’s suicide shakes loose family secrets, reigniting interest in a cold case, in Kate Brody’s engrossing thriller "Rabbit Hole". A decade past her older half-sister’s disappearance, Teddy teaches in the high school where her... Read More

Combining detailed descriptions of Connemara’s history, folklore, artistry, geology, and nature, Tim Robinson’s "The Last Pool of Darkness" is a sprawling, joyful romp along Ireland’s western coastline. The second volume in a... Read More

In Tessa Afshar’s captivating Christian romance novel "The Peasant King", an archeress and a renegade prince join forces to help fulfill a prophecy. Jemmah’s Judean mother, Keren, is the Persian king Cyrus’s chief scribe. She’s... Read More

In Shannon Takaoka’s charming novel "The Totally True Story of Gracie Byrne", a struggling girl finds a magical journal that lets her rewrite her own life. In 1987—a period captured via references to music, fashion, and... Read More

In Heather B. Moore’s illuminating novel "Under the Java Moon", a Dutch family is sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Inspired by a woman who lived in Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia) when she and the women in her family were... Read More

Melanie Dobson’s multi-timeline novel "The Wings of Poppy Pendleton" is about the boundless beauty of a child’s hope. The night before her fifth birthday, Poppy, the heiress of the Pendleton fortune, vanishes from Koster Isle without... Read More