The true story here is one of a sister helping a sister, a mother-and-child-reunion, and a woman on the road to recovery. H. G. McKinnis’s "A Justified Bitch" may be labeled a murder mystery, but its real story is of family ties and... Read More

Self-referential humor creates a refreshing metafictional world that paves the way for a well-balanced and entertaining superpowered adventure. Samit Basu is a wunderkind when it comes to action. His second adult novel, "Resistance",... Read More

Could vampires cure one of the modern age’s most terrifying epidemics? When Bryant moves to Manhattan, he is absorbed into the swinging 1980s gay scene— complete with bathhouse sex and bar romance. Yet behind all the fun, a... Read More

Even certified geniuses have trouble in school now and then, especially if they have dyslexia. Sam isn’t your ordinary genius. Sure, she’s been invited to join a so-called “Brain Trust” of brilliant teens, and she’s enrolled in... Read More

These private-school gals are just so very pretty, witty, and privileged, you could die. "Poor Little Dead Girls" is a chick-lit-flavored thriller that follows lacrosse star and scholarship student Sadie in her days at an exclusive DC... Read More

Sometimes parents just don’t understand…that kids just want to save the world. In the Munn mother/daughter premier novel, "Defy the Night", a young heroine named Magali risks her life to rescue children from deadly Nazi internment... Read More

In this riveting ballet story set in 1950s America, Paddy Eger reminds us that not every ballerina gets her fairy-tale ending. Seventeen-year-old Marta Selbryth always dreamed of being a professional ballet dancer. When she secures a... Read More

This sword-and-sorcery fantasy contains a few spicy differences from the usual fare. John Lawson’s "The Loathly Lady" inhabits that familiar terrain of the sword-and-sorcery fantasy. True to its hallowed tradition, this world is rife... Read More