The City of Locked Doors in the novel by Keegan and Tristen Kozinski is Umbras: a seething conglomerate of mechanized mayhem, where the supernatural meets plague-ridden humanity in a wild dance of survival and rebirth. This is a brutal city of towering structures, underworld tunnels,...

The Keepers by Joy Lynn Goddard with Daniel Pike is a pleasant diversion with a keen sense of poetic justice. Beth Marshall has been helping with her grandfather’s winery business. It’s a backbreaking job for her grandpa, while she helps to oversee the seasonal employees...

The Mountaineer’s Painting: A Ghost Story by David Francis Curran tells the story of Kevin Frost, who feels compelled to drop everything that he is currently working on to go in search of the artist and anybody who may know something about a painting that...

The Embalmer by Brae Wyckoff is a nerve-wracking horror story. Freddy Foley lost his young daughter two years ago, murdered by a serial killer called The Angel Killer. An embalmer by trade, he finds solace with the dead. When the killer strikes again, Freddy goes...

The Little Lies is the first book by Marie F. Crow in the urban fantasy series, The Great Hexpectations. Harper Buckland is considered an oddball by most of the inhabitants of her town. Born with the ability to interact with the dead, Harper finds herself...

To Play at God by Anna Blauveldt is a riveting body of work that contained two novellas. To Play at God captures the life of Dr. Alan Wilcross, who came from the slums of the UK. He escaped that life to Canada and became a...

The Three Lives of Richie O'Malley by William Lobb breaks new ground in how crime drama should be written. Richie O’Malley is an assassin who is trying to leave his past behind, but if there’s anything that movies and crime novels have taught us is...

The Spinner's Web is the opening book in the Grims' Truth series by authors Isu Yin and Fae Yang, who have crafted an epic fantasy tale that is well-plotted and spellbinding. The story plunges readers into a world with powerful forces at play. The ancients...

Tenuous Connections by Linda Jones is the story of Gwynna, a ghost. More than just a scary 'ghost in the house story,' the plot follows the different lives that Gwynna once had. She started in an orphan house run by nuns in the era of...

The Silver Sphere: It’s Coming - No Time To Waste by David Gittlin is a science fiction story about saving Earth from a pulsar that will destroy it entirely in 72 hours. A pulsar is a neutron star that forms when a star more massive...