In Kyle Richardson’s steampunk adventure "Beast Heart", two children are pushed to their extremes when catlike monsters stalk their city. In the city of Iron Bay, nine-year-old Gabby’s hand turns to smoke. Her mother hires an... Read More

In Jean Mills’s insightful "Larkin on the Shore", a sixteen-year-old struggles to overcome an assault and the gossip and cyberbullying that follow it. While her father visits her sick mother in Vancouver, Larkin is sent to stay with... Read More

A curse is a wish gone sour, twisted sideways, and stuck into the softest spots. Titan’s "Cursed" collects twenty skin-crawling, tooth-grinding scary and sensuous stories and lyric poems that revive traditional fairy tales and create... Read More

A suspect’s hobby, an overheard word, and a bottle cap knocked eschew: everything is a clue in Riku Onda’s riveting novel "The Aosawa Murders", whose terrible central crime cannot be solved too many times. Some cases capture the... Read More

"Transference" is a fantastical futuristic novel of epic scale. A wrongly imprisoned man tries to rescue his family and topple the regime that convicted him in B.T. Keaton’s speculative novel "Transference". Barrabas has six days left... Read More

"A Delicate Dance of Souls" is a mature romance that’s infused with spiritual ideas. In Karen D. Hamilton’s spiritual romance "A Delicate Dance of Souls", characters navigate their feelings for each other and the mental blocks that... Read More

"Teddy Roosevelt, Millie, and the Elegant Ride" infuses local color with an eventful coming-of-age story that’s both expressive and nostalgic. The advent of interurban trolley cars inspires a Maine farm girl to dream of life beyond her... Read More

In 2005, twenty-year-old engineering student Kenton Carnegie took a walk near his work site in a remote part of Saskatchewan, but never returned. Colleagues who found his body saw that it had been dragged and had wolf tracks nearby.... Read More