In the world of "Magic", powerful beings, called Adepts, have always existed side by side with humanity. The Adepts are divided into two groups, the “Elitists” and the “Humanists,” and they are able to perform tasks that... Read More

The fantasy genre has a loyal entourage of followers who seek out strange worlds where reality isn’t defined by accepted standards. The protagonists in these farfetched tales fight for territory, relics, and lovers. This is literature... Read More

In Lee Chavis’ debut novel, "A Dance in Paradise", life is anything but a heavenly frolic for the ironically-named Sam Powerhouse. It is 1979 and Sam is an accomplished young law student and violinist with an undergraduate degree in... Read More

White flight; the Black Panthers; the golden age of NBA basketball; Oakland’s Free Huey rallies; integration: all of these giants come together in Phillip Wilhite’s debut novel. Set in a boarding school—a playground for America’s... Read More

In her debut novel, The Ordinary Girl, Carol Ann Iaciofano explores the life of a member of the largest and often most ignored minority—people with disabilities. Like her protagonist Payton, Iaciofano has cerebral palsy and uses a... Read More

Author Kathy Knowlton takes readers to a reality where it is possible for people to relocate to new planets in order to solve old problems, but they still carry the human condition with them. This is the world of Grounders (natives who... Read More

Kirsten Kelly’s debut novel, Halith, chronicles the titular heroine’s self-discovery as she grows from a scared sixteen-year-old to a skilled warrior. In a world on the brink of war, peopled with dwarves, griffons, goblins, mages,... Read More

Action and intrigue, advanced technology, limitless magic, and an alien race form the foundation blocks upon which author Eugene Nelson has built his first novel, Covert Operations Alpha. The book begins with a failed attempt by a... Read More