A bereaved composer keeps the memory of his late wife alive by unusual means in Anne Sénès’s mesmerizing novel "Double Room". In the late 1990s, Stan receives an offer to compose music for a theatrical production. He travels from... Read More

A literary gyre with a small, religious Louisiana town at its center, "Sister Creatures", Laura Venita Green’s dazzling debut novel, follows the interconnected stories of haunted, hopeful women. Tess, ensconced in a longtime... Read More

Vanessa F. Penney’s magical novel "The Witch of Willow Sound" is about rural prejudice, the wounds of the past, and forgiveness. Pulled from her perambulatory routines by an emergency phone call from her mother, Phaedra travels to... Read More

Barbara Stark-Nemon’s elegant, suspenseful historical novel Isabela’s Way follows the escape route of a Portuguese girl fleeing the horrors of the Inquisition. In 1605, while her father is away on business, fourteen-year-old Isabela... Read More

"The Lost Seigneur" is a warm, lovely historical novel in which a missing Frenchman reunites with his granddaughter in the American colonies. David Loux’s lush historical novel "The Lost Seigneur" chronicles the separation and reunion... Read More

An intelligent but isolated young man proves reluctant to come of age in the satirical novel "Doctor Robert". Bobby Lopez’s wry novel "Doctor Robert" takes on the shortcomings of the mental health field. Well-read, culturally... Read More

Musings on God, art, and dreams wend into "The Sorcery of White Rats", an expressive fantasy novel. In Adam Bertocci’s eloquent fantasy novel "The Sorcery of White Rats", two women must choose to save or destroy the world. Bristol and... Read More

A principled doctor falls for a melancholy young woman, facing career complications and political intrigue to be with her, in the poignant historical novel Roland’s Labyrinth. An aspiring doctor and a mentally ill woman join forces in... Read More