League of Utah Writers "Recommended Read", Notable 100 Book in the 2024 Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition, Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal 2024, and Screencraft Cinematic Book Competition Quarterfinalist
Micki Janae’s novel "Of Blood and Lightning" sizzles with excitement as a diverse group of high schoolers are swept into a world of myths. Seventeen-year-old Ophelia is a recent orphan following the death of her father. She moves to... Read More
In K. M. McKenzie’s spirited fantasy novel "The Civilization", a skeptical girl with a heroic destiny learns about dark magic threats to the enchanted, hidden world of her ancestors. Raised by her rambling, nomadic grandfather in North... Read More
A girl resists the limits imposed by her class and gender, daring to seek a new kind of life (with some supernatural help), in Sacha Lamb’s wonder-filled historical novel "The Forbidden Book". In a shtetl whose rabbi possesses a text... Read More
In Jordan Ifueko’s novel "The Maid and the Crocodile", an orphaned girl fights to make a home for herself while contending with a cursed god. In Oluwan, while trying to find employment as a maid, Sade accidentally binds herself to the... Read More
Thrilling plot twists, tantalizing clues, and suspicious characters abound in "The Hennessy Lie", a novel about inheritance and identity. In Annette Masters’s intense thriller "The Hennessy Lie", a long-lost family and a surprise... Read More
A sweet, anxious agender teenager comes into their own while facing new challenges in the involving novel "Ugliest". Kelly Vincent’s novel "Ugliest" is the earnest continuation of an agender Oklahoma teenager’s coming-of-age story.... Read More
A high achiever risks all that she’s ever cherished in the hope of realizing a dissipating dream in the exciting thriller "A Lie for a Lie". In Jane Buckingham’s psychological thriller "A Lie for a Lie", a star student forges a... Read More