Genres : Literary Fiction

In a world where a city once engineered empathy into a living network, the collapse of “perfect peace” releases consciousness into weather, oceans, and eventually the biosphere itself forcing humanity to choose between connection and control, sincerity and privacy, repair and rest. "Every ending remembers its beginning."The Solace Cycle is a speculative science-fiction novella told in movements mythic, intimate, and morally serious about what happens when empathy becomes infrastructure. The series begins with Dr. Edda Sol and the City of...

Some books chase spotlight. This one was built for the quiet.The Record of What It Cost is a curated archive of unsent letters from love, labor, and consequence. Not a memoir. Not fiction in disguise. A record. A witness. An offering for the nights when the world is loud and your silence is louder.Omari Vale writes like someone keeping receipts in the dark. These letters move through desire and fallout, family math and inherited absence, faith that flickers, survival that...

Larry Tolleson is confronted with a choice and not one of his making. His mother decided he was bright enough to start school a year early. Larry is entering his senior year in high school when his mother realizes that decision didn't give him the best start in life. She agrees with his guidance counselor that he should take a do-over year to let his body and emotions catch up to his intellect.Larry approaches his senior year full of hope....

All 80-year-old George Ivers wanted was a quiet Thanksgiving with his wife in their cozy Southport, North Carolina home. Instead, he gets a bevy of unexpected (and very much uninvited) guests ringing his doorbell like a game show buzzer, each more hilariously eccentric than the last. George is a comical mix of Archie Bunker’s sass, Fred Flintstone’s stubborn streak, and Mr. Magoo’s oblivious charm. A master of sarcasm and low-key sabotage, George cooks up schemes to send his guests packing,...

Liam O’Shea had a plan: get his degree, get a job, and get on with it. But when his long-lost father, Francis Henry O’Shea, suddenly kicks the bucket and leaves him an unexpected fortune, Liam’s carefully structured world takes a sharp detour. The question is, what kind of man inherits a golden-ticket windfall from a father who long ago perfected the art of absentee, dumpster-fire parenting? The answer: a very bewildered one. Francis was a self-made success—if by “success” you...

Rosalia Scalia’s UNDER THE RADAR, her second short story collection, offers a poignant look at characters grappling with grief and loss in various forms. Each story reveals the raw emotions—anger, numbness, confusion—that accompany their journeys, as they navigate a world seemingly oblivious to their pain. In the title story, set in the 1970s, we follow Hope and Kenny, a young couple whose plans to marry are shattered when Kenny reveals he’s gay. “All the Small Joys” explores the clash between...

This is the story of Dr. Sebastian Cortez, an aspiring university professor who has succumbed to the pressures of scientific research and become an unsufferable grouch. One day at the annual lab picnic, Sebastian is bitten by a most unusual dog, which is where his adventure begins. To the surprise of his family and colleagues, Sebastian has suddenly become uncharacteristically nice. Although, Sebastian’s niceness comes with some very odd behaviors. Chaos and mystery ensue after Sebastian disappears one evening and...

Twenty-five-year-old Bobbie-Mae wakes up alone in a hospital room. Her first visitor is a man she doesn't recognize, who claims to be her husband, Simon. There is complete darkness in her recall, caused by a life-threatening car accident, her sister and husband inform her. Even though she tries desperately to remember, there are simply too many gaps. Unsure whether her memories will ever return, Bob- bie-Mae starts to read her old journals. Reading about her life in her own words...

"This irresistible novel manages the curious trick of making the reader want to stand up and cheer... A transformative tale of personal reinvention from a masterful storyteller." - Kirkus Reviews (Kirkus Star) "... a thoughtful but well-paced adventure... raising the stakes, right till the end. This novel is as much a journey of self discovery and newfound determination as it is a quest for retracing a historical trail." --BookLife The latest stunning release from the author of Of Dice and...

A journey home reveals more than John could ever have imagined – secrets, loss, and the surprising power of redemption. After years of service, John Furst settled into a low-key bureaucratic post within the US military, coordinating funeral arrangements for soldiers. With a loving woman in his corner, and a punchy work crew he enjoys, he could ride this thing out to retirement. Then a call comes in. His father's cracking voice informs John that his disliked elder brother has...