Synopsis: Hannah has been running from her demons ever since she emerged from a harrowing wilderness trip without her fiancé. No one knows exactly what happened the day Ben died, and Hannah would like to keep it that way… even if his ghost still haunts her with vivid waking nightmares that are ruining her life. […]
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Review: Daytide by Chris Panatier
Synopsis: Death comes to those who live. The Longing is here: a ruthless psychological pandemic that only ever ends one way. Most find relief in a bullet or a blade. Kaya Sinh chose fire. With Kaya gone, her friend Adam has only the support group they’d attended to keep him going. He’s at his lowest […]
Review: Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
Synopsis: High in the mountains sits Nowhere, a verdant valley surrounded by walls of rock. People have lived at Nowhere for centuries, though never for long, and rarely happily. Its last owner was its most famous: movie star Leaf Winham, who built Nowhere House as a refuge to hide from his fame… and to hide […]
Review: The Frighteners by Peter Laws
Synopsis: The Frighteners follows the quest of Peter Laws, a Baptist minister with a penchant for the macabre, to understand why so many people love things that are spooky, morbid and downright repellent. He meets vampires, hunts werewolves in Hull, talks to a man who has slept on a mortuary slab to help him deal with […]
Review: Shitshow by Chris Panatier
Synopsis: Latrine Technician vs. Dark Carnival?Yep.After his mother is diagnosed with dementia, Sunday McWhorter needs a job with flexible hours and a company vehicle. It just so happens that the local porta-potty company is hiring.The job stinks, but it’s a solid paycheck that allows Sunday to take care of his mom. Everything goes smoothly until […]
Review: Meat Bees by Dane Erbach
Synopsis: By the time Scarlett Sutton arrives at her dad’s cabin in the Smoky Mountains, two locals have already been eaten alive by wasps. Of course, she doesn’t know this yet. All Scarlett knows is her mom finally checked herself into a hospital to take care of her mental health, leaving Scarlett alone with her […]
Review: After by Drew Starling
Synopsis: Ten years after the invaders arrived, the scant traces of humanity still live every second of their lives in absolute terror. Forced from their cities into ragged communes on the edges of the world, they cling to their precarious existence by the weight of their micro-decisions, one careless move or false breath away from […]
Review: Futility by Nuzo Onoh
Synopsis: Betrayed by the men in their lives, two women seethe with rage and bitterness. When a trickster spirit offers them the gift of revenge, they cannot resist. Chia runs one of the best restaurants in Abuja, Nigeria, and is renowned among the male clientele for her captivating beauty and delicious hot pepper soup. But […]
Review: Her Wicked Roots by Tanya Pell
Synopsis: Cordelia Beecher is on the run. In search of her missing brother Edward, she has fled the oppressive charity school she was raised in, desperate to find the only family she knows. Using clues from his past letters, she sets off for the sleepy town of Farrow but everyone there claims to have never […]
Review: The Graceview Patient by Caitlin Starling
Synopsis: Margaret’s rare autoimmune condition has destroyed her life, leaving her isolated and in pain. It has no cure, but she’s making do as best she can—until she’s offered a fully paid-for spot in an experimental medical trial at Graceview Memorial. The conditions are simple, if grueling: she will live at the hospital as a […]
Review: Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
Synopsis: Ruth is trapped. She’s stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations—a craft store owned by the church that dominates life in […]
Review: Darker Days by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Synopsis: In Lock Haven, a quiet little town in Washington State, there is a very special street.Bird Street. The residents of Bird Street are all successful, wealthy, healthy and happy. And their children are all well-mannered and smart and high achievers.At least they are for eleven months of the year.In November, however, the ‘Darker Days’ […]