September 18, 2026

New Fiction

You Know Why by J.T. Ellison -It’s the holidays, and photographer Brooklyn Locke is bound for Italy with her husband, Trey, and their two children.  But when Trey vanishes from the airport, missing their connecting flight, their impromptu vacation – and life as she knows it-begins to unravel.  Desperate to find her husband, Brooklyn accepts help from a stranger on the same flight, Eden Barrow.  But Eden soon makes a shocking claim.  She is the sister of Trey’s first wife, and ten years ago he was the main suspect in her murder.  Struggling to comprehend these accusations, fate delivers one more blow: a violent accident that leaves Brookyln fighting for her life.  With nowhere to turn, Brooklyn leans on Eden for support.  But each kindness feels too rehearsed, feeding her doubts about Eden’s motives and Trey’s true past.  Brooklyn has her own dark history she’d rather forget and confronts an unsettling possibility.  Her life is not what it seems, and the truth is a trap – laid by someone waiting for the perfect time to strike.

Good People by Patmeena Sabit – The Sharaf Family is the picture of success.  Prosperous, rich, happy.  They came to this country as refugees with nothing more than the clothes on their backs.  And now, after years of hard work, they live in the most exclusive neighborhood, their growing family attending the most prestigious schools.  Zorah, the eldest daughter, is the apple of her father’s eye.  When an unthinkable tragedy strikes, everyone is left reeling and the family is thrust into the court of public opinion.  There is talk that behind closed doors the Sharafs’ happy household was anything but.  Did the Sharaf family achieve the American dream?  Or was the image of the model immigrant family just a façade?

The Oxford Guide to Scandal & Lies by Kate Westbury – Oxford, England, 1951.  The Honorable Ginevra Bishop likes red lipstick, clever retorts, and earning top marks in her tutorials.  She’s following in her mother’s footsteps by studying at Oxford, eager to prove she’s more than a debutante. Sidney Braithwaite likes brooding, Latin, and ignoring his nightmares.  He’s determined to forge a new life for himself at Oxford, far from his childhood mining village and free from memories of the war.  Though Gin and Sidney have little in common, the British Security Service is keen to unite her charm with his espionage experience.  There’s a Soviet Spy at the university, and the agent tracking them down has been poisoned.  MI5 wants Gin and Sidney to pick up the trail and identify the informant before more sensitive information is compromised.  As a team, the pair of undergraduates clash in personality, upbringing, and taste – but have a connection neither can deny.  Gin and Sidney must unite their respective talents to follow the clues before they’re caught in the traitor’s crosshairs – if the sparks flying between them don’t blow up the operation first.

A Glacier’s Guide to Dying by Michelle Porter – Robbie is torn: between trying to “rescue” his stubborn Metis mother – determined to stick with her abusive second husband and her wildfire-threatened home – and the quest to find his father, a white man who was often absent during Robbie’s childhood due to mental health challenges.  He has now gone missing for an unusually long time, most likely in the Montana mountains where he had always loved to ski.  After Robbie and his American uncle find themselves following a very pregnant bison up the slopes of a huge glacier named Omega, Robbie must also navigate both fear and wonder as the ancient voice of Omega starts giving him guidance.  Has Robbie accessed a deep connection to the land, one he can trust?  Or is he succumbing to the same illness that haunted his father?  The powerful women in Robbie’s life- his mother and two older sisters – weigh in often with advice and tough love, some cursing, and some poetry.  Alongside youngest brother Brent, they show how love and playfulness can dance with anger and frustration, while they traverse a psychological and emotional landscape as dangerous as the physical one on the slopes of Omega.