Ji-won’s family life is thrown for a loop when her father abruptly leaves her mother for another woman. Distraught and hopeless, Ji-won’s Umma longs for companionship while holding out hope her husband eventually returns. This all changes when Ji-won’s mother meets George, a middle-aged white man with questionable motives. Ji-won, overwhelmed from both a stressful…
Charlie and Eve are the proud owners of an old fixer-upper in the Pacific Northwest; a home they plan to flip and sell. While settling in, Eve is home alone when she hears a knock at the door. A man, Thomas, stands on the porch alongside his family. He says they are passing through town…
Discouraged following endless employment rejections, aspiring fashionista Dez (Desiree) Lane may have found her ticket to trendiness. While it means going out with creep Patrick Ruskin, this may allow her to crack open the door to meet Patrick’s mother – fashion icon and magazine magnate Marie Caulfield-Ruskin. After a few short weeks of dating, Dez…
Since childhood, Margaret and Charity have been inseparable. When Charity goes missing and no one seems to care, a mysterious package arrives on Margaret’s front step. Inside is an iPhone with a text that upends Margaret’s world and provides insight into Charity’s whereabouts and perhaps who she’s been all along. Set just outside Niagara Falls…
Alex Easton, a retired soldier from the nation of Galicia, arrives at the home of their childhood friends Madeline and Roderick Usher, after they had received a letter from Madeline asking for help. Upon their arrival, Alex notices just how dire the situation is for the Usher family. And what’s up with the rabbits on…
Hollywood screenwriter Misha has just received his first Oscar nomination, but is unable to enjoy it. He’s just been asked by studio heads to kill off a gay character in his ultra-successful television series as “gay tragedy” sells more than triumph. When he refuses, his personal and professional lives begin to suffer. Can Misha continue…
CAMP DAMASCUS follows Rose Darling, a young woman raised in Neverton, a small town nestled in the Montana mountains. Neverton is also the home of Camp Damascus, the world’s most effective gay conversion camp. When Rose begins experiencing what she believes are hallucinations that feel more like memories, her perfect Christian life begins to unravel…
Amazon has gathered a few talented horror writers together for their “creature feature” collection with six authors penning six stories for the spooky season. I’ll be reading and reviewing all six this month – up first, Joe Hill’s THE PRAM. Hill’s story follows Willy and Marianne as they relocate to rural Maine as the COVID-19…
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