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While comparatively few people will ever travel to New Mexico, many visiting this Southwestern hidden gem find their lives changed by the philosophies and native Navajo wisdom that run deep throughout the State. Author Sandi Badash now calls the region her own "holy place"; inspiring her to use it as the setting for a powerful new novel that will uplift women from coast to coast.

There's no way to hide from it; seven billion now live on a planet where people kill each other in the name of so-called peaceful religions, children are forced into labor and millions of women die at the hands of dictatorial power plays. But who is to blame? Author and advocate, D.J. Parsons, puts the blood on the hands of men who treat religion as warfare and governance as personal power.

The South has long been a staple literary setting, with thousands of novels showcasing the region's esteemed charm and hospitality. Avoiding all clichés with gusto, however, Hunter Murphy storms the scene with a New Orleans-set mystery that shakes the South up into a cocktail of murder, spunky characters and a real-world exploration of the evolving modern family.

While vampire fiction has long been a staple of the horror world, both critics and readers have become disillusioned with hastily thrown-together narratives that do little but play into the genre's clichés. Sharing the same bold opinion and having always had a passion for stories that keep her too scared to turn off the light, author Krystal Lawrence has emerged as the one writer brave enough to shake up the worlds of vampires and horror for good.

As Paramedics hunched over the two drug dealers with blood spilling out of their bullet holes, Peter J. Puleo knew it would be another shift of confronting human mortality. While the dealers had taken the ultimate step of engaging in a shootout with the police team, they had ultimately lost, as they usually do. It was another day of putting their lives on the line while serving the community as police officers.

While most authors construct fiction to give their audience nothing but a quick thrill, David Marshall Hunt's experiences living on three continents foster a bolder goal – to immerse readers in cultures they will likely never experience and leave them questioning everything they thought they knew about them.

There's no way to hide from the statistics, 10% of North Americans are walking around with undiagnosed mental illness. As someone once in that camp, Donna P.K.S. knows how soul-destroying it can be; enough that it almost drove Donna to destroy herself.

While most writers craft fiction to deliver readers nothing but a quick thrill, a compelling and hugely-illuminating new novel by William R. Jones transcends the norm to leave readers questioning every aspect of their existence.

While Science Fiction has long been a staple of the literary world, both readers and critics are crying out for wholly-unique new narratives that don't succumb to recycling of the "same-old" concepts. Thankfully, Washington State's Don Green has stepped up to the plate with gusto, throwing fantasy out of the window to give readers highly-authentic Sci-Fi adventures that are based on fact.

While most authors write books to give their audience nothing but a quick thrill, Annie O'Haegan has developed a hallmark for leaving a tangible influence on everyone picking up her work. Her latest novel, 'Ianto', steps up to the plate with gusto.