Fiction Books

• Fantasy

The debut novel of The Healer’s Trilogy, The Healer’s Legacy is a stunning young adult/crossover work from fantasy novel author Sharon Skinner.

Orphaned by war, haunted by unknown origins, and chased by a warlord and his army of brutal soldiers. KIRA is a young woman with a secret. She can psychically communicate with animals.

She is also on the run from her abusive mate Toril, the hero turned warlord, who led the country’s forces to victory against the outland raiders. Only that was before his love of power consumed him.

Now, his only focus is on tracking down Kira and making her punishment an example of his power. But the quest for freedom isn’t the only struggle Kira faces. She must also come to terms with her past choices, whose echoes drive her present. And now, the future of the land and people she has come to love depends on the decisions she will be forced to make.

• Science Fiction

The Profit was living up to her name for the first time since Zack Mbele had stolen her from the Martian Navy in the chaos at the end of the Reunification War.

He was earning a good living for my crewmates, and himself, and it was all honest money. It was what Cleo had always wanted – a home built on a stable business. Zack once thought it was what he wanted, too.

So why did it chafe on him so?

• Science Fiction

Hardbound Edition
"An oceangoing SF/techno-thriller made especially seaworthy by its depth, not just its depth charges." - Kirkus Review, Starred Review
Kara Nkosi is a Mariner—sworn to protect those of her blood and heart, sworn to protect the sea. Generations ago, her people escaped starvation and oppression on stolen boats, only to find themselves in the midst of increasingly violent storms, rising waters, and international scorn.

They were up for the challenge.

Now, at the dawn of the twenty-second century, Kara’s people are approached by their age-old adversary. When an ambassador from the United States begs the Mariners for help recovering a cache of unstable weapons of mass destruction, her people are naturally suspicious, but the threat of such weapons being unleashed in their waters is too great to ignore.

• Literary Fiction

Jacob Hubbard’s heartbreaking literary fiction debut dives into the complex interplay between love and loss on the autism spectrum. Telling the story of Rob and Ana’s five year relationship before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sounds of Yesterday unpacks the ways empathy and emotional agency interconnect inside a neurodivergent world. Readers who enjoy stories such as "Eleanor Elephant is Completely Fine" and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" will find this standalone novel heart-wrenching but also hopeful. Click on Jacob Hubbard's website or go to Barnes & Noble to buy.