A first-person memoir about growing up Black and queer in rural Ohio, charting the author's struggles with family conflict, physical violence, and the search for an affirmed sense of manhood.

Two aging ex-con fathers unite after their sons — a married interracial couple — are murdered, and they set out to find the killers. The immediate pressure is violent revenge complicated by grief, entrenched prejudices, and the challenge of protecting the son's infant.

A contemporary romantic comedy about Rosaline Palmer navigating personal and professional pressures while a central relationship develops under awkward, domestic conditions. The setup emphasizes character interactions, social embarrassment, and decisions about work, family, and love rather than epic plot twists.

Two former lovers encounter one another again years after a painful breakup while each is living complicated adult lives — including parenthood and professional pressures — and must navigate whether a revived connection can fit into their current responsibilities and identities.

A first-person memoir that follows the author's experience growing up as the child of an incarcerated parent and the personal consequences that unfolded in family life, identity, and adulthood. The book situates intimate recollection alongside social context to reckon with shame, longing, and the search for belonging.

A short, focused novel that follows a small group of characters as they face a pressure introduced by a speculative technological or environmental condition.

A contemporary American family becomes entangled with unexplained, possibly supernatural occurrences that surface long-buried trauma and danger. The story places intimate domestic fractures next to uncanny events, creating a pressure between ordinary family life and escalating, mysterious threat.

Two adults form a romantic connection within a contemporary setting while each navigates emotional wounds and mental-health challenges. The book follows the development of attraction and trust as characters confront past trauma, seek stability, and test whether new intimacy can coexist with ongoing recovery.

A contemporary Gothic novel centered on an intimate domestic situation that becomes increasingly unsettling. The narrative sets up a close personal relationship under strain inside an enclosed setting, with mounting ambiguity about what is real and what may be psychological or supernatural.