If your reading life has been craving sweeping fantasy worlds, slow-burn tension, and romances that feel just as epic as the magic itself, this season is delivering in a big way.

Get ready to be transported to another time and place in Paula Brackston's book, "The Cathedral of Lost Souls."

Expect an interactive cozy mystery reading experience in Rosie A. Point's book, "Murder Among the Stacks."

Expect spies, kidnappings, assassinations, and much more in Gareth Russell's "The Six Loves of James I."

One person. Two, twelve, twenty, you can still feel alone in a crowded room if it’s a place you don’t want to be. People say, though, that that’s no way to do the holidays; you’re supposed to Make Merry, even when your heart’s not in it. You’re supposed to feel happy, no matter what – even when, as in “The Dogs of Venice” by Steven Rowley, the Christmas tinsel seems tarnished.

Acclaimed, Baltimore-based gay writer James Magruder’s new book, “No One is Looking at You” (Rattling Good Yarns Press, 2025), a collection of linked short stories, has everything we’ve come to expect from him, including rapier wit combined with the most extraordinary observations on the ever-evolving queer human condition.