Evil rides the borderlands—and it knows your name.

Haunted by a witch only he can see, a traumatized Comanche-Mexican border agent joins an elderly rancher who shelters trafficked girls face cartel brutality, generational trauma, and spiritual warfare in the violent, unforgiving borderlands of West Texas.When girls start disappearing and turning up marked by Palo Mayombe ritual, the locals have a name for the supernatural creature they believe is doing it — The Witch of Sonora. In this borderlands thriller by Johnnie Bernhard, Nocona Ketemoczy, a Marine turned border agent, must stop the kidnappings while facing down the legend of an old woman with cataract eyes who has been in Nocona’s nightmares since childhood.

Dispatches from Berlin: Wall and Secrets is a historical thriller by Carol J. Williams, the second novel in the Iron Curtain Chronicles. On the night the Berlin Wall opens in November 1989, veteran foreign correspondent Natalie Chester expects the story of a lifetime. Instead her editor pairs her with a gifted but guarded American photographer; and when a name in an East German guidebook turns the assignment personal, neither are prepared for what happens next.

An artist-farmer defends his North Texas homestead with a paintbrush, a shovel, and stubborn love. In this sequel to The Art of Farming, Sam Bartlett tends thirty acres of land, paints by night, teaches, gardens, raises animals, and faces the pressures of family change and suburban development. Told in a warm, wry voice, the novel celebrates stewardship, creativity, and community as acts of resistance.

T. D. Motley’s novel The Art of Farming celebrates a symbiosis of plants, humans, dogs and livestock, with wildlife cousins on the fringes. Retired art teacher, Sam Bartlett, works thirty acres outside the town of Elysia. Texas. Aided by his lovely “sidekick,” Annie, and a handful of local after-school teens, Sam markets herbs and produce, and face off with his most formidable antagonist, a miniature donkey named Sol who schemes daily to outwit him.

Based on the author’s experiences, this meticulously researched thriller captures forbidden love against perestroika’s historic upheaval—where idealism faces deadly consequences. American correspondent Natalie Chester arrives in Moscow in 1986 and soon falls for Soviet diplomat Anatoly Kuznetsov. Together, they navigate Chernobyl’s aftermath, KGB surveillance, and the collapsing Cold War. Dispatches from Moscow: Spies and Lies by Carol J. Williams, Book One in the Iron Curtain Chronicles is a tale of professional ambition and personal sacrifice, of idealism tested by reality, and of a love that burns brightest in the shadow of the Iron Curtain’s final days.meticulously researched thriller.

An enchanting story that brings to life four constellations in the night sky while telling a tale of friendship, wonder and the beauty of the cosmos. The second book in the Night Sky series from the mother-daughter duo of Amy Jackson (Starry Sky Austin founder) and Donna Paredes, Little Sky Bear and the Dragon is a must-have for young dreamers, stargazers, and lovers of magical adventures.

Silver Winner — Best New Fiction, IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards

The Big Empty is a novel by Loren C. Steffy and a silver winner for Best New Fiction in IBPA’s Ben Franklin Awards. A ranch manager and a semiconductor executive collide on a West Texas highway, and then keep colliding over the future of Conquistador — a dying town one of them intends to save by building a chip plant in it.