The August Answer: A Novel of Illness, Identity, and Choosing on Purpose

Book#297, International Collection, Themes: Medical Mystery to Awakening / Social Transition / Found Family, Keywords: Prolactinoma, Pituitary Tumor, NHS, Social Transition, Voice Therapy, Mother-Daughter Relationship, Wakefield/Leeds, Found Family, Transgender (MtF), Slow Burn Self-Discovery. The tumour gave her the body. She had to choose the life. For a decade, Rae has lived inside a grey hoodie, … Read more

Samantha Warren, 1918: The Vaccine Paradox

Book #299, International Collection, Dark Literary Noir, Themes: Time Travel, 1918 Pandemic, Women in Science, The Butterfly Effect, Unplanned Pregnancy, Keywords: Spanish Flu, COVID-19, Time Travel, Pandemic, Medical Drama, 1918 London, Gender Swap, Vaccine Research, WWI, Unplanned Pregnancy. He went back to cure the past. She stayed to rewrite the future. Sam Warren, a molecular … Read more

The Withered Lily of Busan: A Gender-Bending Noir of Statelessness

Book#298, International Collection, Group 3: Dark, Noir & Thriller, Keywords:Statelessness, Nationality Law, Zainichi Korean, Domestic Violence, SRS (Bangkok), Hijra, India, Human Trafficking, Legal Thriller, The “Actor” Metaphor. He gave up his gender for love. He gave up his nationality for marriage. Now, he has nothing. Kaoru Mizuhara was a star on the university stage, playing … Read more