The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn

Amber A. Logan's 2022 Debut The Secret Garden of Yanagi Inn launches November 15th. Grieving her mother’s death, Mari Lennox travels to Kyoto to photograph Yanagi Inn for a client. As she explores the inn and its grounds, capturing images of the old resort and an overgrown, secret garden, eerie weeping that no one else seems to hear keeps her awake at night. Despite the warnings of the staff, Mari searches the building to discover the source of the ghostly sound, only to realize that her own family’s history is tied to the inn and its mysterious, forlorn garden.

Leave the Night to God

Leave the Night to God, by R. L. Peterson, launches November 8th from Regal House. From the publisher's website:

Twelve-year-old Frankie Walker’s whole world is baseball, Daddy, and foxhunting. Daddy’s stroke forces Frankie to learn to survive on his own—or become a permanent resident of the Missouri Orphan’s School and Residence. With the help of a fellow orphan, Frankie bolts the orphanage and hooks up with a Black barnstorming baseball team and their young, female pitcher, Linda. Frankie soon learns, nothing good lasts. When Linda drops him at the bus station, so he can join Daddy in Kansas, he’s mistaken as Linda’s child and abducted by the Ku Klux Klan. Facing death by torture, Frankie is saved by Paul. When Frankie and Daddy finally reunite, Daddy’s stroke has left him stiff and silent as a tombstone. There’ll be no more nights chasing their foxhounds, but Frankie has learned on his long and harrowing journey that he’s a survivor. Set in America’s Midwest of the 1950s where racial injustice still has a tight grip, Leave the Night to God proves that kindness may be found in unexpected places, that “family” is not about the color of one’s skin, and to remain true to one’s values is what it means to be a man.