Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for January, February, and March 2026. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 1/1/2026)
Jason Hylden thinks life is perfect, but at age fifteen things are about to change.
First he falls for Jewel, a pretty redhead with arms marred by mysterious bruises. Then the gang of friends he runs with begins to experiment with witchcraft, blood oaths and revenge.
Soon, Jewel is the only good thing standing between Jason and the gang, but when he finds out she’s one of his mother’s mental health clients, he worries doctor-patient confidentiality will forever mask the truth behind Jewel’s bruises. Is someone out to destroy her, or is she destroying herself? In the end, the truth behind her secrets is beyond his worst imaginings and, as their two worlds draw closer to collision, all hell—quite literally—is about to break loose.
Samsara & Dreams the Ragman: Novella Double-Shot #4
(Release date – 1/7/2026)
SAMSARA
A mortally wounded soldier, amidst the bloody chaos and brutal mayhem of combat, slowly dies on the battlefield, his final thoughts centered on his beloved wife back home, the wonderful life they shared together, and a terrible mistake he can never forgive himself for…
In an eerie desert town, a new sheriff arrives, struggling to understand how and why he has come to this strange place. Charged with finding a young boy who has gone missing, he is unaware that the answers he seeks are hidden beneath the hot sands and in the twisted mind of a hideous desert witch, answers that will reveal the truth behind the town’s inhabitants, the missing boy, and ultimately, the sheriff himself…
Set in the 1940s, at the height of World War II, SAMSARA is the story of a small town cop that makes a fatal error on the job and runs off to war because of it. Leaving behind the woman who makes his life worth living in the first place, it follows his time in this world, the next, and the ominous, haunted town of lost souls that bridge the two…
DREAMS THE RAGMAN
As a young boy Derrick listened to his grandfather’s spooky tales of “The Ragman,” an old junk dealer and boogieman of sorts to the children in the neighborhood who he claimed had followed him throughout his entire life and stalked him from the depths of his own worst nightmares. But as an alcoholic ravaged with senility, his grandfather’s stories were dismissed as delusions.
When years later, murder comes to Derrick’s small hometown, he and his best friend Caleb—both teenage outcasts—discover that the killer is a hobo dressed in rags who rides the rails in and out of town when committing his crimes. They dub him “The Ragman” unaware of just how accurate that nickname may be, but the murders are never solved. As time passes, Derrick weds and settles into a troubled marriage while Caleb moves to New York City and spirals into drug addiction and madness.
Thirty years later, in a dying seaside resort town, the killings have begun again. Has The Ragman returned, or is something even more sinister taking place? As Derrick and Caleb meet at the scene of the latest grisly murders, they soon find themselves confronted with an unsolved mystery that has haunted them for decades and an eternal evil they may never be able to escape. The rain falls, darkness descends, a train’s whistle blows, and the Ragman begins to dream…
by Hans Holzer
(Release date – 1/10/2026)
Life After Death—Fantasy or Reality?
The number of cases involving near-death experiences, reports from people who were clinically dead for varying lengths of time and who then recovered and remembered what they experienced while unconscious, is considerable… Why then are some people allowed to glimpse that which lies ahead for them in the next dimension, without actually entering that dimension at the time of the experience?” — Dr. Hans Holzer
In this carefully documented, researched, and enlightening book, the author presents a thoughtful analysis of the statements of countless individuals who have themselves stood at the threshold of another dimension, or have had experiences with others who have passed over. From their sometimes similar, sometimes varying accounts, one factor remains constant: though the body ceases to live at the moment of “death,” there may well be another form of life, a spiritual survival, afterwards.
by Alison Scott
(Release date – 1/12/2026)
And so we say farewell. . .
Gil, Janetta, Sir Palamedes and Floki Magnusson sail the Atlantic aboard the South Bay Cat, Jack of the Beach. Reading their course in the passage of sea birds and fish shoals, seeking the endless sun and pale stars of Arctic summer, they skirt the coasts of Canada and Greenland and reach Iceland and its formidable Crossing to 9th century Orkney.
Two winters have passed since their defeat at Merlin’s Tower. Emboldened, Jocelyn Guidbairn proclaims himself the islands’ overlord, even as his mercenaries raid, burn and kill.
On Hrolf’s Isle, Magnus Redbeard takes the High Seat of Floki’s Hall, and with his council of grey-headed chieftains, condemns his returning son and companions to separation and exile.
But rescue comes from an unexpected quarter, and they escape to the summer pasture shielings where Gil’s deposed heir, Ciarnan, and the young warriors who followed Gil Broadaxe to Caledon, hold a rebellious earldom.
Reunited with his friends, his father, and his pony Lionheart, Gil rejoices in days on the hill with Janetta, and nights of song and story in a cloth-roofed shieling hall, But as summer passes, Guidbairn’s raiders strike.
The island is divided: old men argue caution, while their sons chafe for battle. But it is the wise counsel of his father Lance’lot, that sets Gil on the dangerous course of disguise and duplicity that will take him to the heart of Camelot, and seat him at Guidbairn’s High Table, as Helmsman to the King, sworn to defeat Floki Magnusson in the Northlands seas.
Set sail with the Warriors of Tir nan Og
Set sail across the Sea of Time
Set sail to the end of the Quest
(Release date – 1/20/2026)
As a climate catastrophe swallows south Florida and the Keys, psychic Mira Morales watches the obliteration of her past on live TV. She is losing her former bookstore and home where she lived for decades. Tango Key itself disappears as she witnesses the catastrophe in stunned disbelief. But when she’s recruited by the FBI to go undercover at a government-controlled animal rescue facility, she’s drawn into an even darker storm.
She discovers the facility actually weaponizes animals. Dogs, cats, even wild animals are enhanced in ways that defy science. Their intelligence has been heightened and they can communicate – through Scrabble tiles. What begins as an investigation becomes a mission of survival for Mira, her family, her community and the extraordinary animals she helps to escape the facility.
Political corruption deepens and government surveillance closes in. When violence escalates, Mira must decide how much she’s willing to risk. Will exposing the truth cost her the lives of her husband and daughter? Can she save these animals she has grown to love?