Great Lakes Stories & Culture: Publishing Division

Cronicle Press | 2025-2027 Catalog

Cronicle's Creative Division publishes full-length novels, short story collections, and illustrated video readings of short stories and poetry. We focus in contemporary fantasy, romantasy, historical fantasy and paranormal stories set in Michigan and related settings like Lake Michigan.

Welcome to the fiction division of Cronicle Press. An extension of our mission to celebrate the culture and lifestyle of the Great Lakes, our press is proud to present captivating stories rooted in the magic and mystery of Michigan. We are delighted to introduce the works of our flagship author, Lorelai Author.

The Murder of Crows Series by Lorelai Author

Dive into a world of myth, magic, and Michigan lore with the Murder of Crows series. This fantasy series, set against the stunning and sometimes perilous backdrop of the Great Lakes, weaves together history, legend, and unforgettable characters.

Stay tuned for more tales from the Great Lakes from Cronicle Press.

Michigan Fantasy Fiction/ Romantasy/Paranormal

Murder of Crows: Reverse All Tides (Book 1 Michigandia Fantasy Series) 2024

Book 1: Murder of Crows: Reverse All Tides

A thrilling adventure begins on the shores of Lake Michigan. When a mysterious shipwreck appears on the horizon, a young woman with a forgotten past is pulled into a generations-old conflict between ancient powers that control the tides. To save her newfound home, she must unlock the secrets of her ancestry and embrace a destiny she never knew was hers.

Murder of Crows: White Hurricane (Book 2 Michigandia Fantasy Series) 2025

Book 2: Murder of Crows: White Hurricane

The saga continues as a brutal, supernatural winter descends upon the Great Lakes. Inspired by the true story of the White Hurricane of 1913, this installment follows our heroes as they battle not only the unforgiving elements but also a dark force that seeks to harness the storm's destructive power for its own malevolent purposes. Alliances will be tested and sacrifices made as the fate of the lakes hangs in the balance.

Murder of Crows: The Winged Fox (Book 3 Michigandia Fantasy Series) 2025

Book 3: Murder of Crows: The Winged Fox

In a multiverse unraveling, Solange, a young spellsinger with the rare power to weave reality, is flung into a desperate search for her vanished father and trapped mother. The ancestral library, her home and the heart of all dimensional travel, becomes a shifting battleground as freezing fog consumes dimensions and ancient nature spirits awaken with their own agendas. With her loyal love Kung finally at her side and her doppelgänger Clarissa offering a surprising alliance, Solange must navigate a world bleeding chaos. But when the enigmatic winged fox Jordan burns the library to the ground and reveals a sinister obsession with "perfecting" life, Solange discovers that the lines between friend and foe — and between life and death — are more blurred than she ever imagined. Trapped in a multiverse that is pouring all life force energy into a rogue nature spirit’s quest to become a god, Solange and her sea creature humanoid lover Kung must overcome distrust, war, and the machinations of other magical humans in a world where nothing and no one is what they seem.

Murder of Crows: Ghosts of Detroit (Book 4 Michigandia Fantasy Series) 2026

Book 4: Ghosts of Detroit

No one ever really leaves Detroit. The city just doesn't let them go.

Kelsie Durham is out of dreams, money, and options. Returning to her haunted hometown is a last resort, a quiet place to lick her wounds. But the Detroit she comes back to is anything but quiet. The veil between the living and the dead is tearing, and her new house on Lovett Street is at the epicenter of the chaos.

Her new neighbors aren't just the living, but also the generations of ghosts who were waiting for her to come home. When a dangerous new street drug called "Glimmer" begins to poison the city's spectral residents, it acts as a lure for something far worse: ancient, monstrous nature spirits—old mythical gods—who are drawn to the chaos and hungry for the city's life force.

Caught between a ghost child with a penchant for pyromania and monsters breaking down her door as well as a mystery of how she seems to be the main character in a strange cast of characters on Lovett Street, Kelsie must forge a wary alliance with Neil, the haunted ex-cop next door who sees the same impossible things she does. To save her city, Kelsie will have to embrace the strange power she never knew she had and decide if a man who is "worse than drugs" is worth the fight.

Because in a city where the past is never truly dead, the only thing more dangerous than the monsters is the hope of a future. The final book (4) in the Murder of Crows fantasy/romantasy series by author Lorelai, Ghosts of Detroit is a found family romp through multiple dimensions of the living, myths of old Michigan, and the ghosts of a city where no one ever really wanted to leave.

Michigan Nature Writing and Paranormal Poetry

Silversides: Nature Poetry from Michigan TBP Nov 1, 2025

For lovers of Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry, a fresh voice in modern nature poetry from the Great Lakes of Michigan.... Along the vast, unsalted shores of Lake Michigan, a world of profound beauty and resilience unfolds. In her new collection Silversides, Laura K. Cowan invites readers to experience the Great Lakes in all their seasonal majesty--from the crystalline grip of a January shoreline to the sun-drenched shimmer of a July afternoon.

But these are more than just landscapes. Woven into rhythm of the waves and the cries of the loon are intimate reflections on family, history, and the quiet strength required to overcome life's fiercest storms. Cowan's verses navigate the complex currents of health and healing, finding a powerful mirror for the human spirit in the steadfast, ever-changing nature of the lakes.

coming soon Storm Songs paranormal poetry TBP 2026

coming soon The Year of Slowing Down poetry and essays TBP 2027

ARCs: Read a Free Book in Exchange for An Honest Amazon Review

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