Detective Winston Radhauser faces the worst nightmare that can befall any parent in Susan Clayton-Goldner's A Harbor of Hope. In the dead of the night, someone wounds their stallion, Ameer, in the barn. Radhauser and Gracie go to bed tired that night after having the...

John Raleigh Boyd's Standing Naked In The Wind, book two of The Royal Society of Esoterica series, begins in 1901 London, when scientist Maxwell Jaxon investigates the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn after Aleister Crowley uses clockwork butterflies to turn concertgoers into unwilling thieves....

The Kilns of Jupiter is the first book of the Quelly Clary series by Russ Colson. The scene is centuries into the future when mankind has colonized several planets in the universe. Spaceships transport people for work and tourism, but somewhere there lurks a danger...

Murder in the Dog Park by Robert J. Ristino is a cozy murder mystery that is perfect for anyone who enjoys the genre. Octogenarian friends Bob and George are proud ROMEOs (Retired Old Men Eating Out), who eat out every Tuesday. One of their breakfasts...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

A grandmother meets a six-year-old boy named Jack at a bus stop as he returns from school. She promises that she will be waiting for him there tomorrow, too. Yet, unexpectedly, something changes, and the bus arrives without the boy one day. Will Bennett gets...

Life had been going well for young James Fields until his father died in 1984, when James was thirteen. Bills began to pile up, and since his mother’s meager salary could only cover so much, life became a tough struggle. They moved to Oakland in...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...

Dorothy Van Soest’s Until It’s Over is an enthralling thriller told through two distinct timelines that rise and ebb like the tides of a turbulent sea. Sylvia Jensen is an octogenarian activist who suffers a heart attack at a rally at the state Capitol when...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...