Jos Ilagan’s Project GrandSlam & The Zhongguo Orchestra follows York Ryder, an American photojournalist covering a volatile protest outside Manila Hotel as US Secretary of State John Berzowski visits the Philippines ahead of a regional summit. When a coordinated bombing tears through the diplomatic gathering,...

In Elias Wynn: The Witness by Sebastian A. Guzman, we read about eighteen-year-old Elias Wynn, devastated by a rare autoimmune disease. After being hospitalized, Elias is sent home so that he can learn to understand his body’s new limitations. Elias notices a flyer promising restoration...

The Death Keeper Chronicles: A Light in the Darkness by Daniel Hersch is a fun, thought-provoking, thrilling read. This story has several beginnings, according to its narrator. The first beginning provides a brief introduction to vampires before we are introduced to Yiyao of Huaxia. About...

Beyond Sudden Death by Peter Pappas follows a young college student named Ella Braid who survives a sudden cardiac arrest. Her brief experience of flatlining leaves her traumatized by the terrifying visions she received. Now fitted with an internal defibrillator, she is forced to confront...

Daniel R Hersch’s The Witch-Bane, book two in The Death Keeper Chronicles, takes Alexander Wren and his vampire wife, Yiyao Shi, into a Phoenix murder investigation narrated by Death himself. When five-year-old Morgan Fowler is killed in her bedroom and occult markings cover the walls,...

The Hidden Face of God by R.A. Williams is a near-future AI thriller set in 2038. Cybersecurity expert David Bishop expects danger to remain behind computer screens, but a favor for his pastor pulls him into something far more serious. When a website about the...

Spotlight by Charles Besondy follows a Christian rock band whose comeback places it in the path of a global political takeover. After a financial collapse, United Nations leader Lucky Zebul uses the new world currency to pressure nations into surrendering control to him, with America...

In Matt Aynes’ The Novian, Charles Ferguson is a university professor still recovering from imprisonment inside a secret technological experiment. He learns that the Magnus Foundation has established a hidden island in the Pacific where artificial intelligence now directs a plan capable of reshaping civilization....

In J.P. Ramzy’s Marked: Game of Deception, after being expelled from St. Francis Catholic School, teenager Devyn Prescott is forced back to Avail, the institution she once barely survived, where old enemies and buried memories await her. Years later, Devyn lives an outwardly polished adult...

John Striker created an AI so advanced that it could be controlled by thoughts via a chip implanted in his head. Scared at how powerful it had become, he shut it down. Then, at the age of 33, as a proud atheist, John had an...