In D.I. Telbat's Eve of Chaos, book one in The ELM Series, after the Meridia Virus leaves San Diego broken, nineteen-year-old Levi Caspertein lives with his father, Titus, inside a fortified high-rise. Titus turns the building into ELM, a Christian refuge named for the belief...

In Gypsy McKnight’s Escape from the Shadows, Lola Ward was raised in a mountain cabin by Dr. Preston Ward, the scientist who taught her to pass for human before telling her she was built in a secret government lab. When Agent Rowena Thorne resumes the...

In Mary L Schmidt’s Earth's Last Hope, after seismic activity beneath Yellowstone begins accelerating beyond every existing scientific prediction, President Joyce Zimmerman orders General James Tilson to relocate his family into a classified bunker system beneath Colorado while millions of Americans attempt to escape the...

In Dennis Currie’s Encrypted Patriot: The Ghosts That Protect America, after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department, homicide investigator Cash Currie opens a private investigation agency in Asian Alley with former law enforcement colleagues, expecting routine surveillance work and background cases. That life changes...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echoes of Humanity, when the ship, Ascendant, returns decades after it was declared lost, they find that humanity is now governed by a system called Echo-9 that controls without consent. Beneath the Martian surface, Hera learns that people who have disconnected...

In S.D. Rhodes's Extinction Protocol, after Earth is destroyed, engineer Elias Ward lives inside a sealed Mars colony where their survival depends on strict control of air, food, and movement under Director Hart’s Security forces. As authority tightens, Elias gains access to the colony’s infrastructure...

Rob wishes to earn money quickly due to his unfortunate circumstances, which have left him with insufficient income. Rob and his wife, Ann, are poorer than most people they know and work for. Their children, Matt and Marisol, must deal with this fact every day....

In Enemy at the Helm by Mark Dickson, coordinated maritime attacks strike major American ports and key global canals, beginning with the destruction of the cruise ship Leviathan off Miami. As the shipping channels are blocked and infrastructure collapses, investigators trace the operation to a...