A forty-five-year-old gambler named Joey Mumbai gets into big trouble with a sectid mobster, Fat Okko. Joey owes him one million Determinations of Official Worth, or dows. Fat Okko finds out that Joey inherited Space Station Halcyon from his billionaire father. The sectid sees an...

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....

Shadows Among the Peaks (The Shephard Chronicles Book 1) by R.D. Smithson is a modern-day story of the fight against institutional corruption and cartels in Mexico. When a well-respected and lauded not-for-profit organization that focuses on uplifting children’s lives in education, welfare, and food security...

“Space may not have been under Earth's jurisdiction, but it had inherited all of Earth's foibles; corruption chief amongst them.” Space is a cruel mistress in Starship Breaker, a novel by G J Ogden. And it isn't really black, it's gray, morally gray, and that's...

In Showboat Soubrette by Brodie Curtis, the story begins with Stella Parrot, a talented, popular Native American showboat singer, performing aboard Lady J along the Mississippi River. Taking place in the years leading up to the Civil War, she travels from town to town, captivating...

In Stolen Secrets by S.F. Baumgartner, FBI Special Agent Charlie O’Rourke believed adopting Jamie would keep her safe. Charlie was trying to shield her from threats tied to a past he hoped to leave behind. For twelve years, Jamie lived under a carefully constructed identity,...

“The world didn’t leave us much, but it left enough. Enough to remind us that maybe, just maybe, we still matter.” Perhaps, but the novel Seeker by Glenn S. Robertson would indicate that we are a long way from what we once were. The world...

In Nathaniel Jungheim's Savages of the Bulk, the year is 2286, and Jacob Dawes prepares to join the Terran Joint Expeditionary Forces after graduating in Chicago alongside classmates Miguel Castal, Priya Patel, and Milla Sefira. During their final night together, a violent rooftop attack destroys...

Saving Marietta: Journey to Freedom by Joy E. Held opens with a violent attack on the Applewood family in Kentucky, where young Romney and his little sister, Sarah Jane, are abducted from their home and separated. Years later, Romney—now living among the Delawares and known...

Kip Cassino's Supplicant is a dystopian sci-fi thriller. In the 26th century, the world is divided into fiefdoms, with 200 powerful individuals ruling their territories and extending their lives far beyond the rest of humanity. KAX is a twenty-six-year-old supplicant who serves Grand Master Tyl...