Kathryn Lane’s Terror in Desert Skies begins with what should have been a joyful family outing at the famous Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Nikki Garcia and her husband, Eduardo, accept an invitation from Nikki’s brother Andy and sister-in-law Cindy to experience the spectacle. Although Stan...

After a failed attempt at capturing Hitler in Paraguay, independent vigilante Nazi hunters Felipe and his wife Giselle relocate to Buenos Aires, where Felipe is still occupied with the relentless pursuit. However, the frustration of his lack of progress is taking a toll on their...

In The Birds of Prey by River Davis, Cimarron “Caracara” Miramonte leads a Phoenix motorcycle club bound by blood oath and shapeshifting lineage when her mother, Cassandra “Kestrel” Miramonte, is murdered in a ritual desert ambush. As rival leaders Saachi “Scorpiana” Banerjee and Fayola “Fanuel”...

In Melissa Mickelsen’s Tearfall, the titular Tearfall is the name survivors give to the instant an alien experiment fractures Earth’s atmosphere, and opens permanent portals that release predatory species into major cities. The beings responsible are the Grays, an extraterrestrial military civilization whose scientists miscalculated...

In David Pope’s The Divinity Project, Karrie Chapman, a former artificial intelligence architect living quietly on the Washington coast, is approached by Homeland Security agents and drawn into a classified federal initiative. Transported to a fortified supercomputing complex in Tennessee, she is introduced to Divinity,...

All young Artemis knew about her mother, Letoa, came from the stories her Aunt Sophia told her. According to Sophia, the two sisters had been sent to the court of King Ethelbert of Cantwareburh following the demise of their parents. But then, after Letoa gets...

In The Iron Tithe by Robert W. Riley, we meet Knight Commander Cedrik Theramond, who serves as the King’s Shield and has the grueling charge of collecting mandatory grain levies. The crux is that these come from famine-struck villages to supply the King's army of...

The Badass Widows by Valerie Saul is an excellent book. The widows are not your typical mature women. One fixes boat engines. Another is a tech guru. The main character, Beth, is a retired FBI agent, which puts her in a formidable league of her...

The Return of the Flying Boat is a historical drama by Dale Morton. It's the late 1990s. The Russian government has ramped up attacks on shipping corridors all over the Arctic and Atlantic with covert, cutting-edge technology-equipped stealth submarines. Among them, the USS Buffalo is...

The Waking Ark by T.N. Traynor is set eight centuries after Earth fell silent. Cal wakes inside Ark Twelve to failing oxygen and a containment purge already in motion. Rescued by Mara Nova, he joins a small group of survivors navigating a vessel damaged by...