"That’s the cruelest trick the system plays: it teaches you that truth alone can win. Then it buries you with the paperwork.” But if the paperwork isn't enough to bury you, Owen Parr's novel The Shadow Ledger (A Jack Ryder Thriller) shows just how deep...

The Vatican Deal by Michael Balter is part of the Marty and Bo thriller series. Marty and Bo are back with a bang, and this time they are on their way to Italy. They need to close a multi-million-dollar deal with the Vatican, but things...

This story begins before the outbreak of World War II and ends over two decades later. Nineteen-year-old Eleanor is groomed by her art professor in Florence while studying, thus the title The Florentine Entanglement by Pamela Norsworthy. She hides out for the duration of the...

To Avenge a Fallen Star by Qilanna Quinn follows Gemma Proctor, a miner on the planet Reva, who enters the Oranos Trials—a government program that takes twenty-year-olds to the capital city of Zion, and subjects them to public elimination tests in exchange for military placement...

Sean Spurlock's The Red Fields of France is a World War II novel that places readers at the center of the chaotic early days of the 1940 campaign in Western Europe. Set against the rapid German advance through France and Belgium, the novel follows British...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

Malve von Hassell’s The Amber Crane is a gripping, suspense-filled historical fiction and time-travel story. The story is set in Germany, in and around the harbor town of Stolp in Pomerania along the Baltic Sea, in 1644, during the closing years of the Thirty Years'...

The Sacred Band of Thebes by Glenn Rabney and Bart Baker is a colorful, action-packed graphic novel that highlights an elite group of Theban soldiers formed around the 4th century BCE. The concept was first introduced by Plato, who suggested that soldiers who were also...

The Balkan Escape by Suad Jakupovic follows Dino Tutic, whose short family visit to Bosnia leaves him with no means back to North Carolina when power, transport, and law enforcement fail across the region. As villages arm themselves and militia groups roam freely, Dino relies...

“I rode out to my horses and spent the night with them. They knew nothing of politics or diplomacy.” No, horses know nothing about these things, and as illustrated in The Shadow Appears, Book 1 in The Devil's Shadow Series by Burt Tyson, they know...