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...

No Man’s Land: This Hallowed Ground Book Three by Donna E. Lane is a continuation of the generational saga of the MacAlister family, set in the early 1900s. Fin, Buck, and Ian have emigrated to New Zealand along with their parents. A deliberately set, tragic...

In Forging the Blade by Arwen Falvey, Avalia Spade stands before The Well of the Regents, accused of unlawfully killing Phineas Ash during the wedding of Aurellius Stillwell in FarTide. Once known as The Ringmaster’s Blade, she is forced to relate the path that led...

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 Battle Beyond the Veil by Cassie Sanchez, when Boston museum curator Zahra Jenkins prepares a Babylonian exhibition, she expects professional scrutiny, not a call reporting that her estranged father, archaeologist Dr. Hugh Neeman, has vanished after discovering a relic known as the Atar’zul. The...

“It had offered everything he ever wanted in the world, then dared him to shoulder the responsibility that came with it.” Unfortunately, responsibility is in short supply in the novel Nowhere by Ryan Freerksen, but there is much ambition and resentment. Picking up where Somewhere...

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...

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...

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...