In Clinton H. Simpson’s Palisade Meridian, firefighter Carter Davis boards the luxury cruise ship Palisade Meridian with his wife, Leah, and their children, expecting a welcome family vacation far from the pressures of life near Chicago. Days after leaving New Orleans, communication systems fail on...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

In The Junkyard by Bryan Reilly, after escaping a dog-fighting ring run by a violent junkyard owner named Mr. Fergusen, a battered pit bull called Ninja is taken into a hidden settlement beneath piles of wrecked cars where abandoned dogs survive under the leadership of...

In Nick West’s Treasure River, Federal Game Warden Charlie Palmer investigates reports of armed trespassers inside Florida’s Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge after hurricane damage exposes the wreck of the Spanish galleon Santa Isabella along the Gulf Coast. The discovery draws archaeologists, federal agents, organized...

My Twin the Murderer by Lindsay Kent presents a thrilling game of cat and mouse where the stakes are high, and the chances of escaping are low. Evelyn and Vivian Malcolm are identical twins, but they’re as different as night and day. Organized and almost...

“For once in her life, she’d encountered a really attractive guy her age, whom she’d love to date. Why did he have to be a jewel thief?” Why indeed, but that's life for Nancy Norman, the protagonist of Marilee Dahlman's novel, The Night Nurse And...

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...

Suzanne Parry’s The Communist’s Secret begins in 1941, where former Leningrad radio worker Katya Karavayeva joins a Soviet volunteer labor squad, expecting to dig defensive trenches against the German invasion. After a disastrous attack near the Luga River destroys the group, Katya escapes into occupied...

Everything had been under control while Arshes Megane, the hybrid daughter of Catriona Redfletching and Daelen StormTiger, was on her extended time trip into the past, until she witnessed her mother’s death. She is left devastated and distracted, a moment that allows the Guardians she...

Logos of Cain by Seth W. James follows Francesca, a former high-ranking government director who is now a wanted woman after a very public scandal. Beside her is Cain, a professional mercenary who makes a living taking on the dangerous jobs that no one else...