It is 1867. Captain David “Hondo” Stone of the Texas Rangers has been deployed on an assignment to Old San Antone, Texas. He is to apprehend Cy Jenkins, the son of a wealthy cattle baron, J.B. Jenkins, who is suspected of the murder of a...

The Shattered Weave: The Song and Forge Chronicles Book 1, by A.M. Lavender, is epic high fantasy with dark fantasy and mythic elements. Readers are brought into a world sustained by the mysterious Weave. But their reality is beginning to fracture. This leads scholar Elara...

Angela Page Conti’s Enrico G is about Enrico Giuseppe Gardini, a man whose resilience is forged in fire from the 19th-century countryside of Abruzzo, Italy, to the streets of New York City. Growing up in a village where olive groves and strict traditions are the...

The Brewster Protocol by Moran Tomer is an exhilarating technothriller that introduces us to Josh Brewster, a retired Mossad spy who now runs his cybersecurity consulting firm in Singapore and looks after his golden retriever. But his cushy, boring life as the Chief Information Security...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

In Peter Van Oossanen’s The Extraterrestrial, when an infant is left in a basket on the porch of a remote California farm, John and Mary Stanton raise him as their own son, naming him Sam and giving him an ordinary life in the Salinas Valley....

“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...

Mona “Ripper” Ripple and her crew, Karcass Five, take center stage in Jarrett Brandon Early’s Lovestruck Maggot, plunging readers straight into the rugged, alien world of Kalderra. The planet itself is unforgettable: glowing subarashi trees rise from volcanic calderas, a huge violet moon looms overhead,...

In The Orphans of Nilad by Erich and Daniella Sanchack, driven by a sealed letter, EoC leads Kaida, the blue-eyed barbarian Dinger, and the half-elf Kekron ashore to Nilad, a mountain town shrinking under fear after miners vanish, and strange messages begin appearing in the...

Death and destruction are dished out to the syndicate that decided to eliminate their top assassin in the entertaining novel, Bunny Slippers, by Matt Peterson. MARI is an international organization of hired killers, and Bunny has worked for them for decades. When Bunny chooses to...