The Legacy of Jaarqub the Atlantean by Dr Philip Jamieson is an intriguing and timely work of speculative fiction. Anthropologist Jamie Tawnhill is ambitious, but also the stereotypical absent-minded professor. On a visit to a research center on a volcanic island, he has an experience...

Lisa Cram begins Two-Fer by pulling us straight onto Flores Island with an unusual operative named Sand Reap. Operating as an agent for a cosmic administration known as the Galactic Order of Demons and Saints, Sand usually spends his days collecting specific souls. Things spiral...

"Don't whistle at night. You'll call something." Leakhana Doung, a twenty-eight-year-old dental hygienist from Fresno, often hears warnings like that from her mother, who honors her Cambodian heritage. Leakhana doesn’t take them seriously. But then she finds herself in the middle of a medieval village...

The Pact of Exit by Her Majesty Of Ink and Exit Wounds follows a woman known as the Queen, whose neatly ordered life has begun to hide truths she can no longer keep tucked away. Velin, an ink-bound witness who reads every shift in her...

Landry LeBlanc is a successful lawyer in a big firm. He intends to become a partner as soon as possible. Achieving this goal is so important to Landry that he sacrifices even his conscience. Landry is notorious for dumping his girlfriends right before New Year's....

The Dread from the Drows by Erich Sanchack and Dani Sanchack is the continuation of The Orphans of Nilad. EoC and Kaida Nosam’s journey takes them to the Drows as they search for the Amulet of Planes. Instead of getting closer to home, they find...

In The Serpent Stirs by Ankusha Sutey, Indira is a young, cosmopolitan designer from Mumbai who wins an expenses-paid holiday to the eastern coastal state of Odisha, which has a rich historical and architectural heritage. The days pass in a whirl of sightseeing, temple visits,...

Som Phin's The Love That History Erased follows Cambodian American software engineer Srey Rattana, who finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Channary, the heroine of an Angkor-inspired fantasy novel Srey has been reading on her phone. Believing she knows Channary’s future, Srey decides to...

The Time Between Blinks is a remarkable fantasy by talented author Russell Chappell. The story takes us to California, where we meet twenty-three-year-old Ethan Weghorst. It’s been four months since Ethan graduated from college, but he is still trying to figure out what he will...

In James Young’s Time-Stopper, thirty-four-year-old David Preston is a Washington lobbyist with a secret no colleague can imagine: he can stop time. As everyone around him freezes, David can move through a silent city, giving him hours that pass as no more than a second...