Gordon MacKinney’s Memory Mine hooks you immediately with a wonderfully unsettling premise. Dalton, an aerospace engineering washout, initially signs up for the Mars mission just to reunite with Anna, his lover and sole driving motivation on the red planet. He expects nothing more than a...

In Slow Burn by Alison Sweeney, Lesley, Metrix's marketing manager, is happy with her life and her job. Lesley enjoys her freedom and has no interest in a lasting relationship. When Alex Crewe arrives as the company’s new Sales Manager, Lesley’s carefully maintained boundaries begin...

After an alien force attacks Earth’s massive orbital shipyard dubbed the Forge, a few Interplanetary Security Alliance (ISA) officers and other survivors escape aboard the test ship Cosmic Explorer. A senior crew member promotes Ryan Anders, a newly commissioned ISA officer, to captain and places...

Jaxon Lee’s Cluster*uck, book one in the Crash Jaxon series, follows the titular Crash Jaxon, a young Australian gardener whose affair with married client Jessica Tomlinson ends in chaos when her husband, John, arrives home unexpectedly. John chases Crash through the neighborhood with a kitchen...

In Broken: A Lester Caine Mystery by Fred Berri, investigators Lester Caine, Gloria Saville, and Ronald Walker tackle a horrific case that irreversibly shakes a small Florida town. The year is 1949, and the discovery of fourteen-year-old Rosie Salvo discarded in a Lantana dump lot...

Jeff Janoda’s Season of Life follows Basil Biggs, a free Black farmer whose Pennsylvania land becomes part of the Gettysburg battlefield in 1863. After Confederate troops retreat, Basil returns home to find his farm devastated. Union intelligence officer John Babcock recruits him to follow the...

Hunting Armed Men by J. M. Erickson begins with an explosive orbital crisis when First Officer Robert Lee VI spearheads a violent mutiny aboard a heavy cruiser. His main target is Captain Taylor, an egalitarian commander whose elimination of strict class privileges has fueled the...

S A Melia’s Heirs of Empire (Dodecahedral) follows the boy-king Teodor, thought dead after being lost in the wilds of Sas Darona; he returns riding the Charliki, the black Queen of Spiders. He finds out his cousin Tomas Storm has seized command of the Dome...

Imagine a world where your existence is determined by a computer script long before you can even walk. That is the reality in Ryan David Ginsberg’s In the Algorithm We Trust, a terrifying glimpse into a hyper-regulated America where the central character, Hugo Rodríguez, lives...

In Larry Lentchner’s I Should Have Known Better, retired social worker Phil Green looks back across five decades at his recurring connection with Sheila Allenberg, the woman he first meets at an Alphabet City party during the Sixties. Their attraction begins almost instantly, yet Phil’s...