It is the summer of 1940. The SS President Jackson has arrived in Shanghai, and aboard is Paul Obermann, a man fleeing law enforcement after an insurance-fraud scheme in San Francisco. It is bad enough that he is flat broke, as his partners made off...

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...

Kris Welsh’s Celtic Love Knot Trilogy reimagines Celtic legend through Scáthach, the warrior trainer who speaks from Tír na nÓg, the Otherworld realm of eternal youth, as she remembers Cú Chulainn, the famed Hound of Ulster who trained at her fortress on the Isle of...

Constellations of Love by Patricia Leavy follows Tess Lee, who has finally found the peace and happiness she spent most of her life searching for. Settled into married life with Jack, she begins looking forward to celebrating Christmas in a way she never could before....

In Capitol Sins by Bill Halamandaris, evil people have gone after Theo Alexander. His life has been in danger, and they even abducted the girl he loves, Taylor. Theo was the director of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, but the committee was disbanded after the...

Eliza Sky's attempt to create a new life for herself away from the orphanage she once called home looks to be yielding fruit. She has joined an odd group, young girls of different races with a zest for life she has never experienced and a...

Cyberpunk 1876 by Stephen Kagarise is a collection of poems inspired by words and phrases from The Daily Astorian, a historical newspaper. These poems wander through a world chasing after shiny prizes like gold bracelets, falling into habits like opium, and losing people along the...

In Judith Kendall's Conquering The Odds, when New Zealand politician Melinda McConnolly becomes Speaker of Parliament, her appointment changes the course of her daughter Jasmine Ashton’s life. Years later, after Melinda accepts a diplomatic posting in Washington, Jasmine enters university while training as a competitive...

Crow: The Luck of Charm by Surya Prakash Shrivastava is a short story about the connection between a boy and a crow. Yash lives in an urban environment, with chaotic traffic and construction noise just outside his window. Inside, chaos comes from his arguing parents....