In Brandon Fisichella’s The Corpse War of 1793, when the sergeant marches into the Norfolk town of Stowlham with a British regiment, expecting routine garrison duty during the Napoleonic era, he instead enters a town already collapsing beneath attacks carried out by the dead. Soldiers,...

In Nathaniel Theos’ The 51st State, the United States launches a surprise invasion of Canada under the pretext of securing water resources during a national drought crisis. General Samuel Dickson escapes from the destruction that wipes out much of Canada’s political leadership and puts the...

The Wedding by Herb Hughes begins the night before Brett Hampton, an American journalist, and Anya Laska, a Polish woman, are to be wed. He has snuck into her room, and they blissfully chat. However, their happiness shatters when German bombs rain down on the...

In Bob Van Laerhoven’s The Long Farewell, in 1934, Dresden, fifteen-year-old Hermann Becht's family is affected by Adolf Hitler’s rise to power. His father, Hans, serves the Nazi movement with growing devotion, while his mother, Marina, a Belarusian refugee who escaped revolutionary Russia, believes Germany...

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...

Angel Giacomo’s The Jackson MacKenzie Chronicles: Broken Valor puts readers straight into the aftermath of war as Major Harry Russell awakens in a Hawaiian military hospital with only a scant memory of how he arrived there. Among Harry’s first conscious thoughts is his closest friend,...

Mark Twain said, “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” Fear is the most prevalent emotion in The Weight of Silence by Alex Baranda, but maybe it’s fear that keeps people alive. Set in 1943, it begins with an elite agent...

The Time Between by Bryna Hellmann-Gillson looks at several young Jewish women and how they responded to the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam during World War II. Hannah, like Anne Frank, spent her early years in Germany, but her family moved to the Netherlands after the...

The Return of the Flying Boat is a historical drama by Dale Morton. It's the late 1990s. The Russian government has ramped up attacks on shipping corridors all over the Arctic and Atlantic with covert, cutting-edge technology-equipped stealth submarines. Among them, the USS Buffalo is...

“The fight didn't end when Harrison died. It started.” No, it isn't a fight that starts in The Shadow Gentleman, a novel by Robin Alden Howard; it's nothing less than a full-blown war. The story begins when Eli Mercer, a brooding individual, takes control of...