In The Artist Instance by Faruk Brbovic, during the winters, Anela Foster paints impossible patterns—doorways that threaten reality’s fabric, capturing loops with precision from angles that are hard to attain. She is under the illusion that she is painting a nightmare. Then Elysia Harrington enters...

The Lighthouse of Fools by Stephen Wayne begins with the collapse of Bradford-Wellington, which pushes Thomas Harker into relocating his family to desert land, where he starts the construction of a lighthouse. While the family starts anew, Thomas’s vision draws a small circle of unexpected...

A family holiday goes horribly wrong for Olympia Blunt when aliens invade Earth, killing millions of the planet's inhabitants, including her parents, and take her and several other human survivors to work on their home world of Borgomom. Olympia initially refuses to bend the knee,...

David R. Beshears’ riveting The Serpent's Keep Trilogy consists of three novels. Jake (Jacob) Quigley is the principal character. In Book One: Serpent's Keep, Jake inherits his uncle Tobias Quigley’s estate and mansion in the village of Serpent’s Keep. Tobias is presumed dead when he...

Tokyo Tangents by Robin S. Hasuki is an inventive and unusually structured novel that threads together small, carefully drawn character moments into a larger, unexpected narrative. Framed through short, interconnected chapters, the book paints Tokyo as both familiar and strange, a place where routine hides...

The Fall by Seth W. James follows Francesca Pieralisi, a director for the European Seawall Project, as she investigates submersible drone sabotage at Worker Village, a floating hub supporting the massive seawall. Cain assists her by collecting evidence, identifying the workers responsible, and confirming that...

Over a decade into his reign as the supreme ruler of the Milky Way Galactic Empire, Abukar Kenessit plans to settle down and solidify his reign. He aims to marry, establishing his bloodline while adopting a very different approach from the norm to expanding the...

Russell Luyt's The Midnight Factory unfolds in New Albion, a world ruled by fear and control. After a political event—known as the Great Change—takes effect, the Bureau for Virtue becomes the governing body that regulates New Albion through surveillance, propaganda, and an addictive drug called...

The Last Light of Home by Sophia Luxe is a fantasy romance with a touch of science fiction. This post-apocalyptic story is set in the frozen ruins of the Twin Cities after a devastating solar storm destroys civilization. The story follows Georgianna Harris, a former...

Liam (Foxy), a once celebrated resistance soldier, is now a remorseful man living in a world marred by alien devastation. Liam is no stranger to pain. Estranged from his sons and father-in-law, and having lost his beloved wife in an alien attack, he is a...