It is September 1990. Sixty-four-year-old Kenneth ‘Ken’ Pugh, an artist, is reporting to Woodrow Wilson High School in Asbury, New Jersey, as a senior for the forty-sixth time. He hopes this is the year he finally graduates. However, he has no idea how much trouble...

Always Bet on Death by Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr. follows Detective Griffin Knight as he starts his first shift with the Nassau County Police Department. He gets paired up with a seasoned pro, Detective Sergeant Trenton Barnes, and the two are thrown straight into a...

Scott Shinberg’s A Promise of Lies and Violence follows Michelle Reagan, a CIA Ground Branch operative whose Paris rendition pulls her into a counterintelligence hunt reaching back into the Agency. Rookie case officer Todd Whitaker has spent months in France under non-official cover, yet someone...

It is 1829. Kathy, a black slave woman, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl fathered by her wealthy master, Mr. Cartwright, and names her Anastasia. Kathy raises her daughter at her master’s mansion, where she works. Mr. Cartwright dotes on Anastasia, and when he...

In All We Keep Buried by Pamela Ungashick, a friendship is tested when Kiera is caught up in the disappearance of her friend Naomi’s ten-year-old nephew, Scottie. Everyone suspects Reggie Parks. Reggie’s brother Evan disappeared years ago, and he was the prime suspect. After all...

Jaxon Quinn gradually develops a change of heart when he receives a parcel containing evidence indicting his client, mob boss Vincent Morelli, for a gruesome murder. His conscience pricks him even more, seeing as he just aided Vincent to beat tax evasion charges and walk...

The plan was simple: six-year-old Patrice Johnson was supposed to meet an untimely end, and Crossing, an aptly named crossing guard, was the one selected to chaperone Patrice to the afterlife. Crossing gets his assignment mixed up, and things go awry. Since Crossing needs to...

In Robert James Saniscalchi's Andromidus, President Jameson enters the last year of his presidency guarding Magnanotron, an American force-field technology that has already changed military defense. When leaked battlefield images expose its existence, Chinese Premier Lu Cho turns that discovery into a covert campaign to...

Detective Winston Radhauser faces the worst nightmare that can befall any parent in Susan Clayton-Goldner's A Harbor of Hope. In the dead of the night, someone wounds their stallion, Ameer, in the barn. Radhauser and Gracie go to bed tired that night after having the...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...