In Nick Iuppa’s Evolution’s Angels, when four children survive separate disasters, their hospital scans reveal a brain structure that scientists at Leland University have never seen before. Dr. Kathleen Kelly studies Melissa Washington, a Rochester shooting survivor; Ángel Rivera, a Tucson ranch boy; Lillie Allonzo,...

In Gypsy McKnight’s Escape from the Shadows, Lola Ward was raised in a mountain cabin by Dr. Preston Ward, the scientist who taught her to pass for human before telling her she was built in a secret government lab. When Agent Rowena Thorne resumes the...

Echoes of Minerva: Till Death Do Us Part? by Jo Ullah is a paranormal novel that follows the journey of Minerva, a devoted wife, before she tragically passed away. Instead of moving on, she is trapped in the body of her newborn daughter. So Minerva...

What would you do if you turned up for work one day and your access card didn’t work? Add to that the security guard you’ve known for years doesn’t recognize you, nor do any of your co-workers as they walk past. Would you think that...

In Dennis Currie’s Encrypted Patriot: The Ghosts That Protect America, after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department, homicide investigator Cash Currie opens a private investigation agency in Asian Alley with former law enforcement colleagues, expecting routine surveillance work and background cases. That life changes...

Exile: Book One of The Dark Mirror Trilogy by Sherri Fulmer Moorer is a wonderful science fiction read. The description begins thus: “Dr. Addison Lybrand’s career ends the moment the object she’s tracking vanishes beyond the heliopause.” What follows after the disappearance of the object...

Escape from Perihelion by Diego Tovar takes place in a scorched, climate-ravaged future, with Earth as a wasteland. The situation is worsened by environmental injustice and extractive capitalism. The people are divided into two classes: the privileged “insiders” of the domed Los Angeles and the...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echoes of Humanity, when the ship, Ascendant, returns decades after it was declared lost, they find that humanity is now governed by a system called Echo-9 that controls without consent. Beneath the Martian surface, Hera learns that people who have disconnected...

In S.D. Rhodes's Extinction Protocol, after Earth is destroyed, engineer Elias Ward lives inside a sealed Mars colony where their survival depends on strict control of air, food, and movement under Director Hart’s Security forces. As authority tightens, Elias gains access to the colony’s infrastructure...

In Thomas S. Brown’s Echelon: The Cycle Stirs, Maria Kessler survives in the Lower East Spill by mapping patrol routes and drone cycles, until Dr. Elias Roth recruits her to Project Synthesis in Geneva, where her mind synchronizes with an artificial lattice called Echo-9. Through...