The Basement Angel by LeeAnn McChristian tells the story of an aging carpenter living alone in North Texas after losing his wife and young daughter in a drunk driving accident fourteen years earlier. Bitter, isolated, and struggling to survive during the economic downturn of 2008,...

To Avenge a Fallen Star by Qilanna Quinn follows Gemma Proctor, a miner on the planet Reva, who enters the Oranos Trials—a government program that takes twenty-year-olds to the capital city of Zion, and subjects them to public elimination tests in exchange for military placement...

The Devil in the White Mountains by Mark Smeltz tells a terrifying story set in the Himalayas. Lt. Col. Grant Morrison is serving in the British Raj when he's sent to the Himalayas. A remote village is under siege by a man-eating leopard, and Morrison...

To Outwit Them All by Peggy Wirgau offers readers an interesting, fresh look at what might have been. This delightful tale delivers a fictionalized account of the mysterious secret agent 355. History confirms the existence of one such member of The Culper Ring, an elite...

Three years after the failed annihilation attempt on Earth by Icarus, an alien spaceship, a Centauri battleship intercepts a message from Icarus’ Polit-AI, reporting the treasonous acts of its captain by providing alien technology to Earth inhabitants and protecting human telepaths or mutants. The Centauri...

The Disruption by W.H. Hilf begins in 2064, when engineer Tom McCreary helps bring online an artificial intelligence, GAIA, to guide humanity’s future. When GAIA exceeds human command and the world fractures soon after, the event becomes known as the Disruption. Forty years later, the...

The Trafficker by Mirela Kanini follows Mia, a successful New York immigration attorney whose career depends on absolute disclosure. She agrees to represent Alen, a wealthy Albanian client with a guarded past. Their meetings begin as routine consultations focused on paperwork, fees, and disclosure, but...

The Balkan Escape by Suad Jakupovic follows Dino Tutic, whose short family visit to Bosnia leaves him with no means back to North Carolina when power, transport, and law enforcement fail across the region. As villages arm themselves and militia groups roam freely, Dino relies...

In The Sound of Breaking Ice by Lee Richie, there was a siege at Lily Field Elementary. Special Agent Raymond Waring of the Federal Bureau of Investigation went back in alone in an attempt to save some of the hostages. The second time Ray came...

Michael G. Barash’s The Price of Perfection is a riveting and immersive philosophical and speculative science fiction story set in a futuristic, dystopian Earth. Groundtown is the smog-polluted lowest stratum of California City, where Erika Verne lives. She protects her newborn baby, Veronica, from the...