The Creeping Darkness of Janaidar by Robert D. Holland begins in a hidden underground city called The Sleeping City, where an ancient dragon named YuLong wakes up the instant YunFei, the ruler he has been mentally linked to for thousands of years, dies. He expects...

In Anne M. Kennedy’s The Baku Inheritance, book one in The City of Winds series, in 1890, Anton Nikolayevich Sabroski arrives in Baku with tanker plans that could open a new route through the Suez Canal. He learns that his father has died, and the...

Recently divorced, jobless, and living in his sister’s house in Hollywood, California, thirty-year-old Robert Donegan was looking for any job to keep him afloat. When a friend refers him to a contact named Antonio, who is willing to pay him $3,000 to drive a removal...

The Nakamura Conjecture by Hitsumei Mitame defies classification even as it grips your imagination. What ties together anomalies like the disappearance of a farmer in colonial Virginia in 1709 with the massive species die-offs in our times? Konrad Crane is a small-town science journalist from...

When Lisa Greenberg, a journalist for New Horizons, a magazine based in Washington, D.C, is found dead under mysterious circumstances, her colleague Anna Stenmark picks up her work from where Lisa left off. Apart from covering the campaign of presidential hopeful Senator Eric Pauli, Lisa...

Former FBI profiler Decimus Farr arrives home to a note, “Your fiancée dies in twenty-four hours.” He’s then sent on a mission to find a series of five boxes, each containing a clue to the next one, with the final one revealing the location of...

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...

To Catch A Monster by Rale Miller takes place in the seemingly quiet town of Lexington, Virginia, where Officer Chrissy and her bike squad suddenly find themselves caught up in a strange murder investigation. The town's usual calm is shattered when a victim is discovered...

Through the Path of the Silent Mockingbird by Alex Gadala is about a haunting crime that lingers long after the initial investigation has closed. Alexandra Murial was found brutally murdered; she was stabbed to death. Alexandra’s boyfriend, Frank, is discovered in an animal pit under...