In Dark Place by Christopher Kell, when Ros is taken in the night after her government rating as a compliant citizen suddenly collapses, her friends, Femke and Domhnal, follow through on a dangerous plan to discover where the dispossessed are sent. They deliberately trigger their...

In Sicko, Avril Grady tells the story of Jamie Katz, a queer man working as a scriptwriter for an adult film studio. Jamie’s life is complicated—he’s still intertwined with Paul, his twice-ex-husband who is also his boss and secret lover, and their repeated breakups and...

In Alexander Semenyuk’s Sea Diary of Johnny Unknown, Johnny, an orphaned factory worker hoping for a fresh start, boards a passenger ship filled with migrants, businessmen, and families on their way to a distant shore. On his very first night at sea, he hears the...

Jackal by Michael Jack Webb is a speculative thriller set in the aftermath of a near-fatal confrontation. Former FBI profiler Kate Justice retreats to her family cabin in Colorado until a call from her former supervisor sends her to Cairo to consult on a murder...

On the land of Ersa are four mages—Fionn, Orin, Elias, and Primus—who, apart from having been raised together, were bound by an oath to protect the peace of Dunya, their homeworld. However, it had been no secret to the mages that Primus, also the Prince...

Carrie Rubin’s The Missing Au Pair is set in 1985 Paris, when Kelly Burke arrives in the city of lights to start her new job as an au pair for Camille and Philippe Garron, right in the heart of the posh sixteenth arrondissement. From her...

Lightning by Michael Ray Ewing begins when Adam Barnett survives a lightning strike on a deserted desert road. He wakes with no memory of how he arrived there and with a powerful black dog at his side. As he returns to Defiance, Arizona, fragments of...

In Enemy at the Helm by Mark Dickson, coordinated maritime attacks strike major American ports and key global canals, beginning with the destruction of the cruise ship Leviathan off Miami. As the shipping channels are blocked and infrastructure collapses, investigators trace the operation to a...

In Anthony Pond’s Conquistadors, Ryan Jordan joins a small expedition in central Mexico to climb three of the country’s highest volcanoes under the direction of their guide, Ricardo. After becoming ill at a mountain lodge following a meal in town, he chooses to continue with...

In Bill Garwin’s Chasing Madison, when Madison James diverts thirty-two million dollars from Russian financier Vasily Popov through a law firm trust account tied to attorney Atticus Wright, she sets in motion a pursuit that stretches from Venice to the American Southwest. Popov forces Atticus...