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...

Don’t Let It Out by N.A. Betts begins with an introduction to Daniela Rojas, a former Army Ranger completing her final FBI training exercise under intense physical and psychological strain. From the opening scene, where Dani fights through pepper spray and multiple attackers, the story...

Parallel Peril by Maria Lynn Barrs is an enthralling story that I rank among my top reads of the year, so far. Dallas TV journalist Vicky Robeson is on vacation and has just been promoted to News Director. While on a two-week vacation in California,...

Have you ever had to stop for a moment because things felt different, and you couldn’t explain why? In Anomaly by Jennifer Milne, Mirielle “Elle” Coleman is a young woman whose life always feels like it is changing in ways she can’t control. From childhood,...

In Stolen Secrets by S.F. Baumgartner, FBI Special Agent Charlie O’Rourke believed adopting Jamie would keep her safe. Charlie was trying to shield her from threats tied to a past he hoped to leave behind. For twelve years, Jamie lived under a carefully constructed identity,...

Peter Van Oossanen’s When Mercy Died introduces Sam Stanton, who is an extraterrestrial raised on Earth. Sam is plunged into despair after his fiancée, Michelle Bennett, and her family are killed in revenge for his dismantling of the Scorpion cartel. He experiences grief and retreats...

In James Dunlop’s Plausible in Parts, Andy MacKay returns to his Camden flat after a contract mission in Kosovo that involved an attempt on General Marku Berisha, expecting to resume his routine, but the police arrest him and link the case to his actions abroad....

Butterfly Pinned by Leslie Liautaud is a dark psychological thriller that tells the story of college junior Marin, who enters a respected Chicago university with the hope of escaping her broken Midwestern family and reinventing herself. She quickly becomes enchanted by Bette Winston, a wealthy,...

In Jason Middleton’s The Last Harmonic, at a diplomatic event in Geneva, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presents a reset in relations with Russia, marked by a symbolic button that conceals a critical translation error and signals a deeper shift already in motion. Years later,...

Addendum is the second book in the Astral Alignment series by Randall Sharpe, an imaginative blend of horror and fantasy, delivering interconnected tales and characters fighting cosmic entities across the haunted landscapes of America. “Whispering Lake” follows goth teen Charon and her friend, Annie, as...