Badge on Fire by Daniel Green follows Jack Singer, a Berkeley fire captain whose public life of service is shadowed by a private mission that began with a blaze at a villa on the Mexican coast. In the prologue, Jack watches a fire he helped...

When a young woman arrives at her great-grandmother’s manor, a ghostly presence begins to intercede in her life in Stonebridge, written by Linda Griffin and narrated by Catherine Hein Carter. After her mother dies, Rynna goes to stay with her great-grandmother at Stonebridge, her mother’s...

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...

Rhea’s Game by Dan Uselton is set in a dystopian nightmare future where entertainment is defined by the abuse and humiliation of game show contestants. Whilst most of society lives in poverty, a few elite owners, managers, and performers in the only gameshow in town,...

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...

Chasing the Underground by N M Sotzek follows former competitive Scanner Cam Tylar, who is secretly involved in illegal research on Artificial Intelligence Morphers, or AIMs. Cam discovers that the AIMs sold by Trevor McCarthy’s company are unstable and can stop obeying human control, sometimes...

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...

In A Second Chance by Asher Frend, Oak Haven teenagers Mikaila Emery, her older sister Kaitlyn, and their best friend Chara Wilson move through the same town under very different pressures. Mikaila believes she has been given limited time to protect Chara after a disturbing...