Two Hearts’ Christmas Mission by Tamara Ferguson follows Oliver Berenger as he relocates to a tight-knit Midwestern community to act as a guardian for his family. His sister, Mariah, is facing an aggressive medical battle, and Oliver is determined to shield his young niece, Amelia,...

Dorothy Van Soest’s Until It’s Over is an enthralling thriller told through two distinct timelines that rise and ebb like the tides of a turbulent sea. Sylvia Jensen is an octogenarian activist who suffers a heart attack at a rally at the state Capitol when...

Thirteen-year-old Levi Tallon hoped, like his mother Maggie promised, that things would get better between her and his father John once they arrived in their new home in Willeran, Maggie’s hometown. However, things only escalate in Willeran. Levi becomes scared for his mother’s life, and...

In Reality X by DC Wince, what starts as a reckless drive into the deep desert for an underground party quickly spirals into a subterranean nightmare. A group of strangers awake to find themselves locked inside an enormous mansion built nine stories underground, each fitted...

Mich Solo’s novel, Failsafe (The Failsafe Series, Book 1), is a near-future, gripping cyberthriller. Nathan Harris is a sharp data analyst in a U.S. government agency. He is frustrated and extremely puzzled when he encounters an unusual programming problem. He tests a revised code. It...

In Nick Iuppa’s Evolution’s Angels, when four children survive separate disasters, their hospital scans reveal a brain structure that scientists at Leland University have never seen before. Dr. Kathleen Kelly studies Melissa Washington, a Rochester shooting survivor; Ángel Rivera, a Tucson ranch boy; Lillie Allonzo,...

In Eli Quinn’s Godless, every child is branded by a god at age nine, but Cal receives no mark and is cast outside the city’s sanctioned paths. Years later, while working near the Bone Market, he handles a relic taken from a corpse and awakens...

In Lynn Crandall’s Move Me, after Dark Sides, a supernatural criminal faction, loses its hold on Auralia, city manager Cassie Butler tries to leave behind the name Diane and the crimes attached to it. Her new life is interrupted when Peter, a surviving Dark Aspect,...

In Richard Paolinelli’s Of All The Gin Joints In The Universe, on Station 1964, a space layover called Norma, private investigator Samuel Archer Spade accepts Natasha Carter’s request for protection from Spencer Holloway, an antiquities dealer linked to a stolen jeweled eagle statue rumored to...

Lynn Hesse’s Part of the Stars begins in 1878, Arkansas, when midwife Myra Logan vanishes after visiting the McCurdy family and wakes inside a mountain cave ruled by pale beings. Her husband Zepeda searches across the winter frontier while Myra’s aunt, Nellie Gatewood, presses officials...