Karen Hulene Bartell’s Indigo follows Chicago editor Raluca Olson to Birch Lake, Wisconsin, after an inheritance from great-aunt Winifred Nelson gives her a lakeside cabin from a relative she never knew existed. Raluca plans to sell the property and return to Chicago, but the cabin...

Karol Windsor’s Hypothermia follows Cassidy Blackburn, a Milwaukee travel writer whose life as an adventurer changes after a hunting accident leaves shrapnel lodged near his heart. A year after the accident, Cass writes close to home as anxiety over another cardiac emergency governs how far...

At twenty-two, Carter and Christian, childhood friends turned lovers, are graduating from Northern Arizona University. Carter surprises Christian with a marriage proposal on the same day but is left shocked and devastated when Christian turns him down. He heads to Boston, where he had planned...

A giant space mass has smashed its way through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, sending asteroids all across the solar system, some headed for Earth. The US president wants to nuke them, but scientists insist that it won’t help and that they’ll 100%...

A call for help unravels a plot to return native land to its rightful owners in R.L. Keck’s Absence of Mercy. The story features two explosive crises. In Wyoming, a radical “Professor” is said to be falsifying soil contamination reports, and E.J. Lonetree is dispatched...

“You can only sell your integrity once, so you better get a good price for it,” are the opening lines of Diana Colleen’s provocative, revolutionary, and speculative thriller, They Could Be Saviors. The most consequential news of the century is brought to the world by...

Marek Kamiński’s Polaris takes readers into one of the harshest and most unforgiving environments on Earth. Mark and Robert, partners in the company Complexity Kills, have built a business that offers far more than extreme expeditions. It provides a gateway to self-discovery and a deeper...

In Terry Birdgenaw’s Cyborg Contact, Dee, a giant cyborg ANT from the distant moon Bilaluna, arrives on Earth through an ancient wormhole with a warning about the environmental collapse that destroyed his original world. Stranded in a future North America shaped by drought, political violence,...

Glenn Hurst is a fifty-six-year-old ghostwriter in dire financial straits who also faces a bitter divorce. When crypto-millionaire Brad Thorsen hires him to write his "origin story" at the remote Mattison Alkaline Works, the "Maw," in rural Virginia, he believes it is the lifeline he...

Into the Dax by Bob Welch follows Kiley, a systems engineer working with pollination drones in an agricultural region, whose routine changes when hostile machines destroy her network and target her directly. A recorded message from her father, Lucas Van, a scientist in hiding, reveals...