In Peter Van Oossanen’s The Extraterrestrial, when an infant is left in a basket on the porch of a remote California farm, John and Mary Stanton raise him as their own son, naming him Sam and giving him an ordinary life in the Salinas Valley....

In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

When Lisa Greenberg, a journalist for New Horizons, a magazine based in Washington, D.C, is found dead under mysterious circumstances, her colleague Anna Stenmark picks up her work from where Lisa left off. Apart from covering the campaign of presidential hopeful Senator Eric Pauli, Lisa...

Black Widow White Horse by Carmine B. Littleworth follows the story of two women from very different backgrounds who form an unexpected bond. It's been a year since Mari lost her husband, Cedric, to Boston PD's brutality. Jean Stinson Lloyd, an elderly White woman, had...

Former FBI profiler Decimus Farr arrives home to a note, “Your fiancée dies in twenty-four hours.” He’s then sent on a mission to find a series of five boxes, each containing a clue to the next one, with the final one revealing the location of...

It is the summer of 1905. Owen Townsend, a young Ivy League-educated doctor related to a prominent family in New York City, is at a park with his fiancée, Maude, when he has a psychotic episode, wreaks havoc, and blacks out. Having recently been discharged...

In Don Stuart’s Descartes' Shadow, born during the Cascadia disaster, Ellie Frye Carver grows up on Vashon Island with unanswered questions about her mother’s death and the father she never knew. Her closest confidante is Patrice, an advanced artificial intelligence who first enters her life...

In Larry Weindruch and Richard A Yach’s Get Maggie, Nicolas Pavlovich leaves Chicago with a large sum of stolen cash and his daughter Maggie, hoping distance will keep them out of reach of the men hunting him. Miami offers only a brief pause. Old grievances...

Hal Koufax, a veteran journalist for the Cincinnati Bugle, was still recovering from a near-death experience at the hands of Frank Miller, a gangster who was after a controversial list in Koufax’s possession. The list, strategically planted in Koufax’s way, not only had ties to...

Lies to Forever by Marlene M. Bell is a suspenseful murder mystery blended with romance. April Manning took leave from a firm of architects to look after her landlord, who was recovering from a major accident. But one day she found her landlord gone. An...