In Chris Young’s The Debt, Michael Kramer has just graduated from high school and hopes to study electrical engineering when a shooting accident kills James, his childhood best friend. James’s mother, Sally, disputes Michael’s account, prompting a plea bargain that sends him to Hanenkan Bay...

The current head of the IRA, Brianna Donovan, has a diabolical plan. To carry it out, she needs to get hold of a coded crucifix. It’s somewhere in Pamplona, Spain, and so she hires a mercenary known only as El Gocho to find it for...

M. A. Coupe’s The Cyclist: Carbon Fingerprints follows Alex, a gifted Chicago cyclist riding the Trans-Britain Ultra, an arduous charity race across Britain. An old injury has left Alex with nerve damage that can interrupt an otherwise exceptional performance, yet racing remains the one place...

Miguel Angel Hernandez Jr.’s The Sedona Rift follows private investigator Griffin Knight after photographer Lena Petrova witnesses an impossible green flash near Cathedral Rock while searching for her missing brother, Mikhail. At the scene, Griffin’s Smart Goggles detect unfamiliar residue and a repeating signal inside...

The Goat of Magalies: Home Is Where You Owe Something by Julian Redwood centers on Marie Botha, a deeply traumatized South African woman who is working as an English teacher in Taipei. Marie has spent most of her adult life running away from the dark...

Tim Schooley’s novel, The Wool Translator, is an interwoven coming-of-age story of two young savants and their forbidden romance, set in the chaos of war in Europe and England of the 1480s. The story includes fictional characters as well as reimagined historical figures with fictional...

The Iron Vault by S.F. Baumgartner introduces readers to a high-stakes suspense story starring Navy Lieutenant Eli Mercer and forensic investigator Rosalie Tanaka. They’re brought together by a search for the truth behind the Blackwater offshore rig explosion, a disaster Eli needs to solve to...

Carl Lakeland’s The Wine Cellar follows Michael Dodd, a Canberra homeowner whose concern over a Middle East crisis grows when fuel supplies tighten as financial markets behave strangely. Australian officials urge people to remain calm, yet Michael begins converting the space beneath his Deakin garage...

The Ashes of Us by Ashley Baker is a compelling novel. Very early one morning, Dr. David McCall, a clinical and anatomical pathologist, receives a strange phone call. He is informed that his nineteen-year-old daughter, Addison McCall, is in the hospital. She was assaulted. He...

Tressa Litton, a senior at Wyval University, accepts an invitation to the Summit Society, the Northeastern chapter of a secret society rumored to guarantee valuable connections for post-graduation paths and beyond to the chosen few. Although not really interested in becoming a member, Tressa feels...