The Akhasha Chronicles: Volume I: Awakening by EJ Castille is a praiseworthy technothriller. The story takes us first to a research laboratory in the depths of Mount Elbert, where a team of scientists led by Nikolai Stormgrave is developing a mysterious machine. Suddenly, armed intruders...

Ghost Hauler: Fifty Teeth by Stephen Van Olsen is part serial killer crime story and part psychological thriller. Stephen drives the American interstate as a freight hauler, and he has done so for 27 years. But he doesn’t just drive—he kills, too. And he takes...

The Old Wolf by J.S. Morton follows a private detective and former hitman who returns to killing after his friend Margery is murdered in a Post Office robbery. He is extremely upset about the fact that his Post Office has been robbed and that they...

Evelyn Massey is dead, and she has left a note. Not a suicide note but a note about a secret—the secret is about a dead body in the basement of her home. The note is addressed to Alice, a sergeant in the local police department....

What if reincarnation were real? What if you could look back from the present to your past lives, but also see forward from the past? What if you could repay the karmic debts you left owing in your past lives? Nine Lives: A Soul’s Journey...

The Great Dick And the Dysfunctional Demon by Barry Maher follows a man who has been living under the alias Steve Witowski for the past several years. He is on the run after a drug bust. But his situation changes when he runs into Victoria...

Auralis: The Bridge (Book 1) by R.A. Wagener is a praiseworthy, speculative, sci-fi technothriller. We meet Asher Newman, a mid-level systems integration engineer at Luminate Technologies. When Asher’s team was assigned to run final-stage testing on a new hi-tech chip, Asher discovered that the architecture...

The Nakamura Conjecture by Hitsumei Mitame defies classification even as it grips your imagination. What ties together anomalies like the disappearance of a farmer in colonial Virginia in 1709 with the massive species die-offs in our times? Konrad Crane is a small-town science journalist from...

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...