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...

Misconstrue by Denise Forsythe propels you straight into Cassie Nichols’ reality, and it is not a comfortable place to be. Cassie has been incarcerated for nearly four years for her husband Jake’s death. She’s stuck inside Palmer Women’s Correctional Facility, while her son, Lucas, is...

Daiyu had traveled a long way from China to the US for one reason: vengeance. Born in 1976, her parents were murdered when she was young by a figure she only knew as the Golden Mirror, the leader of the Zufu triad. It takes years,...

In The Butcher and the Liar, author S.L. Woeppel tells the story of Daisy Bellon, a woman living in the long shadow of her father’s gruesome reputation as a serial killer. Growing up in the gritty reality of her father’s butcher shop in Hellene, Nebraska,...

Josephine Jordan brings us more spicy romantic suspense in the second book of the Storm Series, Riding the Storm. Ava Ellis is on location in the Canadian mountains, shooting a movie with her co-star. She is exhausted. It’s been film after film this year, and...

Evil genius Isabella Fernandez is on the path to world domination. In the process, she has created an army of henchmen, but she has an even more diabolical plan. She believes she's discovered an ancient relic that she can genetically sequence to make her army...

The Fixer: The Shape of Her by Ozzie Logozzo is one of those books that hits you with its intensity right from the very first page. It isn't just a story you read; it’s one you feel. I was completely floored by the prose here....