River Cameron has been early-retired from the military, and a piece of her memory is missing. Trying to start a new life for herself, she finds a place to live and decides to go for a run in the park—she thinks she might like running....

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

In The Price of Deception by Rita Mary Boehm, Anita Johns was brutally murdered. Anita had a complicated past and was not always the best mother to Pepper. Police Chief Donnie Smith is called in to investigate the murder. To complicate matters further, Pepper suddenly...

In Fractured Memory by Robbie Sheerin, the year is 2045, and it has been twenty years since the UN and WHO established the Human Preservation League (HPL). HPL was tasked with enforcing a government ban on AI and digital technology. Since microprocessors and CPUs were...

Aiken Ponder’s The Safe Place Was a Lie follows Dr. Idris Bardot, an obstetric emergency physician who has spent years noticing young women return to his hospital with pregnancies that do not fit their records. When a teenage girl vanishes from the building, Idris learns...

Mario Kennedy works slinging pizzas but is desperate to break into the tech elite of Silicon Valley in Vince Thompson’s darkly satirical thriller, The Lockup Period. A startup called MenuAi, founded by Noah Stern and marketed by Ravi Singh, announces it is going public, and...

In J. Luke Bennecke’s Blackout, the US president is assassinated via a wave of drone strikes to pave the way for a coup, and civil engineer Jake Bendel is thrust into a national nightmare, looking for answers and working hard to stop a complete blackout....

Mickey Jenks, a private investigator, receives an anonymous tip about Claudia Danvers, a missing woman in a cold case. The tipster says he witnessed her murder two decades ago but fears the killer will come after him if he speaks to the police. He asks...

Voices on the Wind -- Assault by Helena P. Schrader is an epic story of courage and defiance in the face of a relentless enemy and incredible deprivation. The first of a series based on the historic defense of the island of Malta by the...

In Schrödinger's Glass by Chris Grall, a major malfunction happens during the first operational simulation of the particle accelerator outside Chicago. Objects across the region transform into strange, unpredictable artifacts with impossible properties. Some freeze everything they touch, some generate searing heat, and some stop...