After a decade away from his hometown of Philadelphia, thirty-five-year-old Evan is back to bury his recently murdered grandfather. During the funeral, the family learns from the press that Evan’s uncle, Michael O’Brien, is running for mayor. Apparently, after the death of the incumbent Republican...

In Nathaniel Theos’ The 51st State, the United States launches a surprise invasion of Canada under the pretext of securing water resources during a national drought crisis. General Samuel Dickson escapes from the destruction that wipes out much of Canada’s political leadership and puts the...

In Dennis Currie’s Encrypted Patriot: The Ghosts That Protect America, after retiring from the Los Angeles Police Department, homicide investigator Cash Currie opens a private investigation agency in Asian Alley with former law enforcement colleagues, expecting routine surveillance work and background cases. That life changes...

Peter Van Oossanen’s When Mercy Died introduces Sam Stanton, who is an extraterrestrial raised on Earth. Sam is plunged into despair after his fiancée, Michelle Bennett, and her family are killed in revenge for his dismantling of the Scorpion cartel. He experiences grief and retreats...

In Joanne Woodley's Destiny, Oklahoma roofer Jacy Deere is ordered into a government relocation program. The world has undergone a complete environmental collapse, and global war has reshaped daily life. People are at the mercy of those in power who have restricted access to food...

When a leader becomes paranoid, followers lose hope. In Assassin's Mace by Ron McManus, Jake Palmer and Alona Green are US JSOC officers, and they have been assigned their most difficult mission yet: to enter Russia undetected and escape with Dmitry Sokolov, a high-value asset....

When Jack Miller, a non-profit city lawyer in his late thirties, boards a flight bound for Eastern Europe, he plans to spend two weeks touring Poland, Lithuania, and Belarus, where he also intends to learn about the mysterious history of his Jewish family, who have...

Klood P. Trouvay’s Embers in the Salt introduces us to Syra, a woman who has survived the worst of New Merserat’s fighting pits only to end up doing forced labor for the city officials. She’s a survivor through and through, with the nickname Greykiss, like...

The Day Satoshi Returned by Taimour AlNeimat is set in 2044. Daniel Mercer’s job is to decide what counts as truth inside a system where a citizen ranking called Trust Tier controls access to all sectors of life. When he detects a cryptographic signature linked...

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...