In Alejandro Torres De la Rocha’s Mortal Vengeance II: To Reel or Not Too Real?, survivors of the Grim Cojuelo murders at Santo Domingo’s Excelsior Academy have become stars of a reality television series. Producer Shane Harper sees enormous ratings potential in their painful history,...

What the Dead Learned by Hwee Peng Tan is a zombie apocalypse novel with a fascinating twist. The original idea of the “cure” was to save humanity from the overarching surveillance of the government. The “cure” would effectively make people invisible to all forms of...

The Price of Freedom by Vasyl Kazmirchuk follows Max, a recent Australian university graduate whose friends in a group called the Refusal have gained a fortune through a daring theft. Their newly comfortable lives come under threat when the group’s computer expert, Ivi, is seriously...

The Garden of Wives by Danielle LaCarak takes place in Orchid Hill, an exclusive gated community in Southern California where everything looks perfect, from the lawns to the wives. Cass Maccabee and her husband move in, hoping for a fresh start, and at first the...

Count to Ten by Raul Quintana Selleras is about Evan Morris, an ordinary man. Evan wakes up tied to a chair in a dark, abandoned warehouse. He was kidnapped by the "Chaos Killer" for a twisted psychological game. In front of Evan are ten numbered...

Gordon MacKinney’s Memory Mine hooks you immediately with a wonderfully unsettling premise. Dalton, an aerospace engineering washout, initially signs up for the Mars mission just to reunite with Anna, his lover and sole driving motivation on the red planet. He expects nothing more than a...

Charlotte Woodland’s Eight Weeks features Chloe Moore, a dental assistant who is unsure about her life's purpose. Randolph Dunne is a patient at the dental clinic, and Chloe is fascinated by his perfect teeth. Unbeknownst to her, he too has an interest in her, but...

Everbound by Kari Chaplin opens with what seems to be a quiet marriage that is going slightly strange. Sydney makes breakfast for her husband, Caleb, and their two children, Jack and Gracie. Yet small things keep slipping. Coffee returns to the counter after she pours...

Grace is a widow. Her husband, Mitch, died last year, and she has their farm up for sale. She is struggling with the sale process as the first offer, which seemed firm, is now in jeopardy. The property manager quit, and the potential buyers are...

M K Boers’ Sleep follows Lizzy Dyson, a woman held in a psychiatric prison wing while a court considers her responsibility for killing her husband, Tony, and his lover, Sally Bryant. Lizzy has pleaded guilty, but the question before the court is how her state...