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...

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...

Operation Nightfall by Ty Mitchell is the second book in the V.E.N.O.M. series. This story finds Jake and Zasha in a quasi-normal life. As DIA assets, they have handlers and must be ready for assignment in the blink of an eye. But Do Shen, believed...

Matthew Galgani’s Doubting Nikki follows Michael “Cami” Camigliano, a filmmaker whose dying grandmother secretly gives him a vial she says contains the Blood of Christ. Soon afterward, Cami’s wife, Nikki, suffers a head injury during a ski trip and later collapses, leaving doctors concerned about...

The Goat of Magalies: Home Is Where You Owe Something by Julian Redwood centers on Marie Botha, a deeply traumatized South African woman who is working as an English teacher in Taipei. Marie has spent most of her adult life running away from the dark...

The Foundling by Amy Meitz begins in 1978 Detroit, where nine-year-old Sunny Berry has spent years hidden inside a failing apartment. Her mother, Roxanne, insists the child she once loved has been replaced by something evil. Hungry and cut off from the outside world, Sunny...

Wouter van Wyk’s Legacy of Ash is the first book in the Brotherhood Chronicles. Adrian Ward is a brilliant but deeply wounded foster kid, and the discovery of a water-damaged grimoire in the church basement costs him everything. But it also awakens the genius in...