In Angela Grey’s A Catalog of Small Cruelties, Violet is an architect who wakes up from a coma to find out that her children are gone. Or rather, that they never existed at all. Though her memories of them feel real, the entire world insists...

In Lesha Fite’s Alexandra, after surviving a devastating car accident, Alexandra Carter begins recovering memories that threaten the carefully managed life she presents to everyone around her. While her identical twin sister, Cassie, believes she is finally healing, Alexandra quietly revisits hidden secrets tied to...

In Aletheia by Michael Karlsen-Williksen, we follow a Norwegian astronomer who grew up on his Uncle Arne's tall tales about a UFO landing in the freezing north. Everyone figured Arne was just eccentric, but decades later, the protagonist is working at a LOFAR telescope in...

Auralis: The Bridge (Book 1) by R.A. Wagener is a praiseworthy, speculative, sci-fi technothriller. We meet Asher Newman, a mid-level systems integration engineer at Luminate Technologies. When Asher’s team was assigned to run final-stage testing on a new hi-tech chip, Asher discovered that the architecture...

A Summer of Static by Wren Greyson is a science fiction drama that follows Purcell, a robot that has just woken up from a simulation where it thought it was human. Robots are desperate to be treated like humans, and humans have robot companions. Purcell...

Advent Blue by Roland Allnach is a riveting psychological technothriller. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the interplanetary conflict between Earth and its Mars colony. Will Fortner is a hardworking recluse who is a navigator at the CHOICE Institute. His dream promotion to a...

In A Birthday to Die For by Frank L. Atchley, we follow Dr. Paula Mitchell, a Seattle psychologist who finds herself in a race against a literal calendar. Her patient, Kae Carlson, is terrified that she’s marked for death by a satanic cult on her...

When Henry Jekyll, a doctor in London, awakens in a morgue, he reels in disbelief that he is still alive as memories of what had transpired earlier slowly settle into his disoriented mind. Not long ago, he had been a wanted man on serious charges....

Afterglow by Troy Kotanides is a psychological drama following Edyn, a 32-year-old man who has psychogenic amnesia, a very rare form of retrograde amnesia in which one loses all memories after some traumatic incident. Coming back to his psychologist, Dr. Gordon Raine, after a gap...

Antisocial by Joshua Ericson follows an ambiguous man referred to only as Stranger, who is haunted by childhood trauma and emotional detachment, and moves through daily routines marked by subtle manipulation and guarded interactions. His controlled façade begins to crack during therapy sessions, and at...