At forty-two, Reaner, a single father and former competitive gamer, can barely provide for his eleven-year-old daughter, Tealy. However, despite the pressure of bills and responsibilities, he streams video games with his daughter as a hobby. After a streaming session one day, Reaner receives a...

Tressa Litton, a senior at Wyval University, accepts an invitation to the Summit Society, the Northeastern chapter of a secret society rumored to guarantee valuable connections for post-graduation paths and beyond to the chosen few. Although not really interested in becoming a member, Tressa feels...

Bernard Doucette’s The Seasonal Killer opens with retired Brett Dubois agreeing to tell journalist Monroe Jackson what happened in New Valley during the summer of 1981. At twelve, Brett spent his days roaming the suburban woods with four close friends who called themselves the Subpar...

“Everyone knew what they were. Humanoid in shape, monstrous in behavior. Creatures with no soul, no conscience, no desire beyond destruction.” The menace is clear in KOA: Dark Systems by Chris Bankus, a sci-fi tale set in the cold of space sometime in the future....

Time Travel Academy: The Genius List by Reginald Williams is a breakneck sci-fi thriller for fans of time travel. Cindy Sanders is a high school student in Dallas, with the IQ of a genius and a disastrous JROTC record. After solving a time-travel equation, she...

Downfall by Abigail Morrison is set in Castia, a snowbound city built in strict levels, where engineering student Rebecca Dalton discovers that strange power surges near the great support pillars may be manufactured. When she investigates one signal, she is attacked and wakes up in...

In Dragonfly Down by Annette Masters, we meet Laurel, a teen who has spent her life hiding behind strict security and rigid routines after a childhood tragedy. Her world shatters a second time when an explosion levels a youth healing center on her family's private...

In Ron Lundmark’s Hypno Dude, Kirk Taylor studies hypnosis in Kathmandu under an elderly teacher named Herkomus, who believes a hidden organization is preparing to control world governments. After Kirk moves to Washington DC with his diplomat mother, he discovers billionaire Fernando Manuro has secretly...

It had been four years since Beatrice “Bea” Cooper, now seventeen, had lost her father. His death had not been easy on either her or her stepmother and sole guardian, Mary Cooper. Their relationship was as strained as their financial situation. Apart from school and...

Darby Donati is a spoiled little rich girl, the daughter of a Las Vegas casino owner, or so she thinks. The discovery of three bodies - a man, a woman, and a child - in a dried-out section of Lake Mead rocks her world. Suddenly,...