“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...

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,...

When Lieutenant Lily Starling, of the United Earth Union fleet, is summoned by Caris to her lab on Bimini, she is shocked by Caris’ revelation about the dark truth behind the planet’s renewal cycle. Shortly after, through a tip from Datch’s digital backup, Lily heads...

In Eric Brown’s The Secrets of Seabrook, as winter closes in on Seabrook Harbor, teenager Jonah Harris notices that a missing dockworker’s case is being dismissed far too quickly. When Josh Hoggins vanishes after a public confrontation at the marina, the town accepts an easy...

In Meredith Watson’s Hunted by a Cult, a small Texas town is where eighteen-year-olds Isaac and Marsha discover they are expecting a child, and where Isaac reveals the secret he has hidden since birth: white wings that mark him as a half-breed, relentlessly pursued by...

In The Moth Dreamer by Amy Lynn Farrell, Aubrey is a teenager trying to reconnect with her Ojibwe roots while coming to terms with her newfound, shocking psychic ability․ She’s spending the summer on her family's traditional lands when she finds an old flint arrowhead....