In A Dark Slip of Time by Virlana Kardash, Allie is a scholar who knows more about 13th-century death than 21st-century dating. Her life as a PhD student, struggling single mother, and scholar is interrupted by slips in time that transport her from modern Toronto...

In Joel Hopkinson’s The Devil of Dark Dreams, book one of The Otherworld Portals series, Afghan-Australian widower Yasir Nassim owns the Dead Palomino, a Brisbane steakhouse built around his love of country music. When employee Albert arrives bruised and exhausted, he claims a creature sits...

In Robert Crompton’s The Dark Side of Gilead, cabinetmaker Vic Scanlon returns to Colinton after schoolmate Amy Rashid asks about the girl he saw locked inside elder Len Robinson’s junk room twenty years earlier. Vic reported the discovery as a child, but the Fellowship of...

Kent Handy’s The Dark Secrets of Woodruff County is a historical nonfiction account of Kent Lemont Handy’s life in Woodruff County, Arkansas, where his childhood places him inside a Black community living under racial segregation that reaches into everyday life. Handy traces the family from...

In B.A. Chapman’s What Remains in the Dark, a city called Vorrith is hidden beneath the surface of ordinary life, and it is here that a magical community thrives. Evyn Marre is a gifted “Reader,” capable of reading minds with forensic accuracy. Sael Draven returns...

“At what point does the desire to succeed become indistinguishable from the willingness to harm?” For Tanner Barrett, the protagonist of Aaron Ryan's short novel The Darkness Within, that question is answered in a horrific manner. Tanner is an indie author caught in a slump...

Healing often begins with questions we never wanted to ask. The Darkness My Father Brought by Cathy Beck is a memoir about a woman who spends much of her life struggling with feelings and behaviors she can't fully explain. On the outside, Cathy remembers her...

N. Joseph Glass’s Harbinger of Darkness follows Arenna Estanova, a former Earth military commander who now leads an asteroid survey crew aboard The Outlier. Six years after the war between Earth and Mars, Arenna wants the rules and routine of civilian work until her team...

In An Eye for an Eye: The Mallet Murders by Denny Darke, anything could happen in the small Nova Scotia town of Yeovilton County. A doctor was killed in her house with such force to her head that one eye popped out of its socket....

Grydscaen: Dark by Natsuya Uesugi is a cutting-edge, sci-fi cyberpunk adventure novel for the YA reader. If you like stories of internet intrigue and cyber hacking at the highest levels, don't miss this book. The story is wrapped in politics, corporate greed, stock market manipulation,...

Tortured and near death, Zyra Zanr is held hostage by a group of rival bounty hunters aboard their ship, Lilith. Zyra escapes, but her captors are determined to recapture her. Revenge is on Zyra’s agenda, as she intends to teach her former captors a lesson....

“This framework of bone protruded against his olive complexion like a demon attempting to escape its elastic cage.” This impeccably written simile demonstrates the incredible level of creative intelligence and literary skill one finds in the superb collection of short stories authored by James Musgrave...

The setting is a world where the sun shines for fifty years and then there is darkness for ten long years. During the darkness evil will thrive. Darkness brings bewilderment, distrust, and dishonesty in to the land Lorasia. Lorasia is right on the edge of...

The Last Dogs: Dark Waters is the second part of a wonderful adventure geared towards kids but great for all ages. Max and his two friends, Gizmo and Rocky, continue their search for their pack leaders. Their humans, along with many others, have disappeared and...

Squirrels & Puppies: Dark Morality Tales by Russell Mebane is a collection of short stories which introduces readers to a deep, dark, gut wrenching state of emotions. Themes include morality, sexual behavior, interracial concepts, relationships, religion, futuristic technology, and superior beings. This book is not...

In Angelfire, the first in a new series by Hanna Peach, eighteen-year-old Alyx is a lightwarrior, a Seraphim sworn to defeat the Darkened and hold back the demons of hell. But she suddenly finds herself wracked with visions of a boy named Israel and...

The Secret Bunker Trilogy 1: Darkness Falls by Paul Teague is a delightful blend of mystery and science fiction. Dan Tracy has a past of tragedy. His twin sister, Nat, was hit by a van when they were thirteen. After having difficulties at school and...

Rising is Volume 2 of the Dark Surf Series by T.C. Zmak. When the Rogues attacked the Nomads, they bit off more than they could chew. Jake and Leilani are on their trail, chasing Dean to stop him before he can build up his clan...

Cryptic Spaces: Dark Edge Rising by Deen Ferrell is a spellbinding novel that combines fantasy with sci-fi to usher readers into a world full of adventure and extraordinary happenings. A story with an international setting that is vividly captured in beautiful writing, taking readers across...

Contagion: Dark Days Book 1 by Marcy Dyer is the first in an apocalyptic survival series about a group of people struggling to survive after a deadly virus has been released on humanity. Yes, it’s another zombie apocalypse story, but Contagion has one major difference...