Lawrence E. Maynard’s Inevitable: Democracy's Demise offers an alternative history that opens in 1972 when Nixon’s aide, Nicholas Matthews, adopts an infant girl, Yi Nuo, on a historic trip to China. He is unaware that the child is Mao Zedong's secret daughter and that her...

Rich Petrelli’s The Black Chalice explodes from the very first page. Dr. Konstantin Volkov releases a bioweapon into a subway in Manhattan, creating a Piston Effect: each arriving train becomes a piston, driving the aerosolized mist through crowded platforms and into the lungs of thousands....

Doc Richter’s Vigilante’s Handbook follows Bill Starr, a retired global IT executive whose Georgetown retirement changes after his goddaughter, medical student Jayden Jefferson, is brutally attacked following a Baylor football game. Jayden identifies the person she believes responsible, but conflicting evidence leaves investigators unable to...

In Love on the Perimeter by Lloyd Devereux Richards, seventeen-year-old Llewelyn Davies is a sensitive boy struggling with anxiety. Losing his mother and being abandoned by his alcoholic father leaves him in the care of his grandmother, but he lacks self-confidence, always shutting himself away....

Who said competition must be fair? In Lethal Succession by Ruben Elustondo, John Whitney, CEO of Whitney Corporation, decides to retire when he is diagnosed with cancer and given six months to live. To determine his successor, he sets a challenge for his right-hand man,...

In Nola Z's Divide by Shunya, after senior product manager Maya is fired from a Seattle technology company, every digital record of her employment disappears. She soon learns that Project Kala, the mental wellness platform she helped build, has been transformed into a system that...

David Boito’s Fatal Castle opens with the Kohinoor’s arrival at Queen Victoria’s palace in 1850 before moving to the Tower of London in 2023, where the diamond’s colonial history lingers in the Crown Jewels. Ashley Bellamy, a UCLA history student and lifelong diamond obsessive, has...

Black Gold Secret by S.F. Baumgartner centers around Gemma, a determined reporter trying to rebuild her reputation at a regional newspaper after a source compromise ruined her career in the capital. Her life changes when she opens an envelope postmarked from a nearby port, containing...

In Day of Wrath by Otho Eskin, DC Metropolitan Police detective Marko Zorn and his partner, Saoirse Richmond, must solve the murder of Father Vincent Holmes, Cardinal Archbishop of Washington. The victim is found on the cathedral floor, as if he fell from the stone...

In J. Luke Bennecke’s Blackout, the US president is assassinated via a wave of drone strikes to pave the way for a coup, and civil engineer Jake Bendel is thrust into a national nightmare, looking for answers and working hard to stop a complete blackout....