There’s a whole world of ideas out there that you’re not supposed to explore. Forgotten history. Unconventional science. Unfashionable philosophy. Suppressed perspectives. Questions that respectable people aren’t supposed to ask.

And authors who aren’t afraid to ask them.

Welcome to the 2026 Non-Fiction Based Book Sale™, where independent thinkers, researchers, historians, and authors have come together to offer their books for just $0.99 or FREE!

For one week only, from Wednesday, October 28, through Tuesday, November 3, discover books that challenge conventional wisdom, recover forgotten knowledge, and encourage you to think for yourself.

Discover New Arrivals and Fan Favorites

This sale introduces a new way to explore Based Books. Instead of scrolling through one enormous list, we’re organizing the participating titles into two collections on our Amazon storefront.

New Arrivals

Fresh voices. New ideas. Books you haven’t discovered yet.

Meet authors and titles making their debut in the Based Book Sale™. Some are emerging writers with something important to say. Or Based Book Sale™ veterans with a new offering. Others are established authors joining us for the first time. Click the button to browse and buy.

Nonfiction New Arrivals

Fan Favorites

Old favorites. Overlooked gems. Another chance to discover something remarkable.

These books have appeared in previous editions of the Based Book Sale™. Perhaps you’ve seen them before but haven’t picked them up. Perhaps you’ve read one and want to explore more of that author’s work.

Either way, here’s another opportunity to expand your library at an exceptional price. Click the button to browse and buy.

Nonfiction Fan Favorites

Not on Amazon

Authors and Based Readers alike have asked for ways to buy books beyond Amazon. Here are a couple in this week’s sale.

American Stasi: The Domestic Surveillance Targeting You and Your Children | Michael Trust (FREE)

A free treatise on the extent, nature, and tactics of the physical surveillance used to monitor and control the American public. An eye-opening and essential modern-day survival guide.

Shhhh! it’s a Secret: How to Compete Against WalMart and the Internet | by Fran Tabor

The author shares the attitudes and techniques that enabled her to grow her small town, Mom & Pop shop from $20,000 per year to over a million per year. Available eBook, Print and Audio

*Sale prices and availability are determined by participating authors and publishers. Please verify the listed price before purchasing. Most titles are available through Amazon.com, although some authors may offer other retailers or regional editions

About the Based Book Sale™

The Based Book Sale™ is more than a collection of discounted books. It’s a cooperative effort by independent authors to introduce their readers to one another.

Each participating author brings an audience. By pooling our reach and promoting one another’s work, we help readers discover books and writers they might otherwise never encounter.

It’s a simple idea: authors helping authors find new readers.

And readers benefit from an ever-expanding selection of independent voices, fresh perspectives, and inexpensive books.

This Non-Fiction Niche Sale is also a trial run for an expanded storefront approach. For our upcoming Black Friday sale, we plan to organize books into genre-specific collections, each with its own New Arrivals and Fan Favorites selections. Signup will be through a Google form, instead of comments.

Our goal is to make it easier than ever to discover your next favorite book.

Our next event is the Based Non-Fiction Book Sale, running from Wednesday, October 28 12:00 AM PDT through Tuesday, November 3, 2026 (i.e. Wednesday November 4, 2026, 12:00 AM PST. We’re inviting authors with nonfiction titles to participate in this niche sale, and we’re introducing a new signup and promotion process designed to make the sale easier to organize and easier for readers to browse.

We're looking for nonfiction that informs, challenges, and inspires: history, science, philosophy, religion, politics, economics, biography, and more. Whether you're questioning conventional wisdom, recovering forgotten knowledge, exploring controversial ideas, or offering practical insights, we welcome books that encourage independent thought and serious inquiry.

Author signup deadline: Monday, October 26, 2026, at 11:59 PM PST.

A New Way to Discover Based Books

In previous sales, we’ve assembled long lists of participating books organized by genre and presented within a single post designed to test the patience of the most diligent Based Book Reader.

This time, we’re experimenting with a different approach using my Amazon storefront.

You can see an example in the Top Sellers page from our last sale.

For the Non-Fiction Sale, we’ll organize participating books into two collections:

• New Arrivals: Books making their debut in the Based Book Sale, giving readers an opportunity to discover something new.

• Fan Favorites: Books that have participated in previous sales, giving readers another chance to pick up titles they may have missed.

The goal is to make it easier for readers to browse, discover new authors, and find books that interest them, while simplifying the process for participating authors.

Looking Ahead to Black Friday

If this experiment works well, we’ll expand the approach for our upcoming Black Friday Based Book Sale™.

Instead of one enormous list, we’ll create separate storefront collections for each genre, with each divided into New Arrivals and Fan Favorites.

This should make it easier for readers to find books in their favorite genres, while giving newcomers and returning authors opportunities for exposure.

Authors should note that using a Kindle Countdown Sale for THIS niche sale, probably means it won’t be available for the Black Friday Sale. You may prefer to temporarily fix your price to $0.99 to participate in both sales.

Authors: Sign Up Here!

If you’d like to participate in the Based Non-Fiction Book Sale, please complete our new signup form:

Based Book Sale Author Signup Form

The deadline to sign up is the end of the day Monday, October 26. That gives us Tuesday to assemble the storefront collections before the sale begins Wednesday.

The form asks whether your book is a new arrival, its genre, and its Amazon URL. You may use an alternate URL if you wish, and those books will be included on the Substack post directly instead of in the Amazon storefront. You’re asked to confirm pricing and agree to promote the sale in exchange for featuring your book. That’s all we need to begin organizing the sale.

We’re testing this new workflow with the Non-Fiction Sale before rolling it out more broadly for Black Friday, so your participation will help us work out any problems.

If you encounter any difficulties with the form or have suggestions for improving the process, please let me know.

The Based Book Sale is about authors helping authors reach new readers by pooling our audiences and introducing readers to books and writers they might otherwise never discover. Thanks for making the Based Book Sale™ a success and for demonstrating that distributed, crowd-sourced marketing can bypass ideological gatekeeping.

Let’s work together to make this experiment a success and help each other sell even more Based Books.

RELICS, Volume 1, a fourteen-story anthology of independent science fiction and fantasy, is scheduled for release in early October 2026 in paperback. The collection was curated by Heidi A. Hill, L. Jagi Lamplighter, and Michael Finney in coordination with Based Book Sale.

The fourteen stories are organized into three sections — The Ruins, The Remnants, and The Restored — around the idea of the relic as an object that endures for a reason. Settings range from a mythic West and 1929 Chicago to a war-torn Italian town, the Sinai, the North Sea, a glacier at the end of the world, a rogue planet, and a relic found on Mars. The contributors move freely between science fiction and fantasy rather than staying inside a single genre. The anthology grew out of the Based Book Sale community and carries its name with the blessing of the sale’s creator, Hans G. Schantz.

GET THE RELICS ANTHOLOGY

“Anthologies are incubators for literary movements: they give established authors room to experiment, new writers a chance to be discovered, and readers a doorway into something larger. That makes an anthology a natural next step for the growing Based Book community, and I’m delighted that Michael, Jagi, Heidi, and all the participating authors stepped up to make it happen,” said Schantz.

The anthology format also lowers the barrier for readers who have been cautious about independent books. “Anthologies are a great opportunity for indie authors and traditionally give readers a chance to try a dozen or more writers in one purchase that is comparable to the cost of getting coffee with a friend,” said Lamplighter.

Hill added, “This anthology was purposely designed. Not only do we have the theme of Relics, but within that theme are stories that enter a discussion about what a relic means. We curated the book into sections—The Ruins, The Remnants, and the Restored. This gives the reader different entry points as well as an overall arc from the first to the last.”

Finney, who also contributes a story to the volume, on design in independent publishing: “Being able to utilize modern design tools to create unique assets allowed us to pull symbolic representations from each story and incorporate those components throughout the design. In terms of time and budget, the only way that would be possible is with a set of digital design tools that are enhanced by artificial intelligence.”

Submissions exceeded what a single book could hold, and Relics, Volume 2 is planned for 2027.

Contributing authors: , , , , , , , , , Michael Ferrara, , as well as three stories from the curators.

RELICS, Volume 1 is available in paperback on Amazon.

ABOUT THE CURATORS
is the author of the fantasy Songless Saga.
is a writer of fantasy and children’s stories, including the Rachel Griffin series.
is a full-spectrum content producer who has explored music, audio, video, photography, and writing over a twenty-year career.

The Based Book Sale is about more than finding great books at great prices. It’s about building a culture in which independent writers, artists, publishers, and other creators can keep creating. That means not merely consuming the finished product, but becoming a patron of the people doing the work.

So alongside this sale’s books, we’re highlighting crowdfunding campaigns from Based creators. These campaigns are a chance to put your support directly behind projects you want to see exist, while often getting something extra in return: signed editions, special hardcovers, original art, bonus material, limited releases, and other rewards you won’t find in the ordinary bookstore.

If you like what these creators are doing, don’t just buy their books. Back them. Support them. Help fund what comes next.

Here are some projects you can help make happen.

Alex van Hoogstraten: Casket Girls #2: Engines of the Damned

Casket Girls 2 continues Bonsart Bokel’s independently created steampunk military-SF saga, following female convict pilots in steam-powered mecha battling horrors from interdimensional rifts. With its mix of alternate history, pulp adventure, gaslamp fantasy, monsters, and giant war machines, it looks like one to check out for fans of old-school speculative adventure.

Brian Niemeyer: Souldancer 10th Anniversary Special Edition Novel

This year marks the tenth anniversary of Souldancer, the Dragon Award-winning horror adventure that drew readers into the heart of the Soul Cycle. As a result, my haunting yet hopeful saga has grown into a world-spanning epic; all because of readers like you!

Travis J. I. Corcoran: Aristillus: Escape from Io

Aristillus: Escape from Io is a stand-alone hard science-fiction novel featuring intelligent uplifted Dogs struggling to survive on Jupiter’s most violent moon, Io. This is the first new Aristillus novel in almost ten years.

Fred Heimbach: The Gods That Watch

The Gods That Watch tells the tale of Darien, Son of Yon, a warlord building a kingdom amid ancient ruins. As his fame spreads, strange persons come to him, persons with godlike powers and competing goals. They want control of Darien, and they aren’t above lying and killing to make him a pawn in their game.

Michael Tierney: Wild Stars: Flight From Reckoning + War of the Gods

Michael Tierney’s sprawling Wild Stars space opera is entering its final arc. Cirsova is bringing out two volumes at once: Flight From Reckoning, previously serialized in Cirsova Magazine, and the never-before-published War of the Gods, which launches the trilogy that will bring the twelve-volume saga to its conclusion.

Expect old-school cosmic adventure on a grand scale: immortal extragalactics, interstellar war, genocidal cults, collapsing empires, strange alliances, and a struggle over the fate of the universe. Better still, the complete saga has already been written, with the final two volumes planned for next year.

The campaign is closing in on its $4,000 goal, with less than a week remaining. Backing it isn’t merely preordering a couple of books. It helps Cirsova pay for the artwork and production needed to carry an ambitious independent science-fiction saga across the finish line.

Moe Lane: Banshee Beach (Tom Vargas Mysteries #3)

Return to the world of the Fermi Resolution! [Fantasy, post-apocalyptic]

It’s a future post-apocalyptic (but not grimdark) America full of magic, madness, war, adventure, and -- when it comes to the Tom Vargas Mysteries series -- jokes about movies. So many jokes about movies. Banshee Beach is the third book in the series: check out the Add-ons section for print and digital copies of the first two books (Frozen Dreams and Tinsel Rain).

Nym Coy: Mumbai Singularity: A Mythic Cyberpunk Audiobook

Bringing Mumbai Singularity to life is David Sweeney-Bear (dsbaudio.com), a British voice actor and audio producer with over 50 titles and eight years of audiobook narration behind him. A 2026 Voice Arts Award winner, he’s an Audible Approved Producer with credits at Harper Collins and Audible.

Kevin Trainor Jr.: The Hawk, The Fox, and the Princess

They killed his father. They drove his mother to suicide. Now, Miguel Halcon has come to St. Eglantine’s College for revenge.

Robert Kroese: The Leviathan Papers

A Secret History of the English Civil War

The seventeenth century transformed the world.

Civil war tore England apart. Old political certainties collapsed. Astronomers, mathematicians, alchemists, inventors, and natural philosophers began discovering laws of nature that upended prior beliefs.

But what if something else was happening beneath the history we know?

The Leviathan Papers is a new historical science-fiction thriller series set against the upheavals of seventeenth-century England—a world of espionage, political intrigue, secret correspondence, experimental science, religious conflict, and dangerous new ideas.

J. Daniel Sawyers: Reclaiming Your Mind: An Autodidact’s Bible

The Story of Reclaiming Your Mind:

“the kind of tool a serious learner in the 21st century should keep close at hand.” --Jordan Hall, American philosopher and entrepreneur.”

You were born learning. Every taste, smell, sound, and touch brought a wealth of information. You crawled, you stood, you grasped, you tottered, you ran, and with each new achievement your mastery over the world grew.

But somewhere along the line, learning became a chore.

Over the past 25 years, 30-odd books, hundreds of hours of podcasting, and million-words of articles and essays, I’ve taught a lot about specific topics. Now I’m passing on the master key:

The definitive book on how to learn anything.

Late Pledges Still Open:

L. Jagi Lamplighter: Return To Roanoke

Many tales of the adventures of Rachel Griffin and her friends wait to be told, but the telling of them has been slowed by life events and the need to pay bills. However, I have many short stories either about life at Roanoke and related places or about the previous lives of those at Roanoke Academy. However, they are spread out over many anthologies.

Coming Soon:

D. J. Butler: The Witchy War

Hapax Press is bringing back into print the beloved, groundbreaking, award-winning epic fantasy trilogy, the Witchy War. We will publish all three books as high-quality hardbacks with new covers.

Fenton Wood: The Felix Tales Vol. 1

The first sequel in Fenton Wood’s Mythic Radio Adventure, Yankee Republic, launches soon.

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The dust has settled, the data are in, and it’s time to see how the 2026 BasedCon Based Book Sale went.

The sale referred 139 Kindle Free E-books and 639 Kindle Paid E-books, for 778 books in all.

The BasedCon sale brought together a broad selection of independent science fiction, fantasy, adventure, apocalypse, superheroes, and other Based Books. And as usual, readers found some interesting favorites.

So what rose to the top?

#1: Exile War: The Final Boxed Set

by Bowen Greenwood

Taking top honors is Bowen Greenwood’s Exile War: The Final Boxed Set.

And when we say boxed set, we mean it. This is the complete Exile War saga in one volume: mutants, genetically engineered telepaths, star-crossed lovers, interstellar war, and generations caught up in a struggle that threatens the Union of Human Space.

Peaceful colony worlds have forgotten war. Their enemies have not.

Greenwood describes the series as a tale of “heroism and sacrifice, violence and love,” combining space opera, martial arts, and an extensive backstory into one enormous package.

Apparently Based Book Sale readers decided that was a pretty good deal.

#2: For Love of DoRA: Four Weeks on Temrihj

by Matt DiPalma

Stephen Winchek joins the Deep Space Imperial Navy because he wants flight training before settling into a safe career hauling cargo. Instead, he winds up flying an obsolete atmospheric jet fighter in an apparently unwinnable war against aliens flying propeller aircraft.

Complicating matters further, his fighter’s AI, Alessandra, develops a conscience and begins asking whether she should consent to fight the war at all.

Military science fiction, aerial combat, artificial intelligence, and a thoroughly bewildered protagonist proved a potent combination.

#3: The Star Master Duology: Shadow Captain and Spider Star

by Mel Dunay

Third place goes to Mel Dunay’s The Star Master Duology, another substantial helping of space opera.

Jetay begins as a slave hiding a dangerous secret: he can form a blade from psychic energy. Before long, circumstances transform him into a free man and military officer facing a self-proclaimed Pharaoh and a machine capable of consuming psychics and destroying stars.

Both novels are collected here in a single 200,000-word volume featuring fleet battles, rebellion, found family, and even an enemy captain you might find yourself liking.

#4: The Cough Is Loose

by Eric W. Cowperthwaite

When civilization begins collapsing around them, retired Army Sergeant Major Jack Harlan and his wife Raych have a plan. It involves a 4Runner, a Coleman stove, plenty of ammunition, proper coffee, hot ham and beans, and the judicious application of violence.

It’s a military-flavored post-apocalyptic pulp adventure about remaining civilized while civilization itself falls apart.

#5: Terror of Pangaea

by John C. Wright

Colonel Preston Lost is a man born in the wrong age: a soldier looking for mighty deeds in a world where chivalry and crusades seem to belong to the past.

Then he finds himself someplace where mighty deeds are very much back on the menu.

#6: Battle Road

by Travis J. I. Corcoran

A zombie apocalypse is difficult enough in the country. Chris, Todd, and Stacy have the misfortune to be trapped in suburban Boston with streets rapidly filling with infected.

Fortunately, they have one useful piece of equipment: a thirty-year-old armored bulldozer.

They have less than ten hours to smash their way out.

#7: The Lesser One: A LitRPG Adventure

by Zeppy Cheng

Its young hero starts at the bottom of a society where magical ability and social status go hand in hand. His familiar is merely a Blue Anima, earning him little respect from the established adventurers around him.

Inspired by Chinese wuxia and modern fantasy, The Lesser One follows an underestimated adventurer determined to become something considerably more.

#8: Controlled Nightmare: Part One — The Origin Story

by S. K. Arnette

An unexplained cosmic event in 1955 gives random people superhero-like abilities. Some use those powers for good.

Mrs. Anne Casasent does not.

After spending years hiding in plain sight, the now-retired supervillain is discovered, setting the stage for a new campaign of terror and control.

#9: Project Andromeda

by Michael P. Marpaung

Welcome to the eighty-fourth century, where the Holy Empire stretches across Earth, the Electrosphere, and the terraformed worlds of the Milky Way.

At the edge of civilization floats Craftworld Andromeda, a moon-sized living tree carrying nine million souls. Novice inquisitorial marine Brother Titus arrives to investigate strange astronomical activity and perhaps discover whether his Order is really where he belongs.

A Four-Way Tie for Tenth

Apparently ten places were insufficient this time around.

Four books tied for tenth, giving us thirteen books in our “Top Ten.”

#10: Daughter of Danger: The Dark Avenger’s Sidekick

by John C. Wright

A nameless girl wakes to a rather alarming collection of facts: she does not know who she is, people are trying to kill her, she possesses lethal skills no girl her age should have, and she can fly.

Her only clue is a mysterious shape-changing ring that may itself be alive.

She had better figure out who she is before her enemies do.

#10: Thirty Pieces of Silver

by Travis J. I. Corcoran and Lawrence Railey

Imagine a cyberpunk world in which Rome never fell, movable type appeared in 1125, lighter-than-air travel in 1350, and electricity in 1450.

By 1754 AD, cybernetically augmented monks swing thuribles beneath electroluminescent towers, Viking mercenaries carry guns, hackers haunt underground bars, and the Roman Empire remains very much alive.

It’s alternate history, cyberpunk, and Christian speculative fiction thrown into the same blender.

#10: The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Rachel arrives at Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts expecting magic, flying brooms, and new friends. Her perfect memory soon allows her to see through spells designed to conceal things from ordinary observers.

Then she discovers that the magical world itself may be blind to an even larger hidden reality.

Mystery, magic school, adventure, romance, and a heroine whose curiosity repeatedly gets her into situations sensible people would avoid.

#10: The Powers of the Earth

by Travis J. I. Corcoran

Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt, economically stagnant, and determined to prevent disruptive new technologies. So a collection of malcontents, entrepreneurs, engineers, and libertarian radicals takes privately developed antigravity drives, bolts them onto old cargo ships, loads up the earthmoving equipment, and leaves.

For the Moon.

There they build Aristillus, an underground lunar city beyond terrestrial control. Naturally, the authorities on Earth eventually decide they want it back.

Antigravity, lunar colonization, open-source software, economics, genetically engineered dogs, artificial intelligence, zero-gravity gunfights, and really big guns follow.

What Readers Chose

One striking feature of this sale is just how strongly science fiction and speculative adventure dominated the top of the rankings. Space opera took the first and third positions, military SF the second, while the rest of the leaders ranged through apocalypse, LitRPG, superheroes, far-future religious SF, alternate-history cyberpunk, magical fantasy, and lunar libertarian revolution.

Boxed sets also did particularly well. The first-place Exile War collection offers an entire series, while The Star Master Duology gives readers two complete novels in one volume. When readers are discovering an unfamiliar author for the first time, offering a large amount of story for the sale price appears to be an effective way to get their attention.

And congratulations are due to Travis J. I. Corcoran, who managed the unusual feat of putting three different books in the Top Ten: Battle Road at sixth, followed by Thirty Pieces of Silver and The Powers of the Earth in the four-way tie for tenth.

Most importantly, another 778 Based Books found readers. Here are the details, at least as far as Amazon deigns to break them down:

Thanks to all the authors who participated, all the readers who loaded up their Kindles, and everyone who linked, shared, posted, emailed, and otherwise helped spread the word.

Our next big sale sale is the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale: Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 12:00 AM PST through Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 12:00 AM PST.

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Thanks for another great sale, demonstrating the ability of independent and small press authors to band together, pool our resources, and promote each other’s books.

About the Based Book Sale

The Based Book Sale is a grassroots collaboration of independent authors, small presses, and readers built around the idea that great books do not need institutional gatekeepers to find an audience. For one week, hundreds of titles across science fiction, fantasy, history, philosophy, politics, and nonfiction are offered at steep discounts — many for just $0.99 or free — as participating authors cross-promote one another’s work and introduce readers to new voices, hidden gems, and unconventional ideas. You can learn more from a recent interview with Based Book Sale Founder, Hans G. Schantz.

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The 2026 BasedCon Based Book Sale is now over. Feel free to browse the selections below. Our next sale is the Black Friday/Cyber Monday Based Book Sale: Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 12:00 AM PST through Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 12:00 AM PST.

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Leave the gray world behind. Step into something brighter.

For one week only, explore hundreds of Based Books for just $0.99, with many completely free. Old favorites, overlooked gems, and authors you haven’t discovered yet are waiting.

Your passage to a brighter future is open. Head for the Based Book Sale. Grab all the books you can carry, cross the threshold, and see where they take you.

Most offerings are full-length novels. Others are short stories, novellas, collections, or nonfiction. Click a title to visit its sale page. Use the navigation bar to the left to scroll by title, or simply start browsing. Pricing is set by the authors, so check the retailer page before you buy.

The sale starts today, Wednesday September 9, 2026, and it runs through Tuesday September 15, 2026.

What is a “based” book?

based [ beyst ] / beɪst / adjective

1. Well-grounded, resting upon a firm foundation.

2. Principled, devoted to fixed standards, especially in defiance of conventional wisdom.

3. Rejecting politically correct attitudes and celebrating nonconformity with woke opinion.

4. Committed to upholding and advancing the good, the beautiful, and the true.

antonyms: debased, cringe, woke

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The Based Book Sale is a limited time offer, available only for a week, featuring more than a hundred different titles, including a couple dozen new to the sale. When every book is only $0.99 or free, you can afford to take a chance and check out a new author.

Here’s how the sale is organized:

New Arrivals

• New Arrivals in Science Fiction

• New Arrivals in Fantasy

• New Arrivals in Young Adult

• New Arrivals in Drama, Thrillers, & Literature

• New Arrivals in Horror

• New Arrivals in Romance

• New Arrivals in Anthology

• New Arrivals in Non-Fiction

• New Arrival in Documentary

Fan Favorites

• Fan Favorites in Science Fiction

• Fan Favorites in Fantasy

• Fan Favorites in Young Adult

• Fan Favorites in Drama, Mystery and Westerns

• Fan Favorites in Horror

• Fan Favorites in Alternate History

• Fan Favorites in Drama, Thrillers, Literature

• Fan Favorites in Non-Fiction

It’s enormous. So how can you navigate your way through it?

Click on the navigation bar to the left to scroll by title, or just start here. Most offerings are full-length novels. Others are shorts stories or novellas. And pricing is set by the authors, so check before you buy.

Read on to discover some great based books!

New Arrivals

New Arrivals in Science Fiction

Iron Monsoon (pre-order)

by The Brothers K

Hold your ground. Stay alive.

Told through the letters of two soldiers on opposing sides, Iron Monsoon is a haunting chronicle of survival and transformation, where the warfighters are themselves powerless beneath the iron-red glare of total war.

A desperate contest of survival unfolds in the midst of an inhuman conflict, as the war between homelands and metal gods tears the city asunder—and leaves the grunts clawing through the rubble.

Two Own Two Suns

by Fran Tabor

Morgi Belief: “Divine Chance rules the universe.”

Capt. Jerry Jerrison is a scientist, not a true captain. He and his crew sacrificed twenty years of their lives to be the Kuiper belt’s first explorers. He discovers an alien ship inhabited by a single Morgi scout.

The two strongest Morgi clans are fighting for ownership of earth. All humanity will soon become an unavoidable casualty of their war. The lone Morgi scout is from the weaker alien clan.

Can Capt. Jerry Jerrison, a reclusive scientist, become a warrior and reveal human greatness? If not, both Muni’s clan and all humanity will be exterminated.

Even if Jerrison succeeds, can aliens who employ realpolitic (”Doctor, which is better — a great peace supported by a lie or a massacre justified by the truth?”) be trusted?

From its Kirkus review: “Imaginative high-stakes SF breathes fresh life into the alien-first-contact genre.” Their verdict: Get It.

LeighBee: “I laughed at the clever humor…the perspective and writing style is novel…alien driven science fiction.” 4 out of 4 stars

Forsaking Home
by I. Graham Smith

Edin is done with Earth’s iron-fisted regulations. In 2110, he’s willing to risk everything to secure a place on humanity’s first off-planet colony. But after his pregnant wife shuts down his desperate plan, Edin’s impulsive nature triggers a devastating personal loss. Then everything explodes. A politically motivated assassination rips his world apart, setting him on a collision course with a deadly operative he never saw coming.

She grew up feral on the brutal streets of Brazil. Now a ghost for hire, she’s accepted the contract of a lifetime from a mysterious and terrifyingly powerful client. As she navigates a razor’s edge of danger and deceit, her conscience begins to crack. Every choice she makes will decide the fate of the fledgling colony, and might just offer her one last shot at redemption.

Acceleration Clause (*Free*)

by Robert Kroese

Corporate lawyer Cal Ransom’s career is collapsing when TrustUs! puts him to work on a spaceship repossession crew. His first job is to recover a missing research vessel in the dead Koschei system, but three rival repo ships are racing for the same prize and something aboard the target vessel is talking back. Cal must outmaneuver rival crews, corporate secrets, and a hidden power while deciding how much law he is willing to break to survive.

The Big Sheep

by Robert Kroese

Los Angeles, 2039. The city is a fractured relic of itself, split between the glittering veneer of corporate control and the anarchic chaos of the Disincorporated Zone—a no-man’s land abandoned after the economic Collapse of 2028. Crossing that border requires cunning, nerve, and ideally, someone else to go first.

Enter Erasmus Keane , an eccentric “phenomenological inquisitor” (read: private eye with delusions of grandeur), and his reluctant partner, Blake Fowler , a former security specialist who’s somehow become the adult supervision. When Esper Corporation’s prize genetically engineered sheep vanishes without a trace, they’re hired to track it down—a task that quickly goes from bizarre to existential.

But just as they start sniffing out clues, in walks Priya Mistry , a glamorous television star convinced someone’s trying to kill her. When Priya disappears—and then returns with no memory of ever hiring them—Keane and Fowler find themselves tangled in a convoluted conspiracy.

Two cases, one looming catastrophe, and zero respect for conventional detective work.

With nods to Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , The Big Sheep is a madcap sci-fi mystery that skewers both noir and dystopia with razor wit and relentless absurdity.

The Dream of the Iron Dragon

by Robert Kroese

DRAGON AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ALTERNATE HISTORY NOVEL Trapped 1300 years in the past, they have one mission: survive. In the 23rd century, humanity has been hunted to the verge of extinction by an alien race. When an exploratory ship accidentally travels back in time to Viking age Scandinavia, the human race is given a second chance. Pursued by the power-hungry King Harald, the four surviving crew members join a ragtag band of Vikings as they pillage their way across Europe. It will take all their ingenuity, courage and technical know-how just to survive. But survival is only the beginning. To save humanity, they must somehow return to the stars. Thus begins a decades-long effort to teach the Vikings to build a craft capable of reaching space—a ship that will come to be known as the Iron Dragon.

Hadrian’s Flight

by J. Daniel Sawyer

Hadrian Jin. Skyguard. Refugee. Twelve times a day, this sixteen-year-old proprietor of Luna City’s best orn-suit shop fits the wings, and jumps out into the open air to soar with the grace of an eagle. For forty dollars an hour, he can teach any groundhog how to fly bird-fashion in the moon’s low gravity. But when the tramp of military boots on the road to his home forces him to flee, he finds himself adrift between planets, on the run from government agents, without hope of home. Out of his depth and thrust into danger for which he’s ill-prepared, Hadrian must learn the true reason for his exile, and finally spread his own wings…

The Resurrection Junket

by J. Daniel Sawyer

Chan Xiyi Aya dreams of life beyond the galactic frontier. When trouble with the Foundation gives her the chance to chronicle a planet three hundred light-years beyond human space, she gets the assignment she wanted, with one catch: only the dead can go. The resulting expedition forces her to confront the technological and ethical consequences of humanity’s expansion beyond the frontier.

Battle Road

by Travis J I Corcoran

A zombie apocalypse is bad enough in the country. Chris, Todd, and Stacy are trapped in a two-story brick building in the dense suburbs of Boston while the surrounding streets fill with the infected. Their skills are offset by serious weaknesses, but they have one unlikely asset: a thirty-year-old armored bulldozer. They have less than ten hours to break out of the city and reach a rendezvous that may offer escape.

The Powers of the Earth

by Travis J I Corcoran

Earth in 2064 is politically corrupt and in economic decline. The Long Depression has dragged on for 56 years, and the Bureau of Sustainable Research is hard at work making sure that no new technologies disrupt the planned economy. Ten years ago a band of malcontents, dreamers, and libertarian radicals bolted privately-developed anti-gravity drives onto rusty sea-going cargo ships, loaded them to the gills with 20th-century tunnel-boring machines and earthmoving equipment, and set sail – for the Moon.

There, they built their retreat. A lunar underground border-town, fit to rival Ayn Rand’s ‘Galt’s Gulch’, with American capitalists, Mexican hydroponic farmers, and Vietnamese space-suit mechanics – this is the city of Aristillus.

There’s a problem, though: the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy is causing trouble for the political powers-that-be in Washington DC and elsewhere. To shore up their positions they need slap down the lunar expats and seize the gold they’ve been mining. The conflicts start small, but rapidly escalate.

There are zero-gravity gun fights in rusted ocean going ships flying through space, containers full of bulldozers hurtling through the vacuum, nuclear explosions, armies of tele-operated combat UAVs, guerrilla fighting in urban environments, and an astoundingly visual climax.

The Powers of the Earth is the first book in The Aristillus series – a pair of science fiction novels about anarchocapitalism, economics, open source software, corporate finance, social media, antigravity, lunar colonization, genetically modified dogs, strong AI…and really, really big guns.

The Team

by Travis J I Corcoran

In 2055, nine years before the events of The Powers of the Earth, US Special Forces soldier John Hayes discovers a secret research project that’s being shut down by the Bureau of Sustainable Research. Are the reports of uplifted dogs – creatures genetically engineered to have human intelligence – true? Can John sit by while bureaucrats end the project – and incinerate all the inconvenient evidence?

Thirty Pieces of Silver

by Travis J I Corcoran

In our world, in the 21st century, we worship consumerism, or sexual liberation, or the Party.

...but in the alternate history cyberpunk world of Heretics of the Catacombs, where Rome never fell, where moveable type was invented in 1125, lighter-than-air travel in 1350, and electricity in 1450, society still worships the One True God, and venerates His saints and apostles.

Worship always involves physical artifacts. In some societies it’s rainbow flags. In others, little red books of the Party founder’s saying. In the eternal city of Byzantium and the rest of the Roman Empire that never fell, it’s relics - a fragment of the True Cross, a tooth of an ancient saint, a piece of a centuries-old transistor radio.

Venture into the neon lit world of Byzantium in the futuristic year of 1754 Anno Domini, when cybernetically augmented monks chant as they swing incense burning thuribles, surgically enhanced hookers flirt with hackers in underground bars, Viking mercenaries sell their guns to the highest bidder, and Aztec traders offer chocolate, gold, and illegal cocaina.

...and in the background, behind the mist and the drizzle, beneath the electroluminescent-lit towers and churches, below the filth and the riches, the forces of Good and Evil do battle in the darkness.

Somewhither

by John C. Wright

Ilya, as he has secretly dreamed, is called upon to save the mad scientist’s beautiful daughter. With his squirrel gun, his grandfather’s sword, and his father’s crucifix, Ilya races to save the girl, and, incidentally, the world. So it is, Ilya Muromets is a big, ugly, motherless boy who does not look like anyone else in his Oregon town. His father is often absent on mysterious Church missionary work that involves silver bullets, sacred lances, and black helicopters. One night, Professor Dreadful sends a warning to Ilya that his Many Worlds theory correct, but that his experiments have opened a door that should have remained closed, and his beautiful daughter, Penny, is in trouble. The 2016 Dragon Award-winner for Best Science Fiction Novel, Somewhither is the first part of A Tale of the Unwithering Realm, a new science-fantasy series from science-fiction master John C. Wright. It is an adventure, it is a romance, and it is a coming-of-age story of a young man who is not a man, in a world that is only one among many. It is a tale of a greater and darker evil with longer reach than anything he could imagine, of pain beyond measure, and of the faith required to surmount all three. It is a story of inexorable destiny written in the stars and the stubborn courage that is required to defy it.

Awake in the Night Land

by John C. Wright

AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, “Awake in the Night”, “The Cry of the Night-Hound”, “Silence of the Night”, and “The Last of All Suns”, which collectively tell the haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race. Widely considered to be the finest tribute to Hodgson ever written, the first novella, “Awake in the Night”, was previously published in 2004 in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND marks the first time all four novellas have been gathered into a single volume.

John C. Wright has been described by reviewers as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.

Shadow of the Basilisk

by The Brothers K

So proclaim the machines when George-057 is born into the perfect and lifeless world of Sanctuary-015—where every need is met and every question ignored under the watchful eye of AI. His only human connection is Eden-054, an online classmate with whom he forms a bond in the realm of augmented reality. Together, they find solace in small acts of playful rebellion, secret albeit harmless expressions against the rigidity of artificial society.

But when a spaceship crashes outside George’s home and deactivates the machines that have taken care of him his entire life, revelations are unearthed that threaten to shatter George’s sheltered reality. As he breaks the rules and searches for answers, he is forced to confront the truth about his own existence—and the fate of humanity with it.

Amid secrets and shadows, each discovery brings George-057 closer to liberation—or so it seems—from the shadow of the Basilisk.

The Lesser One

by Zeppy Cheng

A young adventurer begins at the bottom of a world where magical power and status are bound together. His familiar spirit is only a Blue Anima, earning little respect from established adventurers, but he sets out anyway. Inspired by Chinese wuxia fiction and modern fantasy, the story follows an underestimated protagonist trying to grow beyond the role of “the lesser one.”

For Love of DoRA

by Matt DiPalma

“—is probably laughing his ass off right now.”

Stephen Winchek wants to be a cargo pilot, hopping between worlds through nice, safe areas of space. He’s willing to serve a few years with the Deep Space Imperial Navy to get the training and experience, then he plans to go commercial. His plans do not include learning to fly an archaic atmospheric jet fighter in an unwinnable war where the other side, the ones trying to kill him, are backward aliens flying antique prop planes… who are protected by his own government, which has declared the enemy to be an endangered species.

Then there’s his DoRA-212D’s AI computer, Alessandra, a female persona with an overwhelming sultry voice and an incipient case of morality. If the war is unwinnable, should she even consent to fight it? When she asks the other intelligent aircraft, they can’t answer her question and become equally troubled.

For Love of DoRA, historian Matt DiPalma’s first military science fiction novel, tells the story of a naїve, befuddled pilot struggling to survive a war he never even knew existed. Like the other pilots fighting with him, combat terrifies him, until he discovers he’s good at it.

Controlled Nightmare: Part One - The Origin Story
by S. K. Arnette

In 1955 an unknown cosmic event gifted random individuals with superhero-like abilities. Some went on to do great deeds for the population. Others went for a more sinister way of life. Mrs. Anne Casasent chose the latter. Finally discovered hiding in plain sight during her retirement years, she finds herself starting a new regime of terror and absolute control.

Privateer

by Page Zaplendam

A Rogue Psyborg A Dead Captain A Transport Gone Terribly Wrong Ross, a psyborg war veteran turned privateer whose very existence is illegal, is hired to retrieve stolen tech from one of the most secure research sites in the Sol system. When everything goes sideways, he finds himself faced with a dilemma: risk exposure or place himself at the center of a conspiracy spanning the length and breadth of Hinterspace. Hinterspace: In the largely lawless region between the belts, the ruthless are happy to take advantage.

Captain’s Vow

by Nikki Root

A fake marriage to save the galaxy... what could possibly go wrong?

Spatial anomalies and spies? No problem. Ending his bachelorhood? May get them all killed.

Captain Leo Ananda has made vows. Protect his crew. Win the war. Never get too close. When MAP Command requests the unthinkable, a political marriage to his haunted first officer, Leo can’t refuse.

The beloved captain, desperate to hide his inner turmoil, is suddenly very married to the one woman who sees straight through him.

Commander Alice Chateau doesn’t have time for fake vows. She’s a secret telepath hunted by creatures no one else can see, monsters threatening to unravel the fabric of the galaxy.

Scooter Asks, “Where is God?” (*Free*)

by Steven N. Gosney

Young Scooter the kitten found himself alone in the woods without a home. Would God answer his prayer? He finds his way to a warm and login home where he looks for God, but cannot seem to find Him. Scooter grows into a healthy cat as he continues his quest for God. Blessings surround him as he travels on his kitty journey, answering Scooter’s question with a gentle touch.

Lost Valor

by Kal Spriggs

Thief. Orphan. Beggar. Spy. Killer

They say that without the dark, we would never see the stars, without losing the light, we can never truly see it. Well, I’ve lost the light, I’m in a dark place, a planet where the sun never shines.

My name is William Alexander Armstrong. Pirates took everything from me: the lives of my friends and family, my freedom, and even my honor. But I’m not going to let them take my drive. I’m going to escape, I’m not going to stay trapped, working as their slave. I’ll work with the cast-offs of society: thieves, beggars, and murderers. I’ll work with genetically engineered critters and mad doctors. I’ll lie, I’ll cheat, I’ll steal, and I will kill. I will do everything I can to escape.

I might be lost, I may be forsaken, but I will find my way to freedom, and when I do, I will bring fire and destruction on those who took everything from me.

The Hogman’s Homunculi and the Angelwing Massacre

by Thomas Norford

Prince Darov spends his days carousing, annoying his brother and being waited on hand and foot, until a profane violation and poor financial choices plunge him into a maelstrom of scandal and blackmail. Could matters be resolved through the deployment of some goons for hire and an animatronic replica of his brother’s head?

No, no they couldn’t.

Meanwhile, a plague decimates the alien rulers of the planet, and Darov’s manservant Hissaq investigates mass murder and trades verbal barbs with an exiled naval captain who has a blue thing called Chad living in his mouth.

Together, Darov and Hissaq (and a cunning farmer who cannot stop birthing clones of himself) are propelled into a conspiracy reaching to the heart of the Trappist empire. Oh, and a war which could sterilise half the galaxy looms ever closer (that might be overstating things a bit).

The Star Master Duology

by Mel Dunay

Jetay is a slave, and so is his brother. They crew a rundown freighter at the ragged edge of Settled Space, and Jetay hides the blade he can form out of psychic energy, because faceless men in red armor are hunting down psychics like him. Then Lady Lanati of the Partisan Alliance buys passage on his ship, finds that her rebellion has no officer available for a secret mission, and puts him in a uniform he has no right to wear. It turns out that he’s pretty good at this. The next thing he knows, he’s a free man with a military commission, standing between a self-crowned Pharaoh and a machine that devours psychics and destroys stars. Both books of the Star Master duology in one volume: 200,000 words of rotating-POV space opera with fleet battles, found family, an enemy captain you come to like, and a courtship that takes two books to reach one kiss. No explicit content. The complete story.

A New Beginning (Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 1)

by M.A. Nilles

On a remote mining station, Nyalin hides a secret that would make her a hunted woman—she is a Crystal Keeper, a protector of a shard of the powerful Starfire crystal. However, when a strange shuttle falls through a portal near the mining station, she can no longer avoid her responsibilities. The human pilot, Vellin, is part of a research team that has developed gateways for instant travel anywhere in the universe without requiring a Starfire crystal, and he has been followed by an enemy through the portal. To stop dangerous forces from possessing the gateways to spread destruction, Nya must team up with Vel and risk exposing her secret. In their race to destroy the gateways, they will find allies and enemies... and a new reason to worry.

Silk Unspun

by D. S. Blake

It should have been a routine negotiation, an easy task for even a novice bailiff to handle. Jake Ambler, a disaffected youth searching for purpose in the cosmos, finds solace in the ranks of the disreputable “exopreneurs” – those who seek to profit from the exploitation of alien worlds. His assignment? Bug Space, a region of the galaxy where colossal, intelligent insectoids reign supreme. But when Jake arrives on the insect-infested planet of Telia, he quickly discovers that nothing about his mission is routine. The Spider Queens of Teila, a domineering race of arachnids, wield power like nothing he’s ever encountered. Their disdain for lesser life forms is only surpassed by their insatiable desire for supremacy among their own kind, especially the males. And his fellow exopreneurs intend to cash in on it. As Jake delves deeper into the tangled web of Teila’s intrigue, he finds himself embroiled in an uprising that threatens to consume him and those he cares for most. Survival is a high-stakes gamble, and the only way out is to unravel Teila’s greatest secret before Jake becomes yet another pawn in this galactic struggle for power. Silk Unspun is a pulse-pounding science fiction odyssey that explores the boundaries of loyalty, survival, and the pursuit of forbidden knowledge in a universe where danger is as limitless as the cosmos.

The Cough Is Loose

by Eric W. Cowperthwaite

When the Cough starts dropping people in the streets, most folks panic. Jackson “Jack” Harlan and his wife Raych make coffee. Retired Army Sergeant Major Jack always knew something like this could happen. While society unravels overnight, he and Raych load the white 4Runner, fire up the Coleman stove, and stick to the plan: proper percolator coffee, hot ham and beans, and controlled violence when necessary. Armed with enough guns and ammo for a small army and an ironclad commitment to not becoming savages, Jack and Raych fight their way out of the suburbs, pick up fellow survivors, and lay down the golden rule that will define their apocalypse: “We shoot the Walkers… then we go back to the beans.” A serialized military-flavored post-apocalyptic pulp story with World War Z realism, Zombieland humor, and stubborn civilization in the face of collapse.

Dawn of Genesis

by Rey Clark

Humanity has pushed Earth to the breaking point. To survive, scientists create genetically enhanced super-humans called Evos, but the new race no longer wants to obey a tyrannical government. Rebel Evos and surviving human factions clash for control while Tessa struggles to survive the ruined world and decide which side, if either, deserves her loyalty. Both claim to offer humanity a future; both appear corrupted by power.

Birthright of Scars: Choosing

by Laurisa Brandt

The cost of loving her was always his destiny.

Disrel has stolen the keys to the imperial regime’s murder machine, but the Pyron sector continues swallowing innocent human life by the thousands. The outside world is just as eager to devour them, with the military executing Pyrons on sight, arresting any who shelter them, and pitting prisoners against each other in deadly arena games in exchange for pardon.

As Disrel wrestles impossible odds to keep himself and his sister free of the walls, his identity as the Tourmaline Renegade becomes increasingly difficult to hide from his enemies and the people he loves most.

Sable Commander Ambrosia can no longer deny that the masked renegade she hunts is a hero, and she can’t convince Disrel—or herself—she loves him while leaving thousands of his people to die of starvation behind the Pyron sector walls. As her emperor demands more from her, she is faced with the choice of following orders or damning herself to a traitor’s cross.

But as her love for Disrel grows, so does the Tourmaline Renegade’s ability to see all her secrets, making him the most dangerous opponent she has ever faced.

As the Pyron people’s situation turns dire, Disrel and Ambrosia must decide if their lives are worth risking for a future neither of them can see, or if the price of freedom requires betrayal, despair, and their blood on each other’s hands.

Birthright of Scars: Rising

by Laurisa Brandt

“The problem with a dead legend, is that there’s always the threat of him resurrecting. And anytime he does will be inconvenient for those in power.”

The Tourmaline Renegade rises in this epic new series.

Falling in love with his bounty hunter was never part of the plan.

After the Kobalt empire spent decades suppressing Pyron culture, Emperor Cinnabar designed the walled Pyron sector with only one purpose: extermination.

Disrel of Tourmal has little left except his sister, but he won’t accept death without a fight. When the state mandates that all Pyrons relocate to the walled sector, Disrel does not hesitate to don a mask and replace the capitol flag with one that proclaims Pyron is free. What he didn’t count on was a simple act of defiance becoming the symbol of an empire-wide revolution. By the time dawn breaks, a sable commander renowned for catching renegades is on his trail, and Disrel is driven into the center of the resistance against the state.

Decorated Sable Commander Ambrosia is ready for the challenge of pulling Pyron resistors off Tourmal’s streets. But the layers of unrest in the capitol go deeper than a masked renegade inciting insurrection, locking her in a deadly dance between conviction and duty, comrades and terrorists—one that requires a flawless loyalty to the state to survive. And the unassumingly charming Disrel keeps getting in her way.

Disrel and Ambrosia are thrust into each other’s paths—as renegade and sable, as citizens of the empire struggling to survive the upheaval. But as their feelings for each other grow, they’ll have to choose: one love destined to destroy them both, or the fate of an empire?

Birthright of Scars: Rising is followed by Birthright of Scars: Choosing

The Misfit

by Kevin Trainor Jr

War hero John Benton recovers from his near-fatal injuries to find that his ultra-wealthy, ultra-influential mother has arranged for him to be assigned to the monitor Terror, an obsolete hulk preserved as a refuge for the incompetent, inept, and well-connected. But you can’t keep a good man down, and with a little help from his godfather the Sky Marshal and the blue-shirt Mafia, Benton decides there’s going to be some changes aboard the worst ship in the Aerospace Force.

Discovery

by John M. Olsen

Jericho Jackson looks forward to finishing one last job: a high-risk, high-pay mining gig on a tiny moon in a distant star system. A string of disasters throws the operation into life-threatening chaos as his team is cut off from outside contact. Even with their specialized training, if the power dies, his crew dies.

Shanna Percival , his teammate and one-time girlfriend, keeps their equipment in top shape, but her tendency to stick her nose where it doesn’t belong turns up a mysterious cache of data that shouldn’t exist.

Knowledge is power. Her discovery could be the ultimate key to overcoming the growing danger, but time is running out…

John M. Olsen edits and writes speculative fiction across multiple genres and he loves stories about ordinary people stepping up to do extraordinary things. He hopes to entertain and inspire others with his award-winning stories as he passes his passion on to the next generation of avid readers.

No Direction

by Max Guernsey, III

For more than a millennium, the Council has ruled the world. Now it fears a seemingly weak man who is searching for something—or somewhere—that could undo it. A Hunter, a Seeker, and a Maker are sent to track him, learn what he seeks, and stop him. Yet every encounter leaves them surprised by his ability to gain the upper hand, while their own alliance begins to fracture.

Across the Floors of Silent Seas (Till Human Voices Wake Us)

by C. S. Johnson

Do mermaids believe in humans?

While working on a deep-sea diving assignment at the University of California, oceanography student Jay Bishop is dragged into a volcanic tube towards the earth’s core and certain death.

But much to his surprise, Jay not only survives the fall, he finds himself taken prisoner by a community of mermaids and kept alive as a science experiment. Confused and disoriented, Jay’s only hope to escape back to the surface is found in Paga, an elder of the community who believes Jay’s unexpected arrival marks the fulfillment of a terrifying prophecy.

The Heights of Perdition (The Divine Space Pirates, #1)

by C. S. Johnson

There is nothing Aeris St. Cloud wants more than to win her father’s love and the acceptance of her family unit by joining the Military Academy at New Hope. But after she is captured by the fearsome space pirate, Captain Chainsword, Aerie is certain falling in love with her nation’s arch enemy is the last possible way to earn their coveted esteem. Driven by vengeance, Exton Shepherd never set out to save anyone. As he circles the war-torn world in his pirated starship, the Perdition, he only sees his father’s ghost lurking around every corner and the looming darkness on the horizon. When Aerie unexpectedly tumbles into his life, he finds he cannot trust her, anymore than he can ignore her. But just like the raging war down on Earth, it’s tempting to think he can ... When the war ascends to the heights of the Perdition, Aerie’s loyalty, and Exton’s heart, are put to the test. But will love be enough to save them -- and others -- from certain destruction? FROM THE AUTHOR:

The Heights of Perdition is the first book in the Divine Space Pirates trilogy, a futuristic romance series where family, faith, and freedom take center stage.

WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:

Questions raised about government, religion, and human nature were peppered throughout the narrative, elevating The Heights of Perdition from a mere space fantasy to something much more thought-provoking. ~ Author Jess Jesinghaus

4th Place in Best RF Christian Sci-Fi & Fantasy for 2018

Primal Silence

by Steffen Jack

PRIMAL SILENCE is an adult, sci-fi dystopian thriller set in a USA torn apart by civil war and environmental collapse. It's book two in the Armageddon's Child trilogy. It's told in third person with two POVs.

Ariel is on the run from her mother’s transhumanist cult. All she wants to do is disappear into the wilderness, forever, and protect her unborn daughter from those who would exploit her tech. But first she will seek redemption by saving the man she framed for a horrible crime; an impossible undertaking.

Caleb has been jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Tortured, beaten, and threatened with death, he begins to look forward to his public execution. Then the authorities give him an out: they'll let him escape if he agrees to be bait to find the real killers, the terrorists. But he has other plans. His hallucinations are guiding him; his destiny is calling; Ariel and her friends must die.

Content warning: 18+, drinking, smoking, drug use, violence, extreme danger, references to sex, sexual assault, child abuse, and human trafficking.

No AI was used in the writing of this book and/or trilogy, nor was it used for the covers.

Monsieur Moule’s Subterranean Casino

by Milo James Fowler

Anthony Reynolds and Sephora Ashton escaped from Madame Antic’s sky city, and now they must navigate a new life in the dangerous ruins of London. Nothing is as it was in the technologically advanced Victorian city with no name. Here tribes of survivors hunt and gather in the dark of night, keeping vigilant watch during daylight hours. Mutant animals with poisonous fangs roam the outskirts, and, according to legend, mole people live underground.

But if they exist and have managed to hide from Antic all these years, then they might hold the answers Anthony seeks.

No one can tell him where he came from, or who he was before Madame Antic kidnapped him to play a role in her elaborate stage play. No one even knows what year it is. But when Anthony and Sephora are driven underground by gunmen wearing gruesome masks, they find themselves in a surreal subterranean refuge complete with its own lavish hotel and casino.

There they meet the man responsible for it all, a man who claims to have answers, a man with a penchant for gambling with human lives: the enigmatic Monsieur Moule.

The Blades & Blasters Show

by Milo James Fowler

Centuries from now, long after the days of recorded history, during the broken-down age of the Post-Apocalypse on a much older Earth, AGROTHARN roams the desert Wastes in search of…something? For some strange reason, he can’t remember. And he’s not the only one whose memories have become muddled by dark magic.

Could it have something to do with the arrival of Khrug, Warlock of the Wastes, and his thousand-strong army of desert warriors? Or the cancellation of the most spectacular stunt show the Post-Apocalypse has ever seen? Or too many enthralling side quests to count? AGROTHARN will have to keep his head on straight as he grapples with shocking truths about himself, his mighty broadsword, and his worst frenemy, culminating in an epic showdown between the most powerful forces of good and evil on the planet!

The Mass-Exodus Reversal

by Milo James Fowler

Captain Quasar is on a mission.

Centuries have passed since evil Emperor Zhan attacked Earth and sent humankind packing in a mass exodus. Now the human race is scattered throughout the galaxy, and United World Space Command is no more.

Captain Bartholomew Quasar and the crew of the Effervescent Magnitude have one purpose: to reunite the descendants of Earth’s diaspora and save their planet from the monstrous machines Zhan left behind to ensure Earth’s ultimate demise.

Quasar and his intrepid crew will have to brave dangerous aliens, killer robots, vicious space pirates, and a mysterious artificial intelligence in order to build the United Earth Fleet and return home, where all new perils await.

Tomorrow’s Children

by Milo James Fowler

The future is in their hands.

The post-apocalyptic world is bigger than the remnant imagined. Across the ocean, the domed cities of Eurasia have survived the nuclear holocaust that ravaged the rest of the planet. But only the survivors from the North American Wastes can give the sterile Eurasians what they need most in order to continue existing as a society: children.

Sergeant James Bishop, United World Marine, leads his team across the desert wasteland in order to make first contact with survivors in Eden, who are rumored to have a lab full of viable embryos. Meanwhile Cain, a coastal warlord dedicated to repopulating the planet, follows the will of Gaia, a malicious spirit of the earth with no love for humankind.

As their lives intersect, agendas collide and tensions reach a breaking point. Twenty unborn children in incubation chambers hang in the balance—along with the fate of the world.

Brane World

by D.W. Patterson

Humanity has proven the existence of a vast extra dimension called the bulk and routinely uses it to reach brane worlds in other spacetimes. Then ships begin disappearing in the bulk, perhaps through natural disaster, perhaps by design. Physics professor Mark Dreyer and Lainey try to stop the losses, only to be caught when war breaks out in the bulk and strands them on a new world and in a new life together.

The Einstein Nexus Book 1

by D.W. Patterson

What begins as a curiosity for two teenage boys becomes a physics research project into the time effects of an Einstein–Rosen bridge. At first the excitement conceals the dangers even from the experts. In time, danger leads to disaster. The first novella in a hard-science-fiction series about time travel and teenage boys.

Decisively Engaged

by C.J. Carella

They picked a fight with the wrong species. A NATION AT WAR: The United Stars of America. Born in the conflagration of unprovoked alien attack, the newest entrant to galactic politics took the few crumbs of hypertech gifted to it and ran with them, soon expanding over dozens of star systems and establishing a wide trade network, protected by its powerful Navy and the dreaded Warp Marines. A FIGHT TO THE DEATH: A single Marine platoon, tasked with protecting an embassy on a hostile alien planet. An embassy – and the human enclave around it – that soon finds itself surrounded by armed mobs. Can the Marines and a ragtag band of civilian and Navy personnel survive long enough to be rescued?

Planet of the Chrome Skulls

by Dick Lichter

What do you get when you mix Star Trek with Starship Troopers? Adventure! In the war-torn void, a new ship and a new crew battle the Krell, a relentless foe. Captain Jack Cross is given command of a carrier. He must mold his crew into a force to be reckoned with. They have to learn new tactics and work together. Facing ambushes, rebellions, and a war that threatens to destroy all they hold dear. Will Jack and the Stalwart prevail, or meet their doom?

The Steradian Gate [Book 1]

by Nathaniel Blevens

Ethan Burke had been trying to figure out adulting when he inherited a mysterious artifact and accompanying journal from his late uncle. While researching the artifact, he meets Summer McKeown, whose been doing some research of her own to find her missing brother. When Ethan first offers to help, he has no idea their destinies are intertwined. They discover his artifact is a key that opens a gateway between the five dimensions, The Steradian Gate. Now they’re trapped in Lunaria, a dimension a hundred years behind technologically that’s being cleansed by the regime who’ve discovered Ethan holds one of the five Steradian Keys; keys foretold to supply immense power to those who wield them all.

Royal Crystal

by Jay Maynard

Princess Helena of England has everything except the ability to feel. Shattered by trauma known only to her family, she enters the Laminatrix Mental Hospital, where treatment means surrendering mind and body to the seamless black suit and the depths of the crystal. Meanwhile Dalton Ward takes the white suit to understand the magic he once defended in court. As Helena’s treatment pushes the crystal beyond its intended limits, the question becomes whether its magic can heal a princess or remake her into something the Crown never expected.

Dreams of Winter: The Fractured Universe I

by Christian Warren Freed

“Dreams of Winter is a gripping military space opera that blends the brutal intrigue of Game of Thrones with the cosmic scale of Warhammer 40K, as Inquisitor Tolde Breed battles the ghosts of his past and an ancient evil that threatens to consume the universe.” – NewInBooks 3000 years have passed since the time of the gods. Humanity spreads across the universe, raising a mighty empire. But all is not well. Unrest simmers. Darkness threatens. Inquisitor Tolde Breed has been a loyal agent of the Inquisition for years. A man with a haunted past, he roots out heresy wherever he finds it, but when the Inquisitor General sends him to planet Crimeat to investigate a mysterious prison break Tolde begins to believe his life’s work has been in vain. The ghosts of his past have returned, and they brought the winds of war with them.

Zero Hour: Crimson Spiders 1

by Christian Warren Freed

The first in an all-new military sci-fi series from author and US Army combat veteran Christian Warren Freed. “Zero Hour launches readers into a gritty, high-stakes military sci-fi campaign where the elite Crimson Spiders must defy impossible odds to save a crumbling Imperium—perfect for fans of explosive action, war-forged camaraderie, and battlefield heroism drawn from real combat experience .” – NewInBooks The battle for planet Argro II has ground to a standstill. Armies of the Grand Imperium have dueled the invading Xempsarillian Empire for months. Both sides are exhausted, depleted and at the breaking point. The Imperium grows desperate. For the Argro System holds the keys to the main shipping lanes leading to the Imperium’s heart. Should it fall the Xempsarillian fleets will bring the Imperium to its knees. Sensing time is running short, High Command deploys its most feared asset: The Crimson Spiders. Armed with the latest technology and weapons, they are the Imperium’s last hope. Their mission is simple. Stop the enemy. Secure the planet. Turn the tide of battle once and for all. Failure is not an option. So begins a war for the soul of a planet. One only the vaunted Crimson Spiders can crack. Even then, the cost might be too high. Based on the Normandy Campaign, Zero Hour is the first in an all new military scifi series and a must read for true fans of the genre. Grab your copy today!

Project Andromeda

by Michael P. Marpaung

In the eighty-fourth century, the Holy Empire spans Earth, the Electrosphere, and the terraformed worlds of the Milky Way. Far beyond the Pale, Craftworld Andromeda is a moon-sized living tree carrying nine million souls at the edge of imperial reach. Novice inquisitorial marine Brother Titus arrives to investigate strange astronomical activity and decide whether the Order is truly his calling. Princess Cassandrea, a Watcher with a talent for finding trouble, meets him on a frontier where help is very far away.

John, Emperor of One

by Kinsey Felixx

John Gallagher was of a farming family. His father had finished a tour stationed on the Moon and moved to a small farm on Mars. There he grew his family until he realized he wanted a larger farm and applied to a new colony that had been opened up in a faraway sector.

While the parents went ahead to set up the farmstead, John and his sister sold off the small holding on Mars and prepared to join them after the end of the school year. The trip was to be of six weeks duration and the brother and sister were anxious to rejoin their parents and start a new life.

Pirates, however, intervened... twice the ship was raided with devastating consequences. When the ship finally limped into orbit around the supposed farming world, they found only ice. The ship was forced to land and the passengers impressed into the local mining operations. They discovered the Federation security forces were affiliated with the pirate organization.

Workcrews were arranged so that no two of the group could speak the language of any other and the heavily armed guards kept them under constant surveillance. The chances to escape were slim and there was no place outside the facility anyone could run.

For months, John worked the mine and saw quite a few men worked to death. He could not see the possibility of anything different for his own future.

And then... that one slim chance arrived.

New Arrivals in Fantasy

Serpent King’s Castle

by H. A. Titus

Wulf Almsson, city guardsman, serves the king even as the people he loves incite rebellion. He tries to protect them and the folk suffering under the tyrant’s rule until he discovers that the king is no man, but a serpent cloaked in flesh: quick, unkillable, and insatiably hungry. The serpent knows Wulf has found him out. Blackmailed by his manipulative captain, Wulf is forced into schemes to overthrow the king and must decide how much of himself he is willing to sacrifice to save his city.

The Chosen One’s Substitute

by Suzie Nicks

When the Empire’s most powerful religious order summons Asha’s five-year-old sister, Asha takes her place. Armed with dangerous magic and a whip, she enters a world of soldiers and politics while, across the sea, an infiltrator among the Dragon Riders watches an invasion take shape. As Asha trains beside Elves, Dwarves, and Mages, she and her companions must find a way to stop an apparently invincible enemy.

The Last Battle

by Eric Tanafon

Hey, it’s Sean again. The Last Battle is looming, but that’s not my only problem. Runnymede Island is locked in the ice of Fimbulwinter. Fiona is lost somewhere even the Norns don’t know about. Arturo’s roaming the Iron Wood as an outlaw. And Parvati? Cast into an enchanted sleep inside a ring of fire. Not to mention our upcoming midterm: a friendly game of water polo--with sea serpents.

Can I squeeze in my first (and last) solo quest through the waters of Urd’s Well, save my Valkyrie from a fate I’m pretty sure is worse than death, help Arturo get his berserker mojo back, and unmask the final traitor before he (literally) stabs us in the back, all before Ragnarok hits us like an angry iceberg and all those prophecies of doom finally come true?

The smart money says no. But it’s going to be one Hel of a ride.

The Road to Hel

by Eric Tanafon

Sean here. When wolf-riding trolls attack our house, my sister Fiona and I find out the hard way that we’re destined to be heroes. That goes for our friends Arturo and Parvati, too. Next thing we know, we’re all enrolled in the last hero school on Midgard (that’s hero speak for ‘Earth’). In fact, we’re the entire final freshman class. It’s not all bad. We get to go to school on an enchanted island. The girls get to ride flying horses, Arturo gets to go berserk, and I get to learn more about swordfighting than I ever wanted to know. We also get our own personal bard who sings our praises in deathless...well, verse that you wish would die, but it won’t. You’d think we’d also get to save the world. But as it turns out, there are about a million prophecies guaranteeing that Ragnarok is right around the corner and the world is literally toast, so all we get to do is die (heroically, of course). In the meantime, our mom winds up in Hel while trying to rescue our dad from, believe it or not, an even worse place. And for some reason even Odin won’t explain, we’re the only ones who can bring them back. Well, that takes care of summer vacation. I can’t wait for the school year to start.

Desolation

by Jean Marie Bauhaus

Nursing student Hannah Jordan expected to spend spring break welcoming her new brother into the world. She didn’t expect to deliver him herself in her family’s backyard bunker as her mother lay dying from a bite wound. Newly orphaned with a baby to raise while her neighbors tear each other to pieces outside, Hannah only knows one thing for certain: all the survival training her daddy put her through didn’t prepare her for this. Months later, Hannah emerges from the safety of her shelter to find that zombies are the least of her problems. In the wake of the zombie plague, a race of vampires has emerged from the shadows and seized power over the remaining human population. Styling themselves as saviors, in reality they’re slave masters, demanding payment for their so-called protection in labor and blood. Hunted, abducted and separated from her brother, Hannah is thrown into a prison camp where she quickly learns that the monsters inside the walls are far more dangerous than the zombies roaming outside. But not all vampires are power-hungry psychopaths, and not all humans are benevolent victims. Who can Hannah trust? She finds allies, enemies, and even love in surprising places in her quest to find her brother, make their escape and survive this strange new world where zombies roam, vampires rule and humans are penned up like cattle.

Daughter of Danger

by John C. Wright

The nameless girl does not know who or what she is, or even her name. She quickly learns that she has enemies trying to kill her, along with lethal skills no girl her age should possess. She can also fly. Her only clue is a mysterious, shape-changing ring on her finger that appears to be alive. She must discover her identity before the monsters chasing her are able to hunt her down.

Seven Serpents Assembled: An Epic Weird Western Grimdark Fantasy Book (Grimdark West 1)
by Seth Hobbs

Book 1 of 1: Grimdark West

Outlaws chase silver. Cults summon gods. The desert takes the rest...

Imagine taking Sergio Leone, Bone Tomahawk, Blood Meridian, DUNE, Mad Max, and Hellraiser, throwing them in a blender, and seasoning the dish with Seth Hobbs’ signature worldbuilding. You might get a glimpse of the dark epic that awaits you.

Haggins “Hard Bargain” Daggerbie is a notorious train robber with a pitch-black past. To cross a merciless wasteland and reach the Far West Coast, he and his gang of hardened criminals must embed themselves as scouts within a massive army expedition led by the ruthless Colonel Pathus.

Their target? A teenage girl named Marigold Morningcane, who holds the key to a legendary fortune stolen from the Sendyne Treasury. But Marigold is trapped in a region tearing itself apart. To the south, Ophidian the Viper King rules a bloodthirsty snake cult fueled by a mind-altering venom. In the cities of Little Sister and Aspiring Peak, a tyrannical prophet named Journey sacrifices the innocent to conjure cosmic, otherworldly horrors. Yet, he is the only protection for those seeking refuge from the wasteland.

As the expedition marches into the meat grinder, a sprawling cast of exotic characters will collide— parsons, gunslingers, labor leaders, cutthroats, madams, and many more. In this lawless wilderness, secrets are weaponized, alliances are bought in blood, and every character will confront a terrifying truth: “The desert changes a man, in ways he never imagined, if he survives at all.”

Seven Serpents Assembled is an unforgettable, macabre thrill ride that masterfully fuses the gritty tension of a Spaghetti Western with the visceral dread of cosmic dark fantasy. It is a poetic, hyper-violent exploration of trauma, greed, and the heavy price of survival that will sink its fangs into your skull and never let go.

Relics of the Aztecs

by Michael Finney

In a world where two civilizations collide, the Aztec Empire is in turmoil as they face invasion from an advanced people. Their Emperor, Tzontettica Yaotl, has heard rumors about an artifact that may be their only chance to turn the tide of the impending battle, but its location is uncertain and it might be lost among the abandoned ruins of Coliniacahuitlco.

Facing insurmountable odds and potential annihilation, one man is chosen by the Emperor to embark on a dangerous mission. Can the chosen explorer return with the relic in time and preserve the empire?

Readers are transported into a vibrant world of alternative fictional history. This captivating tale weaves together elements of tradition and imagination, exploring themes of identity, community, and the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.

The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin

by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts – A magic school like no other!

Nestled amidst the beauty of New York’s Hudson Highlands and hidden from the eyes of the Unwary, Roanoke Academy is a place of magic and wonder. It offers everything a young sorceress could desire—enchantments, flying brooms, and the promise of new friendships.

On her first day of school, Rachel Griffin discovers her perfect memory gives her an unexpected advantage. With it, she can see through the spell sorcerers use to hide their secrets. Very soon, she discovers that there is a far-vaster secret world hiding from the Wise, precisely the same way that the magical folk hide from the mundane folk.

When someone tries to kill a fellow student, she investigates. Rushing forward where others fear to tread, Rachel bravely faces wraiths, embarrassing magical pranks, mysterious older boys, a Raven that brings the doom of worlds, and at least one fire-breathing teacher.

Described by fans as: “Supernatural meets Narnia at Hogwarts”, The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin is a tale of wonder and danger, romance and heartbreak, and, most of all, of magic and of a girl who refuses to be daunted.

Curiosity may kill a cat, but nothing stops Rachel Griffin!

The Rooster Crows at Midnight

by Ross Hathaway

The Bureau of Imaginary Problems does not officially exist. Former journalist Mara Quill now works for it, dealing with cryptids, cursed infrastructure, impossible paperwork, and other threats to reality. When a West Virginia town experiences an improbable streak of good luck, Mara discovers that every miracle is creating a debt somewhere else. Her investigation leads into a market in dangerous artifacts that can alter luck, identity, truth, and even reality itself.

Answering the Human Question: A Gnome’s Essays on Mankind

by The Brothers K

As the Elder Races debate upon humanity’s place in the world, a Gnome takes up the pen to tell Mankind’s story. His essays abridge a span of ten thousand years, observing Man’s rise from their stone age to the brilliant, terrifying present. This is a tale of strife, featuring the rise and fall of empires, ages of dark lords and heroes, and the birth of ingenuity amid bondage—and its consequences.

The Curse Breaker

by April Kelley Jones

Eris’s sister is missing, and nobody, not even their parents, can remember her, so magic is clearly to blame. Eris knows only magic can bring her back, but even as a Light magic-born she may not be strong enough. Meanwhile Prince Knox is cursed to spend his days as a corpse and his nights searching for the prophesied girl who can break his curse before his twentieth birthday. Their paths converge as the Queen of the Underworld threatens everyone they love.

A Kingdom of Ash and Steam

by Page Zaplendam

Slade’s blood stirred at the thought of defeating more of those who wreaked havoc against the people. It was a good day for a quest.

Raised in forested isolation by the dread Annearol, the Unearthly, Slade is distrustful and suspicious of his own kind. After the murder of his adoptive mother, he is determined to obtain justice, no matter the cost.

His own desperate actions set him at odds with the crown, and he finds himself launched into fighting battles on behalf of a people he thought he was loathe to call his own. But is it justice, or is vengeance?

War is looming.

When his training and genes reveal he has combat skills well above the average warrior, he finds himself fighting for dominion over his soul as dark forces put their pieces in play to ensure a victory for themselves, no matter who is vanquished.

A gritty, neo-dark-age, steam-tech fantasy.

In Death’s Shadow

by Kal Spriggs

Combat veteran Ari wants a quiet civilian life, but police suspect him of being a serial killer, a vindictive politician wants him destroyed, and his guardian angel happens to be the Angel of Death. When Ari is threatened, people around him tend to die. Worse, Death was assigned to him for a reason: an ancient werewolf wants Ari dead. He must clear his name, survive his enemies, and somehow escape Death’s shadow.

Echo of the High Kings

by Kal Spriggs

In Eoriel, the High Kings are legend: rulers who once stood against the darkness and ruled the world for two thousand turns of peace and prosperity. In the long turns since their fall during the Sundering, Eoriel’s civilization has faded. Dark men and darker beings have torn down and destroyed the old works. While some have held out against the grind of history, other places have been reduced to primitive tribes of savages, worshiping dark spirits and demons as their gods.

Yet a spark of hope remains. Some still believe in the old legends, some still fight to restore the old ways, and some will stand against the darkness, in an echo of the High Kings.

A Place Outside the Wild

by Daniel Humphreys

“This might be one of the best zombie books I’ve read.” “You WILL NOT be disappointed!” “(A) refreshing new twist to the traditional zombie apocalypse tale.” “World War Z meets Rot and Ruin.”

Eight years after Z-Day, the surviving remnants of mankind face the unknown.

The fences and walls kept the ravenous undead at bay until they wasted away.

A once overwhelming foe has turned feeble and weak, and a world gone wild seems ripe for reclamation.

The scars of the long war run deep.

And hope is a dangerous thing when the real enemy might just be the survivors themselves.

Deathbringer

by Blake Carpenter

Inga Alenir is a Swordbearer. She is the latest in a long line of women to inherit a magical weapon called Deathbringer. She’s also dead, murdered on her wedding day by the ruthless and covetous noblewoman Yenda Avard, who steals the sword after killing Inga and her entire family. And yet, some secrets won’t stay buried. Deathbringer has a will and a consciousness of its own, and even has the power to raise Inga from the dead for a short time. It warns her that she has one week to find and retrieve the sword before death reclaims her—permanently. With each day bringing her doom and final demise ever closer, Inga will have to see just how far she’s willing to go to achieve her vengeance. DEATHBRINGER is a compositional mix between the violent, grisly hunt for revenge in the film THE NIGHTINGALE and the tale of Vasher and his talking sword Nightblood in Brandon Sanderson’s WARBREAKER. Fans of dark fantasy, of tragic love stories and tales about seeking revenge against long odds will enjoy this debut novel by Blake Carpenter in the world of Agareth where a scorned, young widow fights back against the powerful elites that wronged her, and begins a journey that might turn the entire world against her. Winner of Upstream Reviews’ Best of 2023 Golden Raygun Award!

Flames of Valor

by Rey Clark

Magic and dragons are real. As plague and bloodshed spread, old legends re-emerge as truth. Navara, a master thief with a hidden talent and secret past, joins forces with Erick Dryadson, crown prince of Tarien. Her reckless independence clashes with his political responsibilities as they battle an invading horde led by a powerful dark sorcerer and discover that the threat runs deeper than either expected.

Honor at Stake (Love at First Bite Book 1)
by Declan Finn

A 2016 Dragon Award Nominee for Best Horror Novel!
One is a heartless, bloodthirsty killer. The other is a vampire.

College freshman, Amanda Colt knows few people and wants to know fewer still. She enjoys fencing and prefers facing a challenge every once in a while. She is beautiful, smart, and possibly the most interesting person on campus.

Then she finds the smart, intense Marco Catalano in her fencing class. With a mind like a computer and manners of a medieval knight, he scares most people - but not Amanda. They both have secrets, for they are both monsters.

As they draw closer, they must find the line between how much they can trust each other, and how much they can care for each other. Each carries a secret that can destroy the other. But they must come to grips with their personal drama soon because a darkness rises around them. Bodies keep turning up all over New York, and an army of vampires closes in on all sides.

They have only one hope - each other.

Franko Blade of the Shattered Star

by Matthew Linton

A carefree wanderer. A brutal massacre. A choice that will break him.

Franko never wanted roots... until the violent Garelians tore them from him and burned his old life to ash.

Sworn to vengeance at any cost, he strikes a dangerous bargain with Ghost, a shadowy figure holding some dark secrets, and climbs the ranks of the elite Wyverly Guard.

But when an old flame reignites and new power surges through his veins, Franko stands at a crossroads: embrace the future with the woman he loves... or drown in the past.

Two paths stand before him.
What will Franko choose?

Mouse: The Elmnas Chronicles Book I

by Kaylena Radcliff
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Mouse is an ordinary girl with a burning secret: she does not know who she is or where she comes from. All she has is the number 146 branded into her arm. Enslaved in Misty Summit’s Manufacturing Facility, she discovers a terrible truth that sends her toward the fabled land of Elmnas. A farm boy and an ancient warrior join her, while the ruling powers and a relentless bounty huntress pursue them.

The Summoned Sage

by Denton Salle

A dying scribe-magician rips a retired Texan from his old life and sends him into a world resembling ancient China, where the legends of cultivators are real. He is supposed to carry a scroll to the magician’s teachers before catastrophe strikes. Armed mainly with years of internal martial-arts practice, he must evade thugs, monsters, and hostile cultivators while trying to understand a world whose magic is very real.

Asterius

by Susana Imaginário

My Name is Asterius, yet I have never seen the stars.

You all know me as the Minotaur.

This is my story.

The Minotaur himself relates to a mysterious listener the events that led to his death in the Labyrinth as he reflects upon the meaning of good versus evil, right versus wrong and monsters versus heroes.

A Blight of Gold

by Susan Laspe

A thief and a prince are forced to work together as war looms over the kingdom. What she has stolen could lead both the realm and the prince himself to destruction. Despite their differences and begrudging attraction, they must stop a sinister evil creeping into the land. A high-stakes Rumpelstiltskin retelling with an Oliver Twist twist.

Sorcerous

by Susan Laspe

A powerful sorceress. A cursed knight. A cryptic prophecy.

Lieutenant knight Padric de Clifton expects his assignment in quiet Chaddesden, Derbyshire, to be easy until villagers begin disappearing. A prophecy charges him to rescue them and recover a missing artifact before the solstice. Then he discovers the sorceress behind the chaos and is cursed into a creature from ancient Roman mythology. To save the villagers and prevent a greater disaster, Padric must find the sorceress’s lair and break the curse.

Jilori

by Terry Grignon

What a young woman on a cross-country road trip learns about her dead father forces her to reassess her life and dredges up long suppressed dreams. Can Jílori convince her mother to believe in the strange mysteries that only she can see in the quiet of colorful Trosk Harbour? How can she possibly go back to her old life?

Ladies Fish, & Gentlemen

by Michael Morgan

Ana’s mother always insisted on the proprieties for young ladies, but she never prepared her daughter for the snake pit of Los Cristobal. Political factions wrestle behind the illusion of a free city, each plotting to seize control for King and Country. Beneath the city, a secret society has begun unlocking the powers of ancient sorcery, but they lack something. Something secret. Something stolen from them by Ana’s father, and now they are coming to take it back. Sometimes, a young lady must do some very unladylike things to stay alive.

Ladies, Fish, & Gentlemen is a swashbuckling historical fantasy tale with magical realism undertones set in a pre-colonial North America that never was. Shamanistic ritual, the miracles of Holy places, and lust for the power of resurrected technologies drive men mad in the struggle to control the destiny of the New World. A footpad, a vampire, and the native Kiawah people may be Ana’s best allies against the coven of sorcerers trying to murder her.

Crystal King

by John M. Olsen

An army has overrun and destroyed the royal council and much of the kingdom of Riland’s leadership. Now Gavin Stoutheart’s father, the baron, is missing, along with Gavin’s brother the heir—both presumed dead.

After tormenting his instructors and father for years with his rebellious antics, Gavin must step up to lead his people as they flee before an invading army, one that can outpace his motley collection of castle staff, peasants, and children. Gavin’s only hope for survival is the forbidden animal magic wielded by his closest friends combined with his gift for strategy as he searches for allies along their trail.

Will it be enough to keep them alive as they desperately trek through a fractured, leaderless kingdom? For the army of human and animal predators will show no mercy.

Muses’ War: Fugue of Fire

by Wally Waltner

In the aftermath of catastrophe, Breheimen is wounded and its legendary sword Eagle’s Wing lies shattered. Three stories unfold in counterpoint: Dorian Silversong and Ilmarinen Steelhammer cross the kingdom seeking to reforge the sword; Praeceptor Phrygian Eobanus challenges the kingdom’s most powerful institution with thirty-five theses; and Lady Seraphina Ravenscroft watches her daughter succumb to a mysterious shadow. Music, magic, faith, and political conflict converge as the war for the soul of creation deepens.

Muses’ War: Overture of Shadow

by Wally Waltner

In Breheimen, artisans and craftsmen aren’t just respected. They are revered. The Muse-touched are individuals whose creativity seems divinely inspired, capable of conjuring beauty so profound it borders on the mythical. Their gifts shape culture, hold political sway, and define the kingdom’s identity—the very spirit of the realm.

But when Master Bard Dorian Silversong is summoned to the capital by his mentor, he walks into a world unraveling. That same mentor, the head of the prestigious Collegium Bardica, has been murdered. Muse-touched artisans are vanishing. And at the heart of it all lies a web of courtly machinations and unseen forces determined to twist the bond between creator and creation for malevolent ends.

What if the power to create was the greatest one of all?

The Moonlight Pegasus (The Moonlight Pegasus #1)

by C. S. Johnson

Sapphira is a desert world with little plant life, where the people live in the shadows of gray sunlight, sickened by the Dark Plague. To cure the people, the Guardian of Dreams sends the Spirit of Truth to bring the light back into his darkened world. In the form of Pegasus, he enters the world through the pure, innocent dreams of Selene, the reluctant princess and heir-apparent to the throne. Now, with her brother Dorian as king, another rebellion is stirring. All eyes are turning to Selene to bring peace through an arranged marriage. However, Selene only has eyes for her true love—her protector, Etoileon. As the rebellion unleashes its fury upon the kingdom of Sapphira and the supernatural forces collide, Selene is caught in the middle of all conflicts—the battle for her world, the battle for her love, and the battle for her very soul.

Beauty’s Curse (Book 1 of Once Upon a Princess)

by C. S. Johnson

For four years, Princess Aurora of Rhone—Rose to her friends—has searched the world for a way to break the curse placed on her by Magdalina, the wicked ruler of the fairies at war with her kingdom. Under the curse, Rose is doomed to die on her eighteenth birthday after pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. And time is running out.

On the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Rose makes the journey home with her friends—Theo, a priest with a penchant for revenge; Mary, a young and talented fairy; and Ethan and Sophia, siblings with a troubled past—as pressure from her father, King Stefanos, leaves her with two equally unsatisfying options: Abdicate the throne, or get married.

Slumbering (Book 1 of The Starlight Chronicles)

by C. S. Johnson

Destiny’s calling—and Hamilton Dinger wishes it had the wrong number.

A narcissistic teenager with a charmed life. A city under supernatural siege. An adventure he never asked for (and will probably complain about).

Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger has it all: top grades, star-athlete status, legendary Tetris skills, and enough charm to coast through life. He’s got his eye on winning the girl of his dreams, Gwen Kessler, and ruling the halls of Apollo Central High School. Everything’s perfect...until it’s not.

When a meteor crashes into Apollo City, it unleashes the Seven Deadly Sinisters, their evil leader Orpheus, and a massive headache for Hamilton. Oh, and it also triggers the awakening of his latent supernatural powers. Now, instead of worrying about his social life, Hamilton is stuck teaming up with Elysian, a changeling dragon, and Starry Knight, a mysterious, beautiful, and annoyingly perfect warrior.

Their mission? Protect the souls of Apollo City from an evil supernatural force bent on destruction.

But Hamilton isn’t exactly the heroic type—he’s more into dodging responsibility than embracing destiny. Can he set aside his ego long enough to step up? And will he be ready to face the truth, even if it means losing everything?

Full of action, wit, and sarcastic humor, Slumbering is the first installment of The Starlight Chronicles , a coming-of-age Christian fantasy series perfect for fans of reluctant heroes, supernatural adventures, and epic battles of good versus evil.

A Diabolical Bargain

by Mary Catelli

Nick Briarwood grows up between the marvels of the Wizards’ Wood and the world’s finest university of wizardry, dreaming of becoming a wizard. Then his father tries to offer him to a demon. The bargain rebounds and Nick survives, but all the evidence makes it appear that he made the demonic bargain himself. Now he needs magical training more than ever, even though the university is also where his secret is most likely to be discovered.

Chosen by the Sword

by Charles Hackney

A PhD did not prepare Dave Howard for fighting flesh-eating monsters with two feet of steel while his sword critiques his technique. One week he is hunting for a teaching job; the next he has inherited his grandfather’s mysterious possessed blade and joined a university that appears to be less an academic institution than a band of monster-hunting nerds. Dave’s psychology training may help, but first he has to survive learning swordplay on the job.

Autumn’s Smile: A short fantasy (Seasons Book 3)

by Nathan C. Brindle

“Maybe it won’t be so difficult to believe someone who used to be a pagan Norse Valkyrja, and still acts in the capacity of a Norse semi-demi-hemi god at the orders of Odin All-Father, is going to tell what’s more or less a Christmas story...”

The former Valkyrja Sigrdrifa, now the very American pioneer wife Sarah Randall -- who just happens to be the Queen of Autumn -- tells a story of the historical Deep Snow of 1830-31 in the American Midwest, as she and two other former Asgardians attempt to control the runaway heavy weather that began in the fall of 1830, while out of the woods come four children from a neighboring homestead with a tale of woe.

Will a visit by the Ancient Wanderer cheer things up as the Solstice approaches?

Will Autumn yet smile?

A Midsummer Night’s Hunt: A short fantasy (Seasons Book 2)

by Nathan C. Brindle

The second Seasons story follows the four restored Asgardians after Saving the Spring. Written in third person, it gives the whole group a larger role as they hunt chupacabra in New Mexico. Jack, Sarah, Rufus, and Joelle face new fights while the story expands their identities and relationships after the events that restored their memories.

Saving the Spring: A short fantasy (Seasons Book 1)

by Nathan C. Brindle

Jack Randall knows something is wrong as soon as he reaches an old roadhouse. Meeting its beautiful bartender and her rugged boyfriend forces him to remember a former life as a god and draws him into a rematch with the god who stole those memories. The short fantasy begins the Seasons series and turns an ordinary road trip into a struggle involving forgotten divinity, honor, and an immortal love.

The Black Knight

by Michael P. Halloran

A fallen man. A fallen world. One light in the darkness. After an ambush goes wrong, robber Winthrop and his adoptive son David are arrested by a mysterious black knight calling himself Sir Judas, who claims to be the last surviving paladin after the Grand Empire’s destruction. Sir Judas says his master still lives, captive to the demonic giant who conquered the Empire forty years earlier. Drawn into the knight’s quest, Winthrop and David face witches, sorcerers, supernatural darkness, and the demons of their own pasts.

The Pale Legion

by Dick Lichter

The Pale Legion is an elite military formation using late-eighteenth- to mid-nineteenth-century weapons and tactics in a fantasy Europe. After an emperor invades the Schattenmark and murders the Legion’s duke, the soldiers gather for revenge. Newly promoted Jaeger captain Elias Crowe must scout the way through giant spiders, trolls, witches, and rat-like monsters alongside the last surviving uhlan, a company mage, and his light infantrymen.

Arthur and the Goblin King

by Michael A. Putlack

While traveling through the Glittering Mountains with Prince Baldwin, Arthur and his friends expect to meet friendly goblins—traders and neighbors who have lived peacefully alongside humans for generations.

Instead, they are taken prisoner.

Separated, outnumbered, and deep inside mountain tunnels, Arthur must escape, free the others, and discover what has made the goblins so hostile. Time is running out, and the threat of war looms over the kingdom of Eldenmere.

With the help of Storm the griffin, his loyal friends Chad, Heather, and Reginald, and allies old and new, Arthur must face the goblin king, dark magic, and difficult choices.

Because sometimes escaping is only the beginning.

Arthur and the Goblin King, the third book in the Arthur and the Griffin series,is a fast-paced fantasy adventure filled with courage, loyalty, and hard choices that define a hero.

Arthur and the Phoenix

by Michael A. Putlack

Snow the unicorn is dying.

The only cure lies beyond the borders of the Kingdom of Eldenmere... past Perilous Peak, across haunted forests, and into lands no one from the kingdom has ever returned from.

Arthur and his friends set out on a forbidden quest to save Snow. Along the way, they face giants, ancient magic, and a garden that tests the heart as much as courage.

Inside the garden waits a phoenix… and a choice.

Some gifts offer power.

Some offer knowledge.

Some offer everything Arthur has ever wanted.

But he came to save a friend.

Arthur and the Phoenix—Book 2 of the Arthur and the Griffin series—is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about loyalty, sacrifice, and choosing what matters the most.

Arthur and the Werewolf

by Michael A. Putlack

A werewolf is killing people in Harford, the capital of the Kingdom of Eldenmere.

When Prince Baldwin asks Arthur and his friends for help, they travel to Harford to hunt the monster. But fear is spreading through the city, nobles are turning against one another, and Arthur soon realizes the danger is far greater than a single creature.

Someone inside the castle is plotting against the king.

As the full moon approaches, Arthur, Chad, Heather, and Reginald must uncover the truth before the kingdom falls into chaos. But while investigating the attacks, Arthur discovers something even more disturbing:

The monster may not simply be hunting victims.

It may be hunting him.

Arthur and the Werewolf, the fourth book in the Arthur and the Griffin series, is a fast-paced fantasy adventure filled with danger, mystery, betrayal, and secrets that can change a kingdom forever.

Arthur and the Griffin (*FREE*)

by Michael A. Putlack

Arthur is just a village boy… until the day he fights a wolf to save a girl’s life.

That single moment brings him to the attention of Prince Baldwin and earns him an invitation to Oakwood, the kingdom’s most secret and dangerous school.

There, Arthur discovers the truth: Magic is real, monsters and magical creatures exist, and some students are chosen to work with them.

But Oakwood holds more than lessons and friendships. Arthur begins hearing his father’s voice in his mind—guiding him and warning him—but he has no idea why.

When a deadly threat appears near the school, Arthur must decide whether he’s truly ready to face it… and what it means to become a Griffin Flyer.

Arthur and the Griffin—Book 1 of the Arthur and the Griffin series—is a fast-paced fantasy adventure about courage, friendship, and the first steps toward becoming a hero.

Reflections in Crystal

by Jay Maynard

Magic fixes people the world cannot touch.

Alex Sullivan isn’t crazy -- just angry. Angry enough to get arrested. Angry enough to be given a strange choice: prison, or an experimental magical program at a private facility in rural Missouri.

They claim to fix broken people not with medicine or therapy, but with silence, service, and a skintight suit of latex.

Inside the suit, Alex is cut off from the world -- unable to speak, eat, or even cry in the ordinary way. Inside the crystal, time flows differently. There, guided by someone who seems to know him better than he knows himself, Alex must face his deepest wounds... and either heal, or shatter.

But this is no simple treatment. Alex finds himself on a journey into a hidden world where redemption is earned, the broken are made whole, and some choose never to leave the suit again.

Previously published as Foundational Laminate.

“One of the rare novels I hope becomes reality—a hard look at how to turn the antisocial into good neighbors.”

— Karl K. Gallagher, author of The Fall of the Censor and Torchship

Hammers in the Wind, the Northern Crusade I

by Christian Warren Freed

The wolves are returning to war! Peace in the northern kingdoms is shattered the night King Badron of Delranan finds his house invaded, his son dying, and his daughter kidnapped. All signs point to his longtime rival and neighboring kingdom, Rogscroft. Armed with vengeance, he orders his fear army, the Wolfsreik, to deploy east while simultaneously sending a covert team to rescue his daughter. Led by his pariah brother, Bahr, the group slips into enemy territory only to discover all is not the way it should be. Darkness is afoot in the north. An ancient power stirs deep in the discontented hearts of men, for evil has ways of surviving. It is a race against time to rescue the princess and, if Bahr can help it, prevent a war. Fate is not on his side. Welcome to the opening salvo of the Northern Crusade. The final battle between the forces of good and those who serve the dark gods. Heroes and villains rise to the challenge, for the fate of the world is at stake. Not your father’s Tolkien, the Northern Crusade is perfect for fans of Brooks, Martin, McKiernan, and more. Grab Hammers in the Wind today and join the crusade. The fate of the world is in your hands.

Tales of the Sundered Crown boxset

by M.S. Olney

Four tales explore fate, power, heroism, and darkness in the world of the Sundered Crown Saga. The collection brings together “Danon,” “The Crimson Blade,” “The Curious Case of Evi Rispin,” and “The Nightblade,” ranging from the origins of the saga’s great betrayer to adventures elsewhere in the history of Delfinnia.

The Empowered Ones boxset

by M.S. Olney

Get the first two books of the action packed fantasy adventure in the Empowered Ones series boxset!

In this world Emotions grant incredible powers.

The Supreme rules the world. For years, the people of her Imperium have lived in fear. Dreams of freedom are long dead for most. Those that could challenge her are in hiding. Yet hope remains.

Following an incident, Elian, a young man living at the edge of the Imperium, discovers he possesses powers with devastating consequences for both himself and the people he loves.

The Curse of Prince Rupert (A Taming of Crows Book 1)

by Elinor Quimby

The hero who saved the capital a mere week ago, Prince Rupert, is publicly executed for a supposed plot to overthrown the King of Sharrinmord. The crowd cheers because, well, who doesn’t love a nice execution? Some question the reality of this plot but are only told that though the evidence is overwhelming it cannot be revealed at present because there remain other co-conspirators in this nefarious plot.

One of the Royal Guardsmen, Kynaed Raollins, was curious about the statement Rupert made just before the axe fell. His face seemed to hold a look of pity more than anything else but no one seems to have heard the final curse of Prince Rupert. At the end of the day, without any discovery, he is suggested to inquire of the executioner.

The following morning, Kynaed goes to see the executioner but finds that he has resigned his post and quitted the city just after the execution. Since no one else can answer his question, Kynaed resigns himself to a mystery remaining unanswered.

Unfortunately for him, people have gotten suspicious of all his questions and he is shipped up north where the new King’s uncle is taking over Rupert’s principality. His quest seems doomed until he discovers that was also the new location of the executioner. Now if only he could find the man.

The war against the conspiracy is progressing into the east of the kingdom where Rupert’s cousin, Prince Lowrance, has been claimed to be a co-conspirator along with all the dukes in his principality. These people are as surprised as the rest of the nation to hear they were involved in any conspiracy and they take to the defense by some degrees.

Back in the capital, it is noticed by a few persons that those who had been closest to the heir have been removed from the administration of the realm; a few others notice the heir seems to have changed quite a bit of late. Some few begin to question the narrative coming out of the Royal Court and one of these is the new King’s brother, who has been sent away to the usual estate of the heir. There he finds his uncle, the former heir in a dark depression since the disappearance of his wife a year before that seems to be news to the new heir. Why had he not heard about this vanishing Princess?

By degrees, the fabric of their society is upended. Families are split due to the turmoil and many people become suspicious of everyone. The one person who seems to be untouched by this turmoil is the Duke of Simblaze - the wealthiest man in the kingdom and father-in-law of the late King. His hand seems to be the one guiding the actions of his grandson, the current King.

Though Kynaed was overjoyed to discover the old executioner was nearby his location in the north, actually finding the man is a bit of a chore; Kynaed, does, after all, have a full-time job to do. When he does eventually catch up to the executioner, he discovers a bit more than he had bargained for, opening an even deeper mystery and the traces of a much wider conspiracy unfolding in Sharrinmord.

New Arrivals in Mystery & Thriller

Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches 1888-1899 (the 223B Casebook series)

by Teresa Peschel / Peschel Press

Welcome to 223B Baker Street! The debut of Sherlock Holmes in the pages of The Strand magazine introduced one of fiction’s most memorable heroes. Arthur Conan Doyle’s spellbinding tales of mystery and detection, along with Holmes’ deep friendship with Doctor Watson, touched the hearts of fans worldwide, and inspired imitations, parodies, songs, art, even erotica, that continues to this very day.

Sherlock Holmes Victorian Parodies and Pastiches: 1888-1899 collects more than 60 pieces—short stories, poems, newspaper clippings, and cartoons—published during the opening years of Conan Doyle’s literary career.

The Early Punch Parodies of Sherlock Holmes (1888-1930) (the 223B Casebook series)

by Teresa Peschel / Peschel Press

Genius. Braggart. Scientist. Fraud. Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed as all that and more. The Early Punch Parodies of Sherlock Holmes brings together the major stories, reviews, briefs and illustrations that appeared in the legendary British humor magazine during Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s lifetime. Annotated and presented in chronological order, this scrapbook charts the rise of Conan Doyle as a writer and public figure and the meteoric popularity of the world’s greatest consulting detective.

Tier Zero

by Henry Brown

Amazon #1 bestseller in Pulp Thrillers! (USA March 2018) #1 bestseller in Men’s Adventure Fiction! (Canada February 2020)

When a party of American college girls are sold into slavery by human traffickers, a rescue mission is too dirty, too dangerous, and too difficult for any government to touch. That’s where The Retreads come in.

The pirates thought they found the perfect target: a private yacht foolishly sailing through the Malacca Straits, which could discretely and easily be sold on the black market.

The human traffickers thought the boat was hauling the perfect cargo: young, attractive women who would generate income in brothels around the region. What made the caper not so perfect was that one of the girls had an uncle who took it personally.

Another Amazon Bestseller (War, Military Thrillers, Men’s Adventure, etc.) from Henry Brown...”One helluva adventure writer.” - Jim Morris (author of War Story, The Devil’s Secret Name)

You can take a man out of Special Operations, but you can’t take SpecOps out of the man. Tommy Scarred Wolf calls on his old friend Rocco Cavarra, who still has contacts in the intelligence business. Other survivors of the Sudan mission also rally behind Tommy, signing on for the kind of favor that can never be repaid.

Armed with all the firepower and force multipliers they can scrounge, shadowed by a team of secret assassins, the Retreads ride again, bringing smoke and taking names.

Tier Zero is old-school military adventure you haven’t enjoyed since the full-auto glory days of Able Team and Phoenix Force.

The Case Files of Owan Craig Volume 1

by H. A. Titus

In 1920s New York City, there is plenty of trouble to be had, especially for a half-fae private detective. Owan Craig and his assistant Roe Gillam work the city streets while dodging criminals and fae mobsters. Their cases are difficult, and solving them requires both hard-boiled detective work and the magic they have on their side.

The Land (thriller)

by Shlomit Beck

From the high-stakes real estate scams of Santa Ynez to the chaotic underground of Tel Aviv, the Gallo family is scattered and in danger. To bring his strays home, Sergeant Joe Gallo must rely on the one man he never truly knew: his father, Vincenzo. A retired physicist and Holocaust survivor, Vincenzo built a fortress in Pasadena to protect his secrets from shadows only he could see. Now, Vincenzo’s secrets might be the only thing that can save Joe’s daughter from the wilderness.

The World Ender

by Saengard

“The World Ender” is an apocalyptic sci-fi thriller that follows Dr. George Greycloud Guess, a brilliant Cherokee physicist whose groundbreaking invention becomes the linchpin of humanity’s greatest deception.

George Greycloud Guess was driven by a singular, obsessive vision - creating a device that would solve the world’s energy crisis. Then came the news. The end of the world. In fifteen years, an asteroid will wipe out humanity. To survive this celestial threat, it would take the combined effort of the entire world... and an unlimited source of energy.

Overnight, every government now operated under the guidance of the United Nations, and more specifically, under the cold, steely hand of Lydia Thorne, chairwoman of the UN World Salvation Council. Something about that woman sent a chill up George’s spine. As the world outside George’s lab unraveled into fear and chaos, he discovered a dark, unsettling truth - one that only a few would believe.

A Deadly Dish: A Rafe Merritt Thriller

by P.L. Kenny

“She’s some dish.”

“Make sure you don’t take a bite of that dish, Lake.” Rafe lowered himself into the sedan’s backseat. “Remember she’s suspected of murdering a dozen men that we know of. I’d hate to have to tell your mother you were lucky thirteen.”

Police Commissioner Rafe Merritt has his hands full when a dangerous beauty comes to town. With the bodies piling up and a target on his back, can the young commissioner put an end to the murder spree before he becomes the next victim of the “Deadly Dish”?

A mystery thriller short story in the pulp tradition of The Shadow, The Whisperer, and Bulldog Drummond.

The Demon Ring of Lilitu: A Christopher Lyte Weird Mystery

by P.L. Kenny

...and death...and demons. A mysterious medium enthralls high society. A vicious blackmailer leaves a trail of ruined lives behind. An ancient evil holds a beautiful heiress under its spell. Can Christopher Lyte end the terror of the demon’s ring?

LA BRUJA

by Carlos Carrasco

New Orleans: city of music, mystery, and murder. A kidnapped girl is slated for sacrifice while a cop and a priest are drawn into an inner-city gang war. When a severed head in a landfill is identified as the brother of a notorious gang leader, Detective Gustavo Guerrera’s investigation leads into the darkest reaches of the city’s supernatural underbelly. Another murdered child and the rising blood moon point toward La Bruja and an approaching ritual killing.

Camera Roll

by Zaklog the Great

Jason left his phone at the bar last night, but when he gets it back, he finds it not quite the same. Whoever picked it up started taking pictures, at first enticing, then frightening, and finally threatening. Now, Jason must confront the mystery of what he just saw, protect his family, and even question his sense of reality.

Prospero Lost

by L. Jagi Lamplighter

Shakespeare got one thing wrong. The Dread Magician Prospero never drowned his books. More than four hundred years later, Miranda heads the family business. Prospero Inc secretly uses magic for the good of mankind. Only, now, Prospero has gone missing! To save her father, Miranda must reunite with her estranged siblings, each of whom holds a staff of power and secrets about Miranda’s sometimes-foggy past. Her journeys, both past and present, take her to Chicago, the Caribbean, Milan, Washington, D.C., and the North Pole. With her is her trusty company gumshoes, Mab, an aerie spirit stuck in a body that looks like Humphrey Bogart. Together, they must survive the mysterious Shadowed Ones if they hope to find Prospero and set all to right again. Humor, mystery, wonder “Intelligent and eminently enjoyable, this series opener by a first-time author is a first-rate choice for fans of mythic urban fantasy.” – Library Journal (starred review)

Rule 13

by Ross Hathaway

In Ashburn, the city doesn’t sleep—it twitches.

It grinds men down, chews through their souls, and spits out what’s left with a crooked grin.

Once, Robert Tucker wore a badge polished bright with idealism. Fresh out of the academy, he thought he could make a difference in a city built on vice, velvet lies, and rain-slick corruption. But a decade under the neon hum and coal-smoke skies of Ashburn turned that badge into a paperweight and that hope into bourbon.

Now he’s a private eye working out of a one-room office with a bottle in his drawer, a secretary who files extortion notices under “routine,” and a conscience held together by the rules his dead partner left behind—Fallon’s Rules. Twelve of them. Not one guarantees survival.

The syndicate boss Vincent Crowe owns the city’s shadows, but when Crowe gets in over his head the rot only deepens. Tucker’s caught between crooked judges, dying reporters, and a government experiment that makes the fog itself lethal.

Seeds of Blood

by C. Chancy

Welcome to Intrepid. Where Halloween brings tourists, turning leaves - and demons.

Over two decades of bloody murder, Steven Savonarola carved a sorcerous Demongate into the heart of his own hometown. With less than two weeks to disarm it before Halloween, Detective Church and the IPD are running out of time.

Lucky for them, they have an edge: Myrrh, a hell-raider with over a thousand years’ experience shattering dark magic, and Aidan, a half-demon fire mage with a very personal grudge against evil.

The plan is simple: Find the tainted sites. Purify them. Try not to die.

They’ll need all the help they can get. Steven may be gone, but shadows in the mountains are determined to see the Demongate open - even if they have to slaughter half the city to do it. And when it comes to killing shadows, even hell-raiders don’t know everything.

A Net of Dawn and Bones

by C. Chancy

Twenty years after supernatural horrors became public knowledge, vampires, alchemists, and werewolves have become part of life in Intrepid, North Carolina. As Halloween approaches, a long-running serial killer returns while a demonic sorcerer works to complete a gate that could bring Hell to earth. Detective Church’s investigation becomes entangled with two mysterious wanderers who may be essential to stopping it.

Lair Of The White Worm

by Donald Scott Strong

England, 1889.

When Adam Salton arrives in the Midlands to visit the great-uncle he has never met, he expects a quiet country retreat. Instead, he finds a countryside haunted by disappearances, mutilated livestock, whispered legends, and an ancient estate whose history refuses to stay buried.

Alongside the brilliant Sir Nathaniel de Salis, Adam begins to unravel a mystery that stretches across the English Midlands. Villagers vanish without explanation. Strange attacks defy reason. Old maps and forgotten records hint at a hidden pattern. At the center of it all stand the beautiful Lady Arabella March, the isolated Diana’s Grove, and a secret that has endured for centuries beneath the English countryside.

As the evidence mounts, skepticism gives way to certainty—and the investigation becomes a desperate struggle against an enemy as cunning as it is ancient. To survive, Adam and his companions must risk everything, for once the truth emerges, there can be no return to ordinary life.

Texas Cozy to Noir

by Denton Salle

Three short mysteries ranging from cozy to dark. Join Bill and Tyler dealing with a crime in a West Texas snowstorm, Jon Curlie in the days when he started his PI work trying to catch a drugged driver, and finally, the Johnson and Lewis team as Johnson tries to keep Lewis straight long enough to solve a crime.

The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis

by Michael Lacoy

An exciting literary debut, The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis is the story of one man’s quest for meaning and redemption following a near-death experience. Stavros Papadakis, a successful yet epically dysfunctional Boston defense attorney, returns to his former home on Christmas day to visit his son. There, the unimaginable happens: heart attack, coma, and a trip to heaven and hell—or so Stavros claims. Back on earth, as he comes to understand that he was a terrible husband and an even worse father, Stavros determines to change his life and make amends. But there’s a problem: neither his ex-wife nor his son want anything to do with him. Meanwhile, Stavros’s charismatic law partner, the country’s most celebrated trial lawyer, demands that Stavros tell no one about his afterlife journey—it would be bad for business.

Set during the run-up to the 2016 election, and loosely structured around a sensational date-rape trial, the novel explores the contentiousness of contemporary life and the persistence of age-old themes: love, family, friendship, and the mystery of existential truth. By turns funny and poignant, quirky and hard-hitting, The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis is a powerful, provocative tale for our times.

The Suprahuman Secret

by Milo James Fowler

Collects the novellas Girl of Great Price, Immaterial Evidence, Yakuza Territory, and Chimera

Effect.

The public can’t know they exist. It could start a panic. The average citizen is perfectly fine with superheroes saving the day or causing mayhem in movies and comic books. But if those suprahumans actually walked among us, what would happen then?

In a crumbling post-war city of the future, private eye Charlie Madison stands in the gap. The last of his kind, a champion of lost causes, he confronts corrupt cops, violent bratva and yakuza, doing whatever he can for the average citizen in need of help. A war veteran with plenty of hardship in his past, he’s not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the powers that be, whether they’re in the criminal underworld or the federal government.

Madison has encountered more than his share of unusual suspects over the years. But this time he’s up against something he’s never seen before, on or off the battlefield: people with unnatural abilities. Suprahumans. Gifted ones.

Infidels & Insurgents

by Milo James Fowler

Somehow, everything is connected.

The case seems straightforward at first: a high-tech heist at a jewelry shop specializing in priceless items favored by the upper castes. Except the thieves make an impossible getaway, and they’re caught on surveillance employing a powerful military-grade weapon Sera Chen is all-too familiar with.

If that’s not weird enough, the Prometheus cult unexpectedly reemerges, threatening death to infidels refusing to believe in their venerable AI. Amid the ensuing mayhem, a mysterious government agent appears with a cryptic warning for Sera. And to top things off, there’s a killer lurking in the maintenance tunnels under Dome 1’s streets.

Sera and her partner Dunn make a good team. But everyone has a limit, and theirs will be tested when a high profile coup threatens to take over the Domes, revealing the interrelated nature of recent events.

The Mayor of Christ Mountain

by Zaklog the Great

When a young, married father leaves his sheltered, progressive life in Maine for North Carolina, he enters a brave new world of race relations he never knew existed. Edmund Dantent had it all: a rewarding new tech job and happy family home in a pleasant tree-lined neighborhood. He never expected his American dream to die in a seemingly freak act of violence. And as horror builds on horror, the stunned father wakes up to a up to a nightmare of injustice.

In a world where the law serves the guilty and rewards the corrupt, he must choose between action and despair. But can Edmund’s path lead to more than just avenging the innocent?

SCOTT’S TULSA

by S L Chalmers

In post-war Tulsa, prostitute murders, blackmailer murders, and a murky communist conspiracy embroil a cynical PI in noir plots and Cold War intrigues. His investigation intertwines with his ruined baseball career, his WWII code breaking service in Alaska, and his obsession with a suspicious death there. Hired to solve a prostitute’s murder, Wyatt Scott navigates all sections of town, from the infamous May Rooms brothel to the Tulsa Club elite. More murders follow his work, leading him in different directions, while his past intrudes on his life, thoughts, and beliefs. Major historical events, including the 1934 Babe Ruth barnstorming tour of Japan and the CIA VENONA file on Soviet spying, weave their way into Scott’s life, the characters, and the narratives. The actions of SCOTT’S TULSA take place in June 1948 amid the specter of real communist threats and the beginnings of postwar social change. Many events and the entire backdrop inhabit the times and places stated. The buildings, businesses, politicians, laws, and institutions described were authentic in 1948 Tulsa. These historical realities blend with Scott and his fictional cohorts to present a story that could have easily unfolded like the tale told.

SCOTT’S TULSA II

by S L Chalmers

When a professional assassin targets Tulsa PI, Wyatt Scott, he’s dragged back into a world of Cold War espionage he thought he left behind in Alaska. The murder of a Japanese diplomat pulls Scott into a tangled web connecting his wartime past to a deadly Soviet spy ring. Before he can locate the Russian spy, a local baseball star is brutally murdered, and the sheriff arrests his addled old pal, Bugler, for the crime. Scott must flush out the killer among the denizens of local baseball, while dodging bullets from the spy world.

Shadowfall: Las Vegas

by C.J. Carella

Hell comes to Sin City. It starts slowly: bizarre murders, disappearances, suicides, and sightings of strange creatures in the night. Soon people turn violently insane without warning, sinister cults grow bolder, nightmares come to life, and monsters walk the streets. A police detective, a street gang member, an exotic dancer, and a visiting tourist cross paths with occult troubleshooters trying to prevent a disaster that could destroy Las Vegas and then spread beyond it.

Never Walk Alone

by M.S. Olney

Journalist James Conners is under pressure after a source connected to a corruption scandal is murdered. Sent away from London, he agrees to help an old friend investigate unexplained disappearances. People are vanishing, mutilated bodies appear near canals and alleyways, witnesses report pale figures beneath the city, and police suppress evidence. James discovers that the threat is older and worse than murder: a nightmare hidden behind centuries of folklore and fear.

Sailing the Clouds of Morning: Avatar Wizard Book 7 (The Avatar Wizard)

by Denton Salle

The sorcerer shook himself and glared at Jeremy. “You challenge me to a duel, boy?”

He flared his nimbus, so a sphere of greenish-black power surrounded him.

“I’ll drink your life, and your body will be my puppet.”

Once, the volkh ruled the world like gods. Then, the Dark arose and the war shattered the world. The northern Empire finally triumphed and survived at great cost, losing its golden capital and many of its people. The southern empire, Fabled Sheba, fell and lies in ruins to this day. Mighty relics and artifacts remain there, lost in the destruction caused by the last queen’s final spell.

Jeremy and his companions, with Gerasim’s sister Nataliia and the volkva Tanya, must first travel to the ruins of the City, then to Sheba to fulfill the quest laid upon him. In addition to recovering the rod of power, he needs to return the crown of Sheba to Master Eyasu, lest the tensions in the Sheban diaspora erupt into civil war.

Fly with him in the rebuilt Hawk Ship as they travel south to a city ruined by the desperate acts of opening a hellgate. Then cross the Inland Sea with its wonders to an ancient land, destroyed by a desperate spell. A spell so powerful that, while crushing the Dark’s southern hosts, the land remains cursed to this day. Join with them as they risk their lives and very souls in a dead city, and then risk more dangers to find the secrets hidden in the City of Bees.

Meanwhile, unable to go with him, Galena has to cope alone with her mother’s plots to prevent her marriage to Jeremy. Which may mean reaching out to the scariest person she knows. The lily of the volkhvy, the mightiest sorceress in the world, Vasilia Still-heart.

Click now to return to Jeremy’s world and travel with him on the Hawk ship to the ruins of the City and beyond, where heroic deeds and wonders wait.

Wild Man

by Ali Lauderdale

A Wild Man is swept through the wilderness on a search for freedom. An evil queen, a majestic deer and a woman whose body morphs with the seasons, all affect him in different ways; manipulating or healing him. Wild Man is an allegorical fable, employing evocative prose and picturesque imagery to create an emotionally palpable universe and provide lessons on life, love, pain, and joy.

New Arrivals in Horror

Sleep, Dearie, Sleep

by Jean Marie Bauhaus

Some foundations are built on stone. Others are built on bones and blood.

South Carolina, 1792. Archibald Craig is a man of singular ambition. A junior partner to the famed architect of the President’s House, Archie is tasked with conquering the Yadkin River by building a bridge to the Southwest Territory. But the river is unyielding, and the land itself seems to rebel against the intrusion of “progress.”

As freak storms and mysterious tremors topple the masonry, the project spirals into a nightmare. Archie’s workmen—Scottish Highlanders steeped in the “old ways”—whisper of threshold covenants and the ancient blood-prices required to appease the spirits of the earth.

“Let it be finished, and I will pay whatever you ask.”

In a moment of feverish desperation, Archie utters a prayer that should never have been spoken. The bridge finally stands firm, but an unrelenting shadow of tragedy has fallen over the Craig household. The horrific truth remains just out of reach, buried beneath the weight of the stone.

Told through a haunting collection of diaries and letters, Sleep, Dearie, Sleep is a slow-burn epistolary journey into the heart of folk horror, where the price of success is higher than any man can afford to pay.

The World is Thin in Places

by Ross Hathaway

The world is not as solid as it pretends to be.

In this collection of strange, funny, darkly magical stories, reality frays at the edges, and the people holding it together are rarely the ones in charge. They are children who know better than to ignore spilled milk. Old women with crochet hooks and terrifying competence. Cats who understand where the bodies are buried. Soldiers facing mercy in the snow. Cold War operators hearing saints and demons in the static.

Cruise directors trying to keep passengers entertained while mythological judgment boards the ship. Raygun heroes fighting tyrants, stolen common sense, and songs of obedience beneath alien skies.

Here, horror has a sense of humor, comedy has teeth, and apocalypse is often delayed by someone practical enough to bring snacks.

Cowbird

by Steffen Jack

COWBIRD is a novella of cosmic folk horror set deep in the countryside during the broiling summer of 1982. It is written in the third person from two POVs.

A man running from his past is doomed to repeat it. Stew knows that better than anyone; but he’ll prove to his family, this time things will be different. Then he meets a feral little boy with fairy friends at the ass-end of nowhere. That’s when he finds out bad luck has a crazy way of winning.

From the shelter of his blackberry labyrinth, Eli practices dark magic and animal sacrifice. When a young couple with a baby girl move in next door, they become intertwined in his lessons of spiritual evolution.

Content warning: 16+animal sacrifice, child abuse (nongraphic), child neglect, child threat, smoking, drinking, and foul language.

New Arrivals in Romance

The Vatican Rag (romance)

by Shlomit Beck

An epistolary satire in which a €5,000 unpaid WiFi bill triggers a Vatican Tribunal case, exposes an offshore priest’s multi-million-euro tax-avoidance empire, and somehow ends in a canonically approved Catholic romance. Bureaucracy, canon law, and global tax incidence collide with spectacularly stupid consequences.

The Key

by Felicia Rogers

Everyone else has fun in high school, but Maddie Clevenger is the senior year’s dork. Orphaned and living with her grandmother in Coal Creek, she keeps her head down and avoids the cheerleaders until she bumps into the cute new guy and he literally sends an electrical shock up her arm. Air Force brat Chase Donovan has moved from town to town, but now that his father has retired he may finally stay put. There is something about shy, vulnerable Maddie that draws him in.

Hidden Bones
by S. K. Arnette

Maggie and Peter Reed are so excited. They finally bought the house of their dreams. Once they move in, along with their dog River, they make a discovery that was not on the sales contract. The house is haunted by a ghost. They must learn who haunts their house and discover how to put the spirit to rest.

Dragon’s Pet: Unseen Treaties
by Sarah Arnette

Ansel might have been bored with his life, but it was still a pretty good life, even to his mind. He worked the farm and he hung out with his best friend, Beno. Yeah, his little part of Germany was not as flashy as Munich, but it was still a great time. Parties every night, farm life every day. What more could a young man possibly want? All that changed when Beno and Ansel decided to venture into the forbidden woods for some deadfall.

Running into a woman in the forest was not what Ansel and Beno were expecting. They also were not expecting to break a curse, find one of them dead, and the other taken as a “pet.” If there were a list of things that were not to be expected to happen just from one decision, it would make a book, this book.

Werrolyn: Full Moon

by Anise Barboza

Hillary has a monthly problem... not the one you’re thinking of. It only occurs when the moon is full and lasts for about the forty hours the moon remains full. Yes, she is a werewolf and has no memory of being the wolf when the period is over.

She assumes she is merely waiting in the cage her father built until the phase passes.

And then she wakes up in a different world.

Another afflicted person, Ben, assists her is coming to grips with the fact that she is NOT the wolf but rather sent into another world for the forty hours while a similarly afflicted person from Werrolyn - the world she awakes in - is sent to Earth as a wolf. It takes her a while to wrap her mind around the insanity but she knows from the start that she wants to find a way to end this recurring problem.

Ben has been awake in Werrolyn for years and she enlists his help to understand how and why this thing is happening to them.

Whereas many people in the world of Werrolyn tolerate the monthly visitors for the sake of their own children who vanish every month, there are those who resent them and want to stop the recurring invasion. Some even want to do them harm, regardless of the reciprocal damage it would do to the exchange partners, their neighbors who have been translated to Earth.

Hillary and Ben seem to be in some bizarre race trying to uncover the mystery of the affliction while avoiding getting killed by a handful of lunatics on Werrolyn.

It is fortunate that they receive assistance from a few Werrolyners as well as associates back home. But will it be too little too late?

New Arrivals in Historical & Military Fiction

Shakedown

by J. Gunnar Grey

War dogs don’t retire just because they’re home. Captain Kelly Bonham, a NATO electronics officer and combat zone veteran, adopts a war dog, but when Pojo arrives he’s not at all what she expected. This German Shepherd isn’t interested in rolling over for a tummy rub; he’s a working dog, a retired bomb sniffer who saw his handler cut in half by an anti-personnel mine in Afghanistan. That’s serious trauma, and Bonnie wonders if his canine brain is still fully functional. Now she’s shaking down a relationship with a dog that’s got more teeth than the law allows, a dog whose behavior is puzzling and maybe even unhinged. And all she can bring to the fight is electronic gadgetry and what’s left of her self-confidence. Can she reach this war dog... or is there more to the situation than she’s seeing?

The Devil’s Dictum

by Frederick Gero Heimbach

In a topsy-turvy United States founded by pirates, the personal assassin to the chief justice receives a terrifying order: round up and kill all men who look like himself.

Why does the chief justice want these men dead?

What threat could they possibly pose?

And can the assassin save them—or will he become the final victim?

Spooky, sly and satirical, The Devil’s Dictum recasts J. Edgar Hoover as a Satanic high priest, Calvin Coolidge as a private eye, and Richard Nixon as the pilot of a giant armored robot. Readers hungering for original and mind-blowing alternate history need look no further.

New Arrivals in Nonfiction

Angel Investor

by Cathy Smith

Set in Depression era Texas, pulp writer Bob pounds out barbarian yarns, sports columns, and weird tales on a secondhand typewriter. He does not want charity and has no patience for literary snobs, using his writing to survive.

When Angus Armstrong arrives at the bookstore of the college Bob attends, he pays in cash for Bob’s signature, and his generosity escalates to the point that he pays bills Bob never asked him to. Bob’s pride rebels, but Angus’s patronage keeps him afloat until his work finally sells, though he has to negotiate boundaries to keep his dignity.

This is a story for anyone who fights to make art without selling their soul and for devoted fans who want to assist their favorite artists without crushing them.

The Universe Requires A Form

by Ross Hathaway

What happens when the supernatural collides with bureaucracy?

Usually paperwork.

In The Universe Requires a Form, gods, monsters, dragons, golems, radioactive crustaceans, ancient evils, corporate weapons, supernatural spies, and one remarkably useful llama discover that humanity’s greatest defense against the impossible may not be courage, magic, or superior firepower.

It may be forms.

Across thirteen wildly inventive stories, ordinary people find themselves confronting situations no training manual was designed to cover. An intern accidentally signs his office into Hell. An insurance salesman discovers that even Cthulhu represents an underwriting opportunity. A Soviet golem arrives in Washington asking whether he is a weapon or a person. A customer-service center tries to route a monster attack through the proper phone tree. Roman officials discover that perhaps taxing a volcano was a poor administrative decision.

Funny, strange, satirical, and occasionally unexpectedly moving, these stories explore confidence, competence, ambition, ownership, and the underrated virtue of admitting you have absolutely no idea what you are doing.

The apocalypse is approaching.

Your call is very important to us.

Please remain on the line.

“Skynet” as Your Secretary

by Mel Dunay

Eight months ago, I started using AI as a secretary. In that time I wrote over 100,000 words across multiple active projects, without it taking away from my day job. This is not because I let the AI write my novels. I’m too much of a prose snob for that. The AI handles the parts I’d rather not do myself.

“Skynet” as Your Secretary is an indie author’s practical guide to AI as support staff. Not ghostwriter, not co-author, not oracle. Secretary. This book works its way through a series of tasks you can assign the AI, with suggestions on what kind of tool you might use for each.

The Other Half of Coding

by Max Guernsey, III

Software systems seem to decay over time even when teams follow established best practices such as TDD, design patterns, DDD, and BDD. Max Guernsey argues that these disciplines address only half the problem: they prepare software for future change but say too little about how to make the change itself safely. The book develops a practical discipline centered on how programmers transform existing code so that systems remain workable over time.

The Londoners: An expat’s memoirs and survival guide to the UK

by Estelle Van de Velde

Estelle Van de Velde recounts leaving Belgium to live in Britain and combines the memoir with practical advice for prospective expatriates. She covers learning English and taking the IELTS exam, preparing to move countries, finding a first rental in London, navigating the British university system, and finding meaningful work in the UK, while describing how five years abroad changed her view of the world.

New Arrivals in Other Fiction

The Greater Good

by Henry Brown

Infinite crises are going to waste. Greedy businessmen are making profits. Insensitive hatemongers are trying to make it against the law to be an illegal alien. People are harboring intolerant thoughts, while others abuse freedom of speech to broadcast incorrect opinions. The world needs a national agency of superheroes willing to negate a few individual rights for the sake of the greater good.

Seeing Sunny Again

by Paul Clayton

Every man’s memory is his private literature – Aldous Huxley.

In The Trick, a lonely teen is fooled into asking out a girl he otherwise would not have. In Fly Sense, a young soldier seems incapable of accepting the senseless death of war. A man goes to China with his live-in girlfriend in From China with Love and discovers how little he knows about her. A dying man refuses to accept his limitations, making his adult caretaker son’s life difficult in The Ledger. In Two, Too, To, a destitute Asian woman immigrant must choose one of two American men to help her raise her child. In Sunday Evening Comin’ Down, a clueless divorced dad strives to connect with his estranged six-year-old daughter. Seventeen in all, these stories offer insight into life in 20th century middle class America.

Fiddler’s Green

by J.M. Russell

A Haunting Alternate History Western Where Steam-Powered War Machines Meet Supernatural Justice

In an America shattered by civil war and divided into rival nations, cavalry veteran Jesse Lovelace knows only two things: how to fight and how to survive. From the guerrilla conflicts of a bleeding Missouri to the mechanized hell of the Mexican campaigns, he’s served the Republic of Texas with distinction—and paid for it in scars, both visible and hidden.

When a desperate bank robbery goes wrong, Jesse’s past catches up with him.

Fleeing through an alternate American frontier where iron horses clash with living steeds, where airships patrol contested borders, and where the California Republic, Mormon Deseret, the Free States of America, and the Republic of Texas vie for dominance, Jesse and his young partner Daniel find themselves hunted by Sheriff Jeremiah Pentecost. The lawman pursues them with single-minded determination across mountains and deserts, through Apache territory and lawless badlands, leaving a trail of violence that neither side can escape.

But the deadliest destination is the one they never expected.

When Jesse finally reaches safety—a remote frontier town called Fiddler’s Green—he discovers a saloon filled with dead soldiers. Cavalrymen from every war, every nation, every century, drinking away eternity in a purgatory designed for men who crossed too many lines. Here, violence repeats endlessly, memories burn like whiskey, and the only escape is through the darkness outside—where something far worse than any human enemy waits.

Perfect for fans of:

Alternate history westerns with steampunk elements

Dark, literary frontier fiction in the tradition of Cormac McCarthy

Military historical fiction with supernatural twists

Stories exploring themes of redemption and moral consequence

Epic chase narratives across divided American landscapes

Fiddler’s Green combines the gritty realism of brutal frontier combat with imaginative alternate history world-building, where steam cannons and mechanical cavalry reshape warfare, where the United States has fractured into competing nations, and where the supernatural waits at trail’s end. This is military fiction meets weird west, a meditation on violence and its costs, told through the eyes of a man who’s lost everything but hasn’t quite lost himself.

From blood-soaked battlefields to desperate last stands, from the intimacy of small-town massacres to the apocalyptic scale of mechanized war, Jesse Lovelace’s journey takes readers through a reimagined American West where technology advances but human nature remains brutally unchanged. His story asks the hardest question any soldier faces: when you’ve done unforgivable things for reasons that once seemed right, is redemption still possible?

Experience an alternate America where:

The Civil War ended differently, fracturing the nation into multiple republics

Steam-powered war machines and mechanical cavalry dominate battlefields

The frontier remains contested territory between rival powers

Supernatural justice waits for men who’ve shed too much blood

A cavalry song about heaven masks the truth about hell

If you’re drawn to morally complex protagonists, richly detailed alternate history, visceral action sequences, and stories that don’t flinch from the darkness of the human condition, Fiddler’s Green delivers an unforgettable journey to a saloon at the end of the world—where dead men drink, old debts come due, and one soldier must decide if he’s brave enough to face what he’s become.

Scroll up and grab your copy today. The saloon doors are open, but leaving is harder than you think.

Repairs

by Zaklog the Great

When Josh’s loyal robot companion Argos has a breakdown, Josh has to assemble a team and travel into dangerous territory to find a part to repair him. But every treasure has its guardian, and Josh and his will have to fight for the prize of a functioning Argos.

Good for fans of Robert Heinlein’s juveniles, S.M. Stirling, and Clifford Simak.

Terror of Pangaea

by John C. Wright

What do you do when you reach the end of all times?

Colonel Preston Lost is a man of many talents. One of the youngest to achieve the rank of colonel, Lost found himself unable to return to civilian life after the war. He was a m an born at the wrong time. Chivalry was dead, and there were no more crusades or mighty deeds to be done.

Sport fishing and big game hunting became first a pastime, then an obsession, but the times were against him, and the nations outlawed such sport, as they did anything dangerous, rare, or worthy of manhood. Basically, anything he saw as “fun” or “challenging.” His aerospace plane had, at first, been merely another pastime.

And then he saw the unidentified flying object.

Lost didn’t think of himself as reckless. He believed in preparation, proper equipment, and patience in stalking the prey. But, in reality, he was not a cautious man. If he was, he wouldn’t have followed the spaceship into the black storm clouds above the Bermuda Triangle.

Now he’s at the end of time, having crash-landed on Pangaea Ultima with few supplies and no way of returning home. But Lost is a man of many talents, and anything should be possible for him. Or, is it possible that this time, Lost has met his match?

The Sniper

by Jake Barter

A debt of honor. A murdered son. A war that comes home.

Joseph Boghadair was once one of the U.S. Army’s deadliest snipers. Now retired and struggling to support his family, his life is shattered when his son is murdered.

With the justice system offering no answers, Boghadair turns to the one man who still owes him everything.

Paul Connors is the richest man in the world—though almost no one knows it. Years earlier, in Iraq, Boghadair saved Connors’ life. Now Connors intends to repay that debt, using resources and influence few people even realize exist.

What begins as a personal mission of revenge quickly uncovers a powerful conspiracy buried deep within the federal government. As Boghadair takes up the rifle once more, Connors brings overwhelming force to bear, pushing the conflict into the open and making secrecy impossible.

Each strike raises the stakes. Each move draws more attention. And once the war is declared, there’s no turning back.

The Sniper is an action-driven techno-political thriller about loyalty forged in war, justice pursued outside the system, and how far two men are willing to go when the enemy is no longer overseas—but at home.

The Cold Heavens

by Matthew R Gaglio

In the lawless skies of Venus, vengeance takes flight

In the skies of Venus, millions live in floating cities among the clouds. But this is not paradise. Pirates lurk within those clouds, taking what they want and killing anyone who gets in the way.

Magdalena’s life turned upside down when a pirate attack left her husband dead. She leaves behind her career as a racing pilot, looking to bring the men who killed him to justice.

This daunting task turns deadly when she gets caught in the games of intrigue played by treacherous pirate captains, cunning financiers and ruthless foreign powers. Potential aid comes from Providence, a premier private military organization dedicated to hunting down pirates of Venus.

Magdalena’s hunt will take her into enemy territory, but going too far could have dire consequences for all of Venus.

The Expanse meets Black Sails in an unforgettable, action-packed science fiction adventure set in the clouds of Venus

NEXUS Point

by M.S. Avery

Terakaris awakens beneath The Rock, shaking the Na’dari’s fortress-like monastery at its foundation. The ancient weapon’s stirring is a warning of an emerging evil powerful enough to shatter worlds.

Roland Banniston, Crown Prince of Bongoria and devoted Na’dari monk, never expected to be chosen. But when the angel-forged sword selects his mentor, it binds Roland and his comrades to a desperate quest. With nothing but a cryptic vision of an eclipse to guide them, the Na’dari monks travel by gunship through a portal to the distant world of Tespia. There, they confront their nightmare: a sinister death cult preparing an innocent child for sacrifice beneath the watchful eyes of three powerful demons.

Armed with laser rifles, unwavering faith, and the blazing power of Terakaris, they risk their lives and very sanity to save the child—and confront darkness born from ancient malevolence.

NEXUS Point is a pulse-pounding science fantasy adventure where sacred blades meet advanced weaponry, and every moment might be the last. Prepare for a fight that will decide the fate of all worlds.

Egg McGuffin

by Wilson Toney

Bug and Roche tackle a case within a case. Their search for a stolen antique leads them through the under belly of the City as they search for the elusive egg. The case of course is not all it seems. It never is when it is a Bug and Roche case. There is the client that wants something other than what she is paying for. Organized crime that wants something that Bug and Roche are unaware of. The FBI who wants who knows what. Read the latest Bug and Roach case and have a ball as you follow the misadventures of the Insects. They will appreciate it.

Drahons of Dunmoray

by Kate Kelly

What can you see? Can you see dragons?

Dragons have always been part of our world – from the cloud dragons of the storm to the fire dragons of an erupting volcano – only most of us cannot see them.

Alba MacGregor can see the dragons. She thinks she is alone in this, or that maybe they are all in her head. But when she meets Al she realises, not only that the dragons are real, but that there are others like her, spread across the world.

The dragons are stirring. There’s a war coming. A war that has been ongoing for millennia. Only Alba can break this cycle, but to do so she must first defeat a foe much closer to home and far more human.

Exile War: The Final Boxed Set

by Bowen Greenwood

Mutants. Genetically engineered telepaths. Star-crossed lovers. Interstellar war.

Includes every single book ever published in the Exile War Series. When pig-human hybrids and mind-controlling telepaths come roaring back from exile, war erupts in the Union of Human Space, where peaceful colony worlds have forgotten armed conflict altogether. Langston Wheeler, one of the Union’s order of genetically engineered peacekeepers, plunges hip deep into the conflict while on a mission to the wealthy world known as Felicitas. Tia Dynn, Executive of the planet, fights on the front lines to save her people from mind-controlled slavery. Raysen Pilak, pilot and smuggler, rises to lead the armies of Human Space in their battle against the Exiles. Cleo Sable, Langston’s one-time love, faces a choice that can change the course of the war and of history. And their children carry the fight into a new generation.

The Exile War is a tale of heroism and sacrifice, violence and love. Epic high fantasy set in space, martial artistry and deep back story make this a space opera of interplanetary proportions. This digital boxed set is the 100 percent complete tale, from Onslaught to Armageddon.

Blood Pilgrim

by C R Walton

Portals unleashed. Ancient powers awaken. Worlds will burn.

The way between worlds is open, and the bloodmagic empire of Dominus hungers for the five Founder elements—keys to god-like power that could obliterate everything. Aven, now known all over the Diaspora as the Heretic Blade, wields the cellstone sword Pilgrim to stop them, but his destiny teeters on the edge of salvation or ruin.

Beside him, Kuzikov, the last Rǫskraean warrior, battles faith and vengeance, fearing Aven’s true ambitions. In the shadows, Neonatus, an undead inquisitor, is driven to hunt them by the overwhelming will of the Sanguis—his tyrant mother, who is set on bringing about a genocidal Catharsis. Meanwhile, in conquered Iüm, Elyzia, once a thief, is torn between risking it all to save her people and the dark allure of her new title as Queen Regent.

Fates shatter, destinies clash—and one betrayal could doom them all.

New Arrivals in Other Non-Fiction

Viking Vitality: Ancient Norse Secrets For Modern Health

by Ali Lauderdale

Viking Vitality: Ancient Norse Secrets for Modern Health

Harness the Strength of the Northmen

What if the key to modern wellness has been buried in the frost-covered fjords of the past?

Viking Vitality is more than a health guide, it’s a journey into the ancient world of Norse wisdom, where strength, resilience, and balance were not trends, but a way of life. Drawing from the enduring legacy of the Vikings, this book blends historical insight, timeless philosophy, and practical modern strategies to help you live with greater vitality—body, mind, and spirit.

Inside, you’ll discover:

Authentic Viking-inspired recipes using ingredients once foraged and farmed by Norse hands—adapted for the modern kitchen

Powerful quotes from the Hávamál, Eddas, and Sagas, offering ancient guidance on strength, endurance, and self-discipline

Historical context that brings Viking culture to life, showing how they thrived in harsh conditions through mindful living and ancestral knowledge

Modern applications of ancient practices—from cold exposure and natural movement to community building and mental clarity

A grounded, holistic approach to health that feels raw, real, and rooted in tradition

Whether you’re a history buff, a wellness seeker, or just someone looking for a more authentic path to strength and vitality, Viking Vitality offers a roadmap forged in fire, frost, and wisdom.

Step into the world of the Norse, not to reenact it, but to reawaken it.

Fan Favorites in Science Fiction

Escaping Fate

by Henry Brown

Pete Bedauern began his life as a latchkey kid in a run-down trailer park with a single mom, living on stale hot dog buns and bleak prospects. Those were the cards Fate had dealt him, and Pete was on his way to becoming an angry young man. Then Pete’s estranged uncle burst on the scene to punch Fate in the mouth.

Uncle Si is scarred inside and out; he’s a hard drinker; painfully blunt; a little mysterious and maybe even scary, but takes an interest in his nephew that Pete’s father never took. Most of Uncle Si’s life is a secret, but through the part of it he shares, Pete undergoes a master course on life, love, and full-contact sports.

As it turns out, Uncle Si not only has tons of money, multiple businesses, and a fleet of fast cars, he also owns a time machine.

Paradox is one good-hearted-but-alienated boy’s odyssey into manhood, and Escaping Fate is the opening leg of that journey. Before it’s complete, Pete will learn the guarded secrets of history, take on a pan-continuum conspiracy, contend for a world championship, crack the code for success with women…and even save the world.

Well, one world, maybe…

Caterpillar

by Travis J I Corcoran

A zombie apocalypse is bad enough if you’re far out in the country – but what happens when you’re trapped in a two story brick building in the dense suburbs of Boston, and the streets around you are a sea of biters?

Most people would give up and accept their fate…but Chris, Todd, Stacy and David aren’t most people. They’ve got unique skills … but also unique handicaps.

Todd is the building’s maintenance guy who can weld, cut, and build … but he’s also fighting a losing battle with the bottle.

Chris is a hacker, who can scrape data from the web before the internet crashes for the last time … but he’s also a lot heavier than he should be, and he knows more about cosplay than the real world.

Stacy is a secretary who can run fast, but she’s finding it hard to accept the new reality.

David, the CPA, is fit enough to fight zombies, but he’s a coward.

Given their flaws, it’s doubtful they can survive.

…but there’s one more part to the puzzle. In the first floor garage, there’s a 30 year old, rusted, poorly maintained bulldozer.

The brick walls may keep the zombies out – for now – but the sky overhead is turning orange, and there’s smoke in the air. Watertown is burning, and the wind is blowing this way.

Can Todd, Chris, Stacy, and come together to MacGyver a solution, even though they’re got no armor plate, are short on fuel, and are almost out of MIG welding wire?

They’d better hope so, because they’re about to be forced to leave their cocoon.

Note: This story was originally published in the collection ‘Places Beyond the Wild: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology’, and was set in the world created by Daniel Humphreys. It is republished here outside of that world, in a distinct setting.

Firefly Season 2

by Travis J I Corcoran

When you’re a time trader - someone with a ship that can hop sideways across the millions of alternate timelines - the big money isn’t in technology or science, it’s in entertainment. There are some universes where George Lucas didn’t die on the set of American Graffiti but instead went on to make a space fantasy classic. In other universes there’s a movie called “Dune” by Jodorowsky. And in some there’s a guy named Tolkien who wrote a sequel to “The Hobbit”. Ask any timetrader and he’ll tell you: put three things together - buyer, seller, and product - and that’s where the magic happens.

Glomar Extractor

by Travis J I Corcoran

It was weird how the apocalypse snuck up on you. In the movies, there was always the one big event - the nuclear war, the virus infected monkey that bites the animal rights protester, whatever - and then everything goes to shit in the next 15 minutes.

Reality wasn’t like that, though. In the real world, things went to shit step by step by step, so slowly that you barely noticed, but then every now and then you look up and see it with fresh eyes, and wonder how the hell it got to be like this. At first the chance of the asteroid Mammon hitting was 1 in 1,000. Then 1 in 100. Then 1 in 10. For deep sea saturation divers and old oil rig buddies Tom, Alejandro, and Rob the end of the world is here, and they missed their chance to escape the city to a bug out ranch inland ... but then the call comes. If they’re willing to do a mission, of the most dangerous sort, in the worst conditions possible, they - and their families - just might make it through. ...if everything goes just right. ...and if no one double crosses them.

Staking A Claim

by Travis J I Corcoran

In the early days of the Aristillus moon colony a lone geologist uses a small inheritance to do what the universities and government won’t — fund basic research. Alone on the north face of the central peak in the Aristillus crater, equipped with just a small rover, a Quonset hut, and a small research lab, he finds pyrite — fool’s gold. Except — perhaps it’s not what he assumes after all. Of what use money to someone who cares about science, not lucre? In an anarcho-capitalist border town on the moon with no police and no courts, who enforces property rights? Will Mike ever stop Darcy from whimsical purchases? From the two time PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER Travis Corcoran (Best Novel 2018, Best Novel 2019), a prequel story set in the Aristillus universe.

Theophany

by Caroline Furlong

Ten years ago the Savients took over Niban, forcing the independent inhabitants into poverty and despair. Bass White saw the careless cruelty of the Savients kill his mother and his father. When a resistance cell is discovered in his city bloc, the Savients seek to make everyone pay.

With his wife Amie, Bass races into the caverns to escape the Savients’ brutal enforcers: the Atrasai. The couple barely make it to the limits of known territory outside their underground city, however, before the Atrasai catch up with them. It would take a miracle to save them…

...or a combat medic robot.

Join Bass and Amie in this sci-fi story of healing, hope, and wonder. After a decade of fear and pain, even a little light can bring out the best in man and machine. But will the best be enough to heal?

The Rule of Yonder (Starfire Angels: Forgotten Worlds Book 2)

by M.A. Nilles

Despite their narrow escape from the Issan, Zaer’s starship, the Da’Nelgur, was severely damaged. Vel and Shen have tried to fix the hyperdrive, and Nya is sound asleep. Their only chance to repair the ship to continue their journey to Ethal is a crime-syndicate-run remote city in interstellar space.

Yonder Station is not a place where anyone with sense wants to stay long, but it has its advantages. A home to salvagers, dealers, hustlers, and assassins, it is also a valuable trading post for the fringe of the galaxy, especially for information. The latest news is the Da’Nelgur’s involvement with the Issan and the mysterious portals.

United $tates of Death

by Xander Schreiber

In a future of increasing government control and a declining standard of living, technology is promising a world of unlimited potential and destruction. The Hardware and Software Administration controls the use and production of technology. Its agents and analysts ensure that software and hardware are safe and compliant. That is until analyst Matthew Driggs finds himself framed in a terrorist hack directing an asteroid into Earth. The allegations put the reputation of himself and his church in jeopardy.

Blood Pressure

by Joseph L. Kellogg

Exsanguinated . Not a word any cop wants showing up in his report. But when a drained body falls from a skyscraper across national borders, the case lands on the desk of Agent Reylic Antali at the Trans-Metro Police, and it’s up to him and his team to figure out who the killer is, and what they’re after. In a city where four magical races coexist under an uneasy unity, tensions flare up as more bodies land in the morgue. The city seems on the verge of tearing itself apart as Reylic and his Old Magic Task Force race to find the culprit. But what they find may change the nature of magic as they know it…

Life Support: Secret Operations

by Joseph L. Kellogg

Father Tanner treats the sick and injured on a dusty backwater planet.

Desperate for supplies, he takes a job to treat a visiting alien official, teaming up with Damien Rogers, an out-of-work smuggler, to get him there.

The problem?

They’re on the wrong side of enemy lines in the middle of a cold war.

Forced to hide their identities, Father Tanner and his team are stumped by the bizarre patient, whose condition steadily worsens.

To make matters worse, the alien crew catches onto the ruse, and the missionary is forced to turn to kidnapping.

Can they find the diagnosis before their only bargaining chip dies on the operating table?

The Lunatic

by I. C. Castle

In a dystopian future where the resentful Collective has seized the Moon’s luxurious colonies, Ali eagerly awaits the ultimate cosmic justice: an asteroid about to obliterate the privileged Factists left behind on Earth.

The Lunatic is a sharp sci-fi satire that exposes twisted ideologies in a tale of irony, entitlement, and human nature, where survival is secondary to schadenfreude, and fate has a wicked sense of humour.

Storm Between the Stars

by Karl K. Gallagher

Finalist for the Prometheus Award for best Libertarian science fiction

Niko Landry and his crew thought a routine hyperspace survey would be easy money. But when the barrier separating their homeworld from the rest of the human race opens, they seize the chance to go exploring . . . finding an empire more dangerous than they imagined.

Sacrificing Earth

by Terry Grignon

Something has been watching from the Moon for a long time. What will happen when it meets us?

Castaway Files: Space Junks

by Michael Morgan

In the far reaches of space, survival favors the stubborn, the clever, and the slightly unhinged. Space Junks is the first volume of The Castaway Files , a collection of gritty, pulp-inspired science fiction adventures where desperate crews, scheming governments, mercenaries, and machines collide in the debris fields of the future.

Signs of Venus & of Mars

by Michael Morgan

To her enemies, she is La Guerrera Ferosa. To her troops, she is La Hermanita. To her lover, she is Cara Mia. To herself, she is terrified.

“A knight has his armor, as do we women. Our battlefields and methods may be different, but both require the appropriate costume.” A month after Ana Lezama de Urinza spoke those words the truce that kept the peace in Los Cristobal lies in ruins, and every hand is turned against every other. Sometimes, a knight’s armor is the only way for a young lady to stay alive.

Romance, magic, and swashbuckling adventure combine in this action-packed sequel to Ladies, Fish, & Gentlemen

Pig Farm

by Steffen Jack

PIG FARM is an adult, sci-fi dystopian thriller set in a USA torn apart by civil war and environmental collapse. It’s told in third person with two POVs.

Caleb, an eighteen-year-old orphan, living under his uncle’s iron heel, dreams of a life away from his impoverished and violent religious community; all seems hopeless. That is until, a grave mistake at work makes him a criminal, driving him into the arms of a beautiful and rich woman named Ariel. She offers him more money that he has ever known, but his new-found freedom is not all that it seems as he and Ariel become enmeshed in a deadly trap and conspiracy that threatens to destroy all of humanity.

Samson Richter never meant to become a leading spokesperson for the United States of America. He was just another actor trying to get by against all odds during a civil war. Fifty years later, he’s in the twilight of his life and, though he’s rich and famous, he’s alone, without friends, and a slave to a corporation and government that he hates. In a world with no exits, he seeks escape and finds it.

Content warning: Pig Farm is 18+, drinking and smoking, sex, violence, and cruelty to animals (slaughter house), and thoughts of suicide.

No AI was used in the writing of this book and/or trilogy, nor was it used for the covers.

Day Zero: Catalyst Crew

by S. Donovan Croft

March 15, 2396, known as “Day Zero,” forever changed the Galactic Alliance. A dozen near-simultaneous terrorist attacks on twelve separate worlds triggered a non-linear interstellar conflict unlike anything seen before in the known galaxy. The war lasted three years, ending as abruptly as it began.

Many questions were left unanswered, including the most important: What was the motivation behind the attacks?

The “Day Zero” collection will answer that question, starting with “Catalyst Crew.”

To repay an old debt to a corrupt government agent, guns-for-hire Liam and Phillip Walls arrived on the Sivax-inhabited world of Hon’Sed for a job with a large payout but no details. The Walls Brothers soon find themselves among a large group of criminals, comprising assassins, thieves, digital infiltrators, and hired guns like themselves. The Mission: force their way into a secure corporate facility to abduct a pair of Sivax scientists who discovered a method to weaponize antimatter.

When things go sideways, the Walls brothers fall back on their SPEC-Ops training and work together with total strangers to fight their way out—for the payout, for the mission, and their very survival.

Under Cover Con Creature From Outer Space

by Dyatlov Passe

Now it can be told. The undercover activities of a poor con creature just trying to earn a dishonest living in a world that he does not understand. Can the poor creature survive the forces aligned against him? Can he avoid the cruel Government agency that only wants to dissect him? Can he survive the friends that only want to use him for their own nefarious purposes? Can he finally get back to his own planet where he can con his own kind? These questions and all the answers to the universe are answered in this book. Well I did make part of that last sentence up. Read the book to find out which part.

Permafrost

by Kate Kelly

The key to the future is a book from the past.

The world is a frozen wasteland. Oskar and his sister Mitzi are fleeing south, trying to escape the Northern Raiders who have slaughtered their people. They find sanctuary in a strange city where they are made welcome. But the Northern Raiders have followed, and the city is besieged.

Oskar joins with his new-found friends and takes up arms to help them defend their home. But then he discovers an old diary hidden away in the library. The diary was written at the time of the city’s foundation and reveals the truth about what happened all those years ago – and what caused the world to freeze. Oskar soon realises that there is more than one way for him to save this city.

The Steradian Gate: Contagion [Book 2]

by Nathaniel Blevens

Not all contagions are biological. An evil regime, the Kriva Rasturna, is spreading to the remaining dimensions, invading both Delphinium and the plague-ridden Alchemilla in a push to claim the last of the coveted Steradian Keys. Ethan uncovers their plans along with a list of influential people that include Summer’s birth parents. Meanwhile, the battle for Lunaria rages on, with the citizens under oppressive control. If they’re ever to regain freedom, they will need help, prompting Ethan and Summer to embark through The Steradian Gate, hoping to turn the tides.

Cyclus Dawn

by C R Walton

A new world. A deadly conspiracy.

After the fall of Wilderness Five, Lancett and Hurst board the colony ship Iceni, bound for the untouched paradise of a new world. But their dream of a fresh start becomes a nightmare when the ship is deliberately taken off course to an eerily perfect Earth-twin no one saw coming: the planet Cyclus.

Ruled by three shadowy Captains, the Iceni hides lethal secrets. Soon, a chilling truth begins to take shape. Cyclus is not a haven. It is a trap. With traitors aboard and enemies rising from the grave, survival hangs by a thread...

... and the Metamorphosis continues.

From Cambridge planetary scientist Dr. Craig R. Walton, Cyclus Dawn blends Dune’s scope, Hyperion’s depth, and The Expanse’s intensity. Continue the Metamorphosis saga and grab Book 2 now!

Praise for Metamorphosis Book One: Wilderness Five

‘MYSTERY, SUSPENSE, AND COSMIC DREAD. A MUST READ FOR FANS OF PETER F HAMILTON OR ADRIAN TCHAIKOVSKY.’ Amazon reviewer

‘Following in the tradition of modern Sci-fi greats.’ – Amazon reviewer

‘A massive hard sci-fi adventure with a complex story and world-building.’ - Goodreads reviewer

‘The last 20% is energetic - almost frantic. Kept me up at night!’ - Amazon reviewer

Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)

by Eric M. Hamilton

The Vice President has been murdered in the White House, and it is a race against time for President Franklin Pierce to discover the murderer before he meets the same fate.

Madness, murder, and mystery pervade throughout this Edgar Allan Poe-inspired alternate history thriller! It is early April 1853. Franklin Pierce, the newly elected President of the United States, has suffered the greatest personal tragedy of his life, plunging him into a depression-fueled madness. The Vice President, William King, unexpectedly appears at the White House in the middle of the night having overheard details of an international assassination conspiracy that threatens them both. Unfortunately, the Vice President is killed without any clue as to who could have done it. Can President Franklin Pierce overcome his personal demons and discover who killed the Vice President before they kill him too? Franklin Pierce in Death of a Vice President is a thrilling psychological horror, starring the president from the 1850s you never remembered. You don’t have to be familiar with Franklin Pierce at all to enjoy the story (in fact, it is even better if you go in knowing almost nothing). This is perfect for the American history-buff and “normal people” alike!

An Inconvenient Presidency: The Time-Traveling Misadventures of President Al Gore (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)

by Eric M. Hamilton

“On January 20, 2001, Albert Arnold Gore, Jr. became the 43rd President of the United States for the second time...”

Election night, 2000: Al Gore wins in a landslide. The fireworks fade. Then the world ends—again and again and again.

Freshly minted President Al Gore is given the METTA: a deceptively sleek device from a clandestine tech outfit. Activate it, and your mind leaps back in time with memories intact of your previous life. It’s meant as a safeguard for the leader of the free world. For Gore, it becomes a curse.

First, an asteroid dooms Earth in 2003. Reset. Then, Russia launches preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States. Reset. Disasters cascade: supervolcanoes bury America in ash, pandemics ravage continents, civil wars. Each fix births fresh apocalypses. Lifetimes stack into millennia as Gore, ever the dutiful statesman, grinds through Oval Office marathons, in a never-ending struggle to get things right.

But the resets reveal a deeper horror. Beneath Silicon Valley’s gleaming facade lurks a visionary innovator’s cavernous supercomputer, crunching humanity’s data to predict doom. Its verdict? In the multiverse of infinite timelines, one constant endures: Al Gore must be president. Every reality demands it, or so it seems. Can Gore finally lose, shattering the loop, and freeing himself from eternal torment?

Eric M. Hamilton’s incisive novella An Inconvenient Presidency twists time-travel tropes into a biting satire of power’s futility, blending Groundhog Day’s hilarious time-loop repetition with political satire anyone can enjoy. Blending real 2000 election what-ifs (complete with appendix notes) and sly nods to tech’s shadowy architects, it’s a swift, entertaining read for fans of political sci-fi and existential loops.

A Presidents Day Carol; (Presidents of the Uncanny States of America)

by Eric M. Hamilton

Decency was dead to begin with.

Newly elected and self-proclaimed “Greatest President” Donald Trump is haunted by the ghosts of former Presidents in the tradition of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol. As Trump is taken through the past, present, and future, he tweets his innermost thoughts about these loser Presidents to the entire world. It’s a tough task, but can these Presidents from the past convince Donald Trump to change his ways? YOU DECIDE!

That’s right! Whether you love or hate Donald Trump (and let’s be honest, those are the only two possibilities), you get to decide his fate. Everybody wins! Everyone is happy! This book will usher in a new era of peace and prosperity for the United States of America, and it all starts with a choice: Yours.

A Presidents Day Carol takes a new spin on a literary classic, and provides a humorous look at American politics past and present. No political party or politician is safe, everyone gets poked fun at. Plus, a super secret chapter awaits to be discovered, delving into the histories of former Presidents few know about or remember.

One reader had this to say about A Presidents Day Carol: “I’m usually very cynical about politics and political humor... [but] this book lets us sit back and enjoy how ridiculous politics (of the last few years in particular) actually are.”

If you need a break from the drama of current-day politics, and few good laughs at the ridiculousness of it all, then buy A Presidents Day Carol today!

After Moses

by Michael F. Kane

His gruff exterior hides a man who wants to do the right thing. But running from trouble won’t work when the planets need a hero.

Arizona Colony, Mars. Matthew Cole doesn’t want anyone else aboard his ship. But the notorious solo freelancer is persuaded against his better judgment to guard a dangerous prison transport along with an exo-suit-clad former rival. Outmaneuvered when the crook’s cronies spring the inmate with heavy firepower, the poncho-wearing captain vows to scour the solar system to restore his rep and claim his paycheck

Reluctantly banding together with his seven-foot partner in her powered armor, Matthew has his hands full leading an unwanted ragtag crew. But the headache of dealing with people again is nothing next to the prickling between his shoulders as he continues to run afoul of greedy politicians and criminal syndicates.

Is this space cowboy’s moral compass sending him to a fatal crash landing?

No Gods, Only Daimons: The Covenant Chronicles Book 1

by Kit Sun Cheah

Second Edition of the 2017 Dragon Award Finalist!

In a War on Terror fought with ravenous jinn and divine munitions, the Nemesis Program is the dagger of Hesperia. Swift, silent, and utterly deniable, it eliminates threats to civilization before they strike.

Luke Landon is one of the newest members of the Nemesis Program, and its most lethal. His latest mission: infiltrate Persia, assassinate a scientist before he summons a monstrous jinni, and get out.

Then everything goes wrong.

When the dust settles, Landon discovers he has become the unwilling covenanter of al-Hakem al-Dunya, archangel of the Wahi faith. He must master terrible powers while concealing them from both the authorities and his teammates. He still fights the same enemies as he once did, but now he must fight for a higher purpose:

To stop the Unmaker from orchestrating the end of all things.

Survive: After the Flash, Book 1

by Cato Centinal Farmer

The ever present threat of innumerable dangers is a fact of life. Which dangers are real and which are overblown? The ones that sell movies are more or less all wrong. Truth be told all civilization has been teetering on a knife’s edge for a while now. It could have happened 50 years ago. It could happen tomorrow. Are you prepared? Written by a former intelligence professional who advanced the kill chain on AI while separately digging too deep into experimentations and facts that no one needs to know.

Follow the story of Jack as he races against time to save his family from an existential threat to civilization and billions of people including real survival advice and myth debunking about everything from bioweapons, to fallout, to AI. If Armageddon comes then at least you will be prepared to survive. If not, then you will have taken an entertaining read through the adventures of Jack as he saves his family from the fallout, both radioactive particles and counteractive peoples.

BackTracker

by Milo James Fowler

Meet Harold Muldoon, the time-traveling detective.

He was a private investigator, the best at what he did. He solved his cases 100% of the time. Hindsight is, after all, 20/20 and the BackTracker device allowed him to change the past. But in the process, his trips through time have unraveled the universe, stretching, tearing the fabric of space-time and sending his own mind into oblivion. He can no longer distinguish between true and false memories. He no longer knows who he was.

When a mysterious assassin is sent into the past to erase Muldoon and restore the timeline, the present is forever changed. Muldoon vanishes without a trace. Yet divergent realities continue to spiral out of control. And in one of them, Muldoon is still alive.

Now his wife Irena is desperately trying to find him. So is Gavin Lennox, power-hungry owner of The Pearl, the hottest night spot in all of NewCity. Eccentric inventor Cyrus Horton and his synthetic creations have also joined in the search. But the only thing they have in common is a willingness to do whatever it takes to get what they want: the BackTracker.

The Caliuga Setup (The Jaf Daskal Diaries Book 4)

by Lindsay Peet

Deserts, disasters, double-crosses… Jaf Daskal returns.

It all began as a simple scam; steal the treasure you’ve been paid to retrieve.

But you have to flee, and your airship is taken by a storm to a new continent.

You’re mistaken for emissaries of the Emperor to this long-lost land, and you live it up as Inspector General.

But some folks aren’t ready for the Empire, as they’re building their own, and don’t appreciate the loose rules of some folks.

Jaf Daskal finds himself in the middle of a struggle to define a land’s future, while coping with a new religion, a new aphrodisiac, and a new love.

The Caliuga Set-Up is Book Four in the Jaf Daskal Adventures, a rollicking tale of humor, farcical mischief, adventure and intrigue.

Click ‘Buy Now’ and tumble headfirst into the chaos of Caliuga and Jaf Daskal’s life!

Fan Favorites in Fantasy

Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell

by Joseph Bringman

Ahab sits on the throne but lacks the heart and stomach of a king. Jezebel exhibits kingly qualities galore but has no throne.

Most Israelites follow Ahab in submitting to his wife’s gods. But a tenacious remnant led by the prophet Elijah seeks to restore the supremacy of the Hebrew God. And that means toppling Jezebel along with her gods.

Although dynastic diplomacy forced Jezebel to marry Ahab, she has made do all these years… tirelessly working to remake Israel in her image. No one will oust her without a fight!

But then Ahab becomes infatuated with his latest concubine. She not only worships the Hebrew God but also witnessed her family being slaughtered by Jezebel’s goons. Is she really a devoted companion and sweeter than any man deserves? Or is she a Hebrew Anne Boleyn scheming to get Ahab to swap out his religion and his wife?

Suddenly Jezebel is seized with fears of having her life’s work undone, her faith outlawed… even being driven out of her own home by the other woman—just like what happened to her mother.

So what is Jezebel going to do? Win! No matter what it takes!

Full of intrigue, betrayal, and suspense—get your copy of Ahab and Jezebel: A Match Made in Hell today!

Periander the Avenger: The Final Son of Atlantis

by Joseph Bringman

Atlantis plunges into a war that may doom the human race.

Corruption, cruel oppression, and wickedness in high places—Periander will fight them all. As one of ten kings jointly ruling in Atlantis, he must navigate the treacherous waters of ruthless ambition: the High King Critias seeks to consolidate all power in his own hands at home before enslaving the rest of the world. While others bow their necks to the rising tyranny, Periander stands up for peace and the federal constitution.

But this resistance comes at his family’s expense. When Critias attempts to murder him, Periander barely escapes his homeland with his life but not his wife—the latest victim of the High King’s brutality. Now a hunted fugitive, Periander must recruit foreign allies, lead an army to liberate Atlantis from the tyrant’s clasp, and avenge his beloved queen.

Periander will stop at nothing to destroy Critias, no matter the cost. But as the body count rises, he must confront a bleak future:

Can he defeat Critias before the world drowns in blood? And will his only child survive this conflict?

3 Black Nights

by TJ Marquis

Sometimes the world drops out from underneath your feet. Sometimes the night takes a turn, and things are never the same. And sometimes, you follow a dark road and discover far more than you bargained for. From a Man with a Van traversing a world gone to hell , to a midnight delivery for a death-drinking fae , to a descent into a power greater than madness , these three tales will take you deep into the night ... but will you make it through?

Rattan

by TJ Marquis

Rattan was born to build. She’s even bolted together her own custom robot.

There’s nothing she’d rather spend her days on…

But she’s happy to to report to academy for her nation’s military draft of all second-born children.

After all, isn’t a model citizen eager to serve her elites? She dives into the harsh tutelage of Master Koscha, willing to give her all to comrades and country.

But when her best friend is murdered, Rattan is set on a path that she may not return from. Rattan is a science fantasy survival story for teens and up, with a melancholy vibe but no shortage of heart. Originally published on Kindle Vella.

Mercury Falls (*Free*)

by Robert Kroese

“Clever, inventive, and original, Kroese’s hilarious romp has cult favorite written all over it.” — Booklist The end of the world has never been this disorganized.

Christine Temetri is tired of chasing doomsday prophets. She’s spent years reporting on apocalyptic cults, false messiahs, and spiritual scams—and she’s ready to call it quits. But when a string of strange events leaves her homeless, hunted, and somehow at the center of an unfolding divine conspiracy, she realizes this might be more than just another fringe meltdown.

Enter Mercury: an angel with a gift for sarcasm, a disregard for protocol, and a suspicious talent for showing up at exactly the wrong time. He claims he’s here to stop the end of the world—but given his taste for junk food and chaos, Christine’s not convinced he isn’t making things worse.

With Heaven and Hell locked in a bureaucratic standoff and reality hanging by a thread, Christine and Mercury must navigate prophecies, celestial red tape, and increasingly unhinged supernatural agents to prevent the Apocalypse from being hijacked by the wrong side.

Fast-paced, funny, and gleefully irreverent, Mercury Falls is a smart supernatural comedy that turns the end times upside down. “The Apocalypse is nigh in this whimsical, riotous debut. Christine Temetri, a freelancer for a popular religious news magazine, is tired of endless assignments covering cults incorrectly prophesizing the End of Days. When she talks her boss into giving her a better assignment, she doesn’t anticipate it will actually lead her back to a cult leader: the charismatic Galileo Mercury, who turns out not to be a cult leader at all, but a bona fide angel. Mercury is more interested in playing ping pong and drinking beer than he is in being involved in the upcoming Apocalypse. But when he and Christine escape a bit of divine retribution and end up saving the life of the Antichrist, a sulky gamer named Karl Grissom, they find themselves drawn into a miasma of heavenly intrigue and double-crossing. Lucifer himself is determined to find a loophole in the Apocalypse Accords, and Mercury and Christine are the only ones who can stop him. Clever, inventive, and original, Kroese’s hilarious romp has cult favorite written all over it.” —Kristine Huntley, Booklist

Centrism Games
by Rachel Fulton Brown and the Dragon Common Room

Chivalry is dead. These knights want Fame. And Fama’s a witch.

Follow a band of very different Knights on their quest to become the most balanced, the most tolerant, the most compromising of everyone on the modern political spectrum.

Each knight dares to liberalize and conserve, but who will win the ultimate prize and stay safely in the centre?

A cautionary tale in heroic couplets modeled on Alexander Pope’s scathing 18th-century Dunciad.

Reviews:

Dr. Rachel Fulton Brown and her merry band of poets have compiled here a fun, pointed collection of verse through the very active Dragon Common Room Telegram chat. The whole point–as I gather it–is that rather than mucking about in the culture wars, we should be out _creating_ culture on our own.

_Centrism Games_ does just that. It’s wonderful to see these modern knights prove that the pen is, indeed, mightier than the sword.

This poem savagely rips the hearts out of political centrists and moral relativists, and makes them eat it.

Polite Christians and social Conservatives (so-called) will be offended at the prose in ‘Centrism Games’, justly so. Readers both Right and Left will be asking themselves “what would I be willing to do for glory in this world?”, and at each page realize the inglorious catastrophe of the politically correct, postmodern, subjective and relativistic dogmas that praise tolerance and liberty whilst hell is set loose all around us. Readers will be challenged to overcome their revulsion at the themes and language to see the great moral lesson of this modern-Dunciad: every ticket has a hidden price.

This is not a Boomer-friendly story.

Cluck Cluck Boom
by S. K. Arnette

When Teresa saw something land in the local cow farm's fields, she did what any self-respecting redneck would do, she took herself and her horse out to check it out. Nothing could have prepared her to find a spaceship and giant alien chickens kidnapping the farmhands. Racing home, she went looking for the only man who could help, her Papi.

The residents of Pleasant Mountains Trailer Park must prepare to defend themselves and hopefully rescue the kidnapped people before they become some chicken's meal. Can Papi save the day? Will redneck ingenuity be enough to defeat the birds from outer space?

Academic Magic
by Becky R. Jones

Zoe O’Brien has found her dream job at a small liberal arts college teaching the history of Medieval witchcraft and magic. Academic life is exactly what she expected it to be…until the squirrels stop by to talk with her and her department chair and best friend turn out to be mages.

Zoe discovers a world of magic and power she never knew existed. She and other faculty mages race to stop a coven from raising a demon on the winter solstice while simultaneously grading piles of final exams and reading the tortured prose of undergraduate term papers. Can Zoe master her new-found powers in time?

Dragon Scales

by Eric Tanafon

New twists on folklore older than the hills. Romances natural. artificial, and supernatural. Dragons and ghosts. Unicorns of more than one sort. Enchanted forests and disenchanted princesses. Fourteen stories, a fortnight of new worlds; and just possibly, a touch of the eternal fire that some say will end all the worlds, real or imagined.

Robin Hood: Wolf’s Head

by Eric Tanafon

A hermit finds an outlaw, who gives his name only as John, dying at the forest’s edge. He nurses John back to health and in return, John tells him Robin Hood’s true story. Cursed by chance, he hunts the King’s deer as a wolf when the full moon rises, and leads a pack of shape-changers like himself who worship the goddess of the woodlands. He wins Marian’s love when she escapes prison, shoots in the great archery contest where the prize is a werewolf-killing silver arrow, struggles with the vengeful Sheriff of Nottingham and the berserker Guy of Gisbourne, and at last dies...only to be reborn.

But one question remains—who is John, and what dark enemy still watches him from the forest, waiting for a chance to strike?

The Well of Time

by Eric Tanafon

Hey, it’s Sean again. It’s time for midterms at Runnymede, and since that includes a Bardic contest where the prize is a taste of the gods’ magic mead, it’s a pretty good bet that the school year will be even busier than summer vacation. Especially since a traitor Bard is helping the enemies of the gods rewrite history, so Ragnarok will be over before it even begins. When you need a team of heroes and Valkyries for a hopeless quest where you need to think up cool names for all the alternate timelines just so you can keep them straight, who are the gods going to call? Spoiler: me, Fiona, Parvati and Arturo. And the first thing on our to-do list is: Rescue Loki.

Flesh and Blood

by Jean Marie Bauhaus

Mae Bishop took a hammer to her marriage and became a national headline. Now, she’s a fugitive on a highway through the dark heart of the Midwest, guided by the one person she never wanted to see again: the ghost of the man she killed. Wade isn’t just haunting her for revenge—he’s a supernatural navigator leading her straight into the path of predators far more depraved than he ever was.

But the law isn’t the only force tracking her. A “neutral celestial faction” is looking for a contractor—someone with a history of violence and nothing left to lose. They offer Mae a “clean slate” in exchange for a baptism by blood, but the real hook is the one thing that could make her stop running: a chance to be reunited with the soul of the daughter Wade took from her with a single, brutal fist.

Restless Spirits

by Jean Marie Bauhaus

If you like Odd Thomas or CBS’s Ghosts ...

Veronica Wilson’s whole life is behind her. That’s what she realizes as she stares down at her own body with its hideously broken neck and no memory of how it got that way. What was supposed to be a routine haunted house investigation quickly turned into anything but.

Cut off from the land of the living, imprisoned in a house with secrets far darker than she’d imagined, Ron’s only hope is her sister, Chris, who has a gift for seeing the dead. If only she can get a message out. But something is keeping her from reaching her sister. Something dark and malevolent. Maybe the something that killed her.

Ron soon discovers she’s not the house’s only prisoner. Other spirits reveal themselves, some friendly, some not so much, all of them victims of the presence that stole their lives, holds them captive and keeps them in torment. Can she and the other ghosts work together to gain their freedom and move on to the other side? Somewhere buried in the house, is there a key to their release from the demon that binds them? Or are they forever doomed to remain trapped and restless?

Causes of Separation

by Travis J I Corcoran

PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER “BEST NOVEL” 2019. By the author of The Powers of the Earth, PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER “BEST NOVEL” 2018. The first US / UN invasion of the renegade lunar colony of Aristillus has failed - but the powers-that-be in Washington and elsewhere can’t give up. Their political careers - and an escape from the economic decline of Earth under a command-and-control economy - depend on conquering the lunar expats. A second - and final - invasion is planned. The lunar settlers prepare to repel the onslaught, but what can a small population of 1 million do against the combined might of billions on Earth - especially now that the PKs have the secret of the antigravity drive, and sleeper cells embedded inside the very heart of Aristillus? Open source software, markets, big guns, combat robots and uplifted dogs let the rebels punch far above their weight - but is it enough to even the odds? Find out what happens to the free city of Aristillus in the nail-biting conclusion to the Aristillus series.

Anunnaki: Origin of Sumeria

by Michael Finney

The ancient civilization of Sumeria has an origin connected to the mysterious Anunnaki. How did the people of the land between the rivers in Mesopotamia rise to prominence? Discover the truth…

Also available in a short film!

The Fall of Tartaria

by Michael Finney

The Fall of Tartaria by Michael Finney is a short story that takes place in an alternative reality to bring the Tartarian Empire to life on the page in word and image.

Ominous warnings are emerging from various factions within the empire but will they remain unheeded?

Also available in a short film!

Swan Knight’s Son

by John C. Wright

Gilberic Parzival Moth is a strange and lonely boy who has grown up without a father, raised by a single mother who moves from town to town in fear of something she will not name. His only friends are animals, with whom he has always been able to speak. But when he awakens one night at the Thirteenth Hour, and sees for the first time the cruel reality of the secret rule of Elf over Man, he begins to learn about his true heritage, the heritage of Twilight. And when his mother finally tells him the terrible truth of her past, he must choose whether to continue running with her in fear, or learning how to fight against ancient powers that are ageless, soulless, and ultimately damned. SWAN KNIGHT’S SON is the first book of THE GREEN KNIGHT’S SQUIRE, the first volume of MOTH & COBWEB, an astonishing new series about magical worlds of Day, Night, and Twilight by John C. Wright. John C. Wright is one of the living grandmasters of science fiction and the author of THE GOLDEN AGE, AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND, and IRON CHAMBER OF MEMORY, to name just three of his exceptional books. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, for the Hugo Award, and his novel SOMEWHITHER won the 2016 Dragon Award for Best Science Fiction Novel at Dragoncon.

Nothing Happened and This is The Report

by Ross Hathaway

IMAGINARY PROBLEMS ARE THE MOST DANGEROUS KIND.

That’s why no one is supposed to notice them.

Hidden inside the federal bureaucracy is a quiet agency tasked with handling things that must not be acknowledged, because the moment they become real, they become powerful. Cryptids, buried histories, unexplained phenomena, rumors that refuse to stay rumors: the Bureau of Imaginary Problems exists to ensure these things remain effectively imaginary.

Most days, that means paperwork. And cake. And pretending nothing happened.

But when a routine investigation uncovers connections between old legends, polluted creeks, forgotten civilizations, and creatures that refuse to stay in one story or one timeline; the Bureau faces its worst fear: a problem that keeps being believed.

As cryptids negotiate their place in the modern world, Time itself pushes back against containment, and oversight committees demand answers they don’t want, the Bureau must do what it has always done best: smooth reality, bury the truth, and protect the public from stories that could make the world unmanageable.

Because belief creates meaning.

Meaning creates agency.

And some problems can only be solved if everyone agrees they were imaginary all along.

Darkly comic, sharply satirical, and unsettlingly plausible, Nothing Happened and This Is the Report is an urban fantasy about myth, memory, and the dangerous comfort of not knowing—where the greatest threat isn’t what lurks in the shadows, but what happens when people start paying attention.

After-action paperwork pending.

The Dreaming at the Drowned Town

by The Brothers K

Hired to accompany a wandering American journalist in search of curious and exotic stories in the Philippine Islands, local guide and translator Enrique is no stranger to the bizarre. Yet his greatest peril comes not from their travels, but when he closes his eyes—every night, Enrique is trapped in a world of vivid, harrowing nightmares. The dead call out to him, begging him to watch them die. When an ancient town mysteriously emerges off the coast of Leyte, Enrique has no choice but to follow his employer to investigate. But as the expedition unravels, so too does the boundary between dreams and reality. With the island’s dark secrets coming to light, Enrique must face the horrors of its past before he too is claimed by the Drowned Town.

Fade

by Daniel Humphreys

Harry Dresden’s sorcery goes on a Supernatural-style road trip. Cool car sold separately.

Paxton Locke is the son of a Witch.

Family drama is bad enough without adding human sacrifice to the mix. Ten years ago, his mother killed his father in a grisly ritual that Paxton interrupted. Now he criss-crosses the countryside in his RV working as a paranormal investigator while Mother languishes in jail. She’ll never forgive him for interfering…or for stealing her spellbook.

It started as a normal job for Paxton. At least as normal as speaking to ghosts ever was. But then the terrified shade of a murdered boy warns him of a dangerous, newly-freed entity, and suddenly he has to talk to Mother again to save the day.

In a battle for his very soul, will he be able to endure – or simply fade away?

Dragon Award nominee Daniel Humphreys’ urban fantasy debut brings all the best elements of Supernatural and the Dresden Files, written with his typical engaging style and evocative prose. Avid fans of the genre will be satisfied with the sarcasm, quips, and pop culture jokes found in Fade. Not to mention the spells, action and family drama.

28 Minutes Into The Future

by Chrome Oxide

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Humor Was there ever a time when the world needed to laugh more than it does right now? Thankfully, the cavalry has arrived. Nine rib-tickling, irreverent short stories take aim at political correctness and blow it to smithereens—in a hail of hilarity. “I found myself laughing with his tale[s] over and over.”—David Farland, New York Times Bestselling Author; and Coordinating Judge of the Writers of the Future contest” ...entertainment pure and simple... a welcome breath of fresh air in an increasingly stuffy room...” —Dave Truesdale, Editor, Tangent Online” It’s terribly hard to write political commentary with such a strong sense of irony.”—The late, great Jerry Pournelle, John W. Campbell Award, Prometheus Award, Seiun Award, Heinlein Society Award, National Space Society’s Heinlein

Rivo Blade of the Shooting Star

by Matthew Linton

He falls in battle, only to be brought back to witness the rise of his own legend.

Every child in the Kingdom of Wyverly knows the bedtime story. A demon king who stole a piece of heaven and made himself invincible. A star sage who defeated him with a secret technique. A wish on a shooting star that sealed the monsters away forever.

Rivo was small when he found the hole in the story. The nursery rhyme says a shooting star’s wish lasts ten thousand years. Not forever. His parents laughed it off, told him it was just a fairytale, and closed the book before putting him to bed.

But the bedtime story turned out to be more than just a tale for kids, and the ten thousand years are up.

Fast forward ten years. Wolf-like monsters called the Haundo have descended upon the land, driving the Kingdom to the brink of collapse. Rivo is seventeen, his parents have passed on, and he’s just been drafted into the military to confront this deadly new threat.

Kingdom of Ash and Soot (The Order of the Crystal Daggers, #1)

by C. S. Johnson

Everyone Lies.

PRAGUE, 1870.

For the last ten years, nineteen-year-old Eleanora Svobodová has worked as a servant in her stepmother’s household. Along with her older brother, she dreams of the day they will be free to live life on their own terms.

But everything changes when their estranged grandmother comes to Prague on behalf of Queen Victoria. Throughout Bohemia, a string of murders and secret whispers hint at a larger coup. As the leader of the Order of the Crystal Daggers, an ancient order of spies and soldiers that protect kingdoms and their rulers, Lady Penelope is determined to discover the perpetrators. Now, Eleanora must make the choice between a life of intrigue and saving the lives of others.

Can Eleanora find a way do the right thing and still find freedom?

FROM THE BOOK:

“I want to be free.” The words came rushing out of me before I could think through their implications and consequences.

“There are two things you need to know about yourself if you want to be free—what you stand for, and what you stand against.” Lady Penelope held up her hands, brandishing a pair of daggers that had been hidden in her skirts. “This world lives enslaved to its destruction, and so long as you are living, as long as you are fighting, you will be free.”

I gazed at the daggers, transfixed. Each blade was clothed in a leather scabbard, but the silver and obsidian of the daggers’ hilts winked at me, as though it was calling for me.

FROM THE AUTHOR:

With a fun blend of historical fiction, true love, castle intrigue, and family dysfunction, The Order of the Crystal Daggers is my latest adventure series!

WHAT REVIEWERS ARE SAYING:

5 STARS! ~ Reader’s Favorite

This story was fantastic! Definitely one of my favorite reads of this year! ~ Laura A. Grace, Unicorn Quester Book Review

Heretic Blade

by C R Walton

Ancient portals. Fallen gods. A universe on the brink. The lost empire of the Diaspora spans countless worlds, linked by portals that pulse with mysterious rhythm. For a thousand years, the way between worlds has been sealed—until now. Aven, a swordsmith enslaved by the secretive Keepers, risks everything to uncover the truth of the Diaspora. Elyzia, a defiant thief he loves, rejects their rule entirely. When Aven’s forbidden quest leads to the shocking discovery of warriors from another world making plans to invade, his world is changed forever. Hunted by Kings, ghouls, and eyeless dragons, Aven and Elyzia must rise from slaves to legends—or watch their worlds burn. The Diaspora is reuniting, and the truth will shatter everything.

Inquisitor’s Promise

by Michael P. Marpaung

Young Inquisitor Aeneas Aquilanus made two promises: one to his dying father, the other to his beloved Galatea.

To his father, Aeneas promised to finish his last mission to unify the Holy League and rally them against the apocalyptic threat of the Grey Globe. To Galatea, he promised the aspiring lady knight to become her lord and Inquisitor.

But politics in the 74th century can be violent and complicated. The Five Factions of the Holy League had long seen each other with suspicion. Can they put aside their differences to save Earth?

Even his promise to Galatea is not without problems for Aeneas as he has four additional girls who are in love with him. Each of these five girls are faction princesses, women who have close connections to each of the Five Faction’s leaders.

Love and politics are an explosive combination, but the Inquisitor shall remain true to his pledged word.

The Santara Commentaries, Book 1: The Padri

by Michael P. Marpaung

The Santara Archipelago is the homeland of the Yakobinians - the Sons of Yakob and the Chosen of El Shaddai, the God of the gods. After a long sojourn in the Northern Continent, the Yakobinians returned to Santara and reclaimed their land from their savage cousins, the Nodians. The Holy Kingdom of Santara was established and led by the successors of Borromeo, the Warrior Priest and the greatest of the sons of Yakob.

That was over a millennia ago.

The year is 1621 of the Yakobinian Calendar. For over five centuries, the Sons of Yakob chafed under the dominion of distant Tionghoa. The Governor Generals of the Tionghoa Southern Holdings maintain control of the archipelago from Khmer, the colonial capital. Their base of power lies in the west where imported Tionghoa populace had greatly intermingled with the natives throughout the generations.

In the east, puppet kings ruled under the suzerainty of Tionghoa. They paid fealty to the Dragon Emperor, but the Yakobins are a proud people. The Sultanate of Paloe, the most powerful of the eastern states conspired with the Kingdom of Dun-a-Din, ruled by the last of the Borromeans, to form the Padri. Their aim was simple: freedom.

But there’s more to this war than meets the eye.

Fairy Door

by V. A. Boston

It only took one word: Deal.

After years of neglect from her father, Eibhlin has had enough.

But when a purse of infinite gold, a fairy, and a trade shatter what little relationship she has with her father, she resolves to set things right.

Aided by a magic compass and a talking instrument, she now seeks three magic keys and their magic doors to find the fairy once again and recover what was lost.

She broke their relationship.

Now, she’ll brave the Fae to fix it. If she can get there.

From the fantasy tradition of The Chronicles of Prydain and The Hobbit comes a tale of love and redemption perfect for fans of all ages.

Thanesman: The Thanesman Chronicles Book 1

by V. A. Boston

Betrayal. Brotherhood. Romance. To the half-fae Asgradi, loyalty is the chieftain of virtues. When the unthinkable happens and his own council betrays him, High Thane Witheric responds with the even more unthinkable: seeking help from the inferior race of humankind. With only his closest friend and right hand man, his Thanesman Restag, at his side, Thane and Thanesman risk the coming winter, the monsters of their wild Northlands, and their own people’s blood wars, racing south for sanctuary. Will they reach help or fall to their brutal lands? And if they do survive, what future awaits them in the human-ruled south? Find out in the first book in The Thanesman Chronicles.

Kingsman’s Bride: The Thanesman Chronicles Book 2

by V. A. Boston

A desperate search. Forbidden desire. A city divided.

Three years ago, country noble Sephia Lyrs lost contact with her friend and former mentor, Korena Iegam. When her childhood friend, Hestar, offers to bring her to the Ithaenian capital of Thenika, Sephia takes the chance to discover the fate of her missing friend. But danger awaits them in the city. An increasing population of the half-fae Asgradi, refugees of their own tribal wars, generates civil unrest. What’s more, after one such incident Sephia catches the eye of the dashing commander of the city guard and younger brother of the king,

Prince Aganectus. A man whose attention could bring with it disaster.

Will Sephia’s quest for Korena lead to reunion? Or ruin?

Find out in the second book in The Thanesman Chronicles

Dawn of Chaos: (Sanctum of the Archmage, Volume One)

by Tony Andarian

It wasn’t the demons that truly frightened her. It was the woman she would have to become to fight them.

Dawn of Chaos: Full Trilogy Edition (Includes Prologue to Chaos, Hell Gate, and Aftermath)

A new constitution prepares Carlissa for an era of enlightenment. The old order fades, and a promise of freedom stirs the air. In the space of one terrifying day, that promise is shattered in a bloodbath of fire and magic.

Thousands of years ago, an epic battle was fought between good and evil. The demon lords had opened a door to the realms of hell itself, and their horde threatened to overrun the earth. But the Kalarans, led by the hero Calindra, destroyed their hellgate and drove them from the world.

The Great War has long since been lost to myth and legend. The Church struggles for relevance as the people forget their covenant with the gods. A renaissance of freedom and learning stirs the air in the modern age of Carlissa, led by the royal family, and the wisdom of the Archmage.

All that comes to an end when a dome of shimmering magic appears in the capital city. The people fight desperately to survive in the chaos that follows, and wonder bitterly why the gods seem to have abandoned them. Their only hope lies with the magic of the Archmage — and his, with a free-spirited princess who never wanted to rule. She must find the strength to set aside her bard’s calling and take up a battle against impossible odds, or surrender her land and people to the Black Magus and his demons.

Dawn of Chaos finally brings the award-winning Sanctum of the Archmage role-playing games to the world of fantasy fiction. Get it today and don’t miss this exciting first volume in the series!

Note to Readers. This is an omnibus volume that collects previously published books in the Dawn of Chaos series.

Fan Favorites in Mystery & Thriller

Voices of the Dead

by John Babb

During the devastating 1878 yellow-fever epidemic in the Lower Mississippi Valley, volunteers from very different backgrounds struggle to save lives despite the era’s limited medical knowledge. A Creole nurse, an Irish chambermaid, a Jewish physician, a fisherman turned policeman, clergy, gravediggers, and others confront the epidemic. Among them is one person carrying an unusual inheritance: the ability to hear the voices of the dead.

Lost Causes

by Richard Nichols

IF YOU LIKE JAMES BOND, JASON BOURNE OR JACK BAUER, THEN THE CHANCE ARE YOU”RE GOING TO LOVE JOHN BUCHAN!

John Buchan is a relic from a bygone age, a man constantly at odds with the modern world; a man who finds sanctuary in the only role that brings him peace of mind - as an assassin for a top-secret British government agency called the Mill. Specializing in what they call ‘ungentlemanly warfare’, its operatives are instructed to kill their targets wherever they find them, irrespective of boundaries, laws, jurisdictions or circumstances.

Day-to-day, Buchan lives a simple, anonymous life in the Belgian countryside, restlessly roaming the battlefields of the Western Front in an attempt to kill time. All the while he waits patiently for the message that will signal the start of his next mission, the moment when he can get back to killing the bad guys again instead. It’s a message that will arrive, the way it always does, hidden within the solutions of the Daily Telegraph’s cryptic crossword puzzle. And when it does arrive, it’s like he’s been reborn, because in Buchan’s world being on a mission is the only time when things really make sense; the only time he feels truly alive.

He barely remembers the time before he was recruited by the Mill. His name wasn’t John Buchan then. In those days he was known as Charlie Hook, a happy-go-lucky, rugby-playing, ex-Rhodesian Light Infantry trooper turned Gurkha officer with an eye for the girls. But Charlie Hook is long dead, and so too are his memories of the events that led to him becoming a professional killing machine.

Buchan is getting older now. Retirement beckons, but the man he calls Control has one last mission for him. It involves a ruthless army of some of the world’s worst terrorists, an equally ruthless drug lord, an enormous hurricane and seemingly unsurmountable odds. But it also offers Buchan a last, desperate chance to take revenge on those that took his young life - and love - away from him all those years ago, and he plans to go out with a bang.

Set against a backdrop of unprecedented worldwide socio-political upheaval, Lost Causes is an old-style thriller that moves from the modern-day Ypres Salient and London to the badlands of Northern Ireland and the exotic but deadly jungles of southern Mexico.

Mixing the kind of plot found in an Ian Fleming novel with the unashamed masculinity of an Alistair Maclean or Wilbur Smith hero and the tough, muscular prose of Mickey Spillane, Lost Causes is a startlingly intelligent and original work that interweaves dramatic action, sudden violence, stunning plot twists and subtle humour to entertain and inform in equal measure. It will especially appeal to anyone bored by the stale unambitious writing, and inane, politically-correct sensitivities of so many modern novels; as well as anyone looking to understand the sinister and dangerous forces that have plagued our lives for decades and which now threaten to destroy our civilization altogether.

Richard Nichols studied Philosophy and Psychology at Edinburgh University. He was a businessman for several years before turning his hand to writing. He is married, in his fifties, and lives in Mexico. He enjoys watching rugby and visiting battlefields. He hates crossword puzzles.

Clash of the Tricksters

by Susana Imaginário

Loki meets his match. Back when the universe was young, Loki the Trickster and Thor the Thunderer journeyed to Jötunheimr to confront the giants, and nothing was ever the same again. Clash of the Tricksters retells the classic myth of Utgard-Loki within Susana Imaginário’s Timelessness universe.

The Anti-Dog Tank & Other Stories

by Kevin Trainor Jr

Five stories about life in the America of the future: during a new Civil War, societal collapse, and a different kind of alien invasion.

Providence

by Richard Sezov

Two coasts, two tragedies.

A car accident in the east sends the lives of multiple unrelated people in different directions, some of them on collision courses.

A school shooting in the west takes some lives and saves others.

What are we to make of all this?

Is life just a series of meaningless, unrelated events, or is reality following a plan?

A teacher, plumber, librarian, student, deadbeat, and others learn the answer to this and more during the course of a single, roller coaster of a day.

James R. Hannibal, award-winning and bestselling author of The Paris Betrayal says “Richard Sezov holds nothing back in this thoughtful and intense look at God’s sovereignty. He paints an intricate portrait of a dozen lives, steadily blending each stroke to show the Master Painter at work bringing good out of their suffering and sin.”

Making a Better World

by Michael Lacoy

From the author of The Mystical Adventures of Stavros Papadakis comes a comic novel about family, faith, and second chances. Oscar Perilloux, a middle-age widower and cash-strapped artist, is trying to be good: a good father, a good brother, a good son. But it’s not easy. His conniving, ne’er-do-well mother has just been kicked out of a retirement home and needs a place to live. His rich, egomaniacal brother is dating the woman he secretly desires. And his seven-year-old daughter, whose innocence Oscar is trying mightily to preserve, is becoming more and more interested in the grown-up world. Meanwhile, Oscar’s childhood pal, whose life reached its high-point in high school, becomes the object of a social-media firestorm that threatens to destroy the harmony of their idyllic New Hampshire hometown. A mix of satire and romance, family drama and social commentary, the novel touches on a number of today’s hot-button issues: internet cancel culture, woke capital, the crisis in the Catholic Church, the treatment of the elderly, and the raising of children. Witty and big-hearted, Making a Better World takes a playful look at the way we live now.

Stay Safe

by Michael Lacoy

STAY SAFE is Michael Lacoy’s best work yet, a scathing dark comedy about two very different Americas.

Cole Perrot—a frustrated college administrator who spends most of his time on social media—ferociously loathes his next-door neighbor, Tyce Creamer, an internet celebrity and the very embodiment of “toxic masculinity.” Unfortunately for Cole, his wife Oona feels differently about Tyce, as do Cole’s teenage son and young daughter. Sensing a threat to his progressive values, not to mention his hold over his family, Cole secretly declares war on his “redneck” neighbor. What follows is a series of events that are by turns shocking, hilarious, absurd, and perfectly of our present moment.

Set amid a global flu pandemic, the novel chronicles the unraveling of both a man and a country in a time of heightened fear and deep social division. Mixing comedy, tragedy, and blistering satire, Stay Safe amuses and terrifies in equal measure.

Best: Baneberry Hall Book 1

by Frederick Gero Heimbach

As he would be first to admit, Mason Best is a genius. He lied—oops, charmed —his way into Baneberry Hall, the nation’s top prep school, didn’t he? Angel Ferguson, the intimidating student body president, wants him at her side. The headmaster, the trustees, the top jocks: everyone wants a piece of him. Mason wins at every game he tries—but being best is exhausting. Fortunately, Mason has a tower hideout he shares only with his friends:

Miles Coffin: eccentric boy billionaire, addicted to candy cigarettes Sapphire Moon: glamour girl, born performer Eve Shepherd: matriarch of the hideout, with whom Mason is definitely not falling in love

Miles Coffin: eccentric boy billionaire, addicted to candy cigarettes

Sapphire Moon: glamour girl, born performer

Eve Shepherd: matriarch of the hideout, with whom Mason is definitely not falling in love

Mason Best: political player – loyal friend. Can Mason be both kinds of person? Can he stay loyal when his political patrons demand he betray the people he loves, one by one? Mason’s a smart kid. He’ll find a way to make it work. Of course he will. He’s sure of it.

The House of Lamentation

by Zaklog the Great

Jim Roberts has survived seven years at sea, but nothing has prepared him for the darkness of a pirate’s cell — or the man waiting for him on the other side of it. When the enigmatic Monsieur Sinespe finally summons his prisoner, he offers Jim something far more dangerous than a choice between life and death. He offers him the truth about himself. Stripped of every illusion, Jim must decide whether to serve a master whose orange eyes burn like fire—or face the wreckage of his own soul alone in the dark…

The Spire of Truth

by Kevin Babcock

All residents of the City are tracked and recorded. Any violation of law or policy is immediately logged by Security-mandated signatures, high-tech devices that signal career, status, and more. In this digital cage, young men are safe from physical harm. The only danger they face lies in those they trust most.

The Spire of Truth follows a rising intelligence officer who has sworn to protect one of the few remaining great Cities: Central City, the City of Eternal Light, Center of the World and Universe. Under the star of his career, the officer appears safe in the City of Light. Nagging dreams and scattered thoughts, however, foretell his fall, and when an old friend bangs on his door, he dives back into the madness he thought he escaped.

In gallows humor style, ancient and modern ideas of respect and psychology are explored as the intelligence officer fights entrenched bureaucratic forces, meets a who’s who of the accused, and prepares for the trial of his life.

Seek truth . One half of Central’s call-and-response. When Central Investigators, Caretakers, and Overseers ignore common sense, what truth can they find? When they rely on uncommon sense, whose truth do they seek?

The Saving of the City

by Timothy Witchazel

Sing now the song Of the city besieged And our salvation unlooked for On the verge of their victory. The Sultan of the Sandlands Sent forth a sorcerer A master of magics Mighty and malign And loosed his legions To lay our walls low.

From author and award winning poet comes a fantasy retelling of the story of the Battle of Vienna in 1683, where Polish winged hussars rode to the rescue of the besieged city and won the day with the largest cavalry charge in history.

Dungeon Samurai Vol.1: Kamikaze (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)

by Kit Sun Cheah

Yamada Yuuki is an ordinary college student with an extraordinary hobby: the classical martial art of Kukishin-ryu.

Until one fateful day when a demon rips through the fabric of space-time, abducts everyone in his dojo, and transports them to another world.

To return home, Yamada and his friends must join forces with other displaced humans to conquer the dungeon that runs through the heart of the world. Standing in their way are endless hordes of bloodthirsty monsters and countless traps. Armed only with steel, faith and guts, they must battle their way through the winding catacombs to confront the demon waiting at the bottom floor.

Yamada was once a student. Now he must become a samurai.

Dungeon Samurai Vol. 2: Kami no Kishi (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)

by Kit Sun Cheah

Six months after being spirited away to a land filled with deadly monsters, Yamada Yuuki and Hiroshi Matsuo are about to face their toughest challenge yet. They and their fellow samurai must dive deeper into the world-spanning dungeon, going where no man has gone before, in a quest to confront the demon who brought them to its realm.

But as the samurai grow in skill and power, so too do the monsters. Legions of bloodthirsty beasts stalk the shadow-filled halls of the labyrinth, far more dangerous than those on the upper floors. Strange spells echo in the corridors, visiting death and madness to the unwary and the unfortunate. An ocean of agony and suffering lies between the humans and the bottom floor.

To stand fast against the coming onslaught, it is no longer enough for Yamada and Hiroshi to serve as samurai. They must don the mantle of the Kami no Kishi: the Knights of God.

Dungeon Samurai Vol. 3: Seisen (An Anti-LitRPG Dungeon Crawl)

by Kit Sun Cheah

The war for the dungeon reaches its climax!

A hero has fallen. The threat of famine looms over humanity. The endless hordes of monsters inhabiting the world have grown even more powerful. The human military is at the breaking point. All hopes rest on the shoulders of Yamada Yuuki, a college student turned battle-hardened samurai.

Armed with faith and steel, experimental weapons and new tactics, he must lead the way into the depths of the dungeon through swarms of horrific abominations and countless traps. But the dungeon itself is changing. And at the bottom floor, the demon ruler of the world awaits.

The final campaign begins. A desperate, gruelling crusade to win through the dungeon and find a way home. Now is the time for Seisen.

Now is the time for holy war.

Citadel of Seven Swords (Skarde: The Wandering Sword Book 1)

by Erik Waag (Author), Krzysztof Jr. Porchowski (Illustrator), Daniel P. Riley (Editor)

Sword Swinging Thrills!

Sharpen your sword, you dog-of-war, and keep your eyes open. You’re about to set off on a fast paced, pulp inspired, sword and sorcery yarn. Fans of Conan, Elric, and other indomitable barbarians will have their Hyborian lust for adventure sated.

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Skarde desires only to be free, yet his mighty sword arm, quick thinking, and daring seem only to keep him one step ahead… of the grave!

Trapped on a savage volcanic island, Skarde clashes with an antediluvian wizard, an army of warrior-cultists, and a hidden monstrosity just to live another day. Along the way he finds unexpected friends, mysteries, a curse, and enemies both bold and shadowy.

Skarde, brash mercenary from the far North, travels the boundless world to sate his wanderlust and his desire for coin. Discover the unknown, the dangerous and the wondrous in this first volume of Skarde’s adventures.

The Thing in Iron: A Wandering Sword Short Story (Wandering Sword Short Stories)

by Erik Waag

Kelamon’s already perilous life as a young thief in the corrupt city of Byzerdamen takes a tragic turn when his only family, a street gang, are almost wiped out by vicious rivals. Kelamon sets out on a daring and desperate quest to confront a powerful gang lord, rumored to have unnatural powers.

What he uncovers nearly destroys both his life and his mind.

This short story first appeared in Savage Realms Monthly (January 2026)

Awake in the Night Land

by John C. Wright

AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND is an epic collection of four of John C. Wright’s brilliant forays into the dark fantasy world of William Hope Hodgson’s 1912 novel, The Night Land. Part novel, part anthology, the book consists of four related novellas, “Awake in the Night”, “The Cry of the Night-Hound”, “Silence of the Night”, and “The Last of All Suns”, which collectively tell the haunting tale of the Last Redoubt of Man and the end of the human race. Widely considered to be the finest tribute to Hodgson ever written, the first novella, “Awake in the Night”, was previously published in 2004 in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection. AWAKE IN THE NIGHT LAND marks the first time all four novellas have been gathered into a single volume.

John C. Wright has been described by reviewers as one of the most important and audacious authors in science fiction today. In a recent poll of more than 1,000 science fiction readers, he was chosen as the sixth-greatest living science fiction writer.

Fan Favorites in Young Adult

Through the Lichgate (The Drama Club Presents Book 1)

by Kyle Adams

Thana Ayers is a part-time necromancer, the undefeated defender of Green Grove Cemetery. She commands small armies of the dead to repel worse abominations, and still manages club meetings, homework assignments, and church services.

It’s a balancing act, but hey, the dead don’t raise themselves. Right?

Thana’s act is turned on its head when a new breed of monster shows up. He’s got necromantic powers and secrets she’s never seen before, but he’s not after the power of the gate. He knows Thana’s name, and he’s coming for her.

Illusion of Grandeur (The Drama Club Presents Book 2)

by Kyle Adams

High-schooler Pierre Chastain, surly hobbyist and shady dealer, secretly holds the power of illusions. With it, he controls perception and bends reality to his will. He is a god among men, or at least he was until he discovered he was not alone.

The girl who can animate the dead was only the first to appear. Many more magic-users of all types reveal themselves–illusionists, summoners, kids who can see the future, and entire agencies with nefarious goals. They all seek to exploit Pierre’s talents in their schemes. Little do they know he has schemes of his own.

Pierre only has one chance to break free from these meddlesome jerks, a dangerous magic heist that could help him ascend to godhood– but it requires betraying everyone who cares about him.

Pirates of the Electromagnetic Waves (Yankee Republic Book 1)

by Fenton Wood

A young radio engineer travels across an alt-history America, encountering primeval gods, mythical beasts, and tall tales come to life, in a quest to build a radio transmitter that can reach the stars. It all starts in the mountain town of Porterville. Twelve-year-old Philo starts a pirate radio station with his friends, and learns that the world is a stranger place than he ever imagined. The Ancient Marauder, the Bright and Terrible Birds, the Mishipeshu, and other creatures of myth and legend populate this enchanting mixture of science and fantasy. YANKEE REPUBLIC is an old-school adventure series with traditional values and down-to-earth heroes. Escape from the pessimism and propaganda of modern fiction, and take a journey through a mythic America that might have been.

Fan Favorites in Horror

Bloody Sepulchre

by Michael Finney

In the shadows of Nueva España , tensions escalate between the indigenous population and their colonial masters, Mikicia finds himself captured by the Inquisition and an ambitious soldier, Vicente. While their past has common threads, they fray in the present as a result of conflict and duty. Will one man’s rebellion ignite a fire that consumes them all?

Order of the Blood

by Page Zaplendam

A Dark, Secret Society A World At War A Mad King

Bacteriologist John Grissom is determined to find a cure to the vampirism he suffers, but then his world goes sideways when he foolishly decides to pull a thread. Suddenly, he’s left with the choice of ignoring a conspiracy that might destroy the land he loves or going up against one of the most powerful vampire lords in England.

Along the way, he comes to a precarious accord with the vampire hunter, Gerhard Van Helsing, and his life of solitude is enlightened with his enigmatic down-on-her-luck assistant, Henrietta Isherwood. The trio find themselves traveling from London to Brighton and back again, from a vampire-proof dungeon to a glittering masked assembly, risking life and limb to stay one step ahead of the vampire earl.

Red Dead REBELLION

by Dick Lichter

In the frozen ruins of 1942, a monstrous plague born of Soviet ambition ravages the world. The virus, unleashed by Dr. Pavlov’s experiments, turns soldiers into zombified horrors, shattering armies and alliances. As cities crumble, unlikely heroes rise.

Amidst fragile truces and shattered borders. With the world teetering on the edge of oblivion, their choices—forged in sacrifice, love, and dread—will decide humanity’s fate. Can Europe survive this red tide? This RED DEAD REBELLION?

Perfect for fans of World War Z and The Nightingale.

Shoot the Devil: Ten Tales of Humans Defeating the Demonic by N.R. LaPoint (Author), Steven G. Johnson (Author), James Pyles (Author), L. Jagi Lamplighter (Author), Daniel Humphreys (Author), Declan Finn (Author), Russell Newquist (Author), John C. Wright (Author), Corey Comstock (Author), Michael Gallagher (Author)

Ten of superversive’s finest team up to bring you tales from a serial killer’s basement, to the weird west, to the average small town, all featuring “mostly” ordinary men and women fighting back against the forces of darkness.

Fan Favorites in Romance

Selinon

by Diana Pool

In Selinon, Holle is the exiled princess of the ruling family of the ancient seafaring kingdom of Solinacea who is gradually learning to love the seaport of Selinon to which she was appointed as the Sovereign. She was ostensibly sent to the distant, isolated, and somewhat decrepit backwater port seven years previously to learn the skills of administration befitting her royal status, but was painfully aware that it was the direct result of political fallout resulting from her rejecting a suitor from the family of an important ally. Having seen her success in turning the port into a flourishing and rapidly growing hub of trade, she begins to realize that she has made it a prize worth seizing. And she is suddenly aware that the recently colonized town in the wild and treacherous country on the far side of the cliffs surrounding the seaport are also beginning to flourish under the hand of an unknown leader of the men who live there. Who is this Faolán, where did he come from, and most importantly, what are his connections to the outside world and his potential threat to her Selinon?

Selinon is set in the 16th century in the mythical port of Selinon midway between Holle’s home of Solinacea and distant trading destinations. As Holle learns more about Faolán, she begins to appreciate the hardships and sacrifices he and his people have gone through to succeed in taming the wild lands where so many others have attempted and failed and died. She also appreciates that he might be a formidable enemy if his intent is to be a threat to her small kingdom. His past is a mysterious mixture of combat experience, education in the natural arts, and courtly graces, hinting at some sort of elevated social status. Most disturbingly, he assumes a familiarity with her to which she is unaccustomed and from which her best friend, Elizabeth, the Apothecary, is deriving far too much amusement. Elizabeth likes and greatly respects Faolán, is intrigued by his cloak of mystery, and can see what Holle can’t, that she hasn’t a prayer of escaping his attractions. She just hopes it will end well for Holle and is reasonably sure her hopes are well founded. Reasonably sure.

As the story unfolds, Holle’s fears of losing her Selinon suddenly become a reality, not from Faolán and his men, but from an external threat to take away all of her hard work and seize the Port she has come to love. Faolán, to her utter horror, is revealed to be someone entirely unexpected and most assuredly an adversary when he is trapped with her in the web of the invasion. But even more unexpectedly, he becomes her hope for the future when they escape from their imprisonment to mount a counter attack, only to join forces with the invaders out of necessity to attempt to survive a surprise attack from a cruel and debased common enemy of both of their countries. Faolán takes control of the defense of the Port and all hangs in the balance. Holle suddenly realizes she couldn’t bear to lose him if things go wrong, will have to face Elizabeth’s friendly mockery if they do survive, and really and truly hopes Faolán knows what he is about.

Dusk

by Rey Clark

In the chaotic aftermath of Pearl Harbor, there are more problems to worry about than a mainland strike. Mira discovers she’s not an ordinary young woman, and there is more to the world than the war in Europe. There is a war fought every day on the streets of Chicago; between monsters and immortal protectors. An intuitive fusion of Norse and Greek Mythology, Christianity, Louisiana Voodoo, and Germanic Folklore paints a diverse story with compelling characters. Dusk establishes a sense of magical realism lurking beneath the surface of history. What if historic events are shaped by myths and legends pulling the strings in the background? What if all the stories are real?

Ruins

by Lara Brook

A jaded photographer meets a mysterious woman online.

Curiosity turns into obsession as he uncovers a connection that defies coincidence. And when their paths finally cross, passion ignites amidst the ruins.

But fate is a cruel architect, binding them in ways neither could imagine.

Haunted by solitude, lost loves, toxic families, and the ruins of their own lives, they must confront whether redemption lies in restoration or in letting go.

Ruins is a captivating tale of serendipity, heartbreak, and second chances, where the past demands to be heard before the future can rise from the ashes. Perfect for fans of evocative, destiny-driven romance blended with Ireland’s atmospheric allure and brooding lore.