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Eternal

by Michael D. Apperley

Belief in good compels belief in evil, and evil is not just the absence of good. Evil is manifest. Created by God, evil has forged its own identity and is invested in a destiny of its own making. Unwittingly, evil is a lesson for mankind, our harshest teacher through the ages of our evolution. This is a small part of that long story. A good man is targeted for destruction. He survives and is viciously inducted into the hidden reality of shadow existence. Here he finds unexpected allies. Never k... more

Smar

by David T. Bennett

Something strange has again landed on Topside of the Planet Smar. The Great Council has hurriedly put a small team of “volunteers” together to seek out what it is and discover what it’s doing. Sergeant Ha’an, the reluctant leader and soul survivor of a previous expedition to encounter an object from the sky, leads his equally reluctant band of misfits on their perilous journey across Topside. On the way, they meet up with Nerak, a fearless explorer and scientist, and she joins them on their ques... more

A Sinister Gift

by Jacinthe Dessureault

When police social worker Elenora Bello becomes pregnant, her life takes a sharp turn for the bizarre when she starts having premonitions about a case assigned to her detective husband.

Retrieval

by Barry M. Goldsmith

It's 2038. Earth's climate can no longer sustain life and millions have already perished. Humanity's future lies in its past. A grotesque, militaristic, two-headed alien race with superhuman strength – the Janus – have partnered with humans to expand time travel technology. The result is Retrieval Base – an isolated fortress built on an icy, volcanic plug deep within Antarctica. Its purpose – send what's left of humanity back through time aboard giant temporal arks after erasing their memories a... more

Open Season

by Domino Finn

The only thing worse than an assassin is a zombie assassin. That's what I find myself up against when a celebrity hypnotist turns up dead on Christmas. Except this killer is no ordinary zombie, and I should know. The name's Cisco Suarez, and besides being the Miami Police Department's resident supernatural consultant, I'm a practicing necromancer. With a series of murders threatening to reveal the existence of magic, anti-animist militias capture the public heart. The streets are rife with... more

HALF A LION

by Palle E.K. Oswald

It takes a village to raise a child.

In a land of brutal conquests, twisted histories and forbidden magic, the Lion tribe is in crisis. The chief has three heirs. The warrior, the worker, and the accursed. For one to ascend the lionchair, the others must be broken.

It takes the demons to make a man.

Sakhan fights captivity, shamans, and shapeshifters – all while caring for an ailing mother and vowing to... more

Amaranth

by David M. Snow

For fans of Hugh Howey's Silo, and the TV series The Last of Us

An underwater ark.

An incurable disease.

Two passengers to save them all.

The Flood swept across the world over a century ago, sinking entire cities and the triumph of modern civilization. Aboard underwater arks, the survivors have been preparing to return to the Surface, under the benevolent eye of their Creator. But the ship's commander seems to ... more

The Compassionate Killers

by Justin Case

In this thought-provoking and fascinating futuristic dystopian novel, Enoch Walker awakens from a cryogenic coma five hundred years into the future. His last memories of his former life were of a fledgling country that he helped build after America's second civil war. He is happy to see this new nation still exists. But to his growing dismay, he realizes the country has morphed into something he cannot reconcile himself with. The people are now superhuman, thanks to a dark secret that Enoch thou... more

The Wicked & The Dead

by Melissa Marr

Enter a new faery world written by the author of the internationally, USAT, and NYT bestselling Wicked Lovely series. Half witch, half killer, wholly unpreparedly for a Faery Bargain, Geneviève Crowe makes her living beheading the walking dead (draugar) in near-future New Orleans. But Geneviève's magic has gone sideways, and the only person strong enough to help her is the one man who could tempt her to think about picket fences: Eli Stonecroft, a faery bar-owner in New Orleans. When h... more

The Voyage Part I

by Robert Vincent

"It is 1832 as the USS Hayes sails the Indian Ocean, guided by its lord and master, Captain Gellins. Meantime a shipmate is wrongly accused of stealing and faces the fatal lash. Likewise, he is just one of many who have been accused of false charges: others who have already met their end at the gratings; all from the lies supplied to the captain by shipmate Penderghast. Who can tell what will happen if certain other shipmates take the law into their own hands to try and right this injustice. An... more

The Fourth Tier

by Penn Fawn

The Fourth Tier is the first book of the Underworld Series, a spin off from author Penn Fawn’s Necropolis dark fantasy novels. It is the part of the underworld that is home to the master of sorcery and dark arts, the necromancer, and his alliance of beasts and the undead.

It is the most terrifying place in the afterlife where only the most unfortunate souls might be downcast. That is precisely where our protagonist, Hespatia, and her peers who’ve fallen from grace find thems... more

The Terminal Code

by J.W. Galliger

How do you solve an impossible murder? Meet Dashiell Kincaid, a cocky security consultant known for his knowledge of SCAPE's virtual reality systems and his problem-solving ability. The Terminal Code takes place in 2050, as Kincaid is called to the scene of a murder in New York City, but is quick to find that this one is much more than it seems, as it somehow crossed the bounds of SCAPE and into every day life. In this modern take of a “locked-room mystery”, most people have abandoned the real... more

Thunder Moon Tussle

by Torn MacAlester

Nils Carmike, a fallen from grace astronaut turned smuggler, forges a new life on the lunar frontier. Harassed by the strikingly beautiful and demanding Deputy Miller, he is faced with fines and conflict, resulting in a tumultuous relationship and ultimatum he can’t refuse. Running for their life they struggle against their pasts, hoping to outsmart the common faceless enemy and forced to focus on the only rule that matters: survive!

Dio in the Dark

by Rizwan Asad

The powers of the pantheon have faded. The gods live amongst the mortals, grasping for what little of their divinity remains. When Zeus – King of the Gods – goes missing in modern-day Toronto, it is up to his estranged son, Dio, to find him. And with rumours of The Darkness coming, Dio will have to race to find his father, and uncover the truth before it’s too late!

Where the Dead Go

by Rasa Samimi

Where the Dead Go is about our afterlife on Earth's dark matter doppelgänger lurking in the space all round us; wherein we live on till a second death (with a few exceptions which manage to solve the great riddle of being).

Sensored Souls: The Secret Life of a Mind-Hacking Neuroscientist

by Jen L. Hanson

A dazzling intersection of mind, body, soul and the senses. When her father goes missing, Persephone Jones’ search for him brings her to a hidden art gallery in Shanghai. As she races to find answers to her questions, a room concealing a collection of glowing glass sculptures grips her. Not knowing who, or what, to trust, Persephone becomes part of a gruesome plot that draws the young neuroscientist into a sinister and suspenseful situation. With time running out, mounting moral dilemma... more

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