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Exchange at the Border

by Alexandra Goodwin

A BORDER CROSSING INTO UNMAPPED TERRITORY

Mexican agave farm worker Porro Camorra never meant to do anything wrong. He is in love with his girlfriend but when she becomes pregnant, his life is in danger. Fleeing the vindictive wrath of her enraged brothers who have sworn to kill him, Porro runs for the border. But when he reaches the barrier between Mexico and the United States, he finds more than the safety he seeks. As he is thrust into a mystical realm, he must agree to a fascinating... more

The Gloaming, Rise of the Stealth Vampire Elder

by ML Worthingham

In the aftermath of the mass slaughter of vampires in eighteenth century Europe, Valentin tries to keep the fragile covenant not to kill mortals intact through a strategy of abundance. Working from the shadows as vampires, elders rule the three nests of modern day Amsterdam. Valentin attempts to manage the finances of the continental vampires while mentoring the newly turned American, Steve. After dealing with a vampire hunter in Amsterdam, Valentin, Karolina, and Steve travel to the primal v... more

Dark of Winter

by Christopher Percy

The people of Sumner are odd. Their village, far to the north where the weather is worst, is lost to a world of snow and ice and freezing death. No one trusts Sumner. No one goes there. Until now. King Fialsun’s soldiers are battle weary. They have spent years carving an empire that starts from the south and rises up like an inexorable branch, twisting east and west and now to new territories in the north. Despite growing dissent, Fialsun’s power remains absolute and his might infinite.... more

The Quantum Cop

by Lesley L. Smith

When physics professor Madison Martin is smashed by a car, her quantum expertise and survival instinct combine to cause a paradigm shift enabling her to rewrite reality and save her life. She's freaked about what happened but, luckily, the hot physicist from the office next door volunteers to help her do experiments to decipher what the hell just happened. And as their chemistry sizzles she's ready for some experiments of a more biological nature. Unbeknownst to Madison her smartest student, Lu... more

The Returno to the Inferno

by Lewis Goldstein (aka Luigi Enrico Pietra d'Oro)

Most everything we believe about Hell was written 700 years ago, by Dante in his INFERNO. An update is long overdue! (2020 is the 700th Anniversary of Dante’s Divine Comedy.) Like Dante, Luigi is lost (in LA). and Robin Williams, from the Circle of Comedians, guides Luigi through our self-created hells, not a place set apart by some god to punish sinners. Our heroes receive the verdicts of the Rachel Carson Sphinx and the last descendant of the Garden’s original serpent that, having taken ... more

A Pink Zombie, with a Mist (Shaken, Not Stirred, Mystery/Horror Series Book 1)

by Jada Ryker

Anthropologist Olivia West is determined to find her missing best friend. As children, she and Emma Martin wandered into Heaven's Bottom, an isolated Kentucky community cut off by the Ohio River and mountainous terrain. The two women share strange memories of the traumatic experience. Emma is convinced they witnessed a blood sacrifice and moon magic, surrounded by zombies. As a scientist, Olivia believes there's a logical explanation. ... more

In the Beginning

by BCE

The origins of Judeo-Christian religion and mythology come together in this mature science fiction page-turner. To combat overpopulation on the planet Orion, the government releases a birth control virus to keep women from becoming pregnant. Only the brightest and most attractive of their species are allowed to mate. But the virus rages out of control, killing both mother and child. Attempts to develop a cure fail. They only have one option left: search other worlds for advanced societies tha... more

Let There Be War: In the Beginning

by Samantha Eklund

As we rang in the New Year, terrifying things rose from the darkness... things driven to eat human flesh for a reason more ghastly than a mere disease. Now, my best friend Mel and I have to figure out our survival. Thankfully we’ve found a group to stick with. They’re training us to be soldiers, but they’re also guarding a dark secret. I’m starting to wonder... are our survival chances better with the monsters out on the streets, or the ones within this camp?

A Fistful of Honey

by Malena Crawford

Money. Love. Family. When it all falls away and she’s left with nothing, one woman must find the strength to fight her demons… so she can save the world. Alena Ford has a great job, a beautiful home, and a rich, powerful husband. When she loses it all she faces a nightmare worse than her horrible childhood. Fired from her job, she leaves her Manhattan penthouse for a decrepit apartment in a gritty section of Brooklyn. Stripped of everything, she is forced to face the demons of her past and th... more

Decay: Humanz 1.0 (Volume 1)

by Igor Ljubuncic

We know that we pose a threat to humanity. But so does every person with a common cold stepping into a metro on their way to work in the morning. We don't ask to be hailed as heroes, or the next evolutionary step in human life, because we sure aren't that. We just ask for the same fair treatment any patient gets, no matter what their disease might be. The humans call us zombies. We call ourselves humanz. Tacky, isn't it? And we demand equal rights. This is our story.

Living the Good Death

by Scott Baron

The story of an odd young woman who believes she is Death trapped in human form. After trying to shed her vexing human body in a botched suicide, the girl unexpectedly finds herself forced to navigate the complexities of life from a new, and rather inconvenient, locale -- Lock-down detention in a mental ward. As she struggles to relate to the strange residents of the psych hospital, the girl who thinks she is Death slowly warms to the joys the world has to offer ... more

Todd

by Adam J Nicolai

Without warning on a sunny June afternoon, all life on Earth vanishes. Reeling and alone in the aftermath, Alan and his son Todd scrounge through the ruins of civilization to survive. Finding food and water is easy. Electric power is harder. But Alan has his own search, one he tries to hide from his son: after a lifelong struggle with depression, his scarcest resource now is a reason to keep living. Through wildfires and tornadoes, as the deadly cold of a Minnesota winter draws closer, th... more

Blanky

by Kealan Patrick Burke

In the wake of his infant daughter's tragic death, Steve Brannigan is struggling to keep himself together. Estranged from his wife, who refuses to be inside the house where the unthinkable happened, and unable to work, he seeks solace in an endless parade of old sitcoms and a bottle of bourbon. Until one night he hears a sound from his daughter's old room, a room now stripped bare of anything that identified it as hers...except for her security blanket, affectionately known as Blanky. Blan... more

The Vexing Heirloom

by TG Monahan

An epic of Cuba meets the classic hero's journey in The Vexing Heirloom, an immersive adventure and fallen idealist’s quest for redemption. It is the Cuban War of Independence, 1896. The medallion around the woman’s throat is there for Hilaríon’s taking, but the soldier-turned-highwayman cannot bring himself to commit murder. He chases the mysterious woman, Ypriána, into the wilds. He’ll seize his plunder, then while away the rest of his life in some far-flung corner of the globe. But when sh... more

TOWN OF NO EXIT

by Keith White

Raptor

by Beatrice Bostick

Frank Bishop was a vice cop for six years. Now he's a private investigator who's been hired to find a missing child. Bishop thought he had seen everything the underbelly of the city had to offer until a demon slayer named Ariel saves him from being killed by one of her targets. With the aid of a young, homeless hacker named Mouser, Ariel and Bishop agree to an uneasy alliance to find out who abducted six year old Suzee Elizabeth Morgan. Unfortunately, Suzee is not the only one who'... more

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