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The Year Before the End

by Vidar Hokstad

Forty years ago humanity found out we were not alone. The Centauri offered us the galaxy.

With one year to go before the gate is ready, Captain Zara Ortega learns of a conspiracy between Mars separatists and the Centauri to split the solar system between them. The crew of the ship Black Rain goes on a daring raid from one of the most well-guarded stations in the system to uncover the truth, but an attack on their ship raises more questions.

A meeting with their contact near Mars g... more

The Elven Inquisition: A Woke Fairy Story

by Steve Wiley

Elf privilege. Marginalized mermaids. Woke trolls. Pumpkin fairy reparations... Welcome to the chaotic kingdom of Fantasmagoria, where an inquisition for absolute equity rages and the masses combat all forms of social injustice by any means necessary. Elves are burned at the stake for suggesting there is a biological difference between mermaids and goblins. Djinns are executed for granting capitalistic wishes. Vampires are tortured to death for insensitive jokes made five hundred years ago. ... more

Exiles' Escape: Book Two of old Men and Infidels'

by W. Clark Boutwell

MALILA CHIU is trying to escape the prison-state known as the DEMOCRATIC UNITY; she evades capture, meets the Higginses, (who run the beltways) and is re-united with HECATE JONES, a childhood friend she thought dead. They must travel unobserved to where the Rampart, the nation’s security wall, touches the Savannah River in Georgia, its weakest link. Hecate has made her own way from Nyork, avoiding the ghoul-like SUGAR, old friends-turned traitors, and the might of the Unity. After crossing Dela... more

The Empress and the Arctic Tern

by Angie Chasser

An ancient conflict comes to light once more when an arctic tern crashes into a farm during its annual migration, and with it the estranged Lord of a magical race cursed with corruption and eternal wars. He saves the village from a devastating storm, but farmer Arnel isn't convinced of his goodness.

His daughter Illa wants to believe that a righteous destiny is in store to be fulfilled. After much debate, they depart on a journey to seek out the Empress of the Seers to learn of his ... more

Starlight Seized

by China Dennington

Two storytellers

A single, intertwined destiny

Maris Hall's name isn't spoken. Her writings were burned. Her images erased because of the horrendous thing she did. As a third-generation inhabitant of the red desert planet Erimost, Tessa Hall ironically knows precious little about her own family history, despite being the city historian.

When she discovers the journal of her grandmother, the first historian, she slowly comes to realize that the secrets of the past mig... more

Lassa the Viking and the Dragon's Inferno

by Dean Yurke

LASSA ERIKSON likes 'normal' teenage things like reading ancient texts on chemical analysis and studying books on advanced alchemy. He's never read anything frivolous like "The Joy of Axe Wielding" or "Uthbert's Guide to Decapitation." So when he is conscripted into the 11th century Viking army and finds himself surrounded by an ocean of the fiercest, toughest, ugliest warriors the world has ever seen, he accepts his hapless brother Sven's brilliant idea of hiding at the back of his first battle... more

Forgetting What I Couldn't Remember

by Angelina Singer

Vera Bartlet is a soon-to-be college graduate with absolutely no idea how messy her life is about to become. It’s not just the job search looming on the horizon or her lack of a boyfriend that’s got her stomach in knots – rather, her dad has been missing for almost a decade, and no one knows what happened to him. When Uncle Edgar mysteriously arrives back onto the scene, he comes armed with some interesting new ideas about what may have happened to Vera’s dad – and an even more revolutionary... more

Mojo Mayne And The Galactic Funk

by Antonio Journie

Mojo Mayne, galactic musician extraordinaire, knows how to find trouble. When he and his friend Bamjogsz go on a looting mission, they meet Verona and Stridori, two dangerous assassins, and looters. The two groups immediately become rivals, made all the worse when Mojo accidentally steals Verona’s ship. After using all of her fuel, the four are stuck together in space, until they get a distress signal from another planet. Given fuel to rescue a planet under attack, the group learns more about ea... more

Casting Shadows

by L. R. Braden

With Purity growing in political power and bigotry on the rise across the Realms, Alex’s short-term goals are to stay under the PTF's radar and as far from the fae Courts as she can. But her plans go up in smoke when May, the younger sister of her good friend Emma, goes missing. Alex will do everything she can to find May, but to mount a rescue she'll have to avoid PTF raids, conquer old ghosts, and risk coming face to face with her fae grandfather again. War is coming. Lines ar... more

The Longest Night

by Zachary Strupp

Candice Brooks is a twenty-six-year-old sheriff’s secretary obsessed with true crime. She doesn’t have much of a life outside of her dead-end job and her podcasts. Having grown up as one of the only African American kids in a small, deep-south town, she hasn’t developed many meaningful relationships. One night after Candice reports to work, a local politician wanders into the sheriff’s office covered in blood. He and his young son were the only survivors of a massacre. When Candice attempts to r... more

New Lands Online Book 1: Encounters - A LitRPG Series

by Harry Thunder

Drive to the snow resort. Teach snowboarding. Rinse and repeat. Jack was enjoying life, though broke, as a snowboarding instructor in Lake Tahoe until an accident happened. Due to a hospital mix up his life takes a novel turn and he ends up inside New Lands Online, as it’s first ever digital human. He never signed up to be the main character in an ultra realistic virtual reality game where bodily functions are as real as can be and has to learn new skills to survive. From the arena where J... more

Gilded Lies

by Lin Lustig

When the path to justice is unclear, maybe you are the villain...

John Beechum is an actor with supernatural sex appeal on the precipice of recapturing his hetero heartthrob image—kind of. Maybe. Hopefully.

When he and his secret boyfriend, Emerson, begin sharing unheard-of premonitions from a teenager kidnapped by an ability-harvesting corporation, they need help from John's murderous ex-girlfriend—Lici... more

Epicentre

by Chris Andrews

When mermaid Grace Harpeden loses the necklace holding the last of her stored magical lifeforce, she sets off a chain of events that may forever alter the balance of power among magical Creatures. Forced onto land to regain her necklace, Grace quickly becomes entangled in the malign intentions of a succubus and an enterprising cohort of ghouls, all determined to protect their turf and the schemes they have in play. Caught by her own promises and the need to save her injured sister, Grace’s a... more

Note to Self: Myth Reimagined

by Donald W. Catchings, Jr.

Can time ever be changed? If so, at what cost? In this layered journey through time, discover the answers for yourself. When Kris is delivered a book about the time travels of Faran Senecio and his attempt to save his family, he learns that the past is not made to be dwelt in, the future is uncertain at best, and the present is filled with trouble and heartache. Through Faran’s story, Kris comes to realize that there is only one way to change the past but the price is high—Time-Sacrifice. ... more

Billy Chan and the Stinky Goatopus

by D.Z. Mah

Ugh, what's that stench? It's so bad, it can't be anything natural.

It's coming from a goatopus, a mythical creature from another world. Except he's right by the Great Pyramid of Giza and refuses to leave. It's up to me, Billy the chimera hunter, to figure out what to do.

But I can't do this without help. That's where you come in. You need to help me make decisions to get rid of this stinky goatopus. Come join me on my latest adventure!

Ether-Touched

by L. M. Coulson

Vylaena Azrel has one goal in life: lift the Curse set upon her by the goddess Ikna, dooming her to feel others' pain as her own. Living alone in the haunted Elderwood just outside the city of Cyair, Vylaena keeps well away from civilization—until the day a mysterious solicitor arrives at her doorstep to make her an offer that will change her life.

Unwillingly entangled in matters of state, Vylaena is brought to the Cyair Palace to play bodyguard to a newly-arrived foreig... more

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