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Vostok

by Steve Alten

East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct – and an object of immense power responsible fo... more

Weapon of Choice (Weapons of Chaos Book 1)

by M.E. Willman

Ferica Sivneigh has spent five long years on the run, evading the forces of the despot and usurper Yorvath Darragh of Curragh Cael. Darragh wants every last Gods-Gifted dead or under his thumb, and to punish Ferica’s defiance of his decree, he’s slaughtered her family and driven her far from her home. As her minor Gift drains away, Ferica faces a hard truth—alone and worn to the bone, with a determined hunter closing in, certain death no longer looms. It beckons. But former Advance Company c... more

A Fragment of Moonswood

by Tracey Mathias

Dwellers in Twilight: 13 Strange Stories

by Stephen Daly

Floyd 5.136: The Mac Series -- Book 1

by S F Chapman

Floyd 5.136 is a thought-provoking Genetic Engineering Science Fiction novel by S F Chapman.

Who was she?

Floyd stared with great interest at the slumbering young woman as she was slowly freed from the silky gray cocoon.

She was quite striking Floyd realized. But more importantly, she was the first new person to be generated in more than fifteen thousand years!

For eons, the strange fibrous life form known as “The Cotton” had regularly produced nearly innum... more

Vilmo's Wrath: Deglon Blood

by Lachesha W.B.

She craved excitement. She wanted companionship, but she never expected to have to fight so hard to get it. On Nora's 21st birthday, she discovers that being gifted is not all that she’d hoped it would be. As she is forced to quickly learn her place in the unforgiving world that her father shielded her from, she realizes that her long life of solitude was not as horrible as she thought. Learning the ways of her new life comes naturally, but staying alive has proven to be almost impossible. F... more

The Axe and the Throne (Bounds of Redemption Book 1)

by M. D. Ireman

It is a fool's errand and Tallos knows it, but against his own better judgment and the pleading of his wife, Tallos has committed himself to a voyage north. His lifelong friend's eldest sons are said to have been taken by Northmen, a raiding people ill-reputed for their savagery. The boys are already dead, Tallos knows, and in that dark place of grim reasoning he wishes only to find their corpses quickly so he can fulfill his promise and return to his wife. Instead, he finds something far worse.

The Deja Vu Experiment: A Journey to the Outer Limits of the Mind

by J.G. Renato

They're everywhere around us, but usually we choose to ignore them.

They happen in space. They happen in time. They're little moments of discontinuity in our experience, but they can become portals to the greater experience of our world as illusion, as the veil, as Maya, as the collective dream.

And the experience of ourselves as the dreamers.

If we choose not to ignore them, but to follow them, like Alice down a cosmic rabbit hole, we might just begin to understand ... more

The Watch (The Red Series, Volume 1)

by Amanda Witt

Sneaking out after curfew, avoiding the cameras and the guards--Red has done it a thousand times. But tonight is different. Tonight she's meeting two men who love her, and they'll tell her the city's secrets, and she'll begin to unravel the mystery of her identity. So the rain doesn't matter, or the circling spotlight, or the walls. Tonight no fear or discomfort can keep her at home, because tonight--

Tonight she gets caught.

Order of Seven

by Beth Teliho

Eighteen-year-old Devi Bennett is surrounded by mysteries: her unknown heritage, a recurring dream about an African tribal ceremony, an inexplicable attachment to a certain tree and a psychic ability she’ll never understand—unless she finds her biological parents. Things take a shocking turn when she meets Baron, an intense and alluring energy healer who receives prophetic dreams which seem connected to her. Devi must rely on an empath, a seer, and Baron to help research her roots to discove... more

The Protocols of Uma

by John Brage

This is the story of two races striving against one another for survival on the planet Uma. The Hek are a primitive race - fierce, strong, and virile. The Umae are more advanced but follow an ages-old set of laws known as The Protocols. For millennia, the Umae have sent a group of space explorers called the Journeyers into space to find Haven, a planet that could serve as their new home world. But the Hek are making technological advances at an unbelievable rate, and the Protocols are perhap... more

Welcome To The Madhouse

by S.E. Sasaki

Life on the Conglomerate's Premier Medical Space Station is anything but boring for Dr. Grace Lord, a young surgeon who has come to train under the galaxy-renowned, animal-adaptation specialist, Dr. Hiro Al-Fadi. Attacked by her bestial patients, stalked by strange androids, courted by a drop-dead gorgeous psychiatrist, and harangued by her egomaniac mentor, Grace must help find the cure for a life destroying virus before the space station is destroyed.

The Sacrifist

by T. Mason Gilbert

JAWS IN THE SNOW! The hunt begins for the fabled, bloodthirsty yeti, who has been killing climbers in the Himalaya. A famous Native American (Ojibwe) mountaineer is hired to lead the expedition. Meanwhile a Buddhist yogi known as the Sacrifist is also sent on the mission to find the yeti. More people will die in this trek to the lair of the Abominable Snowman, but those who survive will uncover a possible answer to the mystery of what happens when we die.

Lincoln Vs. Hitler and the Stone of Kaldahar

by Jeremy Lippart

In "Lincoln Vs. Hitler and The Stone of Kaldahar" it is 1863. President Abraham Lincoln finds his nation and his presidency bogged down in the violence of an intractable war. Desperate, the President seeks out “non-traditional” methods of warfare and finds himself in the company of the greatest scientific minds of the Western World. Together they create a time machine that will assist the Union in bringing about an immediate end to the bloodshed that is wracking the nation. During test trials, h... more

Echinodea (The Atlantis Revolution Book 2)

by Tom Tancin

A Magical Lantern That Could Reveal Atlantis... A Family He Knows Nothing About... A Secret That Could Steal His Throne The Knights of the Abyss are still causing chaos in Atlantis. They threatened that if Trey Atlas doesn't relinquish his throne, they'll light the Echinodea--a magical lantern that could expose the island to the entire world. But if Trey steps down, the Knights would take over Atlantis and destroy everything it stands for; including erasing Trey's mysterious past. So there'... more

Hippocampus (The Atlantis Revolution Book 1)