(Presence Unknown, Paranormal Investigators, Book 1) By Maia Strong © 2021 ISBN-13: 978-0-9884004-5-0 312 pages Todd’s familiar with ghosts. He already has one in his vintage VW Beetle, and another in his house that steals his spoons. When the spoons in his coffee shop also disappear, Todd is convinced to call Ben and Frieda from…
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The Raven Key
By Harper L. Carnes © 2022 Print ISBN: 979-8-9862274-0-5 Ebook ISBN: 979-8-9862274-1-2 (Available September 13, 2022; cover forthcoming) Seventeen-year-old Seth’s haunted past shapes his brooding present and feeds the nightmares that still trouble him almost nightly. But when he meets Gabriel, a beautiful man several years his senior, things start looking up. Seth finally believes…
Secrets in the Mirror
By Leslie Kain Atmosphere Press ISBN 978-1-63988-407-0 Ebook. © 2022 Mirror twins Devon and Gavin are raised in a household where men are tough, where their father believes Devon will always be a winner and Gavin will always be a loser. After years of his abusive indoctrination, Devon and Gavin believe it, too. Devon joins…
Scribes’ Descent
Book One of the Scribes Series By Dylan West Pickle Jar Press ISBN: 979-8-9859831-0-4 Paperback, 334 pages. © 2022 Forced to flee her homeworld as a child due to world-shattering earthquakes, Mallory now lives on Planet Daishon, where earthquakes are unheard of—until a big quake shakes the very foundations of everything she takes for granted,…
Darkwalker: A Tale of the Urban Shaman
By Duncan Eagleson Pink Narcissus Press ISBN: Kindle, 372 pages. © 2014 Bay City is haunted by a supernatural serial killer the newsfeeds have named “The Beast.” City Boss Micah Roth calls on the Railwalkers—a shamanic Order trained in both clerical and warrior skills—to champion his cause and return the city to some semblance of…
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
By Claire North Redhook, an imprint of Orbit/Hatchett ISBN: 9780316399623 Paperback, 432 pages. © 2014 Harry August is dying for the eleventh time. Every life, he’s reborn in the same year, at the same place, by the same mother, with all his prior memories intact. No matter how he lives his life, world events unfold…
Planetfall
By Emma Newman New American Library, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC ASIN: B00SI0B65W Kindle book, 956 KB, 328 pages. © 2015 As an engineer and a pilot, Renata Ghali earned her place among the population on the Atlas, a small group of people following the vision of Suh-Mi to a distant world, where…
Blackfish City
By Sam J. Miller Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0062684820 Hardcover, 336 pages. ©2018 Blackfish City is a dystopian, post-climate-change novel set in Qaanaaq, a floating city north of the Arctic Circle. Political corruption, organized crime, and a mysterious illness called “the breaks” shape life in Qaanaaq, where life is gritty and the…
Night Film
By Marisha Pessl Random House, ASIN: B004J4WL2I Kindle, 37654KB, 771 pages, ©2013 Journalist Scott McGrath is obsessed with Stanislas Cordova, a reclusive filmmaker whose frightening night films are eventually banned, driving his fans to host underground showings of new films and—in some cases—copycat crimes. But McGrath goes too far when he states on live television…
Seed
By Rob Ziegler Night Shade Books, ASIN: B01A68YNM6 Hardcover, 341 pages. © 2011 In a world with runaway environmental change and collapsed governments, the remaining humans in the United States have two things in common: hunger, and thirst. Satori, an intelligent, living city rooted in the ruins of Old Denver, is the sole source of…