In a bleak future where the city of New Orleans has been wiped out by superstorm, the city of Floattown and New Lyons have been built over and adjacent to the sunken city. It is a future where ‘synthetics’, humans created in labs, are used for many different purposes, including as sex toys. We open […]
When Beatrice goes for a all one morning, the last thing she expects to find is a body in a field. And not just any body, but that of a young girl she knows. Amber Inglin is the star in Beatrice’s play The Duchess of Malfi. What follows is a complex, lyrical tale that is […]
Spinner, by Michael J Bowler, introduces us to a most unusual young man. Alex, a boy confined to a wheelchair, suffering from a debilitating condition known as spina bifida. He’s been in and out of foster homes, and his current foster mother is exploiting his unique gift. See, Alex is a Spinner, with the ability […]
Thief of Lies is the first in Brenda Drake’s Library Jumpers series. While at the library with her friends, Gia Kearns meets a mysterious guy who disappears. While looking at the book he had been using, she finds a scrap of paper with a single phrase in Italian. When she reads it, she and her […]
The Infernal Battalion is the fifth, and final, book in Django Wexler’s Shadow Campaigns series. Peace came briefly to Vordan, but it is not long before the Beast of Judgement turns an eye to the country in an attempt to claim the Thousands Names, the massive steel tablets bearing the names of legions of demons. […]
Escape Claws is a charming cozy mystery with just a touch of the paranormal. Lara Caphart has come to Whisker Jog to help her ailing aunt whose arthritic knees have made it difficult to care for her growing clowder of kitties. Unlucky for Lara, she discovers the body of local bully businessman Theo Barnes […]
Murder has come to the peaceful prestigious coastal Cape Bonita, shattering the town’s illusion of safety. Gretchen Nelson is found murdered early one morning, in the parking lot of the local Catholic church, her throat cut. No clues as to her killer can be found. It’s not long before another girl succumbs to the killer. […]
*****Intended for older children. His Royal Whiskers is a darkly whimsical fairy-tale worthy of the Brothers Grimm themselves. When an alchemy experiment goes wrong, turning the heir to the Petrossian Empire into a fluffy kitten, the bloodthirsty Czar is enraged. How can his son conquer anything as a cute fluffy kitten. And so, the accidental […]
In the midst of war, two young girls find mystery and magic that will come to shake the world. The Cottingley Secret, as the name hints, is a tale about the two young girls of Cottingley who photographer fairies on summer in the middle of the Great War. This story is actually two in one. […]
Hybrid is a taut, suspenseful tale of vengeance, deceit, and man’s folly in believing humanity is top of the food chain. In the vein of Jurassic Park, Fatalis, and Sabretooth, Smith’s Hybrid is a story of man vs nature, with man’s folly as the catalyst. This terrible hybrid exists because some foolish dog-fighter released a […]