Jim, born at the dawn of the 21st century, is nearing his 60th birthday with considerable apprehension. He’s been spared state euthanasia but must instead enter Future Fields, a partially understood virtual ‘afterlife’ enabled by drugs and nanotechnology interfaced with his brain. Though he has helped design this digital world, his body will soon lie […]

When the Lost for Words bookshop in York hosts an event for a new reading project, four strangers’ lives will change in ways they could never have expected… Trixie is hosting the event. She loves her job at Lost for Words, and she’s feeling grounded and calm, until a phone call from her ex throws […]

Two months after her mother’s death, twelve-year-old Beth Egan feels isolated and adrift in the new town of Northwood, where her grieving father has moved them for a fresh start. Seeking refuge from her loneliness and the pitying whispers of her new classmates, she discovers a dusty, old-fashioned bookstore where she finds a mysterious blue […]

He crossed the ocean to find his past. Now he must decide what and who he cannot live without. Eight years after the horrors of Dire Kawa Prison and the ill-fated mission that changed his life forever, Vincent “Fuse” Fusilier returns to Mandalay, Burma, searching for the woman he never forgot. Instead, he finds two […]

One man is paid to start a war. One agent is determined to stop it. A massacre at a Mexican heroin refinery. A freighter hijacked for its narcotics cargo. A Kosovar drug lord assassinated in cold blood. War has erupted between two global drug superpowers, and it is no accident. DEA Agent Diane Mesi is […]

“Rivo was like a shooting star; when it seemed the sun had set on the Kingdom and darkness came, he shone brightly. And like a shooting star, when the sun rose again and the darkness lifted, he was gone.” He falls in battle, only to be brought back to witness the rise of his own […]

Hiding in plain sight, Protocol 9 agents live among us. Protocol 9 was designed as the ultimate safeguard, a top-secret government program to counteract viral outbreaks or chemical weapon attacks. But no one expected to use it: until something turned the population cannibal. For Special Operations soldiers finishing their tours of duty, signing on as […]

Bo Duckworth is a former master sergeant with the Republican Marines. Forced out of the service for destroying a recalcitrant X103 battle bot during a critical mission, he is out of a job, out of luck and out of ideas on how to make it as a civilian. Like other lost souls, he drifts toward […]

“He hid his face from the world but she refused to look away.” Petalia Winthrop arrived in London with eleven shillings, a letter of character, and her late mother’s hairpin. By breakfast, a thief had taken all three, and the only person to stop for her was a scarred stranger in a scarf who told […]