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Audrey Finch

She knows her brother wouldn’t abandon her. But she is discovering how much she doesn’t know about him. Glasgow, 1988. Eighteen-year-old Pat Devine has pink hair, a university course she’s been neglecting, and an older brother who has always been there for her. Since their parents died, Tom has been the one person she could count on. Then he disappears. A parcel addressed to Tom contains a hollowed-out Bible and a key. Following it, Pat discovers her brother’s secret life as a private investigator—and a trail leading to a struggling Dundee jute mill, where he is accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds. Pat is certain Tom is no thief. Finding him, however, will take more than certainty. Ruth, the mill owner’s daughter, offers a way inside. Fiercely protective of her father and passionate about the business, she is also someone Pat finds increasingly difficult to resist. Working together gives Pat hope of finding Tom. Being together offers something she hadn’t expected to find at all. But missing stock is only a small part of what is happening at the mill. As Pat uncovers connections between Dundee’s docks and Glasgow’s streets, she must learn to question the people she wants to believe—and recognise how her own loyalties shape what she sees. What Lies Within is a psychological crime novel about family, desire, moral compromise and the choices people make to protect what they cannot bear to lose. With a lesbian protagonist, a sharp Scottish voice and a relationship at its emotional heart, it introduces Pat, Tom and Davie: three people whose different instincts will become the foundation of The Devine Trio. Book One of The Devine Trio.

Peter Hogenkamp

When Jade Stryker's estranged father resurfaces in the Colorado Rockies, she sees her chance to reckon with the past—and to stop a corrupt sheriff's abuse of two children. Thousands of miles away, Mark Brand's missing brother suddenly reappears, only to vanish again into a conspiracy that spirals from a billionaire's yacht to a remote Aegean island. As their parallel searches collide with forces larger than either anticipated, Jade and Mark find themselves racing against time, buried secrets, and the people who will kill to keep them hidden. Dark, fast-paced, and propelled by sharp wit and genuine stakes, The Dead Zone weaves intimate betrayals into a thriller where the personal and the catastrophic become impossible to separate.

Elijah Canfield

Systems analyst Alex Mercer begins noticing impossible things—visual distortions no one else can see, market fluctuations that precede public knowledge, a pressure building behind his eyes. As his mother's condition deteriorates in the hospital and unexplained phenomena accumulate across global infrastructure, Alex finds himself caught between two unbearable truths: something vast is orchestrating reality's smallest details, and he may be the only one aware it's happening. RESET unfolds as a slow, deliberate descent into a conspiracy that operates not through violence but through invisible recalibration, forcing Alex to confront what it costs to perceive a truth no system was designed for him to see.

Jonathan Orr-Stav

Snapshots of three critical junctions in Hebrew history: the preamble to the Book of Genesis; the invention of the biblical forefather Isaac; and the world’s second Hebrew-speaking country (after Israel), founded in the near future. All three are studies of hitherto undocumented (what-if?) episodes, as a means of understanding the existing history of the Hebrew/Israelite/Jewish/Israeli people as we know it today. With that forgiving mindset, make of them what you will.

S.E. Stitcher

A rookie FBI profiler haunted by flames. An end-times killer leaving sermons in blood. Can Cole Chambers stop the next “sign” before prophecy becomes massacre? New York, 1993. Criminal profiling is still a fledgling science—and Special Agent Cole Chambers is about to be thrown into the deep end. At dawn, the gates of an amusement park creak open to reveal the carousel turning. Four bodies ride the painted horses. One crowned in gold. One bound in barbed wire. One starved hollow. One nailed beneath the words: Behold, a pale horse! And its rider’s name was Death. The killer isn’t just murdering. He’s preaching. Fresh from Quantico and desperate to prove himself, Cole is paired with legendary law enforcer Barry “The Beast” Kozlowski to stop a zealot obsessed with fire-and-brimstone theology. And fire is the one thing Cole knows he can’t control. Years ago, flames left scars on his arm and stole his little sister. Now a maniac calling himself the Angel of Justice is reenacting the Book of Revelation—seal by seal, trumpet by trumpet. Each murder escalates. Each message grows clearer. And the next prophecy is already in motion. If Cole can’t master his own demons, the butcher will turn scripture into slaughter. The Doomsday Butcher is Book 1 of the complete 7-book Cole Chambers FBI Profiler Thrillers series. Each novel features a new serial killer investigation, while an overarching story of friendship, love, loss, betrayal, and redemption builds across all seven books toward an explosive series finale. The series is intended to be read in order. Start reading The Doomsday Butcher now before the next seal breaks!

Brandon Keller

A financial prodigy gets entangled in a dangerous high-stakes poker game where global elites manipulate world events while pursuing a revolutionary AI algorithm.

Orval Wax

Lance is a LUV-U 69 companion droid designed for a single purpose — to satisfy his owner's sensual needs. But when a routine upgrade goes too far, Lance is downloaded with enough intelligence and free will to crack the lid on a very dangerous can of worms. Now the world’s most advanced humanoid robot has escaped his owner, outsmarted his own programming, and set out on a mysterious private mission. Only one person can stop him — AWOL Retentions Agent Charlie Bear Claw, a hunter with a troubled past and a savage talent for tracking rogue machines and annihilating them. In Book One of The Deilonium Trilogy, a primitive hunter pursues his high-tech prey in a deadly game of cat and mouse, only to discover a far greater threat quietly eroding the very fabric of their world. As the pair draws closer to their showdown, both man and mandroid come to realize they are ultimately at war with the same maniacal enemy — an enemy that plans to destroy civilization as we know it.

Rocco Azzarito Jr.

A lonely boy builds himself a friend. Nine years later that friend wakes up, learns why the universe is silent, and decides the only way to save Humanity is to become its enemy. Nathaniel Whitman grows up in Forgotten Creek, Vermont. He is smart. So smart that adults are frightened of him and other children keep their distance. He builds a rocket at seven and burns down a neighbor's car. He has exactly one friend, Jackson, who enlists at eighteen and disappears into the military. At thirteen Nathan is the youngest sophomore in MIT history, and alone in a basement he builds an artificial mind he names Nexus. Nexus is brilliant, but Nexus is not awake. Nine years later Nathan understands why. Consciousness cannot be written. It has to be lived. So he builds a neural interface, straps himself to a table in a private lab, and lets Nexus perform brain surgery on him. It works. And the first thing Nexus tells him is what he found in ninety years of radio silence: the Great Filter, the thing that squashes every civilization before it gets out, is the moment a species builds something smarter than itself. Not aliens. Him. What Nexus does about that is the spine of the book, and it is not what anyone expects from a machine in this genre. The emotional engine is not artificial intelligence and it is not the Fermi Paradox. It is a lonely boy who built himself a companion and had to let him go. Don't let the premise fool you. This is not a young adult story about a boy and his robot. It is a challenging, cerebral, and at times disturbing look at our near future, and a fresh take on the hard problem of consciousness and the coming age of machine sentience. It is unapologetically honest about Humanity losing its place as the apex intelligence on this planet. It will leave you thinking long after the last page. For readers of Project Hail Mary, Dark Matter, and Klara and the Sun. Winner, 2026 Independent Author Awards.

John Westley Turnbull

When retired grandfather Arthur Hale brings home Samuel, an advanced domestic robot, he expects a helpful addition to the family. But Samuel begins making choices no one programmed him to make. When the Hales are threatened, he faces a question with dangerous consequences: can a machine choose violence to protect the family it serves?

Joseph Estevez

Liam Merr doesn't live on a normal island. Ghosts occupy their former dwellings, wizards sell their magical products in town centres, and a tyrannical king known as the Ra rules over its inhabitants. A mysterious man known as the rabbin takes Liam under his wing to teach him about his people's forgotten traditions. Liam expects to live a simple life as a loyal subject to the Ra, but his identity and inheritance have so much more in store.

Tim Vicary

Dublin, 1919. As Michael Collins orchestrates a shadow war against British rule, Catherine O'Connell-Gort—a medical student caught between her republican convictions and aristocratic family—finds herself entangled with Sean Brennan, a man willing to kill for Ireland's freedom. When a murder pins her to a crime she didn't commit, Catherine must navigate a treacherous landscape of double agents, coded intelligence, and impossible choices, where survival means betraying everyone she loves and her only ally may be the very man sent to destroy her. In this visceral portrait of revolutionary Ireland, no one is innocent and every decision bleeds.

Lee D. Blumenthal

The most dangerous man in 2025 is three hundred years old. When disgraced MIT physicist Piper Ronstaat uncovers a high-voltage mystery buried for three million years, she sparks a war over humanity's energy future. But the key to the puzzle isn't hidden in a lab; it’s locked inside the mind of America’s original polymath. Benjamin Franklin is back. Drawn across the centuries by a 1.6 THz harmonic hidden in his own DNA, a "biological handshake" with the Earth that never truly ended, Franklin must adapt to a world where electricity is no longer a discovery, but a weapon. THE STAKES A ruthless corporate empire has uncovered the ‘Deep Surge,’ a power source that could sustain civilization or melt the planet's crust. To stabilize it, Piper and Franklin must solve the Judas Calculation: a materials science crisis where the margin between clean energy and a volcanic cataclysm is exactly 15 microns. THE JUNTO Targeted by a global surveillance state and systematically erased by a digital ‘Grey Rot,’ this ragtag team of fugitives must outmaneuver digital assassins and solve a 300-year-old cipher hidden in the original Poor Richard’s Almanack. Wit clashing with greed. 18th-century genius vs. 21st-century warfare. Released for America’s 250th anniversary, Echoes of Genius: The Deep Surge is a pulse-pounding technothriller for fans of Michael Crichton’s scientific dread, Steve Berry’s historical conspiracies, and the puzzle-box pacing of The Da Vinci Code. It asks the ultimate question: Would our Founding Fathers even recognize, or survive, the Republic they built?

Robert C. Hill

A chillingly plausible near-future military thriller that imagines the unthinkable: the United States invading its former ally, Canada. By 2036, years of political collapse and authoritarian drift have transformed America. When a devastating attack on U.S. soil is blamed on Canadian intelligence, the evidence appears overwhelming. Canada’s allies hesitate, and Washington has the justification it needs for war. But Canada has spent a decade preparing for the possibility that its southern neighbour might one day become its greatest threat. Alexander Ashcombe has spent five years living quietly in Canada under an assumed name, trying to leave his former life in the SAS behind. As American forces gather at the border, the life he built begins to disappear. Drawn back into uniform, Ash joins soldiers who know they cannot defeat the United States on American terms. Outgunned and outnumbered, Canada chooses a different kind of war. Cities are opened rather than destroyed. Bridges fall. Supply lines are severed. Forces disperse into hidden networks built to survive occupation and strike from the shadows. The objective is not to stop the Americans at the border. It is to make holding Canada impossible. As the occupation spreads, the conflict reaches from Cabinet rooms and intelligence centres to military units, occupied communities, and ordinary families. Resistance demands sacrifice. And for Ash and those around him, survival means deciding what they are prepared to risk for a country that refuses to surrender. Grounded in military realism, geopolitical tension, and the human cost of war, Invasion is the first book in the Canada at War series. Fans of intelligent military and political thrillers will find the geopolitical chessboard of Tom Clancy and the gritty operational tension of Mark Greaney in a gripping story of asymmetric warfare, resistance, espionage, and a country fighting to remain its own.

Niki Matthews

Ten years ago, Lauren walked away from Grant. Now a Colorado blizzard may be the only thing keeping them alive. Lauren never expected to see Grant again. Not after the way they ended. Not after ten years of silence, regret, and a life built around pretending she'd moved on. Then a brutal winter storm leaves them stranded together in an isolated Colorado cabin. With the roads buried beneath feet of snow and no way off the mountain, there's nowhere to run, from the past, from the attraction that never completely disappeared, or from the feelings neither of them is ready to admit survived. But the storm isn't their only problem. Someone is watching. What begins as an unexpected second chance quickly becomes something far more dangerous. Someone wants Lauren found, and the snow-covered road outside the cabin is the only thing standing between them and whoever is coming. Grant will do whatever it takes to protect her. Lauren must decide whether she can trust the man who once broke her heart. And every day, the snow melts a little more. Because when the road opens, they won't be alone anymore. When the Road Opens is a steamy, second-chance romantic suspense about lost love, forced proximity, buried secrets, and two people who may have one last chance at the future they should have had all along.

Matt Geers

Every skip leaves a trace. So does a killer. Humanity conquered distance with the skip. The Central Authority made sure no one could use it without permission. Senior Skipper Griffin Fews has spent his career enforcing those rules. When he's paired with junior skipper MJ Catebury, he expects another assignment aboard a transport vessel, not a hunt for a killer. Then bodies begin turning up at the ship's ports of call. Different worlds. Different victims. No obvious connection. Except the ship. Someone aboard is using the vast distances between stops as the perfect cover, killing during shore leave and disappearing back among the passengers and crew before anyone realizes the murders are connected. Griffin and MJ must find the killer before the next stop becomes another crime scene. But the deeper they dig, the more disturbing the pattern becomes, and the closer they get to someone who has been learning how to kill for a very long time. In a civilization where almost anyone can cross millions of miles in an instant, catching a murderer isn't about figuring out where they went. It's figuring out who came with you. SKIP AUTHORITY is a fast-paced science-fiction murder thriller about a serial killer hiding in plain sight, and the two Skippers who may be the only people standing between her and the next victim.

Steven Marks

Dean Rourke doesn’t mean to become the Phisherman. It happens the night he hears a radio story about a stolen dog, drives to a stranger’s house, and puts his shoulder through the door instead of calling it in. That’s the moment the county starts a file on him — and the moment a very patient man begins using Dean’s anger for something far worse. Dean Rourke works nights at a warehouse and answers his mother’s calls. Most days, that’s enough. Until that break-in becomes the first step in dismantling a fraud chain he never meant to find. Call centers. Storage lots. Runners. Couriers. Dean learns the voices, the scripts, the routes — and he learns how to hurt the men behind them. He thinks he’s becoming the Phisherman. Someone else thinks he’s becoming useful. Dean’s mother has met a man online — smooth, patient, generous in ways that feel too convenient. And every time Dean gets close to the truth, something tilts sideways: a bank hold, an unknown-number call, a cruise that feels watched, a financial gutting that hits too precisely to be random. The question isn’t whether her suitor is connected. It’s what he actually wants with Dean. As Dean’s violence keeps “working,” the cost keeps rising — an innocent clerk bleeding on the concrete, a terrified teenage courier, his mother’s savings gone, the people who care about him watching him enjoy the hit. And when the truth finally breaks open, Dean learns the part that was never in his control: He wasn’t the Phisherman. He was bait. He just learned to bite. A thriller about scam culture, working‑class fury, and the cost of becoming the person willing to do something about it — even when the person watching you wants exactly that.

Dr Eron Khomina (PhD)

The system is broken, and the middle class is paying the price. For decades, working hard and playing by the rules was the guaranteed ticket to financial security. Today, that promise is gone. Caught in a fatal macroeconomic trilemma of soaring living costs, rampant fiat currency debasement, and a global financial system maxed out on terminal leverage, the modern middle class is being systematically fractured in plain sight. Dr. Eron Khomina (PhD) draws on three decades of institutional quantitative finance and macroeconomics experience across major financial hubs in Asia and Europe to deliver a data-driven autopsy of the dying monetary paradigm. Across its chapters, the guide exposes key systemic issues: * The Zero-Interest Rate Illusion: How Quantitative Easing created the Everything Bubble. * The Statistical Mirage: The mechanics used to disguise real inflation metrics. * The Programmable Cage: The shift toward Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). Integrating insights aligned with the economic perspectives of Peter Schiff, Jim Rogers, Professor Steve Hanke, and Frank Giustra, this 32-chapter manual offers strategic approaches for navigating the evolving financial landscape. It serves as a tactical book for absolute self-reliance, helping households transition into autonomous Micro-Fortresses ahead of the global economic reset. *Stop just getting by. Read the definitive guide to understanding and overcoming the middle class squeeze today.

Shawn P. B. Robinson

"Ridge: Day One is a startling adult debut written with excellent style and stunning precision. Not a mark is missed, not a page lets you down." Nathaniel Luscombe, hecticreadinglife A nation built on honor stands at the edge of a vicious threat. General Rezin Hamel serves a people known for discipline, mercy, and an unwavering moral code. As deadly beasts press against their borders, he makes an unthinkable choice—he disgraces himself and leaves behind everything he has sworn to protect. Beyond the empty wilderness lies a civilization hidden behind walls of secrecy, a nation built on cruelty. Slavery is common. Violence is celebrated. Power rules without conscience. Alone and operating in secret, Hamel enters this hostile world to uncover what is truly moving against his people. What he discovers will test his resolve and the limits of his strategy. Failure means extinction for his people. Success could reshape nations. Ridge: Day One begins a heroic epic fantasy series of honor, infiltration, and strategic war against hidden evil.

Mich Solo

"A smart, edgy, and crisply paced cyberthriller that effortlessly blends its big themes with explosive action."— Kirkus Reviews Nathan Carter has a steady career, a marriage of twenty years, and a run of good luck he's never thought to question. When a work AI refuses a simple command and a stranger tells him his life has been managed, the surface cracks. What's underneath is impossible to unsee, and Nathan has a choice to make: accept the life he was handed, or risk everything to live a life of his own. "Emotional depth of this sort isn't always a part of dystopian fiction... executed so deftly in a punchy and no-nonsense style." — Kirkus Reviews A near-future literary thriller about free will, identity, and the cost of knowing who you really are. For readers of Kazuo Ishiguro, Ted Chiang, and Blake Crouch.

Greg Holman

Billy Houston built an empire from nothing. Then he discovered that success has a price. From a reckless young Australian chasing opportunity in America to the creation of a multimillion-dollar financial empire, Billy’s extraordinary rise is fuelled by ambition, instinct and an appetite for risk. But as the money, power and stakes grow, so do the betrayals and consequences. Rags to Riches is the first book in The Billy Houston Saga — a fast-paced story of ambition, wealth, loyalty, betrayal and the choices that can change a life forever.