By Michael Fountain
So the devil you know is preferable to the one you don’t? In a future where the criminally inclined are branded so that others may recognize them, to be warned for safety’s sake, it’s easy to become complacent. What if you don’t know just what someone, however harmless-seeming, is truly capable of? Maybe it’s just a mistake, an oversight, or maybe even when you can see it, sometimes it’s too late to recognize the Mark of Cain.
By Robert Weinberg
There are times when there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel, when things are so dark there is no way in Hell the dawn will ever come to chase away the nightmares. In cases such as those, perhaps the beasts of one sort of darkness can only be combated by a monster of another type. Condemned to a fate far worse than death at the hands of vengeful gangbangers, a desperate assistant district attorney finds salvation.
(an excerpt from the novel)
By Matt Hughes
Wealth or duty. Sometimes the abandonment of one leaves too full a feast for even the most ethical to push away from the table. The renunciants of Sherit turned their backs on riches and the excesses of inherited wealth for the good of society and the benefit of those less fortunate. And for that sacrifice, theirs was a life of charitable luxury and sweet serenity. But when flies dirty the honey of this Utopian banquet, watchful eyes are needed to suss out those responsible. In this excerpt from the latest book by Matt Hughes, a young probationary agent from the Bureau of Scrutiny takes a bite out of corruption that may ultimately prove to be more than he can swallow.
