By David Thomas Lord

Isaac was the perfect son, the handsome, brilliant apple of his father’s eye. Dr. Ryckman and his wife could not have been happier when their beloved son returned from his travels bringing with him his new fiancée Elizabeth, who had nursed him through a mysterious illness that had laid him low in far Transylvania. But on the eve of their wedding, the good doctor discovers that whatever that dark affliction was, it, too, had returned to Amsterdam with Isaac, hanging like a dark shadow overhead.

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By David Thomas Lord

Her heart desired nothing more than the joy of having a child to call her own. Her womb, however, repeatedly mocked and disappointed her wish. But in a dark Chicago alleyway, she found something to share the love that pulsed within her veins, in her breast.

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By Phyllis Gotlieb

Rain is a shape-shifter, an expatriate orphan, one of hundreds living on Earth, struggling to survive fit in, to make a living with his abilities. He can be your companion, a long-lost lover, a child whom the years have taken irretrievably away. But even with the talent to become anyone or anything, one can still feel like an island lost in a sea of billions.

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By Rebecca Maines

Auguste Rodin created masterpieces with his hands-works of timeless art that seemed to breathe, to pulse with the very life that their subjects themselves once possessed. Camille Claudel worked at the feet of the maître , watched him sculpt these likenesses of such realistic form, learned his secrets . . . and discovered what price must be paid for such mastery. This is a tale of a time long since gone by, a story about life and death, and of the rashness of youth.

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By Martin Mundt

Sometimes a story comes along that carries the reader on such a wild ride it’s hard to get off before it comes to an end. It’s even more difficult when the author writes it in a way that his audience cannot help but “get into” the narrator’s mind. Of course, when the story is told from your viewpoint, it’s sometimes well-nigh impossible to figure out whether it’s only a dream.

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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.

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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.

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(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.

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By Derrick Sanders

Have you ever awakened from a dream and been unsure if it wasn’t actually reality you had left behind? And what, then, when that other existence won’t remain in slumber, but leaks through to speak, to guide, to demand your attention…and action? Jason Harrington discovers that neither friends, lovers, nor enemies are likely to be what they outwardly seem.

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