It lurks in the shadowy recesses of the French Quarter, among the flickering gas lanterns and Creole courtyards. In the humid, teeming swamps of Barataria. A dark secret. An ancient force. The will to remake one’s history. James Beauregard finds … Continue reading The Barataria Key by J.M. Richardson
Brilliant New Orleans Professor James Beauregard’s life is spiralling into complete despair when a startling discovery is made halfway across the globe that requires his expertise. Is there really an ancient machine that could push civilisation into the throes of … Continue reading The Apocalypse Mechanism by J.M. Richardson
In this collection, meet: Guillaume, who gives up everything to protect his child; young Mathew, who stakes his life to save his home; and François, who makes the biggest sacrifice to rescue his grandson. The Sacrifice is a collection of … Continue reading The Sacrifice by Indrajit Garai
People don’t need to know you’re a murderer. They just have to think you could be… June 1980: 17-year-old Kelly Lund is jailed for killing Hollywood film director, John McFadden Thirty years later, Kelly is a free woman. Yet speculation … Continue reading What Remains of Me – A.L. Gaylin
Humanity hasn’t been alone for almost two thousand years. Elves, wolves, vampires, all joined together with mankind to eradicate the ‘darker’ races and maintained a tentative peace until modern times. Society adapted, everyone has rules that help keep the peace … Continue reading Once Lost Lords (Royal Scales Book 1) – Stephan Morse
ONE MAN’S TRUTH IS ANOTHER MAN’S LIE. When big-shot literary agent Peter Katz receives an unfinished manuscript entitled The Book of Mirrors, he is intrigued. The author, Richard Flynn is writing a memoir about his time at Princeton in the … Continue reading The Book of Mirrors – E.O. Chirovici
A wickedly funny novel about life’s saddest moments, The Easy Way Out explores the issues of assisted suicide and the right to die, from an author nominated for the Guardian First Book Award Evan is a nurse, a suicide assistant. … Continue reading The Easy Way Out – Steven Amsterdam
Daring, dangerous, and dramatic, Into Hell’s Fire is a novel that pushes the boundaries between fact and fiction. Lucas Martin, a retired agent of the U.S. government, is recalled to duty to assist Washington in deciding its Balkan policy at … Continue reading Into Hell’s Fire – Douglas Cavanaugh
A Cambridge man wakes to find his home rendered strange, as if everything in it has been moved a fraction of a centimeter while he slept. In an irrational state he flees to the nearby international airport and purchases a … Continue reading There’s a Bomb In My Luggage – G.P. Huffman
Atlanta, 1948. In this city, all crime is black and white. On one side of the tracks are the rich, white neighbourhoods; on the other, Darktown, the African-American area guarded by the city’s first black police force of only eight … Continue reading Darktown – Thomas Mullen
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