Synopsis: If Norman Melamourne, a Source-hating ex-detective, had things his way, the Source wouldn’t have snapped into existence twenty years ago. After all, it’s the reason his wife lost her life; he lost his job, and now even his favorite restaurants use Source-processed ingredients. He can taste the difference, and it’s awful. When a consulting position lands […]
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Review: The Strange Grey Everything by Rebecca Crunden
Synopsis: Damien Giles hasn’t seen his husband in twelve years. Not since Carlisle left him on their honeymoon. All Damien got was his father-in-law telling him that Carlisle wasn’t coming back. (Twice.) And yet divorce papers never arrived. Now Carlisle’s back in town for his brother’s wedding and keeps crossing Damien’s path. More baffling to […]
Review: ShadowBane (A Schism of Souls #1) by Cal Logan
Synopsis: One womb, one soul, two fates. One will rise. One will fall. Shura and Jin are the last of a divine bloodline, operating at the bloodiest fringes of society where they wield might and magic against the demons they are sworn to destroy. For Shura, it’s the only way to restore honor to her […]
Review: The Phoenix Keeper by S.A. MacLean
Synopsis: Aila has spent her entire life dreaming of saving phoenixes. She pulled countless all-nighters at uni just to sneak a toe in the door of the breathtakingly competitive field of conservation, stumbling through failed romance and disastrous class presentations thanks to social anxiety, while also surviving a ferocious class rivalry with the (unbearably beautiful) […]
Review: The Sunset Sovereign: A Dragon’s Memoir by Laura Huie
Synopsis: When a dragon finds an assassin sneaking into his lair, he tells her of his life’s work and his soon to be final chapter. For the past thousand years, the dragon Vakandi has watched the people of Vakfored grow from a wandering band of refugees to a glorious city of art and magic. Under […]
Review: The Diamond Device (Accidental Capers #1) by M.H. Thaung
Synopsis: After diamond power promises to replace steam, an unemployed labourer and a thieving noble unite to foil an international plot and avert a war. Alf Wilson resents the new technology that cost him his factory job, especially as his clockwork leg bars him from army enrolment. He daren’t confess his unemployment to his overbearing […]
Review: Symbiote (Ice Plague Wars #1) by Michael Nayak
Synopsis: As World War III rages, the scientists in Antarctica are thankful for the isolation – until a group of Chinese scientists arrive at the American research base. In their truck is a dead body, the first murder in Antarctica. The potential for a geopolitical firestorm is great, and, with no clear jurisdiction, the Americans […]
Cover Reveal: Little Bead in a Squall by C.B. Lansdell
I’m excited to help with this cover reveal for my friend and fellow author, C.B. Lansdell. Little Bead in a Squall is an interactive fiction/choose-your-own-adventure style story that will be included as part of the Unearthed Stories app starting December 5, 2025. * * * * * * * Cover illustration and design by Livia […]
Review: Redneck Revenant (The Adam Binder Series #4) by David R. Slayton
Synopsis: Adam Binder’s life has never been better. Sure, he has no money, no car, no home to call his own, and he’s worried about creating a future with his boyfriend Vic, but he’s closer to his family than ever before. He’s also Page to the Elven Court of Swords, and that appointment is not […]
Review: Rogue Community College (The Liberty House Series #1) by David R. Slayton
Synopsis: Isaac Frost is an assassin. Raised in the Graveyard of the cruel and mysterious Undertaker, he has mastered the deadly art of the knife and the skill of survival, together with scores of others just like him—young men taken from their families to become the most infamous killers throughout the realms of elves and […]
Review: Dark Theory (Dark Law #1) by Wick Welker
Synopsis: A robot yearns to remember. A thief struggles to forget. A galaxy on the verge of collapse. On the fringe of a broken civilization, a robot awakens with no memories and only one directive: find his creator. But in the village of Korthe, Beetro finds only radioactive pestilence, famine, and Miree—a tormented thief with […]
Review: This Gilded Abyss (The Titan’s Wrath Trilogy #1) by Rebecca Thorne
Synopsis: Sergeant Nix Marr is a damn good soldier, but she’s desperate to leave her haunted past in the bioluminescent ocean, buried alongside old friends…and old flames. Unfortunately, even the icy ocean can’t extinguish some fires. When Kessandra, everyone’s favorite princess―and Nix’s loathed ex―requests Nix’s help investigating a massacre in the abyssal city of Fall, […]