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 […]
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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, […]
Review: Lady Drakeslayer (The Divine Godsqueen Coda #2) by Bill Adams
Synopsis: Never forget the truth of who you are. An orphan, now knowing her trueborn name, shuns the destiny of the blood coursing her veins. Returning to her training, her reputation grows with each codex, but her path to Eminence slowly shackles her. A drake, burdened by the loss of his ward, can think of […]
Review: An Ambitious Woman and her Very Normal Pet by Lily Greene
Synopsis: After a devastating invasion, the necromancers of the kingdom of Led are executed for their crimes against the sanctity of life. One such necromancer, Sybil Whitman, finds all of this really, really, really dumb. All she wanted was to have her own farm and work alongside her skeleton constructs, providing food and warmth to the surrounding […]
Review: The Godsblood Tragedy (The Divine Godsqueen Coda #1) by Bill Adams
Synopsis: An orphan, without a trueborn name, returns to the city of her birth to uncover her past. Hounded by the servants of the Dark God and dying from the poisonous mist that covers the land, her path leads to one of the magical seals protecting the holy ruin of Eminence. A father, murdered and […]
Review: Daedalus is Dead by Seamus Sullivan
Synopsis: Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur. And the grieving father of Icarus, who plunged into the sea as father and son flew from the grasp of the tyrannical King Minos. Now, Daedalus seeks to reunite with Icarus in the […]