Sometimes being a geneticist isn’t enough to understand your family.... Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. She may have inherited her ancestor's musical talent, but her parents' bitter divorce and her Uncle Jack's attempts to remake her into another Sean have left her hostile toward her family and music. Her passion is for science, but since she has no access to the family funds, she struggles to earn enough credits for graduate school. Then her … [Read more...] about Audio Book: Lyon’s Legacy by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan
ARIA: Left Luggage by Geoff Nelder by Geoff Nelder
Today, Jack caught a bug at work. He catches a bus home. By the time he disembarks in the desert town of Rosamond, all the other passengers and the driver have fuzzy heads. Jack had caught an amnesia bug, and it’s infectious. Imagine the ramifications: The passengers arrive home infecting family; some shop en route infecting everyone they meet. The bus driver receives more passengers giving them change for last week’s prices and today’s amnesia. Some passengers just started work at the power … [Read more...] about ARIA: Left Luggage by Geoff Nelder by Geoff Nelder
There Goes My Baby by Dennis Yates
A controversial love story for the new millennium... when robot and human connect. A lonely man purchases the android of his dreams, only to discover that the hot chick he mail-ordered has a serious glitch. But instead of returning his new lover to the company who created her, he's willing to do what's necessary to keep his woman happy, no matter how bad things get. Targeted Age Group: Adults How is Writing In Your Genre Different from Others? This story has a unique blend of humor … [Read more...] about There Goes My Baby by Dennis Yates
The Fractured: Elena (Fractured #1) (Blemished #2.5) by Sarah Dalton
In a fractured Britain, the Genetic Enhancement Ministry have taken control. Parents buy designer babies and those with genetic faults are labelled Blemished and shunned from society. Elena Darcey is just as perfect as the other clones, but there is something different about Elena, because she’s in trouble. After helping Area 14’s most famous criminals escape, Elena has to get out before her teacher-- the formidable Margaret Murgatroyd --finds out that she is a sympathiser for the Blemished. … [Read more...] about The Fractured: Elena (Fractured #1) (Blemished #2.5) by Sarah Dalton
Past Tense by Nick Marsh
Last year, Alan Reece, an unassuming animal doctor from the West Country, was surprised to discover that he had become the 'Conduit', a link between reality and the strange world beyond. Not even beginning to understand this, Alan deals with this problem as he deals with most in his life - he ignores it. Unfortunately, ripples from his unwitting transformation have freed a dark and terrible creature from its improbable prison. Burrowing into the past, it plots revenge from Ancient Britain, … [Read more...] about Past Tense by Nick Marsh
Soul Purpose by Nick Marsh
Alan Reece is a young, unhappy vet, who thinks that getting called out in the night is about the worst thing that could ever happen to him. This time, he's right. A nocturnal encounter with a miracle will quickly turn into a nightmare, and as the world collapses around him, Alan will realise that he alone holds the key to a century-old secret. Accompanied by Kate, a psychic-turned-physicist, and George, a credulous reporter, Alan will pit himself against a man who has already conquered … [Read more...] about Soul Purpose by Nick Marsh
The Man Who Built the World by Chris Ward
Matthew Cassidy is a man on the verge of self-destruction. His career is in tatters and his marriage is hanging by a thread under the threat of a latent violence he is struggling to control. His wife Rachel is on the verge of leaving him even before a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back into a world of violence and mystery that he left behind on a bloody winter's night sixteen years before. Matt must return to the quiet little country town of Tamerton, where he grew up in a … [Read more...] about The Man Who Built the World by Chris Ward
The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Ava knows much more, and feels much more than she is allowed to. When she starts questioning her origins and the destruction of Earth, things go horribly wrong for her. She is saved by a Minoan boy from an attempted kidnapping on her life – the perpetrators are evil Zulus and their dark ancient magic. Humans and Minoans are forbidden to interact with each other, and as she is taken back to their village she finds out why – they know of her, her kind and her destiny to save a dying race. Ava must … [Read more...] about The Broken Destiny by Carlyle Labuschagne
Into the Vast by DJ Edwardson
The Institute is all Adan knows. And the scientists who run it don't seem to know or even care who he might have been before he came there. But the strange technology they've fused inside of him and his missing memories are only the beginning as he finds himself swept up into a conflict between the researchers and the last remnants of humanity untouched by their experiments. Part mystical science fiction, part dystopian thriller, Into the Vast is the high-tech exploration of humanity at the … [Read more...] about Into the Vast by DJ Edwardson
The Speed of Winter by B. Morris Allen
Seeds need water, sun, ... and soil. Elyse was a forbidden child. Her parents gave up their youth for the dream of a new start for humanity. They broke the rules to give their daughter a head start. But when their colony ship arrives, the target planet is a ball of ice, and Elyse is left to watch the adults around her cope with devastating failure, and try to make something out of her own life at the same time. The Speed of Winter is the first in the Four Seasons quintet, which explores … [Read more...] about The Speed of Winter by B. Morris Allen