Featured Publication: Welcome to Greengrass

Welcome to Greengrass - by S.A. Check

John Traveller never asked to be ripped from his life as a police detective on Earth. He definitely never expected to find himself trapped inside a patchwork alien city of magic and technology, locked down under an impenetrable dome. But when a high profile death rocks the citizenry of GreenGrass, Traveller is forced into the middle of a brewing civil war between the city’s two dominating factions.

Racing beneath the city’s twin red moons, on a search for a cloaked stranger, Traveller and his team consisting of a pacifist demon, a cast out demi-god, and a telepathic female, find themselves drawn into dark alleys and guarded secrets, facing bestial street predators, techno-assassins, amphibious conmen, and a vampire acting troupe. The answers they discover may save their new home or bring the walls of the dome crumbling down around them all.

A paranormal scifi novel available on necropublications.com, Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Further information about S.A. Check can be found here.

Featured Publication: Alone in the Crowd

Alone in the Crowd - by Patrick Stutzman

The Anna Foster Chronicles, Volume 3

Earth has finally sent a colony to the moon where Anna has been stranded, bringing with it hope of rescue. Although some are not quick to trust her, others welcome her with open arms, and she finds an unlikely friendship in a young colonist named Jason.

As Anna teaches the settlers to survive, the looming threat of the aliens' return casts a dark, foreboding shadow over the colony. Can she earn the colonists' trust and prepare them in time for first contact?

A scifi novel available on Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Further information about Patrick Stutzman can be found here.

Featured Publication: Horse Power

Horse Power - by Sue Ann Bowling

Roi is now the acknowledged heir to Lai, kept busy learning to be a member of the Inner council. Flame and Penny are still with him after their trip on Falaron, but Amber and Timi have become colonists on Horizon, a world Terraformed for stock rearing. It’s an idyllic planet, but the colonizing company has set things up in such a way that the colonists have a difficult time avoiding debt slavery.

Roi is sent to investigate the problem, but it appears that the colonizing company’s actions however immoral, are legal. All it seems he can do is see that Timi and Amber’s children at least have the pets they crave. But a few things have been forgotten over the centuries, and those “pets” may have a great influence on Horizon’s future.

Horse Power is a short story set after Tourist Trap, and a couple of centuries before the Horizon War trilogy (forthcoming.)

A scifi short available on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

Further information about Sue Ann Bowling can be found here.

Featured Publication: Alone in Paradise

Alone in Paradise - by Patrick Stutzman

The Anna Foster Chronicles, Volume 2

After the destruction of the mining station that was her home for 6 years, Anna Foster crashes on the newly-discovered moon she calls Paradise. With no way of calling for help, can she survive in the untamed wilderness while trying to find a way back to human-controlled space?

While she adapts to the new environment, Anna stumbles across some of the moon’s hidden secrets and quickly discovers that she is not as alone as she originally believed.

A scifi novel available on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

Further information about Patrick Stutzman can be found here.

Featured Publication: Tourist Trap

Tourist Trap - by Sue Ann Bowling

A vacation with his three best friends from slavery and a manhood challenge: Roi is given the graduation present he has dreamed of. Dogsledding, hang gliding, a chance to see Pleistocene animals transplanted to a Terraformed vacation world, horseback riding, sailing … all the sports he has returned to with his recovery from paralysis, and a few new ones to learn.

They’re prepared for danger from weather, wild animals and extreme sports. But none of them realize that Roi’s half brother Zhaim, determined to recover his old position as Lai’s heir, intends to kill them if he can—and he’s decided that the dangers of the trip will make a perfect cover for his schemes.

How long will it take them to realize that the “accidents” they keep running into are more than just accidents?

A scifi novel available on Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Further information about Sue Ann Bowling can be found here.

Featured Publication: Alone on the Edge

Alone on the Edge - by Patrick Stutzman

The Anna Foster Chronicles, Volume 1

After accepting a job as a robotic engineer that sends her to a mining station at the edge of explored space, Anna Foster finds that her position is not what she expects and must adjust to life as the only living being aboard, struggling to keep her humanity while a relentless computer lords over her existence. But, can the secret she uncovers prove to be the key to her freedom?

A scifi novel available on Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Further information about Patrick Stutzman can be found here.

Featured Publication: Homecoming

Homecoming - by Sue Ann Bowling

Snowy is a slave, a dancer. His first priority is keeping himself and his friends alive, and this means hiding the odd abilities that could get him killed. How can he cope with being totally paralyzed and sent to school with a group of telepathic bullies?

Lai is the last survivor of the R’il’nai, the species that has kept the Jarnian Confederation going for a hundred thousand years. He is in mourning for his Human lover, Cloudy, but now it seems there might be more R’il’nai somewhere beyond the borders of the Confederation. Can he find them? Should he?

Marna was on an isolation satellite when a plague wiped out all the rest of the population of her planet. Now the life-support system of the satellite has failed, and Marna must try to return to a planet where no other intelligent creature is alive. Is the plague still there? Can she survive? Does she want to?

A scifi novel available on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

Further information about Sue Ann Bowling can be found here.

Featured Publication: Sorrel Snowbound

Sorrel Snowbound - by Peter Vialls

The lloruk have captured Wrack.

If Sorrel is to rescue him from the lloruk city at Luthvara, she needs an edge – something the lloruk haven't encountered.

The obvious answer is an aeroplane.

But that means Sorrel needs to travel to the one place more dangerous than the scarlet depths of the Chasm.

She has to go home.

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon.

Further information about Peter Vialls can be found here.

Featured Publication: Hero's End

Hero's End - by JC Cassels

Given the choice between Love and Duty, which does one sacrifice for the other?

When a former lover with a score to settle nearly brings Blade Devon’s charmed life to an end, he seeks refuge and some time to lick his wounds with an old friend…leaving the woman he loves behind.

Bo Barron is no frail flower, despite her masquerade as Blade’s Joy Babe Mistress. She straps on her sidearm and goes off alone to track her missing father, kicking off a search that stretches across the galaxy – from the lair of the gruesome Rex, a clone with a taste for sentient biomatter, to Rogue’s Cross, the most dangerous space station in the outer Commonwealth.

Someone close to her doesn’t want Bo’s father found. To make matters worse, the First Sector Overlord orders Blade’s holofeature career over and Bo out of his life for good.

Surrounded by betrayal, Bo and Blade turn to each other…but the secrets he protects threaten to tear them apart.

One way or another, returning Bo’s father to his rightful place and following their hearts will mean HERO’S END.

A space opera novel, available on Amazon.

Further information about JC Cassels can be found here.

Featured Publication: Sorrel in Scarlet

Sorrel in Scarlet - by Peter Vialls

Wrack blew Sorrel out of the sky. Her triplane tumbled more than two miles down into the abyss that her people called the Chasm. No one had returned from the depths in the thousand years since the elf-lloruk war tore the world asunder. Now Sorrel finds herself in the hot, impossible red jungle at the Chasm's base.

There are people down here. People struggling to survive a savage war with the graalur, creatures only described in stories and myths on the surface. Sorrel has no prospect of returning to her world – she is trapped in the primitive, violent depths.

Worse still, she finds that she is bound inextricably to Wrack, the monster who had pursued her down here and is now trapped too.

Against them are nightmares they had believed were gone for good...

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon.

Further information about Peter Vialls can be found here.

Featured Publication: Tales from the SFR Brigade

Several SFFS authors are members of the SFR Brigade. This group recently published an anthology to showcase some of the author talent available in the genre. Several of us were involved in the process, and author Pippa Jay had a short story that made it into the final publication.

Tales from the SFR Brigade - JC Cassels (Editor)

Experience love and adventure among the stars in TALES FROM THE SFR BRIGADE, a free digital anthology of eight Science Fiction Romance stories.

* A space captain discovers the cyborg she loves just might be her greatest enemy.

* A mind-wiped prostitute risks all when she recruits a dangerous stranger to help her escape a terrible fate.

* A prisoner-of-war confronts the comrade who loved her, then left her for dead.

* A space-obsessed physics teacher is kidnapped by a far-too-charming alien.

* An apocalypse survivor battles the biomech-enhanced hunter who seeks to capture her.

* A young artist must choose between her comfortable life on Earth or a war-torn space colony with her beloved.

* A daring thief is on the run from the alien law man who is determined to bring her to justice.

* A widowed rebel leader tries to save the last remnants of humanity, one stranger at a time.

From Earth to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, explore the worlds of Science Fiction Romance with stories from Linnea Sinclair, Marcella Burnard, Erica Hayes, Liana Brooks, Pippa Jay, Berinn Rae, Amy Laurens, and Kyndra Hatch.

A science fiction romance anthology. Availability is listed on the Tales from the SFR Brigade Anthology website.

Featured Publication: Gethyon

Gethyon - Pippa Jay

Abandoned by his mother after his father’s death, Gethyon Rees feels at odds with his world and longs to travel the stars. But discovering he has the power to do so leaves him scarred for life. Worse, it alerts the Siah-dhu—a dark entity that seeks his kind for their special abilities—to his existence, and sets a bounty hunter on his trail.

When those same alien powers lead Gethyon to commit a terrible act, they also aid his escape. Marooned on the sea-world of Ulto Marinos, Gethyon and his twin sister must work off their debt to the Seagrafter captain who rescued them while Gethyon puzzles over their transportation. How has he done this? And what more is he capable of?

Before he can learn any answers, the Wardens arrive to arrest him for his crime. Can his powers save him now? And where will he end up next?

A science fiction novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Pippa Jay can be found here.

Featured Publication: Horizon Shift

Horizon Shift - Lyndi Alexander

When Captain Temms Rogers of the Confederation spaceship Doubtful disobeys orders to attack innocent civilians, he and his crew become hunted rebels. In the midst of a desperate space battle, they risk using an experimental alien device that opens a wormhole which hurls them into a new universe.

A science fiction novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: Death Brings Victory

Death Brings Victory - T.M. Hunter

Space pirate Aston West just escaped death at the pair of psychotic twin brothers, only to take refuge in a war zone. Fighting alongside his friend Rione Sc’lari, he hopes to help the underdog rebels gain the upper hand against their government. Trouble is, his friendship blossoms into a love that he can’t let happen, or he'll risk watching Rione die just like the last woman he had feelings for.

The Torian government puts out a contract on them both, driving the two into hiding and bringing them even closer. As the noose tightens, he must find a way to save Rione and himself from the brink of destruction. Their only chance rests on a plan to end the war, a plot fashioned solely from bloodlust and vengeance. Aston must come to terms with his past and decide how far he’s willing to go, both with his love for Rione and a desire for revenge.

A science fiction adventure. Availability listed on The West(ern) Chronicles.

Further information about T.M. Hunter can be found here.

Featured Publication: Love Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me

Love Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me - Lyndi Alexander

Running away isn’t necessarily the answer.

In her mad rush to escape a failed marriage, Sara Woods takes the first job available and lands in the middle of a mystery. Her first assignment as a news reporter for the Ralston Courier is the investigation of a string of deaths, all young women, all her age.

She becomes a patient at the Goldstone Clinic, a local mecca of healing, to deal with chronic pain from her past. But all is not as it seems at the Goldstone, its doctors and nurses are all the picture of perfect beauty and health. Patients at the clinic first seem to get better, then they deteriorate. Sara enlists the help of Dr. Rick Paulsen, who teaches her how to access her internal power, skills she never knew she had, revealing secrets from her past. Police officer Brendon Zale also takes an interest in Sara, but he acts like a stalker, watching her every move, and he won't leave her alone.

As she digs deeper into the story, and more young women die without explanation, she tries to choose allies wisely, but not till the last confrontation does she discover the identity of her true enemy.

By then, it’s too late.

A paranormal futuristic novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: Friends in Deed

Friends in Deed - T.M. Hunter

Aston West was condemned to life on the prison planet Lycus IV for spitting in a man’s face. Being forced to reside with the likes of murderers and thieves, he owes his freedom to Lars and Elijah Cassus, who orchestrated an escape. Now the twin brothers call in the favor and force him to return with their team to Lycus IV to rescue crewmate Leah Jordan.

Aston discovers Leah’s desire to leave the twins forever, but Lars and Elijah use fear and intimidation to control their group and no one leaves alive. It’s a case of kill or be killed and Aston will need to become more like the brothers than he ever wanted.

A science-fiction adventure. Availability listed on The West(ern) Chronicles.

Further information about T.M. Hunter can be found here.

Featured Publication: Triad

Triad - Lyndi Alexander

On the planet Induna, Trezanna Len leads the Solarii, a small colony of beings, human and otherwise, who believe in the right to pursue a peaceful life free from interference from others. She’d never intended to be the one people counted on, but after she’d been dismissed from her unit at Space Force, she’d drifted along till she found this place mostly populated with travelers from the Terran Diaspora. She’d been welcomed and made comfortable; now she believes the Solarii should do the same for others seeking shelter.

Of course, no situation is free from trouble. The thorn in Trezanna’s side is another group on the neighboring planet Miramar: Dragonfleet. Always contentious, this group has become even more aggressive after Estrella Drake’s ambitious climb to power. The unbalanced and self-centered Estrella has lost many of the former Dragonfleet members disillusioned with her petulant rule, including an organized splinter faction called the Khimeyr, who left five years ago.

Trezanna has been able to tolerate Estrella’s little incursions into her space, marking them up to the price to co-exist. The exercise keeps her pilots and fighters in good practice. This turns out to be a blessing when the well-armed Arkosian space pirates decide they’d like to take the sector that includes both Miramar and Induna. But Trezanna’s Solarii cannot handle this attack on their own.

The last time the pirates entered this area of space, Dragonfleet and the Solarii stood together to repel them, but that’s when cooler heads ruled at Miramar.

Help comes from a most unexpected source, but one with its own hidden agendas. Three women, Trezanna, Estrella and Catava Rolon, must work out their differences if they are to defeat the pirates and survive.

A science fiction novel available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: Heroes Die Young

Heroes Die Young - T.M Hunter

Space pirate Aston West stumbles upon a derelict freighter, fresh from a recent battle, and can’t fight the urge to pilfer a valuable cache of highly illegal weapons. While on-board, however, one last stowaway fights back, thinking him part of an earlier boarding crew. Attack craft return to finish the ship off and Aston has no choice but to save her from certain destruction.

Who is she? What are the weapons for? Why was the freighter destroyed?

Aston discovers more questions than answers, and his life is put in jeopardy every time he stops to catch his breath. His life motto of never getting involved is put to the test, and he must decide whether to become a hero for people in need, or continue his path of self-preservation.

A science-fiction adventure. Availability listed on The West(ern) Chronicles.

Further information about T.M. Hunter can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Elf Guardian

The Elf Guardian - Lyndi Alexander

The strong Earth energies that support the Clan Elves of the Bitterroot have gone awry for unknown reasons, and the powerful forces at work have not gone unnoticed by the outside world. When a paranormal investigator looking for a story to save her career is told a fantastic tale by the juvenile and disobedient elf prince Elliun, his young albino elf bodyguard Max must try to fix the mistake. Can Max get humans, mages, and elves working together in time to save the land before the energies spin out of control? Or is this the end of the elven world in the Bitterroot Mountains?

A fantasy novel, available from Amazon and B&N.

Further information about Lyndi Alexander can be found here.

Featured Publication: The Marlin Strikes Again

The Marlin Strikes Again - TK Toppin

YOU GET WHAT YOU DESERVE...
Beneath the shiny exterior of a quaint university town, danger and sordid deeds lurk. The vigilante, Jax Marlin, sets her sights on a paedophile and gives him all that he deserves. His deeds so filthy, for once, Jax is glad her Special Inspector is not around to lay witness. Some things are better handled privately.

A scifi novella available from Amazon US and Amazon UK.

Further information about TK Toppin can be found here.