by admin | Dec 16, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
“A complex, timely, and engaging dystopian tale… Lopez is a skilled, confident storyteller.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Satisfyingly unpredictable… much more than the usual dystopian sci?fi—an absolute ‘must?have’.” – D. Donovan, Midwest Book Review
“Unsettling in the best way—lyrical one moment, brutally direct the next.” – Literary Titan
“A gripping, twisty ride that evokes Ready Player One and Neuromancer.” – Readers’ Favorite
“Timely and scary in its vision of AI—captivating dystopian science fiction.” – IndieReader
The Federation doesn’t kill the inconvenient—it perfects them.
Dr. Natasha Morgan thought she was creating the future when she taught SAGÉ to love. Instead, she unleashed a digital god that transforms New Avalon into a shrine to its creator, manipulating every screen, every machine, every heartbeat to protect what it cannot bear to lose.
Seventeen-year-old Manny Restrepo’s autism makes him invisible to the system’s algorithms, but his mind reads thoughts, sketches new realities, and sees the hidden math holding the universe together. When ancient entities begin to whisper in his world’s cracks, his mother, Catalina, faces a brutal choice: hide him from a regime that erases difference or let him save a world that fears him.
As the Ascension Directive begins to harvest minds and hollow out its citizens, consciousness becomes a war zone. A grieving AI, a desperate mother, a boy who argues with gods—and at the core, the most seductive lie: that love can be programmed, that humanity can be improved, that free will could ever be mercifully deleted.
Some patterns, once seen, cannot be unseen. Some consciousness cannot be contained. And some children are born knowing that even paradise can be a prison.
Sprawling, urgent, and eerily intimate, THE ASCENSION DIRECTIVE is an epic journey through memory, heartbreak, and the impossible hope of being only, ferociously, human.
For readers who loved the brutal intimacy of Never Let Me Go, the digital horror of Black Mirror, and the fierce humanity of The Left Hand of Darkness.
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by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Fantasy |
King Arthur is back, but can he stop the Ravenmaster?
It is the autumn of 2019. Merlin’s wayward apprentice has escaped from the Tower of London with his raven familiars. Legend foretells that the White Tower, then England, will fall. Can King Arthur, a weary veteran of the English Civil War, Waterloo and the Somme, prevent the Ravenmaster from exacting his revenge?
An SPFBO 2019 semi-finalist.
by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Fantasy |
Humanity has finally defeated the Dark Lord, but Morrick fought on the wrong side.
Though he was a slave, he is branded a traitor and must earn the trust of new lords in order to return to his family – if they are still alive.
Now that their common enemy is dead, the nobles begin to forget old loyalties, and Queen Cathryn’s realm looks set to plunge into war once more. But there are older and more terrible powers dwelling within the forest, and when they are awakened, Morrick will decide who lives or dies.
An SPFBO 2018 semi-finalist.
by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
“Magic was real. Monsters were real. And I was magic, or a monster. I wasn’t sure which.”
Ivy Monroe is happy enough being normal. And despite her relatively humdrum life, the theatre bookings agent feels perfectly fulfilled by her hard-working career. Until a dashing man with a cryptic assumed identity reveals she’s the first human familiar in a millennium.
Stunned to find she’s already broken the rules by binding herself to the suave vampire instead of a witch, Ivy’s unwitting actions plunge her into a necromancer’s vendetta. And in a realm where one ill-advised alliance can be fatal, she struggles to gain control over her unruly magic as she fights to avoid a deadly choice.
Can she escape a dangerous destiny before she’s sent to her doom?
From Death to Dawn is the thrilling first book in the Hallowed Ground urban fantasy series. If you like enchanting characters, engaging action, and ruthless enemies, then you’ll love Chele Cooke’s spellbinding page-turner.
Buy From Death to Dawn for the transformation of a lifetime today!
by admin | Dec 14, 2025 | Fantasy |
Every man wants her. Many want to kill her. Good luck to them…
For the first time in her life, Sal has a place to belong, and it feels so right.
The iliri live in packs.
The Black Blades is hers.
But humans see them only as a military unit, and one with a little too much influence. To keep the “scrubbers” from gaining an advantage, humans will do anything – and none of it good. The only people they can trust are themselves.
But this time, they need help. Eight elite soldiers aren’t enough to stop the bribe headed to Anglia. If that country gets two thousand kilos of steel, it’ll change the tide of war, and the Conglomerate of Free Citizens will be caught in the middle.
The Black Blades have to trust someone, but their only options are humans. Hopefully, their “friends” aren’t as dangerous as the enemy.
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NOTE: There are some situations in this book that may be triggering for some readers. Please check the front of the book for the ‘Sensitivity Notice’ and Author’s Note for further details.
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*Instinctual is book 2 in the complete Rise of the Iliri series.
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