by admin | Oct 14, 2025 | Science Fiction |
Hugo Award-winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this sci-fi thriller set in a world where one woman fights to know her true identity and survive the forces that threaten her very existence.
In the near future, humans choose life—for a price. Injectable nanite technology is the lifeblood that flows through every individual wishing to experience the world through the lens of their own theme. While death from mortal wounds is still possible, life is made easier in a socially liberated society where automation and income equality allow passion pursuits to flourish over traditional work. Renewal stations are provided to every law-abiding citizen for weekly check-ins, which issue life-sustaining repairs in exchange for personal privacy. But what becomes of those who check out, of those who dare to resist immortality and risk being edited under the gaze of an identity-extracting government surveillance system?
When Holly Winseed wakes up in a hospital room, her memory compromised and a new identity imposed on her, a team of government agents wastes no time stating their objective. With intent to infiltrate and defeat the terrorist group ICON, the agents tell Holly that she is now a Provisional Replica and has one week to hunt down and kill her Original for the murder of her husband, Jonathan. If she succeeds, she’ll assume her Original’s place in society. If she fails, her life will end. Holly’s progress is monitored by an assigned contact that feeds her information as she confronts the blank, robotic world around her, discovering that others view life through the theme of their own choosing.
With her newly implanted combat and deduction skills, Holly fends off both attacks by terrorists and doubts about her own trustworthiness as clues lead her to her Original—and to the truth about Jonathan. In the end, one body remains and one walks away. Although questions persist, one thing is certain: Life will never be the same.
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by Philip Eliot | Oct 8, 2025 | Thriller & Suspense |
WARNING ?? You won’t be able to stop reading! The BRAND NEW utterly heart-pounding thriller from NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING author of The Wives, Valerie Keogh Must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell!Cara Jenkins is a successful author about to embark on her thirtieth novel. But as she sits at her desk to write, she realizes that she has no ideas left. And as the pressure mounts for her to deliver, she begins to fear that her career is over.Then the letters start.At first, they seem harmless. But as the messages grow darker, Cara becomes convinced that someone is watching her, waiting for their moment to strike.Her husband, Artie, dismisses the notes as stupid pranks, but Cara feels them pulling her back to a past she can’t escape. With no easy answers, Cara does what she does best and begins to write. But the more words that come, the more fantasy and reality begin to blur and soon her imagination, and her accusations, begin to run wild.With reality blurring into fiction, Cara struggles to see the truth. Is someone really watching her, or is her unravelling mind feeding her paranoia? And how will this story – her story – end?This time her deadline has never felt more deadly….Praise for Valerie Keogh:‘Keogh is the queen of compelling narratives and twisty plots’ Jenny O’Brien’A wonderful book, I can’t rate this one highly enough. If only there were ten stars, it’s that good. Valerie Keogh is a master story-teller, and this is a masterful performance.’ Bestselling author Anita Waller’Keogh is no. 1 for a reason, and this is another perfect slice of domestic noir. A definite 5 stars.’ Bestselling author, Keri Beevis’I was blown away with this book!’ ????? Reader Review’I didn’t see the twist coming at all!’ ????? Reader Review’A rollercoaster of a story!’ ????? Reader Review
by admin | Oct 2, 2025 | Dystopian & Apocalyptic |
White Flag of the Dead: Book 1
Millions died when the Enillo Virus swept the earth. Millions more were lost when the victims of the plague refused to stay dead, instead rising to slaughter and feed on those left alive. For survivors like John Talon and his son Jake, they are faced with a choice: Do they submit to the dead, raising the white flag of surrender? Or do they find the will to fight, to try and hang on to the last shreds or humanity?
by Philip Eliot | Oct 1, 2025 | Historical Fiction |
Amelia expects great adventure in the new land of Texas, but her dreams are shattered when her employer abandons her in Galveston.The sudden proposal of the ship’s handsome physician seems too good to be true; is Doctor Stein really the man she imagines? Settling with him in the German migrant camp on the Texas coast only feeds her sense of failure.Amelia’s secret life is masked by the couple’s growing prosperity and her successful operation of Stein’s mercantile store. But after a buying trip to New Orleans opens a whole new chapter of personal fulfillment for her, she begins her path towards becoming an independent woman.A story of personal growth, hardship and courage, THE DOCTOR’S WIFE is the first book in Myra Hargrave McIlvain’s series of historical novels, set in mid-19th century Texas.
by Philip Eliot | Sep 28, 2025 | Horror & Paranormal |
Aetheria — a slow-burn horror saga about memory, place, and a thing that learns when we listen.
When amateur explorers awaken a dormant force in the ruined Blackwood Asylum, the building doesn’t stop at haunting: it rewrites reality. From institutional rot to a single, corrupted town and then outward into the world, the Aetheria entity turns landscapes into living nightmares that feed on memory and sanity.
Jack Barnes, Erica Kim, and a ragged band of survivors must learn the rules of an enemy that is neither ghost nor virus but an architect of dread—an aetheric intelligence that preserves life like a museum and trades human love for fragile safety.
Aetheria is perfect for readers who love psychological horror, haunted asylum novels, cosmic supernatural thrillers, and slow-burn terror with moral stakes. The complete saga:
• Blackwood Asylum
• Sanctum (Brookfield)
• The Patient Zero (Return to Blackwood)
• The Aetheric Strain
• The Aetheric War
• Aetheria Exiled
If you want eerie atmospheric terror, moral bargains, and place-based dread that lingers long after the last page—start with Aetheria and descend.
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