A daughter’s last chance at redemption on an alien planet. A sweeping secret that could not only end her dreams, but her life as well.
Finn Rucker boards the starship to seek a fresh start as part of a colonizing effort on Joya. The race, sponsored by Governus, yields free land and startup funds for the lucky winners. The number of entrants guarantees someone is going to lose and Finn is determined that she and her bionic horse, Herc, are among the winners.
Racing through uncharted jungle to the settlement of Novus, Finn and her fellow racers soon discover that not everything is as it seems – and Governus withheld information from the contestants. Strange beasts attack the racers, mechanical equipment begins to fail, and the very air seems out to get them.
When all seems lost, a mysterious people arrive and help the racers, revealing the depth of Governus’ deception. Finn will have to keep her pulse pistols close and her new friends closer – but not too close – as they all race to survive the jungle.
You will love this mashup of Hidalgo and James Cameron’s Avatar as Finn navigates the guilt of her past, the promise of a future, and the imminent dangers of her present.
Lexa Dean and the Wellspring by Bethany A. Perry
A treasure that could change the galaxy and a woman chasing a dangerous dream.
Dr. Alexandra “Lexa” Dean is an exoarchaeologist in search of hidden alien treasures. And if the museum paid better, she wouldn’t sell the best of her finds to the highest bidder.
When her contact delivers a map to the origins of all life, and the key to unlocking it is the artifact she just fenced to a wealthy socialite, she must devise a plan to steal it back.
But the aliens she stole it from first are closing in and the socialite is hot on her tail. If she can’t shake them, she’ll risk losing the fame and fortune she’s always dreamed of, her life, or worse.
From the author who brought you a cure for the zombie apocalypse in the Reclamation Series and a demon with amnesia in Give Me Grace, comes a treasure-hunting romp through space where Indiana Jones meets The Fifth Element.
Criminal Impulses by Sandy R. Stuckless
One last job. Then I’m out.
When the city starts exploding, Janik Brynn, becomes a suspected terrorist, stalling his plans to leave the corrupt corporate overlords and San Francisco behind, perhaps indefinitely. He’ll have to put his car thieving aside and use every trick he mastered as a Consortium coder once more if he’s going to clear his name.
On the frontlines of the city’s computer grid, Serena’s armed with a flimsy false persona and dropped into the den of a wealthy suspect—not exactly on her list of career goals. It might have actually been possible, too, if not for the aggressive wave of attacks on her boss’s infrastructure.
Forced together by fate and the power-hungry elite, these two unlikely allies must learn to trust each other, or they’ll have to watch the city they love burn to the ground.
Fans of Matthew A. Godwin’s “Into Neon” will enjoy this mashup of Total Recall and Die Hard set in Consortium owned San Francisco.
To Visit Earth by Ian Hugh McAllister
Nobody knows the destructive power of a comet better than lunar geologist Lucy Grappelli.
Now her colleague is missing and she’s injured, trapped inside their crashed and dying exploration vehicle. With the commander’s unheeded words of caution still ringing in her ears, arrogance may yet prove to be her downfall.
The base team are working flat out, but she already knows they don’t have the equipment to retrieve her at this distance. Orbiting debris from the strike has ruled out a rescue mission from Earth. Unless she can find a way to stretch her dwindling oxygen supply, and get herself the 1000 km back to the base without external help, her mission will end right here.
There it is again, a movement in the shadows of the boulder field outside. Is it the slight concussion she suffered in the landslide, or is the fog of pain and loss playing tricks on her mind? She’s dodged the raw power of the universe twice already, but Lucy fears her luck may be about to run out. Horror crawls across her skin, and nausea grips her by the throat. She is convinced that something is moving among those rocks; a grey something that shouldn’t be out there in the vacuum on the lunar surface.
And it’s creeping ever closer.