Finally, the backstory for one of our favorite characters, Assad! Since he found the basement over ten years ago, we have little information about his life before Department Q. And although he's confounded Carl in the past with his esoteric knowledge of the Middle East and shadowy references to military skills, we never get a... Continue Reading →
Without Sanction by Don Bentley
Without Sanction is a thrill ride with intense action in the Middle East and political maneuvering in the Oval Office. A team of CIA opperatives infiltrates a base in Syria only to find evidence of WMDs. Three of the four soldiers are killed and the fourth is taken prisoner. Cabinet infighting and the return of... Continue Reading →
Shadow of the Batgirl by Sarah Kuhn and Nicole Goux
Cassandra Cain has been raised for one purpose: to be an assassin. Bred to carry the mantle for her father, she lacks even the basic ways of communicating but can kill a person a thousand different ways. Her life changes when one of her targets desperately utters one of the few words she knows, "daughter."... Continue Reading →
Bridge 108 by Anne Charnock
Europe in the late 21st century is shadow of its former self. Climate change has destroyed industry and immigrants are flooding the few remaining places where people have been able to survive. Caleb is a 12-yr-old boy who has been enslaved in a community near Manchester. He is newly promoted to head of designed for... Continue Reading →
Along the Razor’s Edge by Rob J. Hayes
There's anger.... and there's thrown-into-the-Pit-by-the-enemy-to-dig-maze-like-tunnels-til-infinity hatred. That's Eskara. She's a young sorceress whose side has lost the war. Her Sources (magic made solid) have been removed from her body, but she still knows things. And every week she is pulled into a room, enticed by fresh food and clean clothes... but she doesn't relent. It's... Continue Reading →