Sam is a recent loser in love after his partner left him for their Feng Shui consultant. After months of sobbing in his chi balanced home, his life changes with the rattle of the letterbox. Excitedly, he peels himself from the sofa in case it’s a new takeaway menu, but instead finds a leaflet for the most difficult and realistic escape room in the UK. Sam decides it is time to reweave the worn thread of his neglected friendships and attempt this most difficult of escape rooms. As the friends attempt the escape room, events take a turn for the surreal and they are unsure whether the game is real or something truly apocalyptic. They must realise the truth of the game before either their friendship, their sanity or potentially their lives are lost. Most importantly, they must get to the pub before last orders.

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

What if your whole life was a lie?

18-year-old Eden Pruitt stepped out of line just once. Unfortunately, that reckless decision ended with an arrest, a mug shot, and two very concerned parents. Now they’re starting over. In Iowa. On the cusp of her senior year. The situation is less than ideal, but she’ll have to manage. The change of address was her fault after all, and she isn’t going to make anything harder on her parents. They’ve already been through enough.

But life in Iowa turns strange fast. Odd things are happening, and Eden has no idea what any of it means. Then she comes home from her first day of school to a ransacked house and the nightmare officially begins. Her parents are missing. She’s convinced something terrible has happened to them. But nobody believes her. Except for a hardened, mysterious stranger who is as dangerous as he is enticing.

Indiana Jones meets The X-Files in this thrilling, globe-spanning adventure about the greatest treasure hunt of all time—where ancient secrets collide with cutting-edge technology. “EVERY RELIC CAN CHANGE HISTORY… OR DESTROY IT.”

Category: Science Fiction – Adventure

From million-copy bestseller Daniel Arenson comes THE EARTHLING, a sweeping tale of courage, honor, and terror among the stars.

Jon Taylor is an Earthling. He doesn’t care much about space. At least until his brother dies on Bahay, a war-torn planet many light-years away.

After the funeral, Jon joins the army. He learns to kill. And he flies to Bahay, sworn to avenge his brother.

But on Bahay, nothing is as it seems. In this place of strange dreams and secrets, Jon hunts the man who killed his brother. But he learns that revenge always comes with a price…

If you loved Ender’s Game, Starship Troopers, and Battlestar Galactica, you’ll love The Earthling, a new tale in the bestselling Earthrise universe.

Category: Science Fiction – Space Opera

Conquering this backwater planet should have been easy.

But the natives are fighting back hard. Bodies pile up. Bombs keep falling. There is no end in sight.

Jon is an Earthling, a soldier eager to serve his world. But now he’s bogged down in the jungles of an alien planet. And the enemy is ruthless.

Maria is a Bahayan, a native of this world of deep forests and deeper secrets. Her ancestors came from Earth, Filipino colonists seeking a better life. But Maria was born on Bahay, and she would die to defend her homeworld.

Jon knows she is the enemy. That her betrothed, a cruel warlord, murdered his brother. Yet Jon cannot help it. He is drawn to Maria like a moth to the flame.

And this flame might burn the galaxy.

As the war rages, secrets emerge. Lies unravel. Jon and Maria discover shocking truths . . . truths that could shake the very foundations of their worlds.

James is a 17-year-old growing up in the Federation of the Americas, a union of North and South America. He is drafted to join the military, destined to be part of an elite group of soldiers created to defend the Federation from the BlankZone, the mysterious part of Earth that stopped talking to the rest of the world after the Melt.
In training, James is tested with gruesome and grueling tasks and forced to fight alongside his new warrior friends. They are commanded by General Croyton, a sadistic, ruthless military leader who sees them less as people and more as machines created to carry out his orders.
After training, James and the team are placed in Midway, a city on the Eastern seaboard. They are instructed to protect the city under their new commander, Lieutenant Brandt. The team preps Midway for an impending battle that will impact the future of James, his friends, and humanity

Category: Science Fiction – Dystopian

In this Sci-Fi / Portal Fantasy, Dr. Graeme Milford, a 32 year old technologist and Japanese sword fighting enthusiast, invents personal wormhole transportation at a secret research facility in Scotland full of scientific wonders using a laser that can cut through reality. His success turns into a nightmare as the unstoppable power hungry tech CEO of ‘Foresight’ forces him and three of his new colleagues to run for their lives or risk being purged.

Using Graeme’s device, they flee to the only place Graeme can think of, Orbem, another universe full of fantasy. Elves, Fairies, Caninth (wolf humanoids), Harilizards (lizard humanoids) and a dark Sorcerer meet our scientists as they try to survive in hopes of discovering a way to return home and defeat the CEO.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery