Lord of Beasts (Saga of the Swordbreaker #2) – Kit Sun Cheah

When beasts swarm the Central Plains, the city-state of Yudu issues a call for aid. Martial cultivators from across Xiazhou descend on Yudu, chasing dreams of wealth and glory. Among them is Li Ming and his fellow biaohang from Dayong.

Shattered by recent losses, Dayong needs to rebuild their reputation, earn much-needed revenue and expand their influence. But when they arrive, what was supposed to be a straightforward beast hunt spirals out of control.

Old foes and new enemies crawl out of the woodwork. The beasts themselves are acting strangely. And from the shadows comes a plot to overturn the world of the rivers and lakes.

Surrounded by chaos and conspiracy, Li Ming and his allies must plunge into the fray and unmask those who seek to become the Lord of Beasts.

The Rider Rises (The Lost Riders #2) – Jasper Alden and D. K. Holmberg

The Lost Riders will return…

With the truth of the queen’s deception revealed, Hal and his team must find new allies to stop her.

Their journey brings them into Dragon Valley, but they quickly learn that all is not well. A dark danger has come to Keershan’s home, poisoning the dragons. If they want to find the help they need, they must first save the dragons—but the dragons no longer trust humans.

With war coming, they must choose a side. Could it already be too late?

Signal (From Beyond #2) – Jasper T. Scott and Nathan Hystad

The Signal is on Earth. The world is being infected.

David Bryce returned in a crashed starship, but his mission was unsuccessful. He’s sent to Alaska with his family, but the infection has already begun. When he finds an alien device, he might just be able to change the course of an impossible war.

The Signal is hidden somewhere on Earth. The race is on to find it before the invaders do, but an insidious ailment is spreading across the globe, making it difficult to know who to trust. Lennon Baxter leads a Dark Team, hunting the Stalkers as they seek to congregate. But what is their motive?

Atlas Donovan is the only man capable of helping the Association, and it’s unclear whether he can trust the enigmatic Dark Leader. He heads to the Amazon jungle to search for the Signal, the fate of the world in his hands.

Silent Order: Rust Hand – Jonathan Moeller

A lawless space station. A ruthless pirate gang. And a superweapon that might destroy everything.

Jack March is on the most important mission of his life – find the Pulse superweapon before it can destroy the Kingdom of Calaskar.

To find the Pulse, he needs a ship that can make the dangerous journey to the Non-Aligned Systems.

But to get that ship, he’ll need to return to Rustbelt Station and survive its dangers.

Because in the lawless depths of interstellar space, it’s might that makes right… Read More

Months after the fight with the Last Titan, Harry Dresden is nursing the spiritual and emotional wounds from that near apocalypse. Maya, a reformed prostitute turned charity worker, comes to his door, seeking a private investigator to help her escape the attention of her former pimp, who is threatening to sue her for the charity’s money. Dresden takes the case, thinking that he might be able to do some normal, non-magical good for once.

He did not count on the pimp’s lawyer having connections to the faes’ Winter Court. Even worse, the pimp is a loyal soldier for underworld boss John Marcone, a man even the supernatural have learned to fear. Caught between matters of what’s right, what’s custom, and what’s owed, Dresden searches for a way to extract Maya from the impending lawsuit.

And then someone sics a rampaging spirit bear on Dresden… Read More

The Guns of Freedom (Starship Freedom #7) – Daniel Arenson

War.

War flares between man and monster. Between Earth and the terror from the stars.

We did not choose this war. The spiders attacked us. They trapped us in their webs. They devoured millions.

No, we did not want this war. But we will win it!

The starship Freedom rises. A legendary ship. A beacon of hope. A pillar of flame in the darkness. The fleet rallies behind her. All eyes gaze up at her light.

Admiral James King leads the fleet to battle. He knows the stakes. Earth teeters on the edge of destruction. He must muster all his courage, all his skill. Or Earth will fall.

This is an hour of war. An hour of spiders. An hour of courage and sacrifice and blood. This is Freedom’s finest hour.

Junkyard Ghost Ship (Junkyard Pirate #6) – Jamie McFarlane

A flying saucer’s crash landing is just the beginning of a race against time to save innocent aliens from a devious plot.

Albert Jenkins and his friends have enjoyed several months of peace, which is why when a Rosengul spaceship crash lands into his new house, he’s not exactly surprised.

From the wreckage, a pair of small, ordinarily reclusive Rosengul emerge and spin a tale of kidnapping and deceit. Of course, AJ, who is about as sensitive as a stampeding buffalo, asks the pertinent question. Why drop this problem in his lap? The simple answer is that AJ developed a galactic reputation for getting the job done, even when it requires skirting Galactic Empire law. Someone is kidnapping Rosengul aliens, and their government is either unable to chase down the problem or unwilling to try. It’s obvious that it’s time to take off the gloves and get their hands dirty.

But before AJ can even get a full description of the problem, a team of heavily armed, human commandos fast rope their way into the middle of Darnell’s backyard. Having brought barbeque sauce to a gunfight, AJ and his team are easily overcome, leaving Doctor Jayne seriously injured.

If AJ wasn’t invested before the commandos arrived, hurting his fiancé was a great way to drag him into the fight. The biggest question is will he have to fight Army Intelligence or will they finally join forces for the benefit of all.

Night of the Knife – Vaughn Heppner

Legend holds that a Celestial turned evil once stole the Creator’s Staff of Light, fleeing with it to the World Below. The staff shattered when the Celestial changed a lizard into the Great Dragon. The exploding staff killed the evil Celestial and unleashed terrible beasts upon the Earth, for the Great Dragon became the mother of all her kind.

The other Celestials were forbidden to leave their realm to fix the problem. Thus, they sent their servants to stop the Dragons. Many called them Elves, and they did their best, but the Elves were no match for the fire-breathing monsters.

In desperation, the Elf Queen has sent the darkest of them—Iroldo the Lynx Lord, a master of the knife and stealthy forays—to rescue one who has learned a fatal Dragon weakness. But she’s locked deep in a deadly fortress, guarded by manticoras, wyverns, sorcerers and Dragons.

This is the world’s last chance to stave off eternal slavery, and their hope lies in the skills of the darkest of rogues. Read More

The minute I stepped ashore from the Sea Girl, I had a hunch that there would be trouble. — Sailor Steve Costigan

Robert E. Howard is best known for his sword and sorcery tales, and his heroes Conan and Kull. But Howard wrote more stories of Sailor Stevie Costigan than any other of his heroes with the exception of Conan. Costigan was a sailor in the Pacific, hot-headed, quick with his hands, and the fiercest boxer on the seas. Accompanied by his bulldog Mike, Costigan moves from port to port and ring to ring, avenging slights and proving naysayers wrong. Unfortunately, this means that Costigan takes lumps that a few moments’ hesitation may have prevented, something the old salt good-naturedly admits.

In “The Pit of the Serpent”, Steve’s problems begin with the most common source of disputes on shore leave: a beautiful woman.  Said looker happens to catch the attention of the Dautless‘s boxing champion, Bat Slade, whose advances are unwelcomed by Steve. The resulting argument catches the attention of a shifty local, who suggests that the two men settle their differences in the ring.

However, this fight club happens to be out on a remote hacienda, at the bottom of a snake pit. But Steve’s blood is up, and his mind is focused on beating Slade in a bare-knuckled boxing match. As it should be. Slade previously routed men who have dragged Costigan to twenty-round draws.

And then, just to add insult to injury, Costigan and Slade agree to a $200 bet between them… Read More

Fire and Bone (Echoes of Pangaea #2) – James Tarr

After decades of civil war, La Fuerza is on the run in Mexico, the communist guerrilla army seemingly on its last legs. Sergeant Seamus O’Malley was a big reason for their current ill-fortune, and the veteran private contractor now has a huge price on his head. He’s given an easy executive protection job in remote Cancún, but he isn’t happy about his new “babysitting” assignment.

The war rages on, sparking the worst wildfires the country has ever seen. The descendants of the genetically-engineered animals once filling Pangaea, the former dinosaur park, are forced by the fires to flee throughout Mexico, causing chaos.

In the midst of this, La Fuerza struggles for a victory, for its very existence, and its brutal soldiers are willing to do whatever it takes to get a win. A mercenary with a bounty on his head and the billionaire’s daughter he protects seem like easy targets.

Past the oblivious tourists and bright lights, Cancún is an island of civilization surrounded by jungle and death. It’s holding its breath, waiting for the worst to happen.

There’s trouble in paradise, and Seamus O’Malley couldn’t be happier.

Glory Boy (Drop Trooper: Birthright #1) – Rick Partlow

Caleb Mitchell gave up everything to protect his home.

Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his homeworld of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium.

When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.

That’s when their war really begins.

Recruited for a top-secret special operations unit, Cal and his friends undergo experimental and dangerous physical augmentation that turns them into supersoldiers, designed to take the fight behind enemy lines and put the fear of God into an alien society who thinks their Emperor is God personified.

Now Caleb is asked to sacrifice his very humanity to protect his people.

But when Canaan itself is threatened by the Tahni, will he throw away his career and risk everything to save the people who turned their backs on him?

Gun Magus – N. R. LaPoint

Low on luck, but not ammo

The last thing Kenneth Jericho needed was a gunfight and car chase with human traffickers. What started as a bad morning only got worse.

A flash of light sends Ken to a strange world filled with magic, hideous monsters, beautiful women, and seemingly unlimited ammo.

With pistol in hand, Ken is thrown into a race against time to stop a local ganglord’s reign of terror. But is the thug the brains behind the violence,
or is someone – or something – else pulling his strings?

In Another World, I Must Train my Dungeon (In Another World… #2) – Miles English

There are dog people. There are cat people. Then there are those who keep a dungeon as a pet.

Shana had a big summer: With the help of her best friends and a Hero from another world she’s conquered dungeons, leveled up, defeated a small cult of evil Sorcerers, and looted hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gold. But maybe the greatest treasure was the dungeon core they found.

With it, Shana and her friends can build a dungeon of their own, one that will reward them gold and experience for defeating enemies. But that’s only if they can figure out how to make it grow. There’s also one other little problem. The dungeon core they “found” had previous owners who are none too happy that it’s gone missing, and who will stop at nothing to get it back. Read More