Lila has no memory of who she is or how she ended up walking the streets of Manhattan alone in July of 2232. She only knows she is being hunted by day and haunted through the night by dreams of a man she can’t remember apart from when her subconscious self holds him at gunpoint. Still reeling from the death of his brother, Derek seeks justice. When he views footage incriminating Lila, the woman he’s come to care for perhaps too greatly, Derek knows something is very wrong. Derek’s sister Desi blames herself for Damian’s death, unable to forget how unkind she was to him at their last meeting and how she never repaid him for taking care of her after the death of their parents. In her guilt, she turns to Ravenna, a trained assassin and Damian’s fiancée, to ensure that Lila is brought to justice while Desi herself seeks comfort in her brothers’ business partner Eddie. Derek vows to find Lila before the police—and Ravenna, who is resolute that murder should be punished.

Lacrimosa: A Novel

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Jourdan, Mandi

Science Fiction

Adelaide Books

Swords and Sorcery. Demons and Dragons. Bards and Battlements. Strange and Sinister. You won't find any Wizard of Oz, "Portal Fantasy" type stories in this collection. Only High Fantasy stories that take place in a Secondary World will be found among these pages.

Grimdark Grimoires: A Dark Fantasy Anthology

Literature & Fiction

De-Gruchy, Alex

Medina, A. A.

McHardy, Simon

Morgan, Owen

Kauffmann, Kevin

Francis, Rob

Szabo III, Joseph Lewis

Shkodra, Tevis

Genre Fiction

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Pulp Modern: Volume Two, Issue Five

Hayes, Peter W. J.

Weisfeld, Victoria

JAYNE, SERENA

Friend, Timothy

Furman, Adam S.

Gilbertson, Nils

Short Stories & Anthologies

Uncle B. Publications

Lacrimosa (Shadows of the Mind)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Southern Fried Karma, LLC

“Androids with superhuman abilities and the family who created them are inextricably entwined in a battle for survival. Packed with love and loss, beauty and chaos, and shocking twists and turns, Mandi Jourdan’s Veritas will make you hungry for more.” —Brenda Marie Smith, author of IF DARKNESS TAKES USandIF THE LIGHT ESCAPESIn the wake of her brother’s murder and the devastating realization that someone she trusted was responsible, Desi Lawrence struggles to rebuild her life while dealing with the mental fallout of being betrayed and nearly killed. She takes on her brother’s job at the helm of his robotics company, but someone wants her out of the way, and they’re playing a deadly game with the people close to her to make that happen. While searching for the truth about who is tormenting them and why, Desi and her family find themselves caught in a web of government secrets and lies with the potential to destroy them all. “In this nail-biting sequel to Lacrimosa, Jourdan continues to weave an intricate web of complex characters, captivating action, and heartfelt emotion. With stunning revelations, nuanced drama, and a harrowing conclusion, Veritas grabs you by the throat with its cold metal hand and does not let go.” —Sarah Jilek, author of SAINT CATASTROPHE“Mandi Jourdan’s prose is cleaner than a hound’s tooth, and her plots run like a scalded dog. Her humans are real people, and her androids are too. You won’t read a more enjoyable science fiction tale this year.” —Pinckney Benedict, winner of the National Endowment for the Arts Literature FellowshipMandi Jourdan received her MFA in creative writing from Southern Illinois University, where she worked as a senior editor on BLANKET FORT RADIO THEATER, a podcast currently featured on NPR. In 2019, she won the MISSOURI REVIEW’s Miller Audio Prize for Prose with her short story “Inheritance,” the first science fiction piece to appear in TMR, which was set in the same world as VERITAS. Her work has been published over one hundred times, and LACRIMOSA, the first novel in the Shadows of the Mind series, is a bestseller.

Veritas: Shadows of the Mind: Book Two

Join the editors of Alcyone for tales of distant worlds, dystopian futures, magic and mystery, and much more. In our inaugural issue, a government agent explores alternate realities in the search for Jimi Hendrix, a pair of married assassins are subjected to their worst fears, the Tin Man writes to Dorothy, and the dead return to life. And that's just the beginning. Featuring: "Memoria" by Phillip Frey "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Jonathan Travelstead "Thermal Imprint" by Gregory Kimbrell "Reflections on a Night in Dreamland" by Jewel Beth Davis "There is a Constellation" by Terry Severhill "Draining the Swamp" by Kelly Cherry "Leafing" by Nina Schuyler "In the Thick of Flowers" by Taunja Thomson "King Solomon's Ring" by Fred McGavran "Sanguinaria" by Paul Hetzler "Site Unseen" by Joseph M. Felser "A Rocket" by Sandy Wickersham-McWhorter "Too Much Experience" by Mike Tuohy "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Lana Grey "Do Not Resuscitate" by Dan Fields "Tin Man's Note to Dorothy" by Alan Meyrowitz "Shadows" by Mandi Jourdan Edited by Mandi Jourdan and Justin Gordon.

Alcyone: Issue I: Speculative Fiction and Poetry

Schuyler, Nina

CHERRY, Kelly

McGavran, Fred

Frey, Phillip

Fields, Dan

Tuohy, Mike

Magazine, Alcyone

Severhill, Terry

Kimbrell, Gregory

Literary

Independently published

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