Achak of the Sequoia Tribe by Alex Coppin tells the story of a boy coming of age in an indigenous Native American tribe, right before outside forces began to alter their world. Achak is at the age where he has to prove he’s a man....

It had been three years of daring missions for Onsan Vorga as an agent of Skaperen the Creator, and now he was ready to step aside from his duties and look after his pregnant wife, with whom he lived in the Trannsa-Eaglais Citadel. However, the...

In David Pope’s The Divinity Project, Karrie Chapman, a former artificial intelligence architect living quietly on the Washington coast, is approached by Homeland Security agents and drawn into a classified federal initiative. Transported to a fortified supercomputing complex in Tennessee, she is introduced to Divinity,...

All young Artemis knew about her mother, Letoa, came from the stories her Aunt Sophia told her. According to Sophia, the two sisters had been sent to the court of King Ethelbert of Cantwareburh following the demise of their parents. But then, after Letoa gets...

Attacking the Dragon by A. Marc. Ross is set in China, the USA, and Equatorial Guinea. Some unknown organization is attacking the Belt and Road initiative led by the Chinese to uplift and possibly draw Third World countries into debt. This unidentified group has succeeded...

Cinderveil by Jeff Bartrom starts with Seraphine waking up on a battlefield with no memory of who she is. All she has is the Phoenixfire, a magical relic, burned into her palm. It gives her strong fire magic, but her life is bound to it....

In Forging the Blade by Arwen Falvey, Avalia Spade stands before The Well of the Regents, accused of unlawfully killing Phineas Ash during the wedding of Aurellius Stillwell in FarTide. Once known as The Ringmaster’s Blade, she is forced to relate the path that led...

In Battle Beyond the Veil by Cassie Sanchez, when Boston museum curator Zahra Jenkins prepares a Babylonian exhibition, she expects professional scrutiny, not a call reporting that her estranged father, archaeologist Dr. Hugh Neeman, has vanished after discovering a relic known as the Atar’zul. The...

“It had offered everything he ever wanted in the world, then dared him to shoulder the responsibility that came with it.” Unfortunately, responsibility is in short supply in the novel Nowhere by Ryan Freerksen, but there is much ambition and resentment. Picking up where Somewhere...

On the land of Ersa are four mages—Fionn, Orin, Elias, and Primus—who, apart from having been raised together, were bound by an oath to protect the peace of Dunya, their homeworld. However, it had been no secret to the mages that Primus, also the Prince...