Marcus Crane’s Broken, Not Ruined: Orichalcum & Obsidian follows science teacher Kyle Walker, whose wife Stephanie is a nurse practitioner. Their ordinary Saturday at a farmers’ market is shattered when a dimensional fracture tears Stephanie from Earth. She awakens in Galta, where a World System...

Some books entertain you, and others, like A. B. Watts’s Become As God, rewire you. Welcome to Modrinia, the Delivered Kingdom, where magic is outlawed and dreaded to the extent that the citizens only refer to it as “the m-word.” Sleep is a thing that...

Adel BinTamim’s Before the Emergence opens with President Jasmine Wallace balancing leadership and motherhood at the White House before leaving for Baghdad to sign a cultural accord. She touches a faceless clay statue older than civilization itself at the Iraqi National Museum and is changed...

Stephanie Cotta’s Beneath the Crescent Shadow follows Naja, a sixteen-year-old Karahvelan warrior in an isolated seaside village where children are sacred and outsiders are feared. During a monsoon, Naja and her best friend Sylda rescue a pregnant albino woman from a wreck off the Zahari...

Born of Shadow: Empire of Blades by Nicole Conway follows Violet, a young Viperi, caught and jailed for the murder of a blacksmith. Having no hope of anything other than the executioner's block, Violet seemingly has no choice but to trust the cloaked man offering...

In Beyond the Curtain by Marie Lunga, Europe has been sealed for sixteen years behind a magical barrier, the Curtain, raised after a wizarding war ended with the execution of a rebel leader whose survival threatened the new regime. When two civilian men escape through...

Battle for Crossroads by J.P. Coffman follows Bourdain of Ikvia, whose parents died during an expedition tied to forgotten ruins. Carrying his mother’s journal and his father’s sword, he leaves the city to seek records in Sovaran and hires on as a guard with Garron’s...

In Badb: The Morrigan by Corina Douglas, Badb’s persona of the fearless and undefeated Battle Crow is the result of childhood trauma, and the queen’s hatred and disgust for her daughter’s mixed Formorian and Tuatha heritage. Denied love and made into a formidable weapon of...

Blood and Flame (The Quinate's Faithful Book 1) by Brendan Corbett features Dara, a young miner with a unique ability to handle mana. She was taken to the Academy of Ramaia to train as a Blood Mage for the Quinarium, a group that serves five...

In Bloodwoven: The Binding Tenets Trilogy (book one), G.J. Terral skillfully narrates the adventures of Lin, a resilient Ferrucium soldier. Lin must safely guide two escortees (Margaret and Aemun) to a secure, assigned location. A quick stop in a small village results in an unexpected...