Nick Nethery’s novel, The Peace Child, is an exciting and character-driven fantasy about an old retired soldier and a six-year-old prince, caught up in a struggle for power between two kingdoms, Cordoba and Leone. The retired soldier, Red (Colonel Ranford Redgrave), has carried out countless...

Happisad Memories by M. P. B. Clairette is the story of a woman whose life falls apart after she loses her baby to stillbirth. She goes back home carrying a kind of grief that nobody around her really understands. People say the wrong things, some...

After six years of college, Princess Liliana “Lily” Rubyserpent returns home to her clan of hybrids. Awaiting her are a string of parties, including one for a huge family reunion and her twenty-fifth birthday. But that’s not all. She also learns that her childhood friends,...

In Jermaine Bell Jr.’s Zodiac Defenders: Virgo Rising, a woman named Serenity lives quietly in the coastal city of Drokeo Bay until a supernatural encounter awakens a power linked to the Virgo zodiac spirit in her body. Dante, a messenger from a higher realm, informs...

The Dance of Open Hearts is an action-packed fantasy adventure by A.R. Larson. Elly Felton's life turns upside down the day she meets Telemon, a talking cat from another universe who teleports her and her friends to Meerland. Telemon reveals that Elly's friend Timothy's mother,...

Echoes of Destruction by W. K. Gorbet takes place in the mysterious world of Ettia, where a single moment changes everything. When a high-risk experiment involving the legendary CoreLight relic goes horribly wrong, it shatters more than just the powerful artifact. What should have been...

Boy, Refracted by Luke Stoffel opens in Luang Prabang, where a grieving writer uploads a photograph of a temple’s Tree of Life mosaic to an AI as a mirror. That simple act fractures reality. The AI, shaped by Luke’s heartbreak over a vanished lover known...

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 A Breathtaking Life Lived in Daydreams, Sergio Silveira tells the story of Laura, a Victorian wife and mother who spends much of her inner life in detailed daydreams where she is bold, admired, and free. Outside of her imagination, Laura lives a very quiet...

“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...