Animal Conquest by David Bush follows Jean, a dispossessed dog forced from his estate after his brother’s death during a confrontation engineered by another, who leaves him under judgment and sent away from home. As he moves across unfamiliar lands, he gathers a small group...

Elva of the Seas by Jordan Elizabeth is a short novella to delight the hearts of lovers of fantasy and fairy tales. Princess Elva is sent away on a holiday from the kingdom where her younger sister has just become queen. It feels more like...

The Creeping Darkness of Janaidar by Robert D. Holland begins in a hidden underground city called The Sleeping City, where an ancient dragon named YuLong wakes up the instant YunFei, the ruler he has been mentally linked to for thousands of years, dies. He expects...

Klood P. Trouvay’s Embers in the Salt introduces us to Syra, a woman who has survived the worst of New Merserat’s fighting pits only to end up doing forced labor for the city officials. She’s a survivor through and through, with the nickname Greykiss, like...

Wings of Light by Ellen V. Woods follows Irissa, an immortal woman who is determined to prove herself by joining the Golden Sphere and becoming a Messenger of the Gods like her sister. To do this, she must survive a series of dangerous and demanding...

Genies do exist, and wishes do come true in A Gift of Jacinth by Allie McCormack. Jacinth Khayyam is a Wish Bearer, a genie who chooses to be bound to a human to help them by granting three wishes. Douglas McCandliss is a hard-working veterinarian,...

In The Orphans of Nilad by Erich and Daniella Sanchack, driven by a sealed letter, EoC leads Kaida, the blue-eyed barbarian Dinger, and the half-elf Kekron ashore to Nilad, a mountain town shrinking under fear after miners vanish, and strange messages begin appearing in the...

In Tilly Hornsby’s Guardian of the Depths, when marine biologist Kaia Jones inherits her grandparents’ secluded cottage in a private Scottish cove, she expects solitude and a place to continue her work on the sea. Instead, repeated visits from a mysterious woman arriving by rowboat...

Tears of the Flames is a dark fantasy novel by Sisi Zhao. Mira Murphy's life turns upside down after a brutal assault in the woods awakens something dark and powerful within her, summoning a mysterious green vortex over her hometown. A couple of years pass,...

In Sophia Kouidou-Giles’s historic Ariadne, when Cretan princess Ariadne is sent to Athens as part of a fragile alliance, she enters a city strained by famine, political unrest, and rising hostility toward her family. Her brother Androgeus arrives to compete in the Panathenaic Games, but...