An ancient relic stolen from a temple embodies a goddess-created beast; when a thief unseals it, lives are in jeopardy in the fantasy novel Shadow of the Jade Cat: A Tale From the City of Magic by Susan Ann Walker. A short time before the...

Shadow's Apprentice, Book 1 in The Namyria Chronicles by Marta Robyne, has a good premise at the center of its plot: A young village healer wanting a residency to become a master healer. This is the story of Macayla. Her residency hinges on convincing her...

A Christian fantasy science-fiction novel that delves into the riddles of life and death, The Gatekeeper’s Descendants by Johanna Frank is bold and imaginative. Pipiera arrived in the form of a curious young teenager and is still reluctant to enter the gate to the kingdom....

Elora Morgan continues the Beyond the God Sea Trilogy with Bound by Dark Waters, Book II: Wed. Zaria has been kidnapped and is torn between knowing whether her beloved Kirwyn has died or if he survived their attack. Upon arriving at Rythas, Zaria learns she...

Alyssa was an orphaned outcast from the remote village of Andretka who had nothing going for her. So she travels in a caravan to Al Khair, a famous prosperous city she’d heard about in stories. The place had a mix of humans, vampires, and other...

King Edmund accused his cousin, Lord Eadred, of having sexual relations with his Queen, Anais. Was there any truth to it? An attempt on Lord Eadred’s life at Arnil Wale left his friends dead. He turned his back on everything he knew, donned a disguise,...

Dr. O and the Eco-X is a sci-fi novella written by Aaron T. Knight. To rid the world of plastic waste, Dr. O Soozana comes up with the revolutionary idea of creating little creatures called Eco-X who feed on a steady diet of petro carbons....

Presence, the Play by William Jefferson manages to fill a void in our imagination. In a way, you can experience it if you descend into a deep sleep. In the case of the story’s protagonist, who goes by the name of Script, the narrative unfurls...

In the Kingdom of Duminborne, the people and witches hated each other, but they coexisted. A sage and a witch birthed twins. The first became the second, and destinies switched. Frallec became a sage while the king knighted Calec as a debt owed to the...

The City of Locked Doors in the novel by Keegan and Tristen Kozinski is Umbras: a seething conglomerate of mechanized mayhem, where the supernatural meets plague-ridden humanity in a wild dance of survival and rebirth. This is a brutal city of towering structures, underworld tunnels,...