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...

After King Anu’s death, Prince Anton emerges as the heir at the very moment Aries comes under threat. While Queen Falani works to keep the court united and the kingdom stable, Anton is pulled into direct action when attacks on a vital river crossing place...

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...