To Avenge a Fallen Star by Qilanna Quinn follows Gemma Proctor, a miner on the planet Reva, who enters the Oranos Trials—a government program that takes twenty-year-olds to the capital city of Zion, and subjects them to public elimination tests in exchange for military placement...

In The Artist Instance by Faruk Brbovic, during the winters, Anela Foster paints impossible patterns—doorways that threaten reality’s fabric, capturing loops with precision from angles that are hard to attain. She is under the illusion that she is painting a nightmare. Then Elysia Harrington enters...

Having successfully escaped their Grastralenian captors and returned to Earth, Olympia Blunt and the other human survivors attempt to move on from a devastating experience on a hostile planet. Olympia soon discovers that her initial hero status with her people is gradually dwindling. She fears...

A family holiday goes horribly wrong for Olympia Blunt when aliens invade Earth, killing millions of the planet's inhabitants, including her parents, and take her and several other human survivors to work on their home world of Borgomom. Olympia initially refuses to bend the knee,...

Holly M. Jenkins’ The Swan’s Arrow is a fairytale-themed story that enthralled me with its magic and thematic development. Princess Odette loses her mother to a terrifying curse. Now she is bound by duty to marry the one person she detests, Prince Derek, whose seemingly...

The Last Light of Home by Sophia Luxe is a fantasy romance with a touch of science fiction. This post-apocalyptic story is set in the frozen ruins of the Twin Cities after a devastating solar storm destroys civilization. The story follows Georgianna Harris, a former...

The Trials of Browid by Stephanie Bosshard follows Selena, running her family’s café after her mother’s death and her father’s disappearance. Her ordinary life is shattered when she receives warnings of danger and a pendant linked to her family’s hidden past. She's part of the...

I found it difficult to stop reading The Dead Queen by Briar Knightly. This dark, romantic fantasy is filled with breathtaking action, passion, a brewing love triangle, and a mystery surrounding a missing person. Sienna, heiress of Llwyn and a Fox royal, is brave, unyielding,...

Thirty-year-old Andie Marks, a reserved public school teacher in Seattle, had had enough of her abusive husband, Dylan Marks. He had hit her again, and she knew this would not be the last time. Hellbent on freeing herself from this toxic union, Andie flees to...

The Grand Duke’s Masseur by Rori Thornton is the story of Nie Wahnera, a human and adopted noble who resides in the country of Rabahn, a land populated with horned, four-armed bipedals similar to dogs. He is a masseur to Grand Duke Abuin, a man...