In The Junkyard by Bryan Reilly, after escaping a dog-fighting ring run by a violent junkyard owner named Mr. Fergusen, a battered pit bull called Ninja is taken into a hidden settlement beneath piles of wrecked cars where abandoned dogs survive under the leadership of...

Kuni Ruto by Llewellyn Burgess is a political fantasy that follows the story of Arinko Xelha. This begins a decade after the Queendom of Xelha’s civil war with Arinko as the new queen. Young and inexperienced in politics, Arinka was passionate about rebuilding her damaged...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

In the epic fantasy Zodiac: The Talismans Rising by Kyrie Dunphy, X takes an artifact called the Yin Scroll from a hidden chamber beneath a jungle cenote, and in doing so triggers a massive chain reaction. This disrupts the system governing a realm called Sheng...

When Catalina Kennedy and her brother Robby are sent to Ireland to train to be Masters of Blades, they expect to be back home in Peru in a short while. Fifteen years later, and still not called back home, the pair is curious about why...

In Polly Isn't Home by A.J.R. Traill, Polly West arrives in a desert research settlement with no record of her existence and learns she has been displaced into a community nineteen years in the past, before her own birth. It is built around a facility...

In Elizabeth Mowery’s The Unwanted Alliance, Adeline Bigsby is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives with her family. She unlocks a rusty gate behind her backyard and enters a hidden realm where time in her world stops. There, she trains with a fighter named Jesse under...

It had been four years since Beatrice “Bea” Cooper, now seventeen, had lost her father. His death had not been easy on either her or her stepmother and sole guardian, Mary Cooper. Their relationship was as strained as their financial situation. Apart from school and...

The Treasure of Askelon by Daren Hatfield is the first book in the Dragonrook series. It introduces orphan Arthur Cross, whose journey becomes a swashbuckling odyssey across desert wastes and pirate-infested seas. Marauders led by the brutal and fearsome Thaddeus Schark raid the orphanage, seeking...

When Lieutenant Lily Starling, of the United Earth Union fleet, is summoned by Caris to her lab on Bimini, she is shocked by Caris’ revelation about the dark truth behind the planet’s renewal cycle. Shortly after, through a tip from Datch’s digital backup, Lily heads...