Armed with a map that knows everything, Nerissa Eliott is determined to find her sister and keep her promise to her sick father. However, she is directed to Brevlyra, a cursed land no one remembers how to get to. To make matters worse, she has...

Divided by Suzanne Lowe is the third book in the Seventeen series and concerns a town where the inhabitants are all children. The adults had all succumbed to a virus that only appeared to attack older people. As there were only children in town,...

Crossing Charry Ridge by Suzann Albright offers a wonderfully imaginative, profoundly touching, and often humorous crow’s-eye view of contemporary life in Southern Appalachia along the Blue Ridge Parkway. The story’s crow narrator, Jet, is found as a seemingly abandoned fledgling by one of the story’s...

Genesis of the Phoenix Dawn is the second book in the Eternal Grind series by Joel Poe. Having grown into his role as the Phoenix Warrior, Joren faces the biggest threat to the existence of Aelloria yet, with the Dark Lord Malazar who has acquired...

In the novel Symphony of Crowns by Christine E Schulze, Gailea, a powerful sorceress, relinquishes her throne and disguises herself as an instructor at a magical school to protect her children from an unkind ex-lover. King Samil, a cruel usurper, wields banned magic and his...

Twilight Cave by David Kennedy McCulloch is the second book in the middle-grade Wullie The Mahaar Gome series. It is preceded by book one in which Finnley McDougall's mundane life in sixth grade is abruptly transformed when he becomes the keeper of Wullie, a gruff...

Madison Kleigh and the Onyx Stone is a young adult novel by Jeffrey David Montanye. Twelve-year-old Madison Kleigh watches as her father Michael's ship launches him and the crew from NASA to Mars. A curious package arrives in the post many months later. Madison believes...

Michael Drakich's Seven Realms series begins in Piaxia, where young warlock Tarlok, guard captain Savan, and merchant Tessia navigate the Brotherhood of Warlocks' power struggles after the monarchy's overthrow. A century on, a demonic threat reemerges, unsettling the seven kingdoms, with siblings Gar and Darlee...

Rejoining Kin by M.K. Baker chronicles the journey of the Wise Assembly of Haven, who set off to find their respective Kin as winter concludes. Baker's cast includes diverse characters such as Elkor, Tildra, Dehmun, Endi, Akro, and Ryjus, each confronting their own hopes, trials,...

Dubiety by Nancy Newman is the third book in the Heartwood series, which began in the Adirondack Mountains where the teenager Elathea was revealed to be the next true Xylem. Ela was sent to the magical edifice, Heartwood, to learn about her destiny of protecting...