In Ari Magnusson's Knights Without Ceremony: Insurrection, Gorum is just coming out of war, and the kingdom’s peace is shaky and uncertain. The king allows boys from all classes to train as knights, which is a new decree. Ettan, a poor thirteen-year-old who looks after...

The Captive is the fourth book in the Heroes of the Empire series by Israh Azizi, but it can be read as a standalone novel. Honzio Hartinza has only one mission: root out all the traitors in the empire and rebuild. But he must first...

In Paradon, the nobility had to prove their worth by bonding with a dragon in a ceremony. When Isiah fails to bond with a dragon after being rushed into the ceremony, he is left marked, a result of rejection by a dragon, and banished from...

Fifteen-year-old Livia Pierce, alias Agent V or Lara Anderson, had spent most of her life working as a spy for an agency called the Age of Spies, which had taken her in at the age of five. She had been on many assignments, all on...

The Thirteenth Bell by R.D. Thorne is set in Lowmere, a town by the sea that is always blanketed in fog. Lowmere survives because of a dark bargain: each New Moon, a thirteenth bell rings, and someone vanishes. Ada Thorne, marked by the curse, survived...

Lexie Diamond’s love of code and her nerd status set her apart from her peers. She’s an introvert genius, perhaps a little neurospicy and definitely lonely. But she’s also the humble guardian of a door to the afterlife, and is responsible for the frantic, sorry...

The Elephant in the Ivy by Alexander Greengaard is set in a private university, where Alison Ashe is recruited into Chaturanga, a secret competition run by faculty in which academic departments act as rival teams in a controlled spy game. Students serve as operatives, steal...

In the epic saga A War Through Destiny by Sarah Lindsay Peterson, Stacy Grace Matthews was born in Dukhovia after her family had been expelled and left the country as an infant. Raised in the United States, she lives securely but notices persistent physical and...

Amy McNulty delivers beautiful fantasy fiction in Nobody’s Goddess. Noll is on the verge of turning seventeen, and all her friends are moving on, finding their goddesses. Her best friend Jurij found his goddess in Noll’s sister. Women wield power over the men in the...

The Wrath of Order by Glen Dahlgren follows Eve after the fall of the gods, as she tries to settle into a routine life at the temple of Charity. Her life turns again when she discovers that some orphans can enter the Dreaming, a strange...