The Hollow King by Aaryan Mehta is a young adult fantasy centered on Teagan Spawn, a teenage girl dealing with loss. After finding a hidden alley and a strange library filled with unfinished books, Teagan opens a book called The Hollow King and is pulled...

The Door, the Key and the Kingdom by Emily-Jane Hills Orford introduces Anne, aged 17, who was raised by her grandmother in present-day Canada, as her mother had to work long hours. She was introduced to a world of fantasy by her loving grandmother, who...

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...

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 Bounty, Jaz’s story feels almost hopeless from the first page. She’s a slave-gladiator, forced to fight because society sees her life as "entertainment." When a match nearly kills her, the escape that follows doesn’t feel heroic or clean. It is born from desperation....

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...

The Australian Shepherd Scheme by Simon Drayton is a short young adult mystery set in Little Rock. The story begins when Penny arrives at the Novel Detective Agency. Her Australian Shepherd puppy, Pumpkin, was missing, and she needed help finding him. John Smith, an 18-year-old...

The newest book in the Honor of Dragons series, The Peace of Minds by Robert Jones, launches into a war where dragon clans, led by Cobalt, attack the kingdom ruled by King Donald and King Henry. The dragons want to control ports and sea routes,...

David R. Beshears’ riveting The Serpent's Keep Trilogy consists of three novels. Jake (Jacob) Quigley is the principal character. In Book One: Serpent's Keep, Jake inherits his uncle Tobias Quigley’s estate and mansion in the village of Serpent’s Keep. Tobias is presumed dead when he...

The Mystery of the Lightning God by K. Mafikeng follows teenage detective Elena Crawford as she investigates the disappearance of soccer star Mark Evans. With no ransom, no clues, and rising tension in the community, Elena steps in after receiving a request from a retired...