In Crown of Thorns, Mimi Deipz took me on a journey through the Moonshroud and Ember Courts, both of which are in a heap of magical trouble because of the weakening of their only source of power, the Wellspring. The story follows Princess Elara and...

Jorden Casillas isn’t your average 12-year-old boy. He’s a nahual, half human/half monster who can shape-shift into a snake. When we meet Jorden, his parents are dead, and he works at an artifact shop where his boss, Ernie, is an ogre. It turns out California...

Child of the Dragon by Ashley N.Y. Sheesley follows a world where dragon shapeshifters called the Rhaegynne are under the control of two tyrannical kings, unable to fully claim their freedom. The story kicks off in the middle of a brutal battle where Coleman and...

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...

Darby Donati is a spoiled little rich girl, the daughter of a Las Vegas casino owner, or so she thinks. The discovery of three bodies - a man, a woman, and a child - in a dried-out section of Lake Mead rocks her world. Suddenly,...

Summer of Dust and Ash is the second book in the Stone and Scale series by Ana Lee. The story of Wilder continues as he faces yet another high-stakes challenge. An attack on the New Orleans Council House forces Wilder and his friends to escape...