Melkorka leads the reader into Joshua Robertson’s The Kaelandur Series with an epic quest. Branimir Baran is a Kras, a race enslaved by the Highborn men of the North for generations. Much of the history and culture of his own people is lost to him,...

Heart of Mist by Helen Scheuerer is the first book in The Oremere Chronicles. After the death of her guardian, Bleak has drowned her sorrows and spent her time in search of a cure to end the magic she possesses to read minds. Her plans...

The Black River Chronicles: The Ursvaal Exchange by David Tallerman is the second book in the Black River Academy series, a compelling story that features magic and characters that are as genuine as they are relatable. Student ranger Durren Flintrand has been through much trouble...

The Name of Death is a short story from the world of the Thrice Nine Legends Saga by Joshua Robertson. Deep in the Dyndaer forest, Drada Koehn helps her war-brother, Eryet Petrie, swallow his quoin so he can die with honour. The Uvil are at...

The leading characters from Echoing Sacrifice: Traveler, both pro and antagonists, are back in another fascinating episode in the Gates of Dolimar Series. In Echoing Sacrifice: Captive, Khyl, a teenager from our world, needs her mentor/protector Rever, a dragon of the Echo Dragon Clan, to...

King Havlen of Valgard is dying. Eris, his eldest daughter and heir, blames the youngest of the four siblings, for Cora dared to marry an outsider and bring him to their world. The bedridden king bequeaths a stone of the gods to each of his...

In a brilliant start to this new science fiction series, Mary Fan’s writing is fluid and poetic. Starswept centres on the fate of fifteen-year-old Iris Lei, a talented violist who has lived under the protection of the Papilio performing arts school since birth. Earth, 2157,...

Something is wrong with Edna’s younger brother, Harrison. He seems perfectly healthy, an oddity in itself, but he isn’t acting like his normal self. Edna pushes her worries to the back of her mind until she tears off the strange watch around Harrison’s neck and...

A princess wronged, an evil prince and his equally evil sister; wild creatures, both good and evil. And then there’s the unicorn, whose horn has been smashed and his magic is fading. All the makings of a fairy tale. The plot thickens as good and...

In The Maidstone Chronicles Book One: Across the Fourwinds by Shane Trusz and Darryl Frayne, readers are introduced to Will Owens, a teenager with a strange gift of seeing dark creatures emerging from the Arden Forest, which is near his house at #25 Nineteenth Avenue...