Tears of a Heart is the first book of the Kan Savasci Cycle, a fantasy and coming of age saga from Chase Blackwood that revolves around a young boy named Kirin, whose journey could mean war or peace for an entire continent. When an evil...

The Carnelian is the first book in The Gemstone Chronicles by William L. Stuart. Maggie and Aiden come to stay with Nana and Beebop, their grandparents, for spring break. Their time is usually spent jet skiing, rock hounding, and four-wheeling. On one of the rock...

The Angel of Elydria is the first volume of A.R. Meyering's young adult fantasy series, The Dawn Mirror Chronicles. Penelope Fairfax is a young woman who lives with her mother, Paulina. When she's not attending college, she helps out her mother at Willow Street Wonders,...

Truth: The Geneva Project Book 1 by Christina Benjamin is a new and inventive kind of story. Long ago, an island was torn apart by a flood and only one city survived. A village right outside the city also survived, along with a few people...

Rilk Wulk is not just any boy – in fact, he’s not really even a normal boy! Rilk is a member of a secret race living in the area of Fremont, California, who has been called upon to save the earth from the evil Dragon...

The Seeker Must Awaken by Willow Renner is a magical tale of a young girl named Alexa. Alexa lives in a small town in Ohio with her grandmother. Her parents died in a car crash ten years ago. Or so she thinks. Now Alexa isn’t...

The Dry is a fantasy written for young adults and preteens by Rebecca Nolen. It's set in Jeffersonville, Virginia in 1895, and there's been an extended drought that's badly affected harvests. Elliot Sweeney is 12 years old, and he's been living with his uncle since...

The Obsidian Pebble is Volume One of the Artefact Quintet, a Young Adult Contemporary Fantasy and Science Fiction series written by Rhys A. Jones. Oz Chambers lives with his mom at Number 2 Magnus Street, otherwise known as Penwurt, a huge ancient edifice that had...

Moira, an art student, along with her sister, Tabitha, and her brother, Dai, travel to Meini Hirion, a stone circle in Wales, just outside the town they live in. They go to perform a spell from Tabitha's Wiccan religion to try to contact their late...

The Dream Hiker (Volume I) by Padmaja Khanna is a young adult adventure that involves 3 students accidentally getting into each other’s dreams. Through an online journal used for their philosophy class, in which they are supposed to write each day and describe something that...