William Short’s The Griffin’s Ring: Beginnings follows Griffin “Fin” Short, an Australian teenager whose move to Clandesnoir, Maryland, begins with his mother’s disappearance and a gold ring she leaves behind. The ring transforms Fin’s body overnight. Soon he can hear animals, while its griffin emblem...

In Kathy-Lynn Cross’s So Shall I Reap, Tevin is a Grim Reaper called an Ashen, one of the daemons who harvest souls for the River Styx. Sent to collect a child after a Las Vegas car crash, he stops when seven-year-old Alexcia Stasis looks directly...

In The Doomsday Shroud by R L Gemmill, after a rescue team enters Pandora’s Cave in Virginia, Kelly Bishop becomes the target of demons that can copy human bodies and return from death. Living in Angie McCormick’s fortified home with her younger brother Travis, Kelly...

Sincerely Yours... by Sonia D. Hebdon is set in 1989 in Haven Cove. Seventeen-year-old Josie Worthington is an intelligent senior high school student who begins writing the anonymous advice column “Soul Searcher” for the Haven Cove Gazette. Her carefully constructed world tilts when Blaine Cordwell,...

In R.L. Gemmill’s Doomsday, siblings Kelly, Jon, and Travis Bishop are orphaned by a devastating car accident. Seven years later, they are living in Chantilly, Virginia, with their foster parents, Chris and Angie McCormick. When they visit Pandora’s Cave, an earthquake thrusts them into a...

The Preachers in the Land of Uz: The Dorothy and Pete Story by Keith Peten centers on Dorothy Peal, a bright high‑school senior whose life is abruptly upended after a traumatic event. Her parents send her to stay with her aunt and uncle, hoping distance...

Mind of Moore: The Chadwick Legacy by C. M. Willowcraft follows Ziva Moore, a teen girl just trying to survive high school while hiding the fact that she can read minds and shatter glass with her thoughts. When a disturbing flash of the future makes...

Kuni Ruto by Llewellyn Burgess is a political fantasy that follows the story of Arinko Xelha. This begins a decade after the Queendom of Xelha’s civil war with Arinko as the new queen. Young and inexperienced in politics, Arinka was passionate about rebuilding her damaged...

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...

In A Madness Unmade by E. K. Larson-Burnett, ever since her father's untimely demise, Laurel Rumbroom has been the sole living resident of Underhallow Sanctum. And that's quite a tall order for any teenager. Her home is a dilapidated mansion that offers sanctuary to an...