Down to Earth is Book 2 of The Attuned series by Jessica Natalie Reino, but it can be read as a stand-alone as well. On the face of it, Sarah D’Antonio is a typical high school junior. But her home is the fictional New England...

In Midnight Reverie by Hermione Lee, Cyndi Osmond wakes up from a dream of a royal wedding to the nightmare of her real life as a housemaid. In this version of the Cinderella story, there was no magic to get her to the ball, so...

In Rich Meyrick’s The Prisoner of Venice, Ernest, a young Ratses living secretly inside the Tower of London, disappears, following a letter that promises him a mission in Venice. His friend Jaspa travels across Europe with a group of fellow Ses, tiny animal-like people who...

Endymion and the Fae: A Tale of Liamec by J. Steven Lamperti follows a young shepherd named Endymion. He is living a quiet life in the mountain village of Woolford. But that changes one day, when he notices that his simple midday meal is mysteriously...

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...

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...

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...

The Whirring by Will J. Donnel is a multi-generational fantasy told by Lytie, an Irish-American matriarch. The story focuses on her family's unique mystical inheritance. In this story, you will meet five grandchildren, Alina, Kayla, Donnie, Coleton, and Emalee, who manifest "the gift," which is...

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...

Tears of the Flames is a dark fantasy novel by Sisi Zhao. Mira Murphy's life turns upside down after a brutal assault in the woods awakens something dark and powerful within her, summoning a mysterious green vortex over her hometown. A couple of years pass,...