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Bake Believe

by Cori Cooper

Baking is messy enough without adding Magic to the mix. Cat Anderson has everything she could ever want. Her best friend is also her cousin, she's about to start eighth grade, and a cute new boy just moved into the neighborhood. Seriously, best life ever. So what if her mom refuses to touch the oven? So what if they always eat frozen food or take-out? So what if Cat doesn't know the difference between homemade and store bought? It's just food. Who even cares? But food, it turns out, is ... more

Wizards of Arcadia

by Daniel Xavier Luna

Evil isn’t born, nor is it stumbled upon. It’s created in the shadows of a person’s soul. It plants itself and evolves throughout one’s journey in life where it culminates in darkness until it consumes the individual. For twins Adrian and Andrew, it’s a journey one of them will take. Book one Andrew and Adrian are catapulted into a world where spells, magical beasts, and wizards exist. A world they now belong to, and their once predictable summer is gone in a blink of an eye. They go visi... more

Magic and Goldfire

by Clare Rushing

A frostbitten healer's apprentice and a knightess with memory loss must save the world from a wicked prince in a high fantasy adventure inspired by mythology, fairy tales, and medieval culture.

Vesunna "Sunny" Padsva is a legendary knight with her own ballad sung by tone-deaf bards across the land. She tolerates the fame, but craves an escape away from guard duty and starry eyed townsfolk. When the high king announces a diplomatic mission to an isolated kingdom in the... more

Swallow

by A.H. Mims

In a future America wracked by climate change, disease, and civil unrest, Martene Fisher has risen from humble beginnings to realize her dream of becoming a military officer and pilot, positions usually reserved for members of the upper class. With an elevated social status and a lifestyle few in her world enjoy, she has everything she’s ever wanted and more than most could hope for: a career, a home, people she loves, security. But Martene discovers the job is not what it seems and her hard-won... more

After the Fall

by Deek Rhew

Shai was created for one purpose: to die. 200 years after the fall of civilization, in a world warred to rubble, Shai and her fellow Recollectors—humans built by machines to serve machines—have carved out a simple, pleasant life in their Mazatlán oasis. One of love, surf, and kinship. Life is far from peaceful though. The Osiris AI controlling the machines is destabilizing, and Shai, with her upgraded genome, is the perfect sacrificial specimen they can use to patch it. To stop them and... more

The Road to Damascus

by Mark Tapper

When a magic ritual goes awry at the end of the First Crusade, a group of Knights Hospitaller are mistakenly made immortal, doomed to be reborn after each death. The knights fight with sword and magic, and, like the Hospitallers they once were, they care for the sick and dying. Their foes are the Returned, banished mages who form a corporation in another dimension that’s hell-bent on destroying beauty, diversity, and tolerance in our world as completely as it has in their own. Paul, senesc... more

Missing in the Pages

by Ashley Tropea

After eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Burrough's father went missing six years ago, all Elizabeth has ever felt is alone. Ostracized at school and ignored at home by her perpetually grieving mother, Elizabeth’s only solace lies within the pages of her favorite book, filled with daring sword fights and adventurous heroines. But when she awakes one morning to discover she's somehow inside the novel, it seems the glamorous world of eighteenth-century England may be more perilous than she'd ever expecte... more

Republic Under Siege: Threat from Within (Wars of the New Humanity Book #2)

by Michael J. Brooks

In the second book of this adult science-fiction series, a young immigrant woman, from Colony Three, becomes an outcast within Eden’s class system but decides to retaliate, and she aims to recruit Randal Scott, one of the colonies’ liberators, into a social-justice organization involved in a shadow war against murderous extremists scheming to preserve the status quo.

What is the journey of a lottery beneficiary, a colony immigrant, like? What happens when an... more

Lost in Hanks Hollow (Hanks Hollow Series Book 3)

by Rachelle Kampen

The Harts are left reeling after tragedy strikes right in their backyard. As Sam sits vigil at the side of his injured sister, Rosie, he questions his role within the pack. He already feels he let his father down, now he has the weight of his family on his shoulders. When the pack struggles under the poor leadership of Amos Hart, Sam must rise above his guilt to try to be the leader his family needs. Becca Miller has always had a crush on her best friend Rosie’s older brother, Sam Hart. After... more

Cato's Choice

by Juri Pill

Ascension

by Marc R. Micciola

The long-standing peace in the continent of Midstad is disrupted by a cult called The Black Light after a number of assassinations. The goal is to cause enough chaos to distract the good people of Midstad from their secret mission. Sadly for The Black Light, and its leaders Iver and Otti, their enemies are not so easily fooled. Suspicions arise when the old name of Kemryr is uttered, and the King of Hestferd, Bryntyr, decides to investigate further. Einar, Bryntyr's son, goes with hi... more

The Elevator

by Alice Night

After the strange disappearance of their classmate, Julie Anderson, four friends sneak into an unlocked building to play a game to help them locate Julie in "The Other World." Once they come back with her, odd things begin to happen--nightmares, a mysterious woman, possessions, and a mark of something terrible. The web of secrets and lies unravel. Who will survive these horrors? And who will die?

DEEPWOOD

by Elise Chidley

SYNOPSIS: DEEPWOOD Young Adult Fantasy, 96,000 Words by Elise Chidley Development threatens the last portal between Earth and a mythical realm in this YA fantasy adventure. After their father abandons them, teenagers Willow and Ivo McBane have to relocate with their mother, Viv, from London to Deepwood Cottage in Gloucestershire. The cottage abuts hundreds of acres of wildwood. For brilliant, curious Ivo, fascinated by botany, it’s a chance to explore. But Willow—fierce, sinewy, and athletic—m... more

Scarlet Tides

by Alice Night

How far would you go for the truth? Sybil Pierce, a proper young lady dreams of adventure when her best friend, Griffin Morgan, goes missing after failing to accompany her to a party. Believing he's in trouble, she finds herself trusting a pirate and boarding a ship only to find out the pirate isn't who he says he is. As for Griffin, his secret of being a vampire is revealed, along with family secrets.

Glossolalia: or don't scream it on the mountain

by e rathke

“My name is Ineluki. I come from past the mountains and ice. It took me many days to reach here. All I know are dead. Will you take me in?” And so begins a calamitous year at the edge of the world. Chief for the year, Aukul's life has never been better. His people respect him, he spends his nights with the love of his life, and his skills as a butcher and chef improve every day. Then Ineluki, a young stranger, wanders into town with nothing but an empty book. He begins telling stories of t... more

Journey to the Heart Stone

by Catherine Raphael

In the beginning, the Goddess danced the world into existence. Peace reigned for generations through matriarchal rule within the Minca, Dute, and Carroo tribes. But then one man’s lust for power destroyed this balance: Vestor assassinated his sister, Mother of the Minca tribe. His army ravaged the Dute and Carroo tribes. A once-idyllic world was thrust into war, famine, and despair. Yet today, there is hope. Vestor’s niece, Cora, has a vision: if she can convince an emissary from each tribe t... more

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