Lorehaven Library / ages / all teens+YA

The Sword and the Way

Reavers killed his kinfolk. Now Jorgan Anderson seeks a legendary sword-dance, which will probably kill him.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Never To Live

To save him, she let the madness take her … and now it won’t let her go.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Forsaken

Grace Fortune saw the boy she loves, Jared Lorn, die before her eyes. But Grace’s suspicions have her wondering if Jared really is dead.

supernatural and beyond for all teens+YA

Conviction

On a planet where Esarelian rule is slowly crushing all resistance, two humans learn to trust God, and each other, with every secret they have left.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Hera’s Doom

Hera Jackson never expected Arcadia to go to war. Much less a civil war.

fantasy for all teens+YA, middle grade

Reviewed

Armor of Aletheia

An orphaned princess is charged with finding the sacred armor of her people in order to defeat an ancient evil infecting her world.

Ralene Burke’s Armor of Aletheia gives readers classic fantasy suffused with spirituality.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for teen girls+YA

The Wolf Prince

A cursed prince and his brother race against time to defeat an evil sorcerer before a wicked spell dooms them all.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Frosted Fire

Hunted by soldiers with dark enchantments on their side, Iyanka fights to find hope for herself and her people.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

For Us Humans

A disillusioned believer must help a Christ-seeking alien solve the art theft of the century.

This adventure morphs into a complex fusion of intergalactic conspiracy, prejudice erasure, redemption narrative, and call to personal revival.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Fairest Son

When mortal huntress discovers a maimed faerie prince up in the mountains, she must choose her side in an ancient feud.

H. S. J. Williams’ novella Fairest Son contains familiar echoes: seven “dwarves,” a poison apple, a poem of prophecy. But the story is unique.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Child of the Kaites

To free her people from slavery, Rai must decide if she is a warrior or historian in this desert fantasy retelling of the story of Moses.

With well-realized characterization, the overall narrative flies like a thematic arrow toward the real-life account of God freeing his people from Egypt.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Visions of Light and Shadow

Is Aviad calling Elowyn and Morganne to follow the road beyond Minhaven?

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Door to Altharia

In a conflict between ancient and mortal enemies, a scarred youth will emerge as a world’s brightest hope.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

Fawkes

In 17th century London, Thomas joins his father’s gunpowder plot to blow up the king of England.

Here in Nadine Brandes’s color-magical world, the Thames still burbles with sewage and even sincere men can believe and die for false religion.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Fraught

After debugger ThreadBare’s master is assassinated, his implant goes haywire, terrorizing his mind with unpredictable pain.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Launch

Teens with supernatural gifts must choose what to do with them when they’re invited to a social media conference by a tech billionaire.

The story inhabits its youthful, modern world with conviction. Fun and never airy, Launch offers a good ride.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

The Wisprian World, Book I: Tears of Alphega

Before darkness was o’er the deep, a world was whispered.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Coiled

As the ugly twin to a perfect sister, Princess Laidra lives her life in the shadows—until her parents offer her as bait for a giant serpent.

H. L. Burke weaves faux-mythology and complex characterization into a narrative that slithers along at a brisk clip.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

Affinity

Kai was born with the ability to see brokenness and to fix it. Then a freak accident leaves him trapped in the spiritual realm.

Affinity is a creative and original play on old concepts, and if you’re willing to take the ride, you’ll find it goes places.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy supernatural and beyond for all teens+YA

Rebirth

Rogue elements of the sisterhood by divine providence are captured, while a dreadful prophecy has begun to unfold.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Speed of Sight

An awkward boy from a broken home discovers the power of a special comic book to defeat bullies and save lives.

In Speed of Sight, C. R. Flamingbush presents a fun concept—comic book stories within Pete’s comic-book-style story, like plays within a play.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Light Arises

Rayne must face the darkness within himself, accept his calling as Light Bringer of the One, and find the golden-haired girl from his dream.

The Light Arises will leave readers craving the next word for the next world.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Dagger’s Sleep

In a land of mountains, canoes, and fairy tales, one princess races to wake the sleeping high prince in this gender-swapped Sleeping Beauty retelling.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The 49th Mystic

Rachelle Matthews begins to dream of another world so real that she wonders if Earth might only be a dream.

In The 49th Mystic, Ted Dekker overhauls Other Earth with an adventure that’s part The Village, part Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Story Peddler

In a world where art is magic, one storyteller gets more than she bargained for when her stories spiral out of control and accuse the king of treason.

This story spins a perfect array of delightful characters living with complex magical abilities in a truly unique world.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

The Chronicle of the Three: Eden Sword

In this final installment of The Chronicle of the Three, light and darkness collide as Zoe discovers there is more than one battlefield in this war.

supernatural and beyond for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Rejected Princess

If Roanna is to save herself and her future, she must stall her marriage and squelch the growing rebellion—all while discovering how deeply her power runs.

With The Rejected Princess, Katie Clark has fashioned a cozy political thriller braided with thoughtful ambiguity and adorned with romance.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The White Forest

A fallen kingdom and a cursed forest await the arrival of their true savior and prince.

Best for: Pre-teen readers who like fantasy stories.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA, middle grade

Rhats!

A naive man-sized rat goes on a space adventure.

science fiction for all teens+YA, middle grade

Diondray’s Discovery

Diondray Azur never questioned his regular life. But everything changes when he learns that the true history of his family and his world isn’t what he was taught.

for all adults, all teens+YA