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The Dragon Forest, R. A. Douthitt

The Dragon Forest

When Prince Peter leaves behind the comforts of palace life to face the Dragon of the Forest, he learns what it means to be King.
Reader ages: middle grade
Skinshifter, Alycia Christine
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Skinshifter

A skinshifter must overcome her curse and unite with other war refugees to defeat the deadwalkers who massacred her clan.
“Alycia Christine’s Skinshifter sinks its fangs into a meaty plot pumping with action.”
—Lorehaven review, winter 2019
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Of Mobsters and Magic, Chris Solaas

Of Mobsters and Magic

Kids with superpowers face off against the Mob in one dimension, and angry dragons in another.
Reader ages: middle grade

Out Of Darkness Rising

For the villagers on the accursed Island, life has only one meaning–death. Bound to the Island by the curse, the villagers suffer beneath the iron claw of the Serpent.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Dragon’s Rook

“When broken be the throne of Kel and silent be his voice / When Dragons rise in stormy flight and Nardha’s hounds rejoice / When Men in fear and darkness dwell and children cry to God / Then look to where the day meets night—the Warrior walks abroad.”
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Slumbering by C.S. Johnson

Slumbering

Sixteen-year-old Hamilton Dinger finds himself reluctantly allied with a changeling dragon and a beautiful warrior as they seek to protect Apollo City.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Golden Daughter

Masayi Sairu was raised to be dainty, delicate, demure 
 and deadly. But when she learns that a sacred Dream Walker of the temple seeks the protection of a Golden Daughter, Sairu forgoes marriage in favor of this role.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Manipulations

The city of Akbarra is threatened by bizarre and macabre creatures from the Tainted Land, and looks to the Talla Empire for help.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Willow Branch by Lela Markham

The Willow Branch

A healer must mend a fractured kingdom and bring two enemy races together before a greater enemy destroys them both.
Reader ages: adults
Of Secrets and Sorcery by Chris Solaas

Of Secrets and Sorcery

A boy must reclaim the magic kingdom he was banished from before his subjects kill him, his only friend a sarcastic dragon who knows more than he’s saying.
Reader ages: middle grade boys
"The Warden and the Wolf King" by Andrew Peterson

The Warden and The Wolf King

Sea dragons lurk in the waters. Wicked Stranders crawl through the burrows. Monsters and Fangs and villains lie between the children and their only hope of victory—in the epic conclusion of The Wingfeather Saga.
Reader ages: adults, middle grade, teens + young adults

The King’s Scrolls

Hidden in the vast mining valley north of ValcrĂ©, a faithful crete has spent years sharing his knowledge with the destitute miners and their families and holds what may be Arcacia’s last surviving copies of the King’s Scrolls.
Reader ages: adults, middle grade, teens + young adults
Dragon Slayer: Beginnings, Carey Green

Dragon Slayer: Beginnings

The ancient ancestral cult of Dragon Masters seeks to rule all the lands and only a small band of commoners stands in their way.
Reader ages: teen boys+YA, teens + young adults

One Realm Beyond

Cantor D’Ahma waited his whole life for this day. The young realm walker is ready to leave his mentor and become protector and defender of the realms.
Reader ages:

Gate Of The Gods

The Gate of the Gods promises new hope and a new direction, but leads humanity instead to the threshold of madness. Book 5 of the The Windows of Heaven series, Biblical fantasy for young adults and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Luckbane

In a dystopian future, online gaming is the ultimate escape 
 until one corporation lets lucky players play their favorite game on a distant planet.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Dragonwitch

No one is safe while the Dragonwitch searches for the sword that slew her twice 
 and for the one person who can wield it. Book 5 of the Tales of Goldstone Wood fantasy series.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Rubies and Robbers

Ian must unravel the secrets of the mountain and discern whom his real enemy is, the enemy both without and within. Book 3 of the Ian’s Realm Saga series, fantasy for middle-grade readers and older.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Just Behind The Waterfall: You’ll Never Know Until You Look

When two friends are captured by a cave’s strange inhabitants, the Elendir, their quest for escape begins. Jamie takes a kind approach, trying to win over the creatures. Elliott, however, chooses a much darker path.
Reader ages: middle grade

The Tides Of Nemesis

A’Nu-Ahki’s great ship of rescue awaits a final battle for mastery over the planet that will someday be called, “Earth.” Book 4 of the The Windows of Heaven series, Biblical fantasy for young adults and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Foundlings

The world’s only hope is in a prophecy hardly anyone believes in anymore. Tenna and Tander strive to save their world—a world that may not want to be saved.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Dragon Warrior and the Princess by Celesta Thiessen

The Dragon Warrior and The Princess

He’s a volatile, genetically-engineered slave, longing for peace. She’s a spoiled princess who wants to reclaim the throne and save the world.
Reader ages: adults

The Dragon Shield

Ian returns to the Realm to fight against the tyranny that has befallen his friends. But the Realm is a different place, and Ian has a hard time proving his allegiance when trouble follows him through the portal. Book 2 of the Ian’s Realm Saga series, fantasy for middle-grade readers and older.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

A Throne Of Bones

When the Most Holy and Sanctified Father is found dead in his bed, the temptation to seize the Sacred College is more than some fallen souls can resist.
Reader ages: adults

A Broken Paradise

Tiva, an abused runaway, finds herself drawn into a coven of forest-dwelling outcasts trying to escape the partisan religious conflicts of a dying world.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Deception Peak

Teenager Ian Wilson follows his father through a portal that magically appears on their computer screen.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Liberator

As the invasion of human forces looms, Jason, Koren, and Elyssa struggle to alert the soldiers to an unforeseen menace on the planet of Starlight.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Men of Renown by Robert J. A. Gilbert

Men Of Renown

Men of Renown blends the legend of Atlantis with the story of Noah’s flood in a sword-and-sorcery adventure for the whole family.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Paladin’s Odyssey

The Paladin’s Odyssey continues the saga of the Seer Clan’s decline in a dying world that once surfaced Earth ages before our own.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Star Of Justice

Caissa Ocren joined the knighthood for the scholarship program, but undergoes a crash course in survival.
Reader ages: adults

Lucas: Guardian Of Truth

After being humiliated by bullies, eleven-year-old Lucas Phelman is given a strange watch with bizarre effects.
Reader ages: middle grade

Lady Moon

Celine’s evil uncle’s latest caper threatens to devour the whole countryside and wants to force Tomas into a confrontation.
Reader ages:

Dawn Apocalypse Rising

The Seer-Prince, A’Nu-Ahki, is a man tormented by dark visions and uncertainty, burdened by a prophetic destiny too big for him.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

I Am Ocilla

“A dark soul threatens the Five Kingdoms, but I am powerless to stand against him, overwhelmed by phantom memories, broken and lost.”
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

The Windrider Saga: Books 1 and 2

A compilation of the first two Windrider fantasy novellas, Divine Summons and A Greater Strength, by Rebecca P. Minor.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

A Greater Strength

Captain Vinyanel Ecleriast and his comrades have managed to avert the disaster of their king’s abduction, but all is not well in the elven capital of Delsinon.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Divine Summons

Will Captain Vinyanel Ecleriast allow his contentious relationship with his half-elven mentor to interfere with his sworn duty?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Dragons Of The Watch

Trapped in the forgotten city, bound by secrets, Ellie and Bealomondore must enlist the dragons of the watch if they hope to find freedom.
Reader ages:

Third Starlighter

Adrian Masters journeys into the wilderness of Starlight, the dragon planet, in search of his brother Frederick who has built a refuge for runaway slaves.
Reader ages:

Diviner

As a Starlighter, Koren knows her destiny is to save her fellow human slaves from the dragons’ bondage, but has she doomed her people and herself?
Reader ages: teens + young adults
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