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Valor's Worth, Rebecca P. Minor

Valor’s Worth

The notorious dragon-kin may still pose a threat to elves and men, driving Lieutenant Commander Vinyanel Ecleriast on a mission to investigate.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Mark of the Raven, Morgan L. Busse
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Mark of the Raven

Lady Selene is torn between upholding her family’s legacy or seeking the true reason behind her family’s gift of dreamwalking.
“Those who walk in dreams wield great power to inspire—or destroy.”
—Lorehaven review, fall 2018
Reader ages: adult, young adult
The 49th Mystic, Ted Dekker
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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
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Diondray's Discovery, Marion Hill

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.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Saint Death, Mike Duran
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Saint Death

Only Reagan Moon and his weathered compatriots can prevent the angel’s arrival. Yet earth guardians aren’t indestructible … as Saint Death is about to prove.
“This second installment in the Reagan Moon series conjures a menagerie of the grotesque and macabre.”
—Lorehaven review, spring 2018
Reader ages: adult
Arrow, R. J. Anderson

Arrow

She swore never to shed blood in violence, no matter how grave the danger. But when a faery war threatens her home, the price of peace may be higher than Rhosmari can pay.
Reader ages: middle grade, young adult
Beloved by Rachel Starr Thomson

Beloved

The Sacred Land is in turmoil, and the terrible judgment foreseen by the prophets even now wings its way over the sea. A bloodthirsty queen reigns in the Holy City, and the dragon-headed god Kimash is ascendant.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

The Crossover Alliance Anthology: Volume One

The first short story anthology by The Crossover Alliance, the world’s first publisher dedicated to edgy Christian speculative fiction.
Reader ages: adult
The Deliverer by Sharon Hinck

The Deliverer

Eager to serve the One, a young songkeeper travels to the dark and foreign nation of Hazor, but her confusing, rough-edged companion has lost his Restorer gifts.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
The Bloodheart, Steve Rzasa
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The Bloodheart

Bowen Cord seeks only treasure, and despises his heritage as an ice-summoner. Magic could not prevent his wife’s death. What allegiance, then, should he owe it?
“Rzasa’s first-person, present-tense delivery proves surprisingly versatile.”
—Lorehaven review, summer 2018
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Sithrah: Kingdom of the Air

Sithrah: Kingdom Of The Air

Nirvana Page wanted to see the world. Then a mysterious force crashes their plane, separating Nirvana from her dad, and stranding her in a strange and unfamiliar land.
Reader ages: adult, middle grade, young adult

Draven’s Light

One by one the strong and the weak of the tribe fall prey to an illness of supernatural power. But when the curse attacks the one Draven loves most, can this coward find the courage he needs to face the darkness?
Reader ages: adult, young adult

Tears Of The Tuon

Stolen! Cubs of the bear-like tuon people have been abducted while their parents were worshiping at the temple of Yah Elyon. Gratta, one of the tuon chiefs, must ensure the cubs’ safe return home.
Reader ages: middle grade, young adult
Heir of Hope by Morgan Busse

Heir Of Hope

These are the last days of the Eldaran race. Rowen and Caleb must find their way along the dark path set before them by their ancestors: to heal what was wounded and love where hatred grows.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

Waking Beauty

Prince Arpien intends to gain a throne and the sleeping beauty’s heart with a single kiss. But kissing the princess is only the beginning of a series of unforeseen obstacles: man-eating bugs, deadly spindles, talking lapdogs, and fiery pickles.
Reader ages: middle grade, young adult

Dreams Of Caladria

Persus Am is a world where music is absolutely prohibited – on pain of death. And Jeremy breaks that law when he arrives in Persus Am in a swirling cloud of light and music.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult
Whispers of a Faded Dreamer by Celesta Thiessen

Whispers Of A Faded Dreamer

Through an unsettling turn of events, Cara Peirce finds herself a mostly-willing participant in a bizarre life in which she only feels truly alive in her dreams.
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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: adult, young adult

The Veil Of Smoke

Experience the final days of Pompeii in book two of the TimeDrifter Series. This harrowing historical fantasy unfolds through the eyes of the doomed city’s inhabitants, along with a trio of time traveling misfits.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

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: adult, young adult

Trinka and The Thousand Talismans

Trinka lives in a world called Ellipsis where schools prize their students’ abilities to predict the future, until she flunks out of her fantastical school.
Reader ages: middle grade
David Ascendant by Brian Godawa

David Ascendant

In the days of Samuel the Seer, the Philistines are at the climax of a long war with Israel over the land of Canaan. There are still giants in Philistia left from Joshua’s search and destroy mission of holy war generations earlier.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

Storm Siren

In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled.
Reader ages: young adult
"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: adult, middle grade, young adult
The Place of Voices

The Place Of Voices

Anna is devastated by a fire that left her orphaned, dependent on an uncle she never knew existed and far from the only home she has ever known.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

The Word Changers

Fifteen-year-old Posy finds herself in a kingdom ruled by a king and queen who have attempted to usurp the role that belongs only to their story’s Author.
Reader ages: adult, middle grade, young adult

The King’s Scrolls

Hidden in the vast mining valley north of Valcré, 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: adult, middle grade, young adult

Resistance

Jace believed God could love a shunned half-blood, until a tragic loss shatters the only peace he’s ever known. Book 1 of the Ilyon Chronicles series.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Abba's Lament

Abba’s Lament

Six angelic beings govern Earth. They are beautiful and strong, exquisitely formed. The day they become enemies is forever etched in their memories.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

The Warriors Of Aragnar: Wings Of Honor

“Wings of Honor” is a tale of persecution, trials, and courage. It asks a simple question; what would you do if everything was taken away from you? Book 1 of the The Warriors of Aragnar Trilogy fantasy series.
Reader ages:

The Third Heaven: The Rise Of Fallen Stars

The Third Heaven: The Rise of Fallen Stars is book one of a three-part series that explores the fascinating story of the Fall of Lucifer.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

Wayfarer

Trouble stirs between nations and rebellion threatens Faeraven. Sometimes the deliverance of a nation comes only through the humility of one.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

The Book Beyond Time

Marcus MacMillan is driven to pursue a crazy vision concerning PathOne — the route that is detailed in The Book Beyond Time, a mysterious ancient volume.
Reader ages: middle grade

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: adult, young adult

The Forbidden Book

Peace reigns on the refugee planet Sardis until Eagen, an ambitious teen, discovers a Bible hidden with some of the remaining belongings from Earth. Book 1 of the The Forbidden Book series.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Caleb Vigilant by Brian Godawa

Caleb Vigilant

Joshua and Caleb must protect Rahab at the same time as they assault the Anakim stronghold and face the tallest, most ruthless of all giants: The brothers Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
Joshua Valiant by Brian Godawa

Joshua Valiant

After four hundred years of slavery in Egypt, Israel has escaped into the desert and is prepared to enter the land of Canaan that God had promised her. There’s only one problem: It’s crawling with giants.
Reader ages: adult, young adult

Merlin’s Shadow

After destroying the sinister Druid Stone and freeing his people from its dark control, Merlin finds himself to be a royal adviser without a king.
Reader ages: adult, young adult
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