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Star Of Justice

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

Live And Let Fly

Super-spy spoofing with exotic locations maniacal middle-managers, secret agent men, teen rock stars in trouble, and more!
Reader ages:
Illusion, Frank Peretti
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Illusion

Dane and Mandy, a popular magic act for forty years, are separated by a car wreck. Then Mandy awakes in the past, with truly magical abilities.
“Frank Peretti’s last novel creates a romantic world with sci-fi flourishes where likeable heroes, villain twists, and familiar places sell a dramatic performance.”
—Lorehaven review, 2023
Reader ages: adults, 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

Allon Book 5: Gauntlet

Prince Titus, son of King Tyrone and Queen Tristine, is kidnapped, and the suspects are Tunlundian pirates. But what do they want with a 7-year-old boy?
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Land Of Ather: Day One

John Kardinairo finds himself magically transported to the strange land of Ather where he must find the mysterious Golden Book in seven days.
Reader ages:
A Light in the Darkness, Heather Sutherlin

A Light In The Darkness

When a mysterious archer shows up in the forest, Merrilyn becomes caught in a battle between two forgotten gods.
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

The Land Of Darkness

Twelve-year-old Jadiel is forced by her evil stepmother to fetch the rejuvenating leaves from the Eternal Tree by next full moon or her father will be killed.
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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
Finding Angel by Kat Heckenbach

Finding Angel

Angel doesn’t remember her magical heritage … but it remembers her. Magic and science collide when she embarks on a journey to her true home, and to herself.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Allon Book 4: A Question Of Sovereignty

Determined to save her father, Tristine meets two unlikely allies: a blacksmith and a crippled beggar. But how can they stop a coup? And what will become of the Great King? Book 4 of the Allon series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Reality’s Ascent

When the demon Beltrid demands that Sisko use his supernatural ring for evil, Sisko’s refusal turns his world upside down. Trapping Sisko’s wife, Beltrid sends Sisko and his teenage children on a journey to free her. Book 2 of the The Reality Chronicles series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
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Orphan Of The Shadows

In the faraway kingdom of Madaren, Elon Amaeloriey, a young orphan girl, lived a life of pain and struggle. But the lonely life she knew changed forever the day she stumbled upon a gang unlike any other. Urban fantasy for young adults and older by Abby Ryan.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Hero In Hiding

Join the cast of Hero in Hiding for your next dose of Good Guys, Gryphons, Villains and their Victims, a Passel of Protagonists and their Plethora of Problems, with a few Teachable Moments along the way. Book 2 in The Hero Complex comedy fantasy series by Mitchell Bonds.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Reality’s Dawn

A mystical ring binds Sisko to bless others with miracles and avoid using its power for himself, which would lead to a curse. With his friends, Sisko explores the emerging reality through his travels and adventures. Book 1 of the The Reality Chronicles series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
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Allon Book 3: Heir Apparent

Emperor Kamu sends an ambassador to Allon offering a royal marriage between his daughter and sixteen-year-old Prince Nigel. But soon, strange things start happening. Book 3 of the Allon series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Allon Book 2: Insurrection

With the Dark Way defeated, King Ellis starts restoring the House of Tristan. To him and Shannan, a son and heir is born, Prince Nigel. But not all is blissful in Allon. The Dark Way doesn’t die easily. Book 2 of the Allon series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Earthbow, Volume 2

“Xander hastened to nock his arrow to the Earthbow. His hands were trembling, as he’d feared.” Can teen Outworlder Xander and his allies overcome the evil unleashed by the evil Cenoc?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Earthbow, Volume 1

Cenoc, the self-styled Lord of Latimus, learns of hidden treasures that can make him even more powerful. Few dare oppose his will, even as they witness his growing madness. However, a remnant stand in his way.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Allon: Book 1

The land of Allon was a paradise until the fall of the Guardians paved the way for the rise of the Dark Way. But an ancient prophecy speaks of a time to come when the Guardians will return and Allon will be restored — led by its rightful heir. Book 1 of the ​Allon series, fantasy for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Muse

Stan Marino needs a muse. He’s written himself into a corner … again. A shot of inspiration is all he needs to finish his story … where is he going to find it? What Stan doesn’t know: Inspiration has found him. And it’s about to take over his life. Contemporary fantasy for teen readers and older.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Squire And The King

Garrett Scott isn’t impressed by life in general and by his new middle school in particular. Then Elizabeth Conner, the prettiest girl who’s ever smiled at him, tells him about The Book of Squires. Book 1 in The Book of Squires fantasy series by Randall R. Adams.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Hero, Second Class

Cyrus will have to call on his friends, a beautiful young cat girl, and all the power of the Capital Letters and Arbitrary Numbers if he is to live to become a full-fledged Hero. Book 1 in the Hero Complex comedy fantasy series, by Mitchell Bonds.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

DragonLight

When Kale and Bardon set aside their daily responsibilities to join meech dragons Regidor and Gilda on a quest to find a hidden meech colony, they encounter sinister forces. Their world is under attack by a secret enemy.
Reader ages: adults, middle grade, teens + young adults

Seabird

When Cara Marshall is transported to Narenta, she is proclaimed champion of its people against the sorcerous daemagos. Amid the grateful welcomes, Cara protests that she has been “world-napped.” Book 1 of the Narenta Tumults fantasy series by Sherry Thompson.
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Guardian Of The Veil

What if the fabric of our world were stretching or tearing … or getting thinner … and we could step through that veil into another world? Do the multiplying wonders mean that two worlds are about to collide? Young-adult fantasy, sequel to “The Welkening,” by Gregory Spencer.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

DragonFire

Three years of strife have passed since Kale and Bardon freed Paladin’s knights. Now, fiery dragons scorch their beautiful countryside as an evil husband-and-wife wizard duo battle one another for supremacy.
Reader ages: middle grade

The Shadowmancer Returns: The Curse Of Salamander Street

Kate and Thomas have barely escaped the evil sorcerer Demurral, and are sailing to London to make a fresh start. But someone knows they are coming, and is lying in wait to lure them into the darkest heart of the city. Fantasy for readers teen and older, by G.P. Taylor.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Return Of The Guardian-King

Believed dead by all but the handful of supporters who rescued him from his Mataian enemies, Abramm Kalladorne has fled his homeland to the high mountains of northern Chesedh. Book 4, the final volume of the Legends of the Guardian-King fantasy series by Karen Hancock.
Reader ages: adults

The Stormcaller

Andrea, a young slave girl, who has magical powers beyond human comprehension, finds her way to Freeport, and the tides of war begin to change. Book 1 in The Legends of Turmak series by Jacob L. Grant and Mark T. Russell.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Heart Of The Highriders

Imagine living in a fantasy world without magic, a world that knows nothing of sorcery nor of a wizard’s quick solutions — a world where one never encounters talking beasts, invincible swords, or glowing rings. Epic fantasy by Richard C. Leonard and Charity R. Silkebakken.
Reader ages: adults

DragonKnight

Trapped in an evil spell … can the knights of Paladin be rescued? The secret is in their hands — and hearts.
Reader ages: middle grade

Tersias The Oracle

London is picking up the pieces after a near-Apocalypse—a comet has just missed the Earth, leaving the city in chaos. Only the blind boy oracle, Tersias, can see the future. But he is captured by Solomon, a false prophet. Fantasy for readers teen and older, by G.P. Taylor.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Shadow Over Kiriath

After months of conflict and opposition, Abramm Kalladorne has finally stepped into his destiny as king of Kiriath–only to find himself facing more problems than ever. Book 3 in the Legends of the Guardian-King fantasy series by Karen Hancock.
Reader ages: adults

DragonQuest

A dragonkeeper of Paladin, Kale is summoned from the Hall to The Bogs by the Wizard Fenworth to serve as his apprentice and tend his newly hatched meech dragon, Regidor. But Kale isn’t going alone.
Reader ages: middle grade

Legend Of The Emerald Rose

After the deaths of King Arthur and Guenevere, Merlin’s son Shadoe un Hollo Tors and warrior princess Emerald Rose Rayn must join together, fight sorcery and demons, and save the Isle of Might. Medieval fantasy by Linda Wichman.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Wormwood

Panic fills the streets of London on a night in 1756 when the earth suddenly lurches forward and starts spinning out of control. Eleven days and nights flash through the sky, finally leaving the city in total darkness. Is the end of the world at hand? Fantasy by G.P. Taylor.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Shadow Within

Abramm Kalladorne has returned to Kiriath to claim the crown he thought he would never wear and to prepare his people for the inevitable attack of the Armies of the Black Moon. Book 2 of the Legends of the Guardian-King fantasy series by Karen Hancock.
Reader ages: adults

The Welkening

When four friends — bound together as misfits — are transported into an alternative dimension, they find that they’ve been rescued from one crisis only to be thrust into another. Meanwhile, a third story is developing in yet another realm. Young-adult fantasy by Gregory Spencer.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
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