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Hamelin Stoop: The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge, Robert B. Sloan.
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Hamelin Stoop: The Eagle, the Cave, and the Footbridge, Robert B. Sloan.
Radiant, Ashley Bustamante
Hunt for Eden's Star, D. J. Williams
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Despite clichéd characters and worn dialogue, this horror film from God’s Not Dead producers proves surprisingly good. · Josiah DeGraaf
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Shadows at Nightfall, Brett Armstrong

Shadows at Nightfall

Two teens must face the darkest terrors of their world, which hide in the shadows no longer.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
The Governess of Greenmere, Paul Leone
Reviewed

The Governess of Greenmere

In Victorian Britain, a young woman is suddenly thrust into a strange Otherworld of magic, peril and great responsibility.
“Obscure Arthurian and Celtic references blend with biblical imagery and high heroism in this brief yet old-souled story.”
—Lorehaven review, 2022
Reader ages: adults
Hunter's Moon, Sarah M. Awa
Reviewed

Hunter’s Moon

One bite on her hand … and Mel has a million problems slipping through her fingers.
“Sarah M. Awa’s howlingly intense drama Hunter’s Moon is perfect for young adults who enjoy plot-driven stories and horror genres.”
—Lorehaven review, 2021
Reader ages: adults
Quest of Fire: The Gathering Dark, Brett Armstrong

The Gathering Dark

A teen risks everything to save a cruel kingdom from cannons and the claws of mythic monsters.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Sword of the Broken Son, Shaun Stevenson

Sword of the Broken Son

As an unstoppable army attacks the kingdom, a young girl must journey to find an ancient weapon that may hold the key to saving or destroying the entire known world.
Reader ages: middle grade
Phoenix Fire, S. D. Grimm

Phoenix Fire

When life changes overnight for Ava, she’ll have to fight harder than ever to keep the family and love she never thought she could have.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Last Runner, Shaun Stevenson
Reviewed

The Last Runner

A teenage boy, enslaved to run jobs for the elite, must face the world of Abra, where monsters run free, Queens rule like iron, and death is only a breath away.
“Imagination dashes back in with the strange and even horrifying creatures intent on getting their hands, teeth, or claws on Eric.”
—Lorehaven review, fall 2018
Reader ages: teens + young adults
The Tremblers, Raquel Byrnes
Reviewed

The Tremblers

Branded as traitors, Ashton and Charlotte brave the treacherous floating sky ports of Outer City to hunt down an elusive inventor.
“Crack open this rip-roaring tale of post-apocalyptic steampunk peril. ”
—Lorehaven review, spring 2018
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Last Motley, D. J. Edwardson

The Last Motley

Can Roderick the tailor save a doomed boy from his nightmares and keep them from spilling out into the world around them?
Reader ages: middle grade
Daniel and the Triune Quest, Nathan Lumbatis

Daniel and the Triune Quest

Daniel survived one quest, but the quest for the Triune Shield will require a face to face battle with a psychopathic goddess of pestilence.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Secret of the Lost King, Shaun Stevenson

Secret of the Lost King

As an evil Emperor chases them down, two young kids must find an old enemy of the kingdom, rescue a lost king, and discover the truth about their own forgotten memories.
Reader ages: middle grade
The Beast of Talesend, Kyle Robert Shultz
Reviewed

The Beast of Talesend

He didn’t believe in magic or monsters—until magic turned him into a monster.
“Kyle Robert Shultz creates an enchanting story world grounded in familiarity yet saturated with fairy-tale qualities.”
—Lorehaven review, spring 2018
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Alfred: The Boy Who Would Be King

Alfred: The Boy Who Would Be King

In a grim fantasy world where the Father of Light seems long lost, can a modern day boy help a wizard, a cleric, knights and peasants have faith again?
Reader ages: middle grade
Harvest of Prey, Alexander Preston

Harvest Of Prey

A team of naturalists find themselves face to face with an abomination spawned by unimaginable evil.
Reader ages: adults
Daniel and the Sun Sword, Nathan Lumbatis

Daniel and the Sun Sword

Daniel gets more than he bargained for when the God of Life sets him on a quest to fight the god of the underworld.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Shadowcat: Tales from the Edge of Sleep, Victoria Randall

Shadowcat: Tales from the Edge of Sleep

There is a misty place between sleep and waking, where if you wander long, you may find yourself caught in a world of strangeness.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Kracken

The year is 135 New Reckoning. A Godless world is rebuilding itself. Mike Stone finds himself running for his life through a jungle-planet filled with terrors and a monster known only as the Kracken.
Reader ages: adults
"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 Maze

With his family in danger and his soul in peril, Jamie Burroughs is forced to reevaluate the kind of man he truly is as he struggles to escape The Maze before it’s too late. Book 1 of the The Lost Labyrinth series, spiritual-warfare fantasy for young-adult readers.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Dark Hour

Greensboro has fallen. For ex-reverend Jeff Weldon and those under his care, it is a losing battle, but the tale turns with the return of his brother Dras.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Sword Of Six Worlds

Untrained, unsure and hunted, Validus Smith must recover the fabled Sword of Six Worlds, the only weapon capable of defeating the Blight.
Reader ages: middle grade

Enemies Of The Cross

After Dras Weldon’s stand against the Strange Man, Dras’s older brother Jeff discovers the demon’s arrival was no accident.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Night Of The Living Dead Christian

Matt teams with a mad scientist, an android, a vampire and a church of zombies to help his neighbor werewolf. Yet their time is running out.
Reader ages: adults

The Dragon’s Tooth

Cyrus and Antigone Smith must swear an oath to an order of explorers who preserve the world’s secrets — keepers of powerful relics from lost civilizations, and jailers to unkillable criminals. Book 1 of the Ashtown Burials series, fantasy for middle-grade readers.
Reader ages: middle grade

The Strange Man

Twenty-two and unemployed, Dras Weldon is content to hide in the shadow of spiritual adolescence. But when a demonic stranger arrives, Dras is drawn into a battle that forces him to choose which side he is on. Book 1 of the The Coming Evil Trilogy series.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Hunter

A beast is loose somewhere north of the Arctic Circle and it’s already charged through a secret research facility, wiping out the elite military squad that had been guarding it. By James Byron Huggins.
Reader ages: adults
Monster by Frank Peretti

Monster

Someone — no, something — emerges from the dense woods and begins pursuing them. Dependent on the efforts of a small town and a band of friends, Reed knows they have little time to find Beck.
Reader ages: adults

Cain

Alive, Cain had been their deadliest killer; dead, he became their greatest nightmare. When Cain awakes, he is transformed: he has become the ultimate predator. By James Byron Huggins.
Reader ages: adults

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