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Beneath the Swirling Sky, Elizabeth Groening
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Best for readers ages 13–18—and beyond!
The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
The Eternity Gate, Katherine Briggs
Calligraphy Guild, R. M. Archer
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Light of Eidon, Karen Hancock
Wandering, Loren G. Warnemuende
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Some new songs may flounder, but Ariel’s voice and Triton’s character redeem the 2023 Disney film. · Marian Jacobs
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Knife by R.J. Anderson

Knife

Forget everything you think you know about faeries. Creatures full of magic and whimsy? Not in the Oakenwyld. Not anymore.
Reader ages: adults, middle grade, teens + young adults
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: adults, teens + young adults
The Nexis Secret by Barbara Hartzler

The Nexis Secret

Lucy McAllen was your typical snarky teen, until she got shipped off to boarding school in New York City. Now she’s unraveling a centuries-old mystery hidden behind the scenes. And discovering powers she never knew she had.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Forged Steel, H. A. Titus

Forged Steel

Computer nerd Josh MacAllister discovers monsters masquerading as humans and is dragged into the schemes of the fae courts.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
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: 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
Dare, Tricia Mingerink

Dare

An assassin must choose between his king and the girl whose family he once helped kill.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
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: adults, middle grade, teens + young adults

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: adults, teens + young adults

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, teens + young adults
Dawn of Wonder, Jonathan Renshaw

Dawn Of Wonder

Young adventurer Aedan is blamed for the death of his childhood friend, and trains as a soldier to plan his revenge.
Reader ages: teens + young adults
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: adults, teens + young adults

Demien

Young physicist and archaeologist Trevor Pendleton is tasked with assembling a team to unravel the mysteries of the natural and supernatural that threaten to ravage mankind and rip the world apart.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Comes the Dragon by Rachel Starr Thomson

Comes The Dragon

Alack and his surly mentor, Kol Abaddon, arrive in the Westland as slaves. But Kol Abaddon’s powerful God cannot be enslaved, and when he thunders out on their behalf, they find themselves standing before the new emperor.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Falcon Heart, Azalea Dabill

Falcon Heart

Armed with a strange dagger, a young girl, Kyrin Cieri, begins an adventure beyond fear.
Reader ages: adults
The Mermaid's Sister, Carrie Anne Noble

The Mermaid’s Sister

One day, Clara discovers iridescent scales just beneath her sister’s skin: Maren is becoming a mermaid and must be taken to the sea or she will die.
Reader ages: 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
Mardan's Mark, Kathrese McKee

Mardan’s Mark

After being abducted by pirates, Princess Srilani and her siblings must form an alliance with slaves in an effort to reach home before war breaks out.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Rise by Rachel Starr Thomson

Rise

Haunted by images of the fire and desperate to know the truth about her destiny, April wrestles with inner demons that threaten to cut her off from those she loves most.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Plenilune, Jennifer Freitag

Plenilune

The fate of Plenilune hangs on the election of the Overlord, for which Rupert de la Mare and his brother are the only contenders.
Reader ages: 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
The Day She Died, Bill Garrison

The Day She Died

If a middle-aged time traveler can prevent the 20-year-old murder of his college fiancee, what happens to his wife and children?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young 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 Giant's Walk, David Skinner

The Giant’s Walk

An astronaut seeks the miraculous intervention of a beatified priest, who a century before had pursued a giant to Mars.
Reader ages: adults
Merlin's Nightmare, Robert Treskillard

Merlin’s Nightmare

A king in danger. A bleeding kingdom. And Merlin’s nightmare stalks the land.
Reader ages: adults, 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
Abaddon's Eve by Rachel Starr Thomson

Abaddon’s Eve

To Alack, a young shepherd boy, Kol Abbadon’s visions of coming destruction fascinate and disturb. But when Alack begins to see visions of his own, the course of his life changes as he treks into the wilderness to become a prophet in training.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

A Draw Of Kings

Their journey to Merakh should have made Errol and his companions heroes of the realm. Instead, they’ve been branded enemies of the kingdom.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Into a Strange Land, Ben Anderson

Into A Strange Land

Grandpa has been hiding a secret in the Potato cellar—a relic from a lost age of Ireland that leads to the world of the Others.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Exile by Rachel Starr Thomson

Exile

In a world where the Oneness exists, nothing looks the same. Dead men walk. Demons prowl the air. Old friends peel back their mundane masks and prove as supernatural as angels.
Reader ages: adults, middle grade
Renegade by Rachel Starr Thomson

Renegade

After the events in Attack, the Oneness returned home in triumph — all except Reese and Tyler, who remain on the road with the subversive cult leader called Jacob.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Babel Chip by Rachel Starr Thomson

The Babel Chip

Jordy Sharp dreams of musical success in Icarius, the City in the Sky–a metropolis of skyscrapers where the upper classes live hundreds of floors above the lower classes, travel happens in the air, and secrets disappear in the streets far below.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Taming the Goblin, Ben Anderson

Taming The Goblin

Frederick must choose to become truly human, or become like a goblin, while the goblin, Nous, must choose to stay a goblin, or become more human.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Western Gods, Caleb Eatough

The Western Gods

A Native-American goddess falls in love with an Irish-Catholic priest as he seeks to evangelize the Arapaho Indians.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Attack by Rachel Starr Thomson

Attack

Battling the hive–a network of humans and demons–nearly killed them all. Now Richard and Mary take the Oneness on the offensive: picking out their targets, the cell goes after the humans at the center of the hive one by one.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Hive by Rachel Starr Thomson

Hive

Tired of sitting on the defensive, Chris and Tyler go after the hive–the dark entity created when humans and demons join forces. When they disappear, Reese and the others must continue the hunt.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Hero’s Lot

When Sarin Valon, the corrupt secondus of the conclave, flees Erinon and the kingdom, Errol believes his biggest job is to befriend the dying king.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Tombs of Dross, Lew Anderson

Tombs of Dross

In a legendary world controlled by an immortal evil, three teens ignite the forces that will ultimately collide.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults
The Witch and the Waking Tree, Ben Anderson

The Witch and The Waking Tree

Colleen and Frederick encounter the terrible witch that has ruled the strange land into which they have fallen.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The King's Sword, C. J. Brightley

The King’s Sword

Invasion looms, and Kemen’s decisions will shape the fate of a nation. What will he sacrifice for friendship and honor?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
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