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Diondray’s Roundabout

A young man purses his destiny but will become sidetracked by a culture that doesn’t believe in things outside of humanity.

fantasy for all adults

Reviewed

To Ashes We Run

Dieon used to lead his people. Now he must protect them from himself, and from the Twisted One who possessed him.

With To Ashes We Run, Just B. Jordan spins a rich and heartfelt fantasy, crafted with imagination and care.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

The House of Haddaway: A Fairytale Retelling

Death Haddaway, ruler of Preyida, will do anything to save his people, even if it means marrying a woman from an alien race.

fantasy for all adults, women

Black Blood

She never wanted to be the deliverer for the very people who killed her family, but destiny didn’t seem to care.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Living in Times of Dragons, John A. Pretorius

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Living in Times of Dragons

Roger Rommel must play cat and mouse with a faction of militant dragons who want to bring the world of man to an end.

John A. Pretorius’s Living in Times of Dragons crashes out of a wild imagination. It’s a shot across the bow of Christian fiction.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all adults

Song of Leira

With the fate of the world at stake, the Song bids her rise to battle and the Songkeeper must answer.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA, middle grade

Songkeeper

War ravages Leira and the Song has fallen silent. Freed from the hold of a slave ship, Birdie, the young Songkeeper, and Ky, a street-wise thief, emerge to a world at war.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA, middle grade

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Orphan’s Song

Every generation has a Songkeeper – one chosen to keep the memory of the Song alive. And in every generation, there are those who seek to destroy the chosen one.

Gillian Bronte Adams draws us into a classic medieval fantasy setting populated with archetypes that somehow feel fresh and vigorous.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA, middle grade

Shiloh

When the hope of all has been betrayed, another must rise.

fantasy for all teens+YA, teen boys+YA, teen girls+YA

Reviewed

The Line Between

Cult escapee Wynter Roth finds herself face-to-face with the apocalypse her former cult taught her to fear all her life.

Tosca Lee mixes chilling, cracking suspense with thoughtful character growth, as readers follow Wynter’s frightening present while also recalling her perma-frosted past.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

science fiction for all adults

Reviewed

The Savage War

While civil war rages within the kingdom of Mira, the Lord Carpason believes Arnacin to be their only hope.

With The Savage War, Esther Wallace spins a tale that balances moral conviction with moral complexity.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all teens+YA

Though Nations Rage

As armies advance and human rights are steadily eroded, the only hope against self-annihilation of the human race rests on a Mulapin defection.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Princes and Principalities

Acting as religious and cultic spirit guides, aliens steadily lead humanity to the brink of global war—hindered only by the prayer of a street urchin from Mumbai.

science fiction for all adults, men

Rhats Too!

“Frohic again. Listen, I got home to find squatters living in my family’s hovel and no clue as to where father, mother, and the rest of the family went.”

science fiction for all adults, middle grade

Decree

From the story of how Leith and Martyn met to Ranson’s search for a life outside of the Blades, these stories will answer plaguing questions and expand the world of Acktar.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Adrift

Fallon returns to Ariboslia, but the creatures she’s there to save want her dead.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

Oath Sworn

One man’s sacred oath, one boy’s sacred duty; their choices will shape their world in ways neither ever anticipated.

Strange concepts and tumultuous dialogue can soar over the reader’s head, but this narrative moves at a riveting clip.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Etania’s Worth

Etania sets out on a journey to save Tamnarae and learn to master her new powers with the help of Melchizedek, her father, and her handsome bodyguard.

fantasy for all teens+YA, teen girls+YA

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The Light Unbound

Alone and weak, Rayne lashes out at the One and turns his back on his quest; can he learn to trust again before it’s too late?

Ambitious in scope and relentless in speed, this novel concludes C. S. Wachter’s saga on a high note.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2020

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

F’lorna of Rodesh

As F’lorna prepares for the Double Moon Ceremony, storms begin to build across the lands of Rodesh.

fantasy for all teens+YA, teen girls+YA

Auxland

Khomar finds his homecoming marred by old prejudices and rivalries.

fantasy science fiction for all adults, men

Reviewed

Seed: Judgment

After judgment, a renegade soldier searches for a spirit that might turn back the darkness.

Joshua David’s Seed: Judgment marries The Thing, Resident Evil, and Mad Max to generate a post-apocalyptic tale of frenetic intensity.

—Lorehaven review, 2021

fantasy science fiction for all adults

Reviewed

Enclave

Fifty years after America’s collapse, Caleb has a plan that could help secure his enclave’s future.

After America falls, white-hat heroes work for a better world.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Judgment: Wrath of the Lamb

Demons are released from the Abyss. The gods of the nations prepare for battle. The long-awaited climax is here: Armageddon.

supernatural and beyond for all adults

Strand of Faith

When the choice is between love and life, how can anyone decide?

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Shadows of the End

Aliens are few in number with no hope of clearing the planet of humans on their own—until they realize humanity can be set against itself.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Eilinland: Through the Wall, Bailey Davenport

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Eilinland: Through the Wall

In a world divided in half by a wall, four warriors venture into dangerous northern territory in search of a missing girl.

Eilinland: Through the Wall serves a light, entertaining read, with good thematic substance to accompany the fun.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Nick Newton: The Highest Bidder

Nick Newton dodges mechanical baby strollers, fencing sisters, and auction bids, all as he’s trying to help his friend put his android back together.

science fiction for middle grade

Reviewed

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

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Etherno: Rise of the Dragongirl

Onin’s life is changed when he meets a mysterious new student with a fiery dual dragon nature.

science fiction for all teens+YA, middle grade

Overpowered

Barred from the city of refuge, Taliyah’s only chance at safety lies with a band of seven mercenaries.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Resonance

Saved from death and freed from the spiritual realm, all Kai wants is a chance to go back for the friend he left behind.

fantasy supernatural and beyond for all adults, all teens+YA

Sword of Decision

It takes a sword to sever the past from the present and set a former assassin free from the powers of darkness.

fantasy for all teens+YA

The Sword and the Way

Reavers killed his kinfolk. Now Jorgan Anderson seeks a legendary sword-dance, which will probably kill him.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Awakened

Lazarus and his secret organization SOAR must take on demonic enemies and find a secret Jesus left behind before it’s too late.

In Richard Spillman’s The Awakened, readers find a world in which Lazarus, the man Jesus raised from the dead as recorded in John’s gospel, is still alive.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

supernatural and beyond for all adults

Never To Live

To save him, she let the madness take her … and now it won’t let her go.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Forsaken

Grace Fortune saw the boy she loves, Jared Lorn, die before her eyes. But Grace’s suspicions have her wondering if Jared really is dead.

supernatural and beyond for all teens+YA

Conviction

On a planet where Esarelian rule is slowly crushing all resistance, two humans learn to trust God, and each other, with every secret they have left.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Thoughtreal

Two people who have developed the power to bend reality with their minds have come to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for mysterious reasons.

Michael Gryboski has thought up an intricate narrative that avoids potential tropes while touching on important issues.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

science fiction for all adults

Hera’s Doom

Hera Jackson never expected Arcadia to go to war. Much less a civil war.

fantasy for all teens+YA, middle grade

Reviewed

Armor of Aletheia

An orphaned princess is charged with finding the sacred armor of her people in order to defeat an ancient evil infecting her world.

Ralene Burke’s Armor of Aletheia gives readers classic fantasy suffused with spirituality.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for teen girls+YA

Shelter Island

Can Cary, Clarisse, and Gregory help an intelligent race of birds end a centuries-old conflict before war invades their homeland?

fantasy for middle grade

Reviewed

Gods They Had Never Known

The divine order of creation is violated, leading to idolatry, corruption, and the threat of extermination.

Gods They Had Never Known strongly supports biblical morality and the truth of how sin distorts goodness.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

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The Wolf Prince

A cursed prince and his brother race against time to defeat an evil sorcerer before a wicked spell dooms them all.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Deceit of Darkness

Sigmund puts a new plan to thwart prophecy into action while Rayne struggles to face the residual darkness coiling within him.

“The third installment in C. S. Wachter’s epic fantasy series crystallizes the series’ Christianity.”

—Lorehaven review,

fantasy for all adults

Frosted Fire

Hunted by soldiers with dark enchantments on their side, Iyanka fights to find hope for herself and her people.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

For Us Humans

A disillusioned believer must help a Christ-seeking alien solve the art theft of the century.

This adventure morphs into a complex fusion of intergalactic conspiracy, prejudice erasure, redemption narrative, and call to personal revival.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Fairest Son

When mortal huntress discovers a maimed faerie prince up in the mountains, she must choose her side in an ancient feud.

H. S. J. Williams’ novella Fairest Son contains familiar echoes: seven “dwarves,” a poison apple, a poem of prophecy. But the story is unique.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Child of the Kaites

To free her people from slavery, Rai must decide if she is a warrior or historian in this desert fantasy retelling of the story of Moses.

With well-realized characterization, the overall narrative flies like a thematic arrow toward the real-life account of God freeing his people from Egypt.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

The Shattered Blades

The heroes have returned home, but there is no peace to be found there.

fantasy for all adults

Visions of Light and Shadow

Is Aviad calling Elowyn and Morganne to follow the road beyond Minhaven?

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Door to Altharia

In a conflict between ancient and mortal enemies, a scarred youth will emerge as a world’s brightest hope.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

Fawkes

In 17th century London, Thomas joins his father’s gunpowder plot to blow up the king of England.

Here in Nadine Brandes’s color-magical world, the Thames still burbles with sewage and even sincere men can believe and die for false religion.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Fraught

After debugger ThreadBare’s master is assassinated, his implant goes haywire, terrorizing his mind with unpredictable pain.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Bad Company

Two brothers try to survive the end of the world with their faith and humanity intact.

science fiction for all adults

Reviewed

Launch

Teens with supernatural gifts must choose what to do with them when they’re invited to a social media conference by a tech billionaire.

The story inhabits its youthful, modern world with conviction. Fun and never airy, Launch offers a good ride.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

The Wisprian World, Book I: Tears of Alphega

Before darkness was o’er the deep, a world was whispered.

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Relent

A half-angel turns to a demon for help finding the daughter she abandoned in a tale of mother’s love, forgiveness, and surprising sacrifice.

supernatural and beyond for all adults

No Road Among the Stars

In a world where humans are just one small part of the InterStellar Commonwealth, one young linguist has to find an unmapped road for his life.

science fiction for all adults

Reviewed

Coiled

As the ugly twin to a perfect sister, Princess Laidra lives her life in the shadows—until her parents offer her as bait for a giant serpent.

H. L. Burke weaves faux-mythology and complex characterization into a narrative that slithers along at a brisk clip.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

Affinity

Kai was born with the ability to see brokenness and to fix it. Then a freak accident leaves him trapped in the spiritual realm.

Affinity is a creative and original play on old concepts, and if you’re willing to take the ride, you’ll find it goes places.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy supernatural and beyond for all teens+YA

Rebirth

Rogue elements of the sisterhood by divine providence are captured, while a dreadful prophecy has begun to unfold.

science fiction for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Speed of Sight

An awkward boy from a broken home discovers the power of a special comic book to defeat bullies and save lives.

In Speed of Sight, C. R. Flamingbush presents a fun concept—comic book stories within Pete’s comic-book-style story, like plays within a play.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for all teens+YA

Resistant: Revolt of the Jews

In A.D. 67, Nero’s Roman armies plunder the land of Israel, led by General Vespasian and his son Titus, whose ruthless strategy threatens his affair with Jewish princess Berenice.

supernatural and beyond for all adults

Reviewed

The Light Arises

Rayne must face the darkness within himself, accept his calling as Light Bringer of the One, and find the golden-haired girl from his dream.

The Light Arises will leave readers craving the next word for the next world.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Dagger’s Sleep

In a land of mountains, canoes, and fairy tales, one princess races to wake the sleeping high prince in this gender-swapped Sleeping Beauty retelling.

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

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

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

Elvensty

Christianity has reached a distant planet, and our heroes’ faith will be tested in the gathering storm.

Fastidious worldbuilding, diverse cultures, and detailed geography give the tale distinctive flair.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

fantasy for all adults, men

Reviewed

The Story Peddler

In a world where art is magic, one storyteller gets more than she bargained for when her stories spiral out of control and accuse the king of treason.

This story spins a perfect array of delightful characters living with complex magical abilities in a truly unique world.

—Lorehaven review, spring 2019

fantasy for all adults, all teens+YA

Reviewed

The Caves of Fire

A spy, a nerd and a bully must find a way to destroy an ancient monster before it kills them or they kill each other.

Can a slave say no? Fee and Daniel struggle with decisions as fully formed characters.

—Lorehaven review, summer 2019

fantasy for middle grade

The Chronicle of the Three: Eden Sword

In this final installment of The Chronicle of the Three, light and darkness collide as Zoe discovers there is more than one battlefield in this war.

supernatural and beyond for all adults, all teens+YA

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.

fantasy for middle grade

Reviewed

The Rejected Princess

If Roanna is to save herself and her future, she must stall her marriage and squelch the growing rebellion—all while discovering how deeply her power runs.

With The Rejected Princess, Katie Clark has fashioned a cozy political thriller braided with thoughtful ambiguity and adorned with romance.

—Lorehaven review, winter 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA

Reviewed

The White Forest

A fallen kingdom and a cursed forest await the arrival of their true savior and prince.

Best for: Pre-teen readers who like fantasy stories.

—Lorehaven review, fall 2018

fantasy for all teens+YA, middle grade

Skyrik of Landos

A refugee returns to his homeland to free it from its oppressive occupants, while unwittingly carrying something that his enemies will pay a colossal price to obtain.

fantasy for middle grade

Rhats!

A naive man-sized rat goes on a space adventure.

science fiction for all teens+YA, middle grade

Of Pretty Plots and Princesses

Gang activity is threatening to tear apart the sleepy town of Arbortown, while Kyne faces an invading army and a duel to the death!

fantasy for middle grade

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.

for all adults, all teens+YA