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The Looking-Glass Illusion, Sara Ella
Beneath the Swirling Sky, Elizabeth Groening
Skate the Seeker by Jeff Ayers
The Eternity Gate, Katherine Briggs
Calligraphy Guild, R. M. Archer
Savage Bred, Victoria McCombs
King's Warrior, Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
Sky of Seven Colors, Rachelle Nelson
The Librarian's Ruse, Thirzah Griffioen
Light of Eidon, Karen Hancock
The King's Feather, Amy Earls
The Orb and the Airship, Jenelle Leanne Schmidt
Wandering, Loren G. Warnemuende
Estuary, Lisa T. Bergren
Missionary to Mars, Lucas Kitchen
Drops of Glass, Kenneth A. Baldwin
The Red Door, Chris Solaas
The King's Curse, Jennifer Rogers

Bid The Gods Arise

Kidnapped from his homeworld and sold into slavery, Maurin despairs of ever seeing his cousin or his home again.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Fire Prophet

What if you could actually see angels and fallen angels engaging in battle–and you were expected to join the fight?
Reader ages: middle grade
The Fall, Chana Keefer

The Fall

Rapha, a powerful angel, had seen it all in his countless years of service. At least he thought he had. Then he met Adam.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

A Throne Of Bones

When the Most Holy and Sanctified Father is found dead in his bed, the temptation to seize the Sacred College is more than some fallen souls can resist.
Reader ages: adults

Anticipation Of The Penitent

After Alezea is trapped by the Devil, she bears him a son and knows her life will never be her own.
Reader ages: 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

Soul’s Gate

What if you could travel inside another person’s soul? To battle for them. To be part of Jesus healing their deepest wounds.
Reader ages: adults

Judge

The last thing Kien Lantec expects on his first day of military leave is to receive marching orders from his Creator, the Infinite.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Starflower

When a cursed dragon-witch kidnaps fairest Lady Gleamdren, the Bard Eanrin sets boldly forth on a rescue mission … and a race for Gleamdren’s favor.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

A Broken Paradise

Tiva, an abused runaway, finds herself drawn into a coven of forest-dwelling outcasts trying to escape the partisan religious conflicts of a dying world.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Crosswind

Winchell Sark has a fine life as a reporter, a good family, and a faith that seems downright peculiar to most everyone else. But dark powers are at work.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Gilgamesh Immortal

Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, longs for immortality and embarks on a quest for eternal life that takes him from a giant’s forest to the mountain of the god.
Reader ages: adults

Flight Of The Angels

Captain Dex D’Felco leads the “Angels,” a renegade Navy fighter squadron who clings to faith in a dystopian society that outlawed all religious expression.
Reader ages: adults

The Wrong Enemy

No one knows why Tabris, a guardian angel, killed the child he vowed to protect. But God has given him another guardianship.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Devil’s Hit List

The hottest new thing on the street is a virtual reality experience that makes crack cocaine look like cotton candy. Only one side effect: it’s lethal.
Reader ages: middle grade

Curse Bearer

When Danae Baledric leaves home in search of a cure for her father, she never expects her journey to teach her the price of her own ignorance.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Johnny Came Home, Tony Breeden

Johnny Came Home

John Lazarus searches for answers about why he can do extraordinary things. Is he human? Alien? Something more?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Prophet

Ela Roeh of Parne doesn’t understand why her beloved Creator, the Infinite, wants her to become His prophet.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Hero Game: A Superhero Space Adventure

Three virtual superheroes are all that stand in the way of a virtual army intent on invading Earth. But it may take more than super powers to win the war.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Coming Storm

Obbin isn’t your average boy. Obbin is a prince of the Blauwe Mensen. What’s more, he’s blue.
Reader ages: middle grade
The Halcyon Dislocation by Peter Kazmaier

The Halcyon Disclocation

After a risky physics experiment transports the island University of Halcyon to a new world, engineer Dave Schuster and his fellow students struggle to survive in this alien, hostile environment.
Reader ages: adults

The Oldest Enemy

David Lighthouse, an investigative reporter turned pastor, finds himself the target of sinister, supernatural forces as he tracks down a conspiracy.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Sneak

Logan Langly went in to get his Mark, but he backed out at the last minute. Now he’s on the run from government agents who will stop at nothing to capture him.
Reader ages: middle grade

The Spirit Well

Kit Livingstone is mastering the ability to travel through the Omniverse using ley lines and has forged a link to the fabled powerful Spirit Well.
Reader ages: adults

The New Recruit

Forced to choose between military school and a Christian spy organization, skeptic Spencer Garmond signs on with the Bible geeks.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Seeking Unseen

It’s been two years since Angel learned the magic chip of wood inside her locket would grant any wish. What is taking her so long to choose?
Reader ages:

Avenir Eclectia, Volume 1

The Avenir: once a generational ship, now a crowded residential station and dominating force over a broken world. Its people have nearly forgotten Earth.
Reader ages:

Asylum: The Circeae Tales

Trista Leighton is captured by the Progressive Legacy and arrested for her affiliation with the Ghosts.
Reader ages: adults

Deception Peak

Teenager Ian Wilson follows his father through a portal that magically appears on their computer screen.
Reader ages: middle grade, teens + young adults

Crimson Harvest

Sixteen-year-old Heather just wants to fit in and have fun. But one night of breaking the rules sets into motion a terrifying series of events.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Tales Of Woe and Wonder

Nine fantasy stories from Jeff Chapman. There are new fantasy stories and fairy tales as well as classic fairy tales retold.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Kingdom

War and disease have destroyed the modern world. Centuries later, feudal societies have arisen across Europe. No one remembers the religion of Christianity.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Words In The Wind

Marooned in a desolate canyon half a planet from home, a lone survivor struggles to separate reality from illusion.
Reader ages: adults

Digital Winter

Egged on by a shadowy figure, 22-year-old savant Donny Elton creates an evolving computer virus that knocks out satellites and communication systems.
Reader ages: adults

Liberator

As the invasion of human forces looms, Jason, Koren, and Elyssa struggle to alert the soldiers to an unforeseen menace on the planet of Starlight.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Enoch Primordial

Journey with Enoch the giant killer and his small band of family warriors who seek outlaw giants for bounty, but stumble upon a conspiracy of the Watchers.
Reader ages: adults

From The Mouth Of Elijah

Lauren and Billy set out on a journey to find Bonnie, hoping Lauren’s gifted hearing can track down Bonnie’s never-ending song.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Unraveling Of Wentwater

When the simple, backward village of Wentwater begins disappearing one word at a time, no one can figure out how to stop it.
Reader ages: middle grade
Men of Renown by Robert J. A. Gilbert

Men Of Renown

Men of Renown blends the legend of Atlantis with the story of Noah’s flood in a sword-and-sorcery adventure for the whole family.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

The Orphan King

Raised behind monastery walls, Thomas knows nothing of his mysterious past or fulfilling his imminent destiny.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Beauty and The Mark Of The Beast

Superstar quarterback Ted Strongbow, prophecy expert Dr. Tim Van Shrimpy, and English Professor James Wiles are convinced they know the date of the rapture.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Remnant In The Stars

Calonti Sora reluctantly signs on as an astrogator with a search-party ship and meets up with an old human friend, Kirsten Abbott.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Paladin’s Odyssey

The Paladin’s Odyssey continues the saga of the Seer Clan’s decline in a dying world that once surfaced Earth ages before our own.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Rift Jump

Michael Morrison has been recruited, ripped from his own violent life, and sent rift-jumping to other worlds seeking out the agents of the Dark.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

DawnSinger

The High Queen is dying. At the royal summons, Shae mounts a wingabeast and soars through the air to the high hold of Faeraven, where all is not as it seems.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Prophecy Of The Heir

The dark lord Hashatan, attempting to escape his predestined fate, summons an army as he seeks to prevent the birth of the prophesied Heir.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Ark

Noah secretly builds the vast ship, unaware that he is the target of a deadly conspiracy.
Reader ages: adults

Hafren: A Fantasy For The Young At Heart

The invasion of Hafren has begun. Two unlikely half-pint youths are thrown into the fray attempting to thwart the invading forces.
Reader ages:
Mythical, C. E. Martin

Mythical

Colonel Mark Kenslir is the last of the Cold War supersoldiers–and he’s just come back from the dead.
Reader ages: adults

Mortal

Rom Sebastian has gathered a secret faction of followers who have also taken the blood — the first Mortals in a dead world.
Reader ages: adults

Reality’s Fire

Kaylee and Nathan pursue a zombified Crystal to rescue her soul. A vision of death propels Gabrielle to chase after them.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Angel Eyes

Once you’ve seen, you can’t unsee. Everything changes when you’ve looked at the world through … angel eyes.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Telling

Zeph Walker has abandoned his gift to know people’s secrets for a life of solitude—until two detectives show him his own dead body.
Reader ages: adults

Risk

Ancient cities, treacherous villains, high-tech gadgets, a race to find a mysterious planet and stop the Ubel renegades from misusing its long-lost secrets.
Reader ages: middle grade

Star Of Justice

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

Lucas: Guardian Of Truth

After being humiliated by bullies, eleven-year-old Lucas Phelman is given a strange watch with bizarre effects.
Reader ages: middle grade

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:

Angel In The Woods

As a good Giant trains Hawk, a nobleman’s son, to provide for the family, Hawk is transformed by the innocence and love of those around him.
Reader ages:

Lady Moon

Celine’s evil uncle’s latest caper threatens to devour the whole countryside and wants to force Tomas into a confrontation.
Reader ages:

The Age Of Apollyon

As Lucifer rules the nations, two estranged brothers — a disillusioned, hedonistic Satanist, and a ruthless Christian assassin — find their paths converge.
Reader ages: adults

At Play In The Seas Of The Lord

The Diablo sank beneath the sea with $800 million in gold. It’s a death ship, but two Christians are determined to find it. Contemporary fantasy for adult readers.
Reader ages: adults

Seeking Adam

Stranded on Earth, Twilla seeks shelter with a human family and stumbles upon the answer to an ancient mystery that could throw the galaxy into turmoil.
Reader ages: adults

Swipe

Everyone gets the Mark. It gives all the benefits of citizenship. Yet if getting the Mark is such a good thing, then why does it feel so wrong?
Reader ages: middle grade

Spirit Fighter

What if Nephilim — the children of angels and men — still walked the earth? And their very presence put the entire world in danger?
Reader ages: middle grade

The 13th Tribe

Since Mt. Sinai these immortals have been trying to earn their way into heaven by killing sinners. Their wrath is unstoppable.
Reader ages: adults
Daystar, Kathy Tyers

Daystar

In the Firebird alternate universe, the messianic bloodline has been genetically altered. Who is the Boh-Dabar, the prophesied Word to Come?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Restorer's Journey: Expanded Edition by Sharon Hinck

The Restorer’s Journey

The world he knew is gone. Confident in his new Restorer signs, Jake crosses the portal into Lyric to stage a heroic rescue. But everything has changed.
Reader ages: adults

Moonblood

Desperate to regain the trust of his kingdom, Prince Lionheart reluctantly banishes his faithful servant and only friend, Rose Red.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Blood and Brine

Vahn’s brother, King Arx, expands the war with neighboring Ganluc, while enemies at home seek to shatter the Rebono dynasty forever.
Reader ages: adults

Daughter Of Light

Banished from her village, Rowen Mar finds sanctuary in the White City using a glove to cover the mark on her hand. If she touches another person, her terrifying power will let her see the darkness inside the human heart.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
The Restorer's Son: Expanded Edition by Sharon Hinck

The Restorer’s Son

Susan and Mark search frantically for their teenage son, Jake, as all signs hint that a trusted ally has betrayed them and threatens their son.
Reader ages: adults

The Fifth Man: Writers’ Journey Edition

Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and soon to be the most envied woman on earth — she’s just discovered life on Mars.
Reader ages: adults

Failstate

Why again did Robin Laughlin (a.k.a. Failstate) think being a superhero on a reality show would be a good idea? Especially when his brother is winning?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Beckon

Three people are drawn to the small town of Beckon, Wyoming. A young anthropologist researches a Native American legend and makes a terrifying discovery.
Reader ages: adults

Eye Of The Sword

Where angels walk the ground and the future is told in song, does a man of low rank have a chance at love with a princess?
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

Dawn Apocalypse Rising

The Seer-Prince, A’Nu-Ahki, is a man tormented by dark visions and uncertainty, burdened by a prophetic destiny too big for him.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

I Am Ocilla

“A dark soul threatens the Five Kingdoms, but I am powerless to stand against him, overwhelmed by phantom memories, broken and lost.”
Reader ages: middle grade, 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 Road to Hell by Jess Hanna

The Road To Hell

Accident victim Lucas Stone and self-absorbed author Drake Crawford are drawn together by supernatural forces beyond their realm of understanding.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

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

Times Of Trouble

Thirty years in the future, the U.S. government has turned into a tyranny as the EPA and TSA grow with ever more power.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Bourne

Find out what has happened to wounded men returning from battle, to the Betarrinis fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next …
Reader ages: teens + young adults
Theodore Pharris Saves the Universe by Rachel Starr Thomson

Theodore Pharris Saves The Universe

Eight-year-old Theodore Pharris lives an incredibly boring life until the day he accidentally shoots a spaceship out of the sky with his slingshot.
Reader ages: middle grade

Alienation

Earth’s last line of defense against the coming alien invasion is a 16-year-old surfer. But before Colt McAlister can save the world, he has to survive the day.
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:
In the Shadows of Myrmidons, B. Lloyd Reese and Nicholas J. Rzepczynski

In the Shadows of Myrmidons

A young Christian struggles to find the balance between vigilante justice and turning the other cheek.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
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

New Blood

A pale immigrant wanders into the backcountry of 1755 Pennsylvania. Her name is Rebecca. Her curse is a rare genetic disorder.
Reader ages: adults

Replication: The Jason Experiment

Clone Jason 3:3 is told that he has been created to save humanity and has just one wish before he is scheduled to “expire” in less than a month.
Reader ages: teens + young adults

Forever Richard

Now mortal once again, Richard and Ceese thought their troubles were behind them. What will they do when they learn that isn’t true?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

Winter Rose

When Rose and her sister are left to fend for themselves and an ailing mother, they must fight both nature and the darkness of the soul to survive.
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

Caffeine

Brandon Dauphin can only relieve his pain by indulging in computer-simulated fantasies, until a virus takes control of the simulation.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Journey to Aviad

Journey To Aviad

Elowyn and her sister set out on a remarkable journey that challenges the path Aviad the Creator has laid out for them.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

The Seer

Are Stan Marino’s daughter’s disturbing visions of the future a lifesaving gift, or a curse that will draw him back to the war he can’t hope to win?
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults
Taerith by Rachel Starr Thomson

Taerith

In a land of fog and fens, unicorns and wild men, Taerith stands at the crossroads of good and evil, where men are vanquished by their own obsessions or saved by faith in higher things.
Reader ages: adults, teens + young adults

H20

Kate Pepper has it all … or rather, she thinks she has it all. Terrible visions send her into a deep depression and her world crumbles.
Reader ages: 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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