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The Empress and the Arctic Tern

by Angie Chasser

An ancient conflict comes to light once more when an arctic tern crashes into a farm during its annual migration, and with it the estranged Lord of a magical race cursed with corruption and eternal wars. He saves the village from a devastating storm, but farmer Arnel isn't convinced of his goodness.

His daughter Illa wants to believe that a righteous destiny is in store to be fulfilled. After much debate, they depart on a journey to seek out the Empress of the Seers to learn of his ... more

Mojo Mayne And The Galactic Funk

by Antonio Journie

Mojo Mayne, galactic musician extraordinaire, knows how to find trouble. When he and his friend Bamjogsz go on a looting mission, they meet Verona and Stridori, two dangerous assassins, and looters. The two groups immediately become rivals, made all the worse when Mojo accidentally steals Verona’s ship. After using all of her fuel, the four are stuck together in space, until they get a distress signal from another planet. Given fuel to rescue a planet under attack, the group learns more about ea... more

Casting Shadows

by L. R. Braden

With Purity growing in political power and bigotry on the rise across the Realms, Alex’s short-term goals are to stay under the PTF's radar and as far from the fae Courts as she can. But her plans go up in smoke when May, the younger sister of her good friend Emma, goes missing. Alex will do everything she can to find May, but to mount a rescue she'll have to avoid PTF raids, conquer old ghosts, and risk coming face to face with her fae grandfather again. War is coming. Lines ar... more

The Longest Night

by Zachary Strupp

Candice Brooks is a twenty-six-year-old sheriff’s secretary obsessed with true crime. She doesn’t have much of a life outside of her dead-end job and her podcasts. Having grown up as one of the only African American kids in a small, deep-south town, she hasn’t developed many meaningful relationships. One night after Candice reports to work, a local politician wanders into the sheriff’s office covered in blood. He and his young son were the only survivors of a massacre. When Candice attempts to r... more

New Lands Online Book 1: Encounters - A LitRPG Series

by Harry Thunder

Drive to the snow resort. Teach snowboarding. Rinse and repeat. Jack was enjoying life, though broke, as a snowboarding instructor in Lake Tahoe until an accident happened. Due to a hospital mix up his life takes a novel turn and he ends up inside New Lands Online, as it’s first ever digital human. He never signed up to be the main character in an ultra realistic virtual reality game where bodily functions are as real as can be and has to learn new skills to survive. From the arena where J... more

Gilded Lies

by Lin Lustig

When the path to justice is unclear, maybe you are the villain...

John Beechum is an actor with supernatural sex appeal on the precipice of recapturing his hetero heartthrob image—kind of. Maybe. Hopefully.

When he and his secret boyfriend, Emerson, begin sharing unheard-of premonitions from a teenager kidnapped by an ability-harvesting corporation, they need help from John's murderous ex-girlfriend—Lici... more

Epicentre

by Chris Andrews

When mermaid Grace Harpeden loses the necklace holding the last of her stored magical lifeforce, she sets off a chain of events that may forever alter the balance of power among magical Creatures. Forced onto land to regain her necklace, Grace quickly becomes entangled in the malign intentions of a succubus and an enterprising cohort of ghouls, all determined to protect their turf and the schemes they have in play. Caught by her own promises and the need to save her injured sister, Grace’s a... more

Note to Self: Myth Reimagined

by Donald W. Catchings, Jr.

Can time ever be changed? If so, at what cost? In this layered journey through time, discover the answers for yourself. When Kris is delivered a book about the time travels of Faran Senecio and his attempt to save his family, he learns that the past is not made to be dwelt in, the future is uncertain at best, and the present is filled with trouble and heartache. Through Faran’s story, Kris comes to realize that there is only one way to change the past but the price is high—Time-Sacrifice. ... more

Gleeman's Tales

by Matthew Travagline

Gnochi Gleeman is not like other entertainers. Because of his expansive knowledge of pre-apocalyptic Earth, the stories he tells are valued well beyond the flashes of an illuminator, or the spheres of a juggler. Gnochi spent the first decade of his career telling stories while traveling between taverns, inns, and any hole-in-the-wall which would feed him. Cleo, a young teen from across the ocean, flees from her chaperone into the woods of an unknown land. During her first months journeying th... more

Bloodline

by Justin Smith

“I was twelve when I realized I was a ghost.” So says Constance Fairchild, an eccentric poetess who is heiress to a fortune—and a girl who, from an early age, has believed that she had been reincarnated. Orphaned at the age of 14, when her parents die under suspicious circumstances, she is sent to a boarding school in Switzerland, a country that had haunted her dreams. Here, she makes her first real friends and stumbles on clues to her past life. When several of her friends die under su... more

Soul Shakedown: A Metaphysical Adventure

by Gareth R. Miles

SOUL FOOD - IT'S NOT JUST A SOUTHERN CUISINE... Everything seems to be looking up for young Guyanese father Compton Sharpe. He's got a beautiful baby daughter, a devoted fiancee, a dirt-cheap place to stay at his Dad's house in New Jersey, and to top it all off he's just landed an incredibly well-paid yet ridiculously easy job as a janitor in a local lab. Sure, there does seem to be something a bit... peculiar about the scientists in the lab, but with a meal ticket like this, Compton's more than... more

Ohana

by Justin Smith

In a sweeping panorama from the continent-spanning forests of Oz to the dystopian hell that is Pembroke, the Indigo tribe grows as they hire archaeologists to determine why their homeland of Oz is uninhabited. They uncover an ancient evil bent on destroying all other sentient life in the universe — one that exterminated cave men and other species on Oz. They also battle evil governments in other universes and establish themselves in a quaint but beautiful timeline.

Wish You Were Here: A Rock Fantasy

by Joyce Isaacson

“Wish You Were Here” an amazing paranormal, fantasy novel follows the journey of former “Str8Up” rock star Tomas Alvers as he travels through various levels of heaven searching for his band member and close friend, Paul Lamb. Tomas, worrying for his family, also visits his wife on Earth. He is aided by Gabriel, a guardian angel, and other famous souls. While dealing with problems adjusting to heaven and the afterlife, Tomas encounters strange and mysterious obstacles... the Astral Plane, Pur... more

When Darkness Descends

by G. W. Lücke

Five-year-old Tom Anderson cowered in fear while a mysterious stranger murdered his beloved grandmother, Jean Anderson, then disappeared. Now a young man crippled by guilt and anxiety, Tom’s offered a chance for redemption, but it means leaving Earth behind. Dark magic transports him to the shadowy land of Enthilen where he begins the hunt for Jean’s killer. However, unbeknown to Tom, his arrival in Enthilen has been engineered by Malphas, a cruel, exiled ruler who needs to capture Tom to bring ... more

The Sundered Isle

by Eldon Thompson

Rogue bladesman Kylac Kronus pits wits and swords against a vengeful queen in a desperate race to spare a conquered people from annihilation.

The Blackmoon Shards