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HALF A LION

by Palle E.K. Oswald

It takes a village to raise a child.

In a land of brutal conquests, twisted histories and forbidden magic, the Lion tribe is in crisis. The chief has three heirs. The warrior, the worker, and the accursed. For one to ascend the lionchair, the others must be broken.

It takes the demons to make a man.

Sakhan fights captivity, shamans, and shapeshifters – all while caring for an ailing mother and vowing to... more

Gentleman's Club

by NT Herrgott

Luca Wexler has grown up in a world where superheroes are a staple of the nightly news. At seventeen years old, with eight years of hero training, a scrappy attitude, and a mountain of sass - he figures that's everything he needs to make it big as The Avalon Knight. (Behind his dad's back.) Even though his trainer keeps him on the streets of San Francisco to break up muggings or the occasional burglary, he somehow gets thrust into a supervillain crisis! (Okay, he might have accidentally-on-pu... more

Amaranth

by David M. Snow

They thought the Flood was the end… When a mysterious syndrome spreads on the last remaining Ark on Earth, Skyler Goldberg, a young doctor in the making, faces an unprecedented crisis. The dead are piling up, yet no cure exists. Skyler can only count on himself to avoid the worst. Emily Bates, his childhood friend, interrogates stowaways in the prison as a special agent. Their presence onboard could shake the very foundations of the ship. Will she be strong enough to overcome the injustice... more

The Compassionate Killers

by Justin Case

In this thought-provoking and fascinating futuristic dystopian novel, Enoch Walker awakens from a cryogenic coma five hundred years into the future. His last memories of his former life were of a fledgling country that he helped build after America's second civil war. He is happy to see this new nation still exists. But to his growing dismay, he realizes the country has morphed into something he cannot reconcile himself with. The people are now superhuman, thanks to a dark secret that Enoch thou... more

The Wicked & The Dead

by Melissa Marr

Enter a new faery world written by the author of the internationally, USAT, and NYT bestselling Wicked Lovely series. Half witch, half killer, wholly unpreparedly for a Faery Bargain, Geneviève Crowe makes her living beheading the walking dead (draugar) in near-future New Orleans. But Geneviève's magic has gone sideways, and the only person strong enough to help her is the one man who could tempt her to think about picket fences: Eli Stonecroft, a faery bar-owner in New Orleans. When h... more

The Adventures of Snout: At the end of the forest

by Mae Johnsson

For the first time in twelve years Snout found himself standing outside of the forest he had grown up in. He had gone to the west, even though his parents had forbidden him to do so. As he stood looking out over the most beautiful, colorful land he had ever seen he couldn’t understand why he had not been allowed to go there. Although, the nature was not the only thing that was different from the forest. There was also creatures in the west that he had never seen before. One of them was Ox, who w... more

The Voyage Part I

by Robert Vincent

"It is 1832 as the USS Hayes sails the Indian Ocean, guided by its lord and master, Captain Gellins. Meantime a shipmate is wrongly accused of stealing and faces the fatal lash. Likewise, he is just one of many who have been accused of false charges: others who have already met their end at the gratings; all from the lies supplied to the captain by shipmate Penderghast. Who can tell what will happen if certain other shipmates take the law into their own hands to try and right this injustice. An... more

B09F9Y11YD

by Penn Fawn

The Fourth Tier is the first book of the Underworld Series, a spin off from author Penn Fawn’s Necropolis dark fantasy novels. It is the part of the underworld that is home to the master of sorcery and dark arts, the necromancer, and his alliance of beasts and the undead. It is the most terrifying place in the afterlife where only the most unfortunate souls might be downcast. That is precisely where our protagonist, Hespatia, and her peers who’ve fallen from grace find themselves. A desper... more

The Terminal Code

by J.W. Galliger

How do you solve an impossible murder? Meet Dashiell Kincaid, a cocky security consultant known for his knowledge of SCAPE's virtual reality systems and his problem-solving ability. The Terminal Code takes place in 2050, as Kincaid is called to the scene of a murder in New York City, but is quick to find that this one is much more than it seems, as it somehow crossed the bounds of SCAPE and into every day life. In this modern take of a “locked-room mystery”, most people have abandoned the real... more

Thunder Moon Tussle

by Torn MacAlester

Nils Carmike, a fallen from grace astronaut turned smuggler, forges a new life on the lunar frontier. Harassed by the strikingly beautiful and demanding Deputy Miller, he is faced with fines and conflict, resulting in a tumultuous relationship and ultimatum he can’t refuse. Running for their life they struggle against their pasts, hoping to outsmart the common faceless enemy and forced to focus on the only rule that matters: survive!

Caspian's UnBirthday

by Lois Wickstrom

Every year, for his UnBirthday, Caspian’s grandpa gives him an unusual present. This year, it’s brown socks. Grandpa spills hot chocolate on them. Next thing he knows, he’s floating. He needs a broom to steer.

Dio in the Dark

by Rizwan Asad

The powers of the pantheon have faded. The gods live amongst the mortals, grasping for what little of their divinity remains. When Zeus – King of the Gods – goes missing in modern-day Toronto, it is up to his estranged son, Dio, to find him. And with rumours of The Darkness coming, Dio will have to race to find his father, and uncover the truth before it’s too late!

Where the Dead Go

by Rasa Samimi

Where the Dead Go is about our afterlife on Earth's dark matter doppelgänger lurking in the space all round us; wherein we live on till a second death (with a few exceptions which manage to solve the great riddle of being).

Sensored Souls: The Secret Life of a Mind-Hacking Neuroscientist

by Jen L. Hanson

A dazzling intersection of mind, body, soul and the senses. When her father goes missing, Persephone Jones’ search for him brings her to a hidden art gallery in Shanghai. As she races to find answers to her questions, a room concealing a collection of glowing glass sculptures grips her. Not knowing who, or what, to trust, Persephone becomes part of a gruesome plot that draws the young neuroscientist into a sinister and suspenseful situation. With time running out, mounting moral dilemma... more

The Game of War: the Trials of Dantess, Warrior Priest

by Glen Dahlgren

Standlone full-size prequel to the Gold Medal Winner of the 2021 Readers' Favorite Award for YA Epic Fantasy

Never meet your heroes—especially if they're dead.

Years before the Child of Chaos makes their fateful choice, young Dantess faces his own reckoning.

Dantess wants to follow in the footsteps of his dead grandfather—a legendary priest of War—but his father forbids it. In fact, his father's hatred of War lands him... more

Unfortunate Floyd

by Arin Lee Kambitsis

Fourteen-year-old Floyd Piccolo is the unluckiest boy in the world. Whether contracting the Bubonic Plague on vacation or being struck by a meteorite blasting through the roof of a shopping mall, Floyd has a life that no other kid could possibly relate to. The only person who gets it is his friend Piers, a small, scientifically-minded boy who believes he can fix Floyd’s bad fortune with wild theories and experiments. There is hope, however, when he meets a girl named Peyton Flores, a new Brazili... more

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