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Brett Schneider

Sixteen-year-old Zuma “Z” Alexander is grieving her father, fighting with her mother, and barely holding herself together when she chases a legendary green flash across the Pacific on a kiteboard. Instead of finding light, Z finds a doorway. Pulled into Vindurheim, a flooded world of rival seafaring peoples, ancient prophecy, monstrous creatures, and brutal war, Z is stranded far from Earth with no obvious way home. Her only advantages are a dead phone, her talent for kitesurfing, a stubborn refusal to stay out of trouble, and fragments of knowledge from a world far more technologically advanced than this one. As Z becomes entangled in a conflict between the Paskari and Vin-Paskari, she must decide whether finding her way home matters more than saving the people who have given her something she thought she had lost: purpose. WorldWind is a YA portal fantasy adventure about grief, survival, found family, and discovering that sometimes the way forward begins by being blown completely off course.

River T Thorn

A dead woman, a forged will, and a strip of headland worth killing for. Painter Brandy Davis expected a quiet summer at her inherited lighthouse, not a dead woman’s final request or a will that doesn’t add up. With Jasper, her sharp-tongued black cat who notices everything, Brandy follows Nell Ferris’s trail from a mysterious envelope to Whitmore & Associates, where one document could decide the fate of Moonstone Bay’s headland strip. Nell’s devoted carer, Daisy Kell, looks guilty enough to make the whole town suspicious: She inherits the property and knows every detail of Nell’s affairs. Then there’s Old Tom Ferris, Nell’s estranged brother, who wanted the land protected and argued with her over its future. Both have secrets. When a second death proves someone is willing to silence anyone who gets too close, Brandy realizes the forged will is only the beginning. With the killer closing in, she must uncover the truth before the headland strip, and the next life, becomes another dead end.

Bree Moore

She's an apothecary determined to cure an incurable plague. He's her loyal best friend, hopelessly in love with her. The problem? She's in love with someone else. And Nels would cross an entire kingdom to help her save that man—even if it breaks his own heart. 🌿 The Quill and the Vial— a plant-magic fantasy with friends-to-lovers yearning, impossible choices, and a hero worth falling for.

Glenn S. Robertson

More than a century after a devastating plague collapses civilization, the American West has returned to older ways. Towns are small, the land is unforgiving, survival depends on reputation and violence, and justice can come from the end of a rifle - or a rope. Ghost is a Seeker, a solitary rider hired to recover lost knowledge from the ruins of the old world. When a young girl is kidnapped by raiders from Denver, his search carries him across Wyoming’s plains and mountains, where every mile tests what remains of a person when the world strips everything else away. Seeker blends post-apocalyptic survival with the soul of a western, telling a story rooted in character and setting where the land shapes those who endure it.

martin Jeremiah

A Irish mystery thriller rooted in the mystery of Michael Collins's death at Béal na Bláth. A village in 1922. The descendants of the men who ambushed Michael Collins. And a reckoning that has waited a century. A fracture in time. Irish historical mystery. Political secrets. Ghosts of Béal na Bláth. And the dead are not finished with the living. Seven solicitors leave a Dublin conference in high spirits. A wrong turn leads them into thick fog—and into a village that should no longer exist. They enter a pub seeking directions. Once inside, they know something is wrong. The year is 1922. The seven discover that they are descendants of the men who ambushed Michael Collins at Béal na Bláth. They did not come here by accident. The past has found them. And it has no intention of letting them leave unchanged. As the fracture in time deepens, the seven are forced to confront the bloodline they inherited and the history they thought was buried. Justice. Guilt. Ancestral reckoning. Some will seek redemption. Some will fight to escape. And not all will return. In the fog of Béal na Bláth, the past isn't dead. It's waiting.

Costi Gurgu

The Earth is compromised and forbidden. The human Imperium stretches throughout the galaxy. It terraforms planets with indigenous life, destroying it. An organization fights against these terraforming projects, and it is pronounced a terrorist organization by the government and the Imperator. JO WARWICK, the heiress of Warwick Galactic Enterprises, is on an archaeological mission on the forbidden Earth. She contracts an unknown disease, and her expedition leaves Earth. While in space, the disease kills everyone on board but her, as she seems protected by an invisible shield. Captain TOSHI HUNTER and his crew are activists fighting against the terraformation projects, and after a failed attack on one of these projects, they are pursued by the imperial ships. The chase goes on, but they manage to escape. And by chance, they discover the unmoving, silent ship of Jo Warwick. They board it and see the massacre inside, but manage to save Jo. Jo and Toshi begin their adventure in uncovering the truth and the origin of this mysterious disease that now threatens the galaxy, while being hunted by the imperial troops.

R.W. Sowrider

What if after this life, you got to live another one? What if you were able to negotiate the terms of that life with a God? What if that God was a total jerk?! Good-natured Rowen finds himself in this exact situation. Face-to-face with the crocodile-headed God, Delemor, Rowen gets to negotiate his next life and live it out with the hope of ascending to the highest heaven, Empyrean. But will Delemor deem his life worthy of ascent? Will he sentence Rowen to an eternity in Hell? Or will he grant him another chance to live somewhere else in the saga of time to get it right? Based on actual historical figures and events, as well as actual Gods and supernatural beings, Negotiations with God recounts Rowen’s journey, from leader of the 14th century Children’s Crusade to the most trusted advisor of the last Emperor of Russia, with a little human sacrifice along the way. An entertaining and savage satire of history, humanity, and the heavens, you will love this ribald and irreverent comedy or go to Hell. Start reading Negotiations with God now to see what happens when we see the light.

Leland James

A searing satire and a rallying cry, EnWorld exposes the seductive dangers of totalitarianism in the modern age and the fragile line between good and evil. For fans of Orwell, Huxley, and Bradbury, EnWorld pushes further into a future that mankind must avoid. As Orwell said, "Don't let it happen." "A blend of speculative fiction, satire, and thought experiment, explores themes of identity and morality... James’ literary loop-the-loops result in a fun, brainy read. Entertaining and inventive storytelling." Get it. –Kirkus Reviews “EnWorld is a richly philosophical dystopian novel imagining a future where technological progress and totalitarian domination merge to remake human civilization.” –Readers Favorite Review, 5-Stars “Inventive blend of speculative fiction, satire, and profound philosophical inquiry.”

Bill Combs

Disgraced physicist Ethan Cross has spent years chasing a theory that destroyed his career: that consciousness itself bends reality, and that a mythic archive of human knowledge lies just beyond our perception. When a mysterious compass and a cryptic final letter from a dead colleague arrive at his door, Ethan is forced to confront not just the scientific establishment that rejected him, but the grief and family fractures his obsession has left behind. What begins as a desperate quest for vindication becomes something far darker—a race against time to uncover a truth that may cost him everything, including the daughter he's already lost. In this slow-burn exploration of ambition, loss, and the price of chosen destinies, nothing is certain except that some discoveries demand a reckoning.

Joseph Estevez

Liam Merr doesn't live on a normal island. Ghosts occupy their former dwellings, wizards sell their magical products in town centres, and a tyrannical king known as the Ra rules over its inhabitants. A mysterious man known as the rabbin takes Liam under his wing to teach him about his people's forgotten traditions. Liam expects to live a simple life as a loyal subject to the Ra, but his identity and inheritance have so much more in store.

Robert Nakamura

As the Izumo Empire falls into ruin, Takeshi the Wolf leads the Hachiman Dogs: ronin who burn villages for coin, leaving only corpses in their wake. But when they slaughter a priest of the Circle of Black Jade, a cult of forgotten horrors, they awaken forces darker than any blade can cut. Fleeing the cult's vengeance, the ronin find refuge with the Natsaka clan, who offer them samurai status in exchange for their service. Yet in escaping one nightmare, they fall into another: trapped between rival clans in a deadly game where honor is a death sentence and even allies hide daggers behind their smiles. In this web of lies stands one impossible man: Prince Zasuro, whose unwavering honor and hopeless fight for justice continue in defiance of fate itself. A light so bright it pierces even Takeshi's blackened soul, forcing the Wolf to confront every cruel truth he's taken for granted. As conflict with the Circle escalates and Zasuro's enemies close in, Takeshi must choose: follow the familiar path of vengeance, or protect the only man who makes him believe in something greater. "In a land of demons and warlords, trust is the deadliest gamble."

Lee D. Blumenthal

The most dangerous man in 2025 is three hundred years old. When disgraced MIT physicist Piper Ronstaat uncovers a high-voltage mystery buried for three million years, she sparks a war over humanity's energy future. But the key to the puzzle isn't hidden in a lab; it’s locked inside the mind of America’s original polymath. Benjamin Franklin is back. Drawn across the centuries by a 1.6 THz harmonic hidden in his own DNA, a "biological handshake" with the Earth that never truly ended, Franklin must adapt to a world where electricity is no longer a discovery, but a weapon. THE STAKES A ruthless corporate empire has uncovered the ‘Deep Surge,’ a power source that could sustain civilization or melt the planet's crust. To stabilize it, Piper and Franklin must solve the Judas Calculation: a materials science crisis where the margin between clean energy and a volcanic cataclysm is exactly 15 microns. THE JUNTO Targeted by a global surveillance state and systematically erased by a digital ‘Grey Rot,’ this ragtag team of fugitives must outmaneuver digital assassins and solve a 300-year-old cipher hidden in the original Poor Richard’s Almanack. Wit clashing with greed. 18th-century genius vs. 21st-century warfare. Released for America’s 250th anniversary, Echoes of Genius: The Deep Surge is a pulse-pounding technothriller for fans of Michael Crichton’s scientific dread, Steve Berry’s historical conspiracies, and the puzzle-box pacing of The Da Vinci Code. It asks the ultimate question: Would our Founding Fathers even recognize, or survive, the Republic they built?

Maxie Thorn

My van breaks down on cursed Alpha territory… and I become the prize in a werewolf war. I’m on my way to save a dying patient. Instead, I end up trapped in the territory of the one Alpha every supernatural fears. Rowan Grey is dangerous, and has no intention of letting me go. After I witness a forbidden wolf shift, he invokes pack law and insists I can’t leave. Forced under the same roof, we share stolen nights and impossible secrets. He battles the monster within every time I’m close. Somewhere between his rules and his touch, captivity starts feeling dangerously like home. Then I fall for the one man I should never want. That’s when I discover my blood is tied to an ancient prophecy, and a rival pack will stop at nothing to claim me. Now Rowan’s greatest enemy demands I be handed over, his curse is tearing him apart, and if the wrong Alpha claims me, everyone I love will pay the price.

Shawn P. B. Robinson

"Ridge: Day One is a startling adult debut written with excellent style and stunning precision. Not a mark is missed, not a page lets you down." Nathaniel Luscombe, hecticreadinglife A nation built on honor stands at the edge of a vicious threat. General Rezin Hamel serves a people known for discipline, mercy, and an unwavering moral code. As deadly beasts press against their borders, he makes an unthinkable choice—he disgraces himself and leaves behind everything he has sworn to protect. Beyond the empty wilderness lies a civilization hidden behind walls of secrecy, a nation built on cruelty. Slavery is common. Violence is celebrated. Power rules without conscience. Alone and operating in secret, Hamel enters this hostile world to uncover what is truly moving against his people. What he discovers will test his resolve and the limits of his strategy. Failure means extinction for his people. Success could reshape nations. Ridge: Day One begins a heroic epic fantasy series of honor, infiltration, and strategic war against hidden evil.

Andie Holman

**Discovery Editors' Choice Award 2025 Silver Medal in the General Fantasy Fiction Readers' Favorite Awards 2026.** This is not the little mermaid you grew up with. The Pacific Mers clan lives within a magical bubble for their protection, isolating them from humanity and the Surfecti, the magical people on land. Jelly is a Warrior Mermaid, able to pass through the barrier and explore the outer world. She wears a family heirloom, a teardrop black pearl at her throat, not knowing it has a hidden power. When she stares at a wall of plastic bottles in a superstore, becoming more furious by the second, the pearl wakes in response to her anger. She loses control. She'll be punished for this. But the pearl isn't done, and sets her on a journey to work with the estranged Surfecti. It's a mission she's not equipped to handle, requiring a cool head, something she's never had. Even worse, there's someone who desperately wants her pearl, and he will do anything to get it. And Jelly is in his way. * A climate-driven romantasy adventure set in the contemporary Pacific Ocean and surface world. The tone balances ecological horror with found-family warmth, slow-burn romance, and consistent comic relief. Described as “The Hunger Games” meets “Moana."

Josiah DeGraaf

Only teachers know what really happens at a magic school… Chintor Academy is celebrated as the place where the best music mages are forged. But beneath the surface, bullies rule with cruelty, teachers scheme against each other, and the student destined to save their nation is far from ready. Kalina didn’t know what she was getting into when she agreed to teach at Chintor. Now, as a first-year teacher, she’s tasked with finishing the training of this prophesied violinist. Their nation’s sworn enemies are nearing victory, and she has mere months to prepare him before their country collapses. When Kalina uncovers the abuse of a vulnerable student, she’s thrust into a dangerous dilemma. Exposing the school’s underbelly means she’ll be fired and unable to prepare their hero. Keeping quiet means her students will suffer. The fate of the nation—and her soul—hangs in the balance.

Klood P. Trouvay

Syra, known in the fighting pits as the “Greykiss,” is a survivor forged in blood and water. Now she wants nothing more than to be left alone, but in the corrupt city of New Merserat, a monster’s reputation is a debt that’s never paid. When her past returns in the form of her old patron, Syra is dragged back into the violent games of the powerful. Then there is Lienne—a seemingly ordinary young librarian troubled by unexplained headaches, with an inconvenient habit of seeing past Syra’s scars and reputation. When Syra accepts a security contract from House Saltbird to guard its remote, brine-soaked Salt Field, she is forced into an uneasy alliance with a mercenary crew that sees her as a liability, while a threat she cannot yet name begins to emerge beyond the camp. As fear closes in and the mystery deepens, Syra must confront more than the ghosts of her past. She must decide whether survival still means keeping everyone at a distance—or whether protecting the one person she never meant to need is worth the risk of becoming vulnerable. Embers in the SALT is a gritty, atmospheric, character-driven dark fantasy of hard-edged action, morally gray choices, and two women learning to trust in a world that gives them every reason not to. “Polished, intuitive fantasy debut driven by unforgettable characters.” — BOOKLIFE REVIEWS, Editor’s Pick “Embers in the SALT has everything: high stakes, an exquisitely-rendered setting, a flawed yet likable protagonist, and a conflict worth seeing through to the end.” — THE BOOKLIFE PRIZE · 9.75/10

Liam Homhire

When a Dire Wolf warrior is murdered by the very system she tried to expose, her resurrection becomes a curse—bound in a necromantic puppet-body, stripped of agency, controlled by forces she doesn't understand. Alongside an undead rabbit oracle prone to drunk philosophy, a reluctant assemblage of misfits and survivors must untangle a conspiracy that reaches far deeper than any single death, navigating a world where justice is as fragmented as the characters seeking it. Liam Homhire weaves together dark comedy and genuine grief, unreliable narrators and moments of strange grace, building toward catharsis through a ticking-clock mystery that demands everything from those the world has already discarded. This is a story about the cost paid by the small, the redemption found in unlikely bonds, and the messy, incomplete work of making things right.

HL Hopkins

Daisy Hartridge has never been good at life—but she's spectacularly bad at it when she is dragged through a dimensional rift into a world of wraiths and wraith riders. Thrust into Artonia, where her emotions literally take physical form. Three powerful wraiths that she must bond with, or lose. For the other riders, duty, control and routine are everything, and with her head full of chaotic brain-squirrels, those are definitely not areas she excels in. She can't even get to class on time! But as she's forced to navigate a conspiracy that reaches deeper than anyone realises, against a ticking clock none of them fully understand, she gains a creeping suspicion that, for once, she might actually be the only one equipped to stop it. With a found family of deeply flawed allies at her side, Daisy stumbles toward answers—and the uncomfortable truth that saving Artonia might require taking a closer look at herself first. Content Warnings Explained: Child Abuse - relationship between a child and caregiver featuring coercive control and verbal bullying. Graphic Violence/Gore - briefly features a character being shot, with a short reference to bloodshed. Mental Health Crisis - relates to a key character's struggle with guilt and self.

R.J. Scales

When a precious jewel vanishes from the jungle, everyone assumes the smallest snake in the forest couldn't possibly help—everyone except wise old Tilda, who sees what others miss. With nothing but a charm, his curiosity, and the unexpected friendship of a troublemaking monkey, Slyther sets out to restore the Jungle's lost treasure and prove that the smallest voices matter most. Part adventure, part gentle coming-of-age, this cozy fantasy celebrates courage in unlikely heroes, found family, and the quiet magic of being truly seen. - Children's, Picture book, ages 6-8, animal adventure, talking animals, reptiles