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The Ivory Queen

by Deborah Jarvis

After making her way to the southern part of Keyralisthmus, Deirdre is preparing to cross the desert in hopes of finding the lost shaper clans and learning the secret to calling on the aid of the elusive dragons. Once across the desert, the centaur shaman, K'ha Vrenil, has promised to guide them through the jungle beyond the mountains. Setting off with the shaman; the white wolf, Nersh; the thief, Jack Parns; his partner in crime, Rontil Moullard; and the transformed prince, Benjamin, Deirdre fi... more

Lost & Found

by Alex Andre

In a world shattered by loss of technology, survivors live off the scraps of the fallen civilization.

Ambitious young scavenger Yun-mi is thrilled that her mentor is finally taking her trading. Events take a horrific turn when his murder leads to her being sold to slavers. Driven by her ferocious determination, Yun-mi fights against her abductor. Survival depends on aligning herself with powerful allies, yet whom can she trust in the fractured society?<... more

The War for Ascension: A Crisis Reborn

by Dominician Gennari

In a world where sacred energies exist . . .

A young Torian is the civilisation’s last hope.

In the lands of Númaria those who harnessed the sacred energies of the Hydroverse were feared and hunted by darker forces. After painful dreams of a fallen king, young Areus begins to harness the sacred energies.

Why have these powers unleashed the forces of evil?

Journeying across perilous lands, he must find a girl who shares a devastating secret with him. Guided... more

Hummingbird

by Helen Harper

There are three absolutes in Mairi Wallace’s world:

1. The Mages rule every city in Scotland with terrible, violent authority.
2. It is not physically possible for any woman to wield magic.
3. Mairi does not have a voice.

She is about to learn that none of these things have to be true.

From twisted wynds and tartan shops to a dangerous daemon and malevolent ravens, the future of a tattered nation might lie with one solitary woman.

Quarantine Fever

by Tyler Grant

Quarantine Fever is a 30,000 word supernatural occult horror story that deals with a spreading evil amidst the global pandemic Covid-19 Corona Virus. Commander Eve Halsey is performing a routine repair aboard The Odyssey space craft when she spots a strange red glow affecting the western Unites States and southern Canada. After alerting NASA, she is ordered to report back any news of the phenomenon spreading. Jack Staley is a psychiatrist working from home due to the nation-wide shutdown. Whil... more

Caring for Your Clown Book One: Aliens are Real

by Oleander Blume

Oliver Tarsul is a mostly average 14-year-old kid; aside from being the unwilling roommate to an interdimensional space clown his step-father solicited to rebuild a portal designed by his recently deceased mother. Things are more than a little complicated. Regardless, dealing with a gelatinous slime monster in the shape of a clown girl named Dindet, while also trying to stay under the radar as the only trans kid in school, proves to be significantly harder than he imagined. But the fallout... more

The Secret of Four Notch

by Tracy Sabin

Mom and dad decided to move us from our home in California to middle-of-nowhere Washington state. Goodbye forever, best friends!

Exploring our sopping wet new neighborhood, our weird “sort of” new friend, my sister and I discovered Four Notch. Was the legend true that it could take us back in time? I know it sounds crazy but we figured it out. Went back to the time of the sawmills. Very strange and pretty exciting until we got found out and had to cut and run back home.... more

The Alas League

by Christian-Eric Falardeau

The Alas League is an entertaining humorous series made up of episodes ranging from 80 to 140 pages each. Brief “interlude” short stories are inserted between instalments, adding increasingly funny new angles to the new Worlds they live in.

Episode 1: Purgatory
In the small village of Verminus lives Mayor Monica Boisse, her son Peter, Father Ferdinand Paradise, the owner of the only bar Sylvia Thomac, the garbage man Mario Sax, the police officer M... more

The Last House on Earth

by Robert B Marcus Jr

What should you do if you find out your next-door neighbor is an alien? Richard Johnson, a college student, just spent his last dime on food, lost his wealthy girlfriend, and had his bike stolen. To add to his misery, he returns to his apartment where he runs into his strange neighbor. Convinced this bizarre man is more than he seems, Richard and his land lady's bulldog, Khan, sneak into his apartment where they find a timegate to the future. Along with his set theory teacher and her br... more

Pike's Progress

by John J Spearman

The follow up to Pike's Passage, a Finalist in the 2021 BookLife Prize, and the third in the Sandy Pike series, Sandy rejoins the Alliance Navy as they look to recover planetary systems lost after their surrender to the Hegemony of United Worlds and the subsequent civil war in the hegemony. Alison Lynch recovers from her traumatic experience at the hands of the Graz Syndicate and finds herself in the middle of the hunt for an escaped psychopath.

Claire vs The Flying Saucers

by Charles Dunn

Claire's life on the farm didn't change much when the Martians conquered Earth, But when they kidnapped her favorite cow, the Martians went too far. Nothing will stop Claire from getting her pet back. She tries the police, the Mayor, even the Dairy Council, but they're powerless. Begging and threatening the Martians are no good. Battering rams, flame throwers, dynamite... Not for sale to the average 3rd Grader. Brokenhearted, he vows to make the Martians as miserable as she is. Claire leaves the... more

The Sacred Band : Union

by James MacTavish

A new empire is dawning in the United States of America as the sun sets on Britain. Lady Morgan Worthington - Morgan le Fay - begins the rise of a great nation through the Palladium, the birth of empires. Her six faithful White Dragon Knights seek to build on its success, but the ever-resilient Red Dragon, led by the bloodline of Sir Galahad and operating within the 'Secret Six', mobilise once more with the power of Excalibur to break the bloodshed. The wielder of the fabled King's Blade, the li... more

Hybrid

by Rebecca Henry

Agent Van of the CIA is sent to an Australian underground military surveillance base called Pine Gap. Agent Van finds himself thrown in a conspiracy cover up of an ancient alien race known as species X. Agent Van falls in love with Annika, a mysterious and uncommon woman who displays unusual abilities, leading Van to question her own origin. Mystery and horror explode around Agent Van during a cave diving exhibition to search for a lost colleague referred to as Agent One. The only clue for Agent... more

She Steals Justice

by J. Clark

In this modern Robin Hood retelling set in the American South, Robyn Carter can't stand her sister's boyfriend and for good reason. His mistreatment of her has Robyn’s patience wearing thin with each misstep. When her sister becomes impregnated, however, Robyn’s fight becomes more than just about her sister’s safety. She fights for her sister, other victims, and the less fortunate in her Black Southern community—vigilante style. Her Robin Hood days take her down a spiraling rabbit hole filled w... more

Child of Etherclaw

by Matty Roberts

The bonds of family go well beyond blood. But can those bonds hold when the blood itself carries a devastating secret? Fenlee’s opal necklace had always radiated a certain warmth since her mother’s death. But now, at sixteen, her world begins to unravel as the stone sparks to life, revealing itself to be an otherworldly artifact of untold power. Between her mechatronics studies at the academy and scavenging expeditions beneath the sprawling city of New Cascadia, Fenlee and her adopt... more

Laela and the Moonline

by Lisa Perskie Rodriguez

“Surprises unfold in the predictable. . . . You can never fully foresee the foreseen.” Long ago, the four tribes of Aerizon lived as one people, but the time of unity has passed. Now, three of the tribes collectively called the Treedles inhabit the forest canopy. The fourth tribe, the Mergons, live on the ground and pose a constant threat to the Treedles. Laela is a young Treedle girl coming of age in the treetop realm of Aerizon. Her destiny, as yet unrevealed, will cast her in the role of cat... more

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