In Brielle D. Porter’s novel "Jester", a girl’s ambition to possess real magic and outrun her family’s past threatens to consume her. Terraca’s city of Oasis is glutted with magic, and its many magicians are all competing to be... Read More

W. A. Simpson’s fantasy novel "Tinderbox" invokes magical powers and the possessive motives of the ruling elite. Isbet returns home and finds that her grandmother, a powerful witch, has been killed, and the killer stole the Box, a... Read More

In Intisar Khanani’s fantasy novel "A Darkness at the Door", a lady in waiting is on a dangerous mission to end a child trafficking ring in the kingdom of Menaiya. Rae, the attendant of Princess Alyrra, is held captive aboard a cargo... Read More

A modern fable and adventure story, Sam Thompson’s "Wolfstongue" follows a boy into a foxes’ underground city in order to save the last wolves from enslavement. Here, anthropomorphized animals and pen-and-ink drawings illuminate the... Read More

In Elijah Kinch Spector’s brooding novel "Kalyna the Soothsayer", the end of the world is coming. Kalyna knows that her country is about to collapse into war and destruction, but she cannot flee. She is trapped in the service of the... Read More

Influenced by Persian culture, "The Bruising of Qilwa" is a stunning fantasy novella that confronts questions of belonging: to a culture, a family, and to yourself. Nonbinary blood magic practitioner Firuz might be considered one of the... Read More

An aristocrat and his lover grapple with a powerful supernatural creature in Letters for Lucardo: The Silent Lord. Edmund, the human lover of immortal Lucardo, has become sick with “Shifter’s Lung.” But Lucardo isn’t willing to... Read More

In the Christian fantasy novel Wayne’s Angel, a headstrong woman is driven to pull an aimless musician to the side of good. In Ron W. Mumford’s fantasy novel Wayne’s Angel, a smooth-talking musician faces an existential crisis and... Read More