Lady Apprentice (Serving Magic: A Swords & Sorcery Romantic Fantasy Book 1) by Toni Cabell: Pride and Prejudice meets Lord of the Rings in this award-winning book! Linden is the worst mage apprentice in her school—maybe in the whole country. Yet all the prophecies say she’s the girl with the answers. But if Linden can’t master a basic shape-shifting spell without starting a fire, how can she take on the darkest sorcerer in generations?
Stolen (Stolen Book 1) by Marlena Frank: When sixteen-year-old Shaleigh Mallet is kidnapped by a creature who carries her atop a flying bicycle into another world, she realizes this isn’t the escape she wants. With the help of a trespassing faerie, a stoatling, and a living statue, Shaleigh hopes to finally make her way home. She doesn’t realize she’s playing into the hands of an enemy.
Gullible’s Journey: The Clock Has Started by P. C. Shumway: Gullible’s Journey is about the misadventures of a ten-year-old boy named Patrick Gullible in the spring of 1969. He meets a reincarnated Zen Master who assigns him the koan: “What is the most valuable thing in the world?” Patrick’s solution to the Zen problem is priceless. He spies a man, carrying a bazooka, steal into an abandoned house. Is that a grave he was digging in the backyard?
The Potted Plant by Thomas Gloom: “The Potted Plant” is an eco-horror revenge tale that touches on the more creepy aspects of flies, chiggers, and carnivorous plants. The fast-paced story features a witch, a flesh-eating plant, and plenty of blood! Emotions run high in this terrifying and psychological novella for the ages that’ll leave you sleeping with the lights on.
The Haunting of Blackstone Mansion (Blackstone Book 1) by Augustine Pierce: Antiques expert Katherine relocates to Blackstone, Oregon, near the majestic Mt. Hood. Tucked away in the foothills looms the foreboding and abandoned Blackstone mansion. The spirit of a woman who died far too young reaches out to her. Determined to help the ghost, Katherine discovers a past filled with jealousy, unrequited love, and murder.
Best Friends with an Alaskan Man (An Alaska Romance Series Book 2) by Evangeline Kelly: In a dance between friendship and love, Sabrina must shield her heart after a perfect date with Hunter. As they forge an unbreakable bond as best friends, the moment comes to reveal her true emotions. Can she risk it all for love, or forever linger in the friend-zone?
Sloth and Manatee: Ocean Adventure by Betsy Streeter: This book is for anyone and everyone who loves nature, and friendship, who seeks peace and a sense of interconnectedness, a little quiet place and a chance to wonder at our world and its endless forms of life. It’s a book you can read and re-read, to feel a little grounded and a little more hopeful. It inspires curiosity about the world around us.
Stinky Soup by Diana LeGere: Fernando is a frog living in a forest with many other animals. He is passionate about cooking and hopes to make friends by sharing his creative dishes. However, when he tries to offer his “tasty” egg, garlic, and cockroach soup to his neighbors, they are disgusted by the smell and refuse to try it. Fernando learns that the best way to make friends is to be yourself and let people do the same.
Green’s Thumb by Alexander Elliott: Mitch and Karl are both middle-aged, single, and open to meeting that special someone. After a chance meeting at the dog park, Karl hires his charming new friend for some much-needed landscape work. Before long something special begins to grow along with the flowers. (Contains steamy M/M content.)
Reckless (Mia Kazmaroff Mystery Series Book 1) by Susan Kiernan-Lewis: Mia Kazmaroff is able to tell the story behind any object simply by touch, which comes in handy when her Atlanta police detective brother is murdered. Mia reaches out to his partner Jack Burton to find the killer while they attempt to ignore the sparks flying from their undeniable mutual attraction.
The Granite Key (Arkana Archaeology Mystery Thriller Series Book 1) by N. S. Wikarski: If you liked The Da Vinci Code, you’ll love this myth-shattering treasure hunt series spanning continents, centuries, and forgotten civilizations. A secret society squares off against a ruthless fundamentalist cult for a cache of hidden artifacts that could rewrite history or end it completely. Only one faction can win. Only one will survive.
Bratva Darling (The Ivankov Brotherhood Book 1) by Sabine Barclay: I wasn’t prepared for her… She just got me to pay three times as much as I wanted for a company I’ll buy and destroy. She knows who I am. The bratva doesn’t scare her. Intelligent, brave, and unstoppable. I’ll make her mine. She doesn’t know it yet, but we’re soulmates. I’ll take her to her limits. Then give her all her heart desires.
Between a Wolf and a Hard Place (Norcal Shifters Parts 1-6) by Annalise Nixon: Kidnapped and dropped into a shifter love triangle, a shy plus-sized woman’s life is anything but ordinary. Two sexy shifters offer a forever kind of love, but a dark villain with malevolent plans is in their way. Her choices aren’t just about her—it’s life or death for her family and the entire shifter community. Love’s never been so risky.
Second Chance Killer by Bradley Cornish: ‘Second Chance Killer’ is a Faith-based thriller that combines the fast-paced action of a thriller with the immersive world-building of a mystery. It explores guilt, redemption, and the search for the truth. Prepare yourself for a gripping journey that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final revelation.
The Haunted Homecoming (Southern Ghost Hunter Mysteries) by Angie Fox: It’s homecoming weekend in Sugarland, Tennessee, and ghost hunter Verity Long is tickled to see so many souls—living and dead—back in town to celebrate. But not all reunions are happy ones, and when Verity stumbles upon a dead body by the football field, it appears someone has already evened the score.
Woman in the Waves (The Driftwood Mysteries Book 3) by William Cook: When he was helpless to prevent a young woman in a white gown from being swept out to sea, he could imagine nothing more horrible. Then he found a severed arm on the beach – with a two-carat diamond ring on the fourth finger.
The Forgotten Children by James Hunt: The early morning hours bring ill news for Detectives Jim North and Kerry Martin. As they learn of two dead parents and a missing child, their search leads them on a winding journey of deceit, lies, and betrayal because the only person more evil than a kidnapper are the people who let it happen.
On the Border (A Samantha Church Mystery Book 5) by Betta Ferrendelli: Reporter Samantha Church works with a cub reporter to solve a scheme involving murder, money laundering, and undocumented workers.
Crime and Nourishment (Angie Prouty Nantucket Mysteries Book 1) by Miranda Sweet: Angie Prouty takes an unexpected turn from her fiancé and analyst job in Manhattan’s corporate world, finding herself back on Nantucket Island launching a bookstore. Her new life comes with its quirks, but seems perfect, until a local’s demise. When suspicion falls on Angie, she and her friends dive into sleuthing, uncovering a lethal secret closer to home than anyone dares to imagine.
Hidden in the Silence (Dom Walker) by HN Wake: If you like Clarice Starling, Harry Bosch, Lisbeth Salander, and Tracy Crosswhite, you’ll love Dom Walker. If you enjoy page-turning thrillers loaded with satisfyingly complex twists, sabotage, and intrigue, then the Domini Walker series is for you. A brutal recording. A dead journalist. And a mysterious research topic combust in this rapid-fire thriller, the second in HN Wake’s blazing series.
Studying Scarlet (A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery Book 1) by Craig Stephen Copland: Garrotted. That’s what happened to the first three men she asked for help. Treason, murder, assassination, regicide. Encountered when Sherlock Holmes accepted this case. A magnificent mature woman, a Southern goddess, needs Sherlock Holmes’s help. She has to find her estranged husband. A tribute to A Study in Scarlet and Gone with the Wind.
The Curse Of Matilija (Zack Tolliver, FBI Book 9) by R Lawson Gamble: Zack falls victim to an unknown bacteria in an ancient cave. While in the hospital, he is stalked by a killer. Desperate, he must track the source of the bacteria, yet stay alive. With the aid of Eagle Feather, his Navajo friend, the FBI agent must face foreign cabals determined to possess the bacteria for a weapon. A Zack Tolliver, FBI, mystery.
A Marine’s Fallen Angels by Michael Strickland: The terrifying ending begins three days before the story ends, when the head councilor arranges for three convicted felons from the state penitentiary to come to Helbrook to speak to the adolescents about the dreadful life of being in prison. The plan turns tragic when the convicts are able to overpower the guards taking control of the facility.
