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ISAURA (Aberrant 3)
Ruth Silver
Synopsis: They say the truth shall set you free, but my truth will get us all killed.

He’s missing and I should have seen it coming.
No one is to be trusted.
Everyone has their own hidden agenda.

I must venture into Outlaw territory,
Risk exposing my secret,
All while being hunted by those I thought were my allies.

Trust is a commodity I can’t afford.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
I Am Wolf (The Children of Nox)
Joann H. Buchanan, Benjamin Bautz, Karen Fuller
Synopsis: Angel, hero, monster, devil--we all become what we really are. I Am Wolf --The journey of a boy about to become a man who inherits his ancestors gift and must learn the right way to use it. He falls in love with Alaynee and begins to feel like he is normal again. When their world is shattered by the kidnapping of Alaynee's little brother, Jonah breaks the cardinal rule of his gift and bites the kidnapper, creating a creature called the unnatural. This sends him and all his friends on an adventure across the states to a place in Tennessee. There they find not only must they stop the unnatural creature, but they must save Cara--the girl the creature is after. Jonah must ask himself the most important question of all, would you sacrifice yourself to save another?
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Tesania - Trannyth's Keep
Grant E. Brazell
Synopsis: Tesania is the only survivor after her village is massacred by magically altered beasts. In the aftermath of the attack she senses her father's sword calling out to her, the hilt reforming to fit her small hand as she draws the blade from its sheath.

With its magic tingling at her nerves, she embarks on a mission of revenge.

Could her father's sword be the ancient weapon spoken of in the decaying parchments of the Tenule chronicles, imbued with magic and forged with blood? Can it possibly make the difference when she stands before the evil mage, Trannyth, and demands her vengeance on his beasts?

Tesania - Trannyth's Keep is a 132,000 word (500 page) novel.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Woman of Honor (Kingdom of Arnhem, Book 1)
Synopsis: Aislinn of Bairbhe dreams of becoming a lady knight to honor the death of her fallen brother. To her mother's horror, King Patrick grants Aislinn's wish.

Despite the mockery of the other pages and the disdain of Prince Caelen, who also trains to be a knight, Aislinn commits herself to her training and embarks on a journey of self-discovery and bravery.

Through the years, Aislinn and Caelen grow from sparring classmates to good friends. Honor, bravery, and yes, love are worth fighting for even when they both know that someday Caelen will have to marry for the sake of the kingdom.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Knight of Glory (Kingdom of Arnhem, Book 2)
Synopsis: Ranulf, the Speican lord, is dead, and Arnhem is save, or so the Arnhemians believe.

Sir Geoffrey and his companions have just completed a mission for Queen Aislinn when he receives word of the Speicans attacking Arnhem. Geoffrey and his party, which now includes exile Jenanna, split up and rush to different kingdoms to ask for aid. Even as he fights for his kingdom and his life, Geoffrey finds himself torn between his new friend Jenanna and the mysterious lady Celestia he left behind in Arnhem.

Enlisting help is infinitely more difficult than they anticipated and to make matters worse, rumors about that the Speicans have enlisted a mage of their own, to work unspeakable, forbidden magic. The war between Speica and Arnhem has just begun. Will Geoffrey survive the battle to live another day and discover which woman he truly loves?
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Kingdom of Arnhem Book Three: Champion of Valor
Synopsis: The war between Specia and Arnhem now reaches the sea after the selkies discover the Mystical Conch Shell of the Sea has been stolen. Selliki the selkie sets out to find it, and Gabrael, the mage she loves. No union between a selkie and a human has ever had a happy ending, but neither can ignore their feelings. Each night, they experience terrible, real dreams that show how doomed their love is.

The war threatens not only their love but the entire world. Lucifer has aligned himself with Specia and wants nothing less than to bring about the Apocalypse before its time. In the last battle, trolls fight icthyocentaurs, dwarves armed up against the Drow, angels against demons. Only one kingdom will prevail; that is, if the world doesn't end.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Root (The Liminality)
Synopsis: Life couldn't get more awful for James Moody. Between social isolation and family tragedies he manages to mostly stay cheerful. In his darkest hours he finds his soul transported to 'Root,' a way station for souls in transition.
When his lapses become more frequent and Reapers seek to facilitate his transit to the land of the dead, he finds possible salvation and maybe even love among a guild of dream weavers.
He takes refuge with Karla, a long-term resident of Root, until he can sort out the detritus of his physical life and solve the mystery of Karla's location and identity in the living world.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
The Binding (The Velesi Trilogy)
Synopsis: Two nights after her eighteenth birthday, Lily is attacked while out jogging but is saved by Tharin Lunar, a Sidhe prince. When she discovers her attacker is her own brother, Lucas, who disappeared four years ago, Lily refuses to believe he would truly hurt her and becomes determined to find Lucas and bring him home. She finds Lucas's disappearance is somehow tied to Tharin; so when he informs her that she is his betrothed and must return with him to Velesi, fulfill a treaty between their families and unite the two strongest clans through their marriage, Lily agrees. However, she is not going to Velesi for a wedding, but to bring home her only family, Lucas.

On their journey to the borders of Velesi, the realm of the Thirteen Clans, they are pursued by a Sidhe assassin group call the Ange, meet with an ogre crime lord that ends badly, deal with a sleazy troll motel manager, and when they discover there is a bounty on their heads, they must keep one step ahead of every assassin, bounty hunter and low-life criminal from Velesi.

Protecting Lily has become the biggest challenge of Tharin's life. Lucky for him he has help in the form of his twin brother, Tolan, Lily's best friend Julia and his three bodyguard cousins – Alorn, Phoris and Mellis.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
A Smile of Fortune
Adam Kisiel
Synopsis: A story of minstrels, mages, murderers and debt collectors!

Carefree bard Crispin coming back home from his parsimonious uncle's funeral does not expect that soon he will be mixed up in a murky intrigue involving magic, fear and a dwarf working as a debt-collector.

A full of adventure and mystery fantasy story.

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Published in Poland, Katowice, 1998.
English edition © 2011
26 pages

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When a chance presents itself to seize a vast fortune, Crispin the bard does not hesitate for a moment. However, it soon becomes clear that with great money comes great trouble, which the minstrel will have to face with a little help from his friends: the reasonable wizard Amerwend, the tough dwarf Marcus and the jolly halfling Bibble.

"Damned Inheritance" is the story in a fantasy series about the misadventures of Crispin, the careless troubadour.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Agnus Sib - The Journey
Arloni Bais Junior
Synopsis: Upon waking in the middle of Greneve, Agnus Sib has no idea of who he is or how he got to that place. During his journey in search of answers he is faced with a great enemy: Markati Shalu. Suddenly, his life takes an unexpected turn and he finds himself responsible for an entire village. To help him in this mission, only his two friends Lucius and Neville join him in the march towards Rosadelin.

Synopsis:
A man wakes up alone in the middle of nowhere - no city or person around him. As belongings, a bag with some seeds, a pot of ointment and an old sword with the inscription "Agnus Sib”. In the bag, in addition to those seeds, three stones (a yellow, a red and a green one), united in a drop shaped jewel, increased that mystery.

Three questions: "Who is he, what was his origin and what is his purpose" made him run the world in search of answers.

Despite of being a person of good behavior, he has deep marks of suffering in his unconscious that make him be at the same time fair and honest but with a strange desire for revenge. This suffering is increased by an amnesia - memory lapses of his childhood and adolescence that plague him constantly. Who are these people that appear in his dreams? Who is he, his family? What was that mission that he took to himself without even understanding its purpose? An invitation to the imaginary and distant lands, fight of good against evil and internal fight complete this saga, split into three volumes.

More than a search for answers is a search for himself – the search that all of us do every day, regardless of era or place.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Ameca J and the Demon God of Mythrania
Synopsis: Ameca and Fraya have done it; they have rescued their mother and brought their father back to life. Surely now it was time to go home?
But the Scelestus is gathering its forces again for another determined assault on Mythrania, and this time it has a new weapon in its arsenal, one of the Heirs of Menindus.
When their father dissappears after being accused of murder, the girls face an unsettling conclusion; somehow their father has turned to evil.
As the armies of darkness gather for one final battle, Ameca is left with a choice that she had never dreamed she would have to make. A choice that will decide the fate of the Universe and change things forever...
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Artemis Rising
Cheri Lasota
Synopsis: Award-winning Historical Fantasy! A compelling tale weaving myth, history, and romance as a shipwrecked young woman discovers her destiny...

Rejected by her father and yet determined to be her mother’s daughter, Eva takes on the tragic destiny of her namesake: the mythological Arethusa.

Shipwrecked on foreign shores, Eva finds herself torn between the dark and dangerous shipowner's son and the kind-hearted orphan boy who rescues her.

Faced with an impossible choice, Eva must heed the troubling warnings of her goddess-touched visions before her fated destiny destroys them all.

Set against the lush backdrop of 1890s Azores Islands, this Historical Fantasy Romance won First Place in the Chanticleer Cygnus Awards and was a finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.

****

"Wish I could give it 10 stars. Love it. The story grabs you and puts you in such suspense and over the edge until the end." -
Lunanima

"Left me breathless and spellbound. I wanted to live inside its pages." - Karen Hooper, Author of Tangled Tides
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Emerald Witch
Leona O'Neill
Synopsis: If Amelia Morgan’s life were a colour it would be positively beige. Her love life is as real as the cheap plastic heart her boyfriend gave her for Valentine’s Day, nothing of note has ever happened in the sleepy seaside town where she lives with her eccentric grandmother and she is a level-seven hypochondriac.
Things pick up though, before her 18th birthday, when her boyfriend drops off the face of the earth, the rate of human combustion in the town goes stellar and a maniacal stranger purporting to be her long-lost father starts hanging around town melting people.
It turns out Amelia Morgan is a witch, hidden in wild and windy Donegal by her mother’s people when she was just a baby. She is daughter to a mad man and granddaughter to the ancient Celtic Goddess of war, death and destruction ­­– the Morrigan.
As she comes of age the magical ties that bind the powers within her unravel, along with deep, dark family secrets. As her world implodes a war erupts within her between good and very, very bad. She leaves the beige-coloured existence behind to fight a battle of epic proportions - encountering headless horsemen, dark angels, power-crazed goddesses and her deadbeat Dad who requires her blood to raise his corpse mother from the grave.
She discovers magical worlds - under the streets of Dublin, under the Emerald Lake, beneath the Emerald Forest and races of ancient Irish people who she must lead out of the darkness the Morrigan spreads across the land.
No one said being a teenager was easy.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Heron's Path
Alethea Eason
Synopsis: Alethea Eason’s newest book, The Heron’s Path, has all the grace of the river that flows through its pages. One steps lithely into the world of Katy and her delicate sister Celeste. It is a world where the old and the new mingle, the Old Ones hold a knowing but genteel sway and the country man perhaps shouldn’t be so trusting of his dulled senses. Will Celeste come to know the purpose of her wanderings and dreams? Will Katy and aged Olena be able to keep her from the clutches of the evil we-nei-la? Follow them “north to the true wilderness, dark with ancient trees, where the Nanchuti struggle to keep their sacred songs from vanishing.” Like the current of the river Talum that witnesses all within these pages, you too will be swept along in the adventure, sometimes in reflective pools, sometimes drawn inexorably to the falls… to find the Heron’s Path.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
Marney + Me Best Sisters 4Ever
Synopsis: Samantha Lane Ferguson just wants to be like everybody else. Unfortunately everybody else just happens to be rowdy teenage girls.

She’s a seven-year-old genius trying to survive the seventh grade. But with her
big IQ and even bigger mouth, she’s too smart for her own good.

Marney, Sam’s older sister just wants to play basketball. An accident last year left both her legs paralyzed. She has become the star of her new school’s wheelchair basketball team. But the accident and memories of her old life are starting to take their toll on her.
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Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy
The Aduramis Chronicles: Destiny of the Wulf
Synopsis: 'A Master Storyteller.' - Jaime Polychrones. Book Expo America 2017.

In the eternal battle between dark magic and light, brothers Coinin and Marrok Wulf are called by an ancient Brotherhood to fulfil a great prophecy that will tip the fate of their world forever.

At play are the greatest forces of darkness in the universe: Death himself and dark wizard, Lordich Secracar, who will stop at nothing to thwart the brothers’ journey and pull Er’ath, their beloved home world, into the void.

To head off Death’s ultimate plans to rule the gods and bring chaos to the heavens, the two brothers must follow their destiny to unite the five sacred Swords of Cerathil, in the Tower of Elyia, as the ancient seer, Aduramis foretold.

In their path lie untold enemies and unspoken treachery. Torn between the powers that be and their call to fate, Coinin and Marrok must overcome all that stands in their way, or let their precious world fall into ruin …

Journey now into the brave new world of The Aduramis Chronicles, a coming-of-age fantasy series that is as diverse as it is dense--combining all of the classical elements of the fantasy adventures you love with the plot-driven, multi-faceted character dramas of the modern age.

Take off with Book One, Destiny of The Wulf, into a world unlike any other, as the ticking hand of fate moves ever closer towards destruction ...
Publication Date:
Age Level: 12 and up
Genre: Fantasy

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