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As always, this is not a comprehensive list, but only includes all the books I have heard about so far.
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1st August – Amethysts & Alchemy #1 by Rachel Rener
Urban Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy
I used to eat rocks as a child.
The family doctor diagnosed me with pica, dooming me to years of intensive therapy and extensive dentistry work. It wouldn’t be until much later that I would understand the all-consuming, insatiable craving that spurred me to eat a variety of rocks and minerals wasn’t a mental disorder, but an innate gift that allows me to extract the magic contained inside them: tourmaline for speed, celestite for strength, augite for a powerful laxative effect (that I had to discover the hard way).
Twenty years later, I’ve hidden my abilities beneath a white lab coat, working as a small-town pharmacist who creates proprietary “naturopathic” tonics that treat everything from memory loss to erectile dysfunction. Those tonics, in turn, fund my expensive lifestyle of solo flying around the world to search for more rocks. What more could an airplane-loving, mineral-munching, magical alchemist want?
Unfortunately, my arch nemesis, Heath Spencer, has recently taken it upon himself to single-handedly ruin my life. No longer content with annoying me from afar with his overpriced, tacky rock shop, Heath has decided to further antagonize me by dangling the opportunity of a lifetime right in front of my face: traveling to an ancient copper mine in China, which is home to some of the rarest and most stunning minerals on Earth.
It’s not until after I’m trapped halfway across the world with my least favorite person on the planet that I’m forced to come face-to-face with three terrible realizations: everything I thought I knew about Heath Spencer is wrong, some minerals were never meant to be ingested, and – worst of all – I’m not the only one who’s been keeping secrets…
1st August – The Starless Girl (Realm of Camellia #1) by Liz Delton
YA
Kira Savage is cursed.
A tragic loss. A new town. And now creatures made of darkness are after her.
But amid the darkness, she begins to see a mysterious white light all around her, one that leads her to a strange door in the woods. With a dark creature on her heels, she has no choice but to go through. Kira finds herself in a realm of light and the Realm of Camellia.
Here, Kira can learn to harness Light magic to protect herself, which she’ll need to learn fast because there’s more dark creatures coming. And they seem drawn to her.
When a local spirit promises answers about Kira’s murky past, she gets caught up in the dangerous path of the decades-long feud between Light and Shadow magic.
Will she find the answers about her past? Or will darkness consume the realm?
1st August – Mistlight (The Aenigma Lights #2) by JA Andrews
Epic Fantasy
Keeper Kate has spent weeks searching for her missing brother. Following his trail, studying clues, using the mysterious aenigma box to help reconstruct the story of what had happened to him.
But she’s gotten the story dreadfully, catastrophically wrong.
Now, faced with the losses and scars from her failed search, she and Venn must tackle a new obstacle: the elven White Wood and its ruthless king.
In a desperate attempt to find her brother, Kate finds herself entangled in a deadly quest to find the Warden of the Wood—a search that will lead to Kate’s own death if she doesn’t complete it in time.
Through a cursed ravine, a hidden ancient library, and centuries-old secrets, Kate and Venn struggle to sort out truth from legend and find the Warden before time runs out—for Venn and Kate and the entire human land.
1st August – The Advent of Winter ANOTHOLOGY by Various Authors
Epic Fantasy
24 Authors, 24 Stories, 1 Unique Advent Calendar
Step into the magical realms of The Advent of Winter, where twenty-four self-published authors craft enchanting tales that will transport you to a realm of frost-kissed wonders. Originally released as daily stories throughout advent, this dark, winter-themed fantasy anthology invites you to journey through winter, one captivating story at a time.
With each story, you’ll discover a new world, a new adventure, and a new facet of the season. From tales of joy and beauty that warm your heart to stories filled with danger and horror that send shivers down your spine, The Advent of Winter is a treasure trove of diverse narratives.
Let these evocative tales wrap you in the spirit of the season, as you explore the many faces of winter’s magic. Whether you’re seeking the comfort of familiar traditions or the thrill of unexpected surprises, this anthology will make your winter days truly enchanting.
1st August – Betrayal (Wahrheit #4) by AC Cobble
Epic Fantasy
The Truth is a weak thing. It has no power. The only power the Truth holds is the power we grant it.
On the brink of a continent spanning war, the paladins of the Kingdom of Wahrheit learn the greatest threat has been lurking within their own walls. A sacred trust, upon which the very foundation of the kingdom was built, turns into the deepest betrayal. Institutions collapse, and the weight of the kingdom rests on the weary backs of the paladins.
The hope of the world is lost, but the world of men is not the only world. A courageous few seek help from the realms of the fae, but how can men have faith in those whose every breath is treachery?
For centuries, the fall of the kingdom and of the race of men has been foretold. The strongest arms and the most cunning minds are powerless to stop it. The future is known. But the only power the Truth holds is the power we grant it. To save the world from the worst of the fae and the betrayal that struck at the very heart of Wahrheit, the paladins must come together to forge a Truth of their own.
5th August – The Dragon Who Dabbled in Crypto by TW Allen
Urban Fantasy, Horror
An attempt to blow the whistle on a cryptocurrency scam drew a a botched assassination attempt by supernatural means.
Management brought in a consultant to “fix” the problem, but a trail of scorch marks from incinerated bodies leads into a web of demonic financial crimes, purloined precious metals and eSports game fixing. What is the secret of the “Schatzhorde des Drachen” coin and will it lead Mister Lewis into the lair of… The Dragon Who Dabbled in Crypto?
6th August – Demon (Archive of the God Eater #1) by Rob J. Hayes
Epic Fantasy
Dien Hostain was never meant to lead. She wasn’t meant to survive.
Kind of heart and quick in temper, Dien expects to lead a simple life, learning her father’s trade. But unbeknown to her, he was not always a carpenter. He’s an exile, a traitor once known as the Peace Breaker.
When nightmarish demons attack the village of Berrywhistle, her father is murdered. Dien and the survivors are taken as thralls to live out the rest of their days in squaller and back-breaking labour. But Dien’s blood boils with the need to escape and take her revenge.
They try to break her body. They try to break her spirit.
Will Dien take up her father’s hammer and unite her people?
On wings of vengeance, a Saint shall rise.
7th August – Magic Kingdom at War #4 by Tao Wong
LitRPG
The only thing sadder than a battle won was the paperwork afterward
Matt Fang has won the battle. He’s got a new town, a whole new race of units to control and a lot of catching up to do. He’s still stuck in this strange realm, one of the last defenders of humanity against an enemy he doesn’t understand. Only contest.
Still, he’s got a job to do, even if it’s not one he trained for.
At least ruling a magical kingdom is better than punching in at the office.
8th August – Miss Percy’s Definitive Guide to the Restoration of Dragons (A Miss Percy Guide Book #3) by Quenby Olson
Cozy Fantasy
Miss Mildred Percy has no wish to go to London.
Unfortunately, her niece, Belinda, has recently absconded from Nyth y Ddraig with 1) a newly-hatched white dragon, 2) over a dozen (unhatched) dragon eggs, and 3) an extraordinary surfeit of hubris. All clues lead to London, and so Mildred and company have no choice but to follow her to town.
But retrieving a hoard of dragon eggs in the middle of a vast city is no easy task, especially when confronted with such impediments as journalism, pelicans, and a certain Prince Regent. Now Mildred must do everything in her power to return the stolen eggs to Wales — before they hatch! — and finally carve out the life for herself she has always wanted.
14th August – The Other Battle (Passage to Dawn #3) by Derrick Smythe
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
The fate of the world hangs on choices Kibure hardly understands and the ripples of victory could just as easily turn to waves of defeat. Kibure and Sindri set off in pursuit of allies in a world beset by distrust and the schemes of their enemies.
As the Lugienese Empire sweeps across the continent, Rajuban uses his cunning to consolidate power as he prepares to unleash ancient monsters of myth, and seeks a weapon capable of vanquishing an entire people in moments.
Meanwhile, a prisoner extraction gone wrong forces Dwapek to add an unexpected companion to a quest that will return him to the demons of his past.
Dagmara and Kyllean find themselves confronted with choices of loyalty as they watch the threads holding the defenders of the free world fray against an enemy united.
14th August – The Body in the Larder (The Alchemist’s Agent #4) by E.M. Burnham
Cozy Fantasy
Dead men can’t rob themselves
Evrik Attel wanted to live life on his terms, and where better to start than in Lityen, the village at the foot of the great alchemical Sect of Seven Fires? On the first day of the Preceptory of Yseult’s exhibition, he held a card tournament at his draughtshop with a special prize, a deck of lucky cards blessed by a god. Now, he lies dead at Lady Azadiya Hobon’s feet.
Hot on her heels as ever, Ibram Ucalegon discovers Evrik was robbed of everything except his money. Inside the draughtshop, everyone wanted to profit off of Evrik’s work, but no one wants to believe he was murdered. His cousin claims it’s on account of foreign food, his prospective business partner says it was bad shellfish, and the Imperial clerk simply wants to escort Lady Azadiya to her meeting.
But men don’t simply drop dead clutching their throats, and a robbery is a robbery. To find out what really happened, Lady Azadiya and Ibram must discover what caused … The Body In The Larder?
15th August – The Deluding of Gylfi (The Ragnarok Prophecy #1) by Matt Larkin
Epic Fantasy, Historical Fantasy, Grimdark
He was a god. He was a king. A necromancer, a shaman. A prophet …
From out of the Mist he came, his name whispered in awe and dread, for Odin cast himself as a god of Man. But behind the illusion and the lies, Odin too was once a man, in an age of ice and an era of Mist.
With his blood brother Loki by his side, Odin wanted only to protect his people from the soul-stealing Mist and its denizens. But when a vision of Ragnarök shows him the end of the world, he is forced to accept a terrible truth. In the face of the extinction of Mankind, any action, any deception, no matter how vile, is needful if it might avert the end.
So Odin will kill, will lie, will use Men in his ceaseless schemes. Because the price of his failure is unthinkable …
17th August – Snakebitten (Shadows of Eireland #3) by Joanna Maciejewska
Urban Fantasy
20th August – Return (The Cost of Power #1) by Joyce Reynolds-Ward
Sci-Fantasy
TOUGH SITUATIONS DEMAND TOUGH CHOICES.
Despite being a high-level heir and potentially the next leader of the Martiniere Family and the Martiniere Group, Gabriel Martiniere testified against the Group’s abusive use of mind control technology on military indentureds. But his testimony was compromised, and he risked being killed if he didn’t go into hiding.
Then his idyllic exile on an isolated Northeastern Oregon ranch is endangered by a true crime show that will reveal his real identity and pose a threat to those he has grown to love. Plus the Family wants Gabe back. Not only has the Group’s mind control tech been stolen by Gabe’s cousin Joey and sold to their biggest competitor, but the Family is under threat from digital thought clones that cross universes, as well as supernatural elements tied to the Family’s fabled descent from a European water spirit, Melusine. He can’t just walk away from his beloved Ruby and her grandfather. But if he doesn’t leave—how much danger does he put them in?
Gabe’s love Ruby Barkley is an agtech wiz determined to develop her vision of field nanobiobots that gather data and improve plant survival in heat and drought conditions. She knows her way around nanobots, not just agriculture-focused but in other uses. What will happen when she learns who Gabe really is—and will the aristocratic Family accept her? Or will they reject her as a hick hayseed rodeo queen?
Big decisions lie ahead of Ruby and Gabe. The fate of the multiverse rests on the choices they make. They will potentially gain a lot of power.
But even the right decisions demand a price…eventually.
20th August – Time-Marked Warlock (The Chronos Chronicles #1) by Shami Stovall
Urban Fantasy, Progression/Cultivation, Cozy Fantasy
Adair Finch is the most powerful warlock in the world, and one of the best private investigators for hire.
He has dealt with corporate vampires, murderous werewolves, and even fae royalty. Everything was perfect until he lost one case—the case where he also lost his brother.
So Finch retired. From magic. From PI work. From everything.
Bree Blackstone, a twelve-year-old witch, doesn’t know or care about any of that except Finch’s reputation. In the middle of the night, she bangs on Finch’s door. Her mother has been murdered, and now the assassin is after Bree as well.
Reluctantly, Finch agrees to help, only to discover something sinister has been brewing in town while he ignored the world… He’ll need to dust off all his old skills and magic before it’s too late.
22nd August – The Barbarian (Battle Brothers #3) by Casey Hollingshead
Grimdark, Sword & Sorcery
Ah, the true heart of the its winter. Much has been said of the region’s hostile climate, that it is a beast in and of itself, a spirit wreathing your very soul in freezing tendrils. And it’s true. The common hexe has nothing on the ice that isolates, the frost that frightens. She stands second to this suffocating cold which so easily corrupts minds into desperate imaginations. I shall return with books entirely dedicated to this bastard weather, for here my ink bottle hasn’t the depth to replicate its horrors. But I will try and answer succinctly, borrowing from a common northern refrain. You asked of me, ‘What do I think of the north?’ and so here is the simplest Death would be warmer.
Mercenaries, bound by an impossible contract, traverse a treacherous territory rife with conniving noblemen, secretive scribes, and monstrous creatures. Amid sieges, perilous escapes, and costly battles, these sellswords must stand strong against the creeping cold of the north. Here, winter is no ordinary season but a beast unto itself, a creature that only the strongest of wills would ever dare contend with.
23rd August – Upscaled (The Dragons of Nora #1) by Joseph John Lee
YA, Cozy Fantasy
It begins and ends, as things do, with a girl throwing a birthday party for a dragon. Or it would, if things were ever that simple.
Generations ago, the Inquisition of the Priory of the Thrice-Dead Prophet decided that dragons were a great evil and it was their duty to banish them from the land of Nóra. The dragons weren’t (they just grew tired of the bother and migrated north), and the Inquisition didn’t (they just pretended otherwise), but that’s beside the point.
Though evidence of dragons still existed, it remained within the realm of smugglers, ne’er-do-wells, and people with too much time and money on their hands . . . until a hatching egg finds its way into the hands of a young girl named Ailís.
Now, with the first newborn dragon seen in generations in her company, Ailís finds herself beset by merchants, brigands, Inquisitors, and a greedy governor, and all she wants to do is throw a birthday party for her dragon.
And you thought planning a party for your kids was tough.
27th August – Flames of Gold (Legends of Gold and Silver #1) by Liz Delton
Epic Fantasy
The silverswords have held Tytan in an iron fist for centuries.
That fist has crushed the last hope for the continent.
After quitting mage training, fire mage Fig thought her dealings with the crown and the ruthless silverswords who rule Tytan were over. That is, until she’s summoned by her old friend, Prince Devryn Verrence. His father is dead, betrayed by the silversword enclave. And now Dev is on the run, a king without a throne.
They’ll need to escape Tytan on a quest for allies, because it won’t just be the throne of Tytan they’re fighting for… but the fate of the continent, and the freedom of mages everywhere.
28th August – Of Secrets and Solace (The Children of Fate #1) by Ellysa Marin
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark, Romance
In a world dominated by war and the relentless pursuit of truth, how far would you go, what secrets would you keep, to protect that which you hold most dear?
Elyria was once home to the gods.
It has been a millennia since the gods were imprisoned in Meru by Fate, but wisps of their magic remain embedded in the blood of humans—some with the ability to wield that magic, and others with the ability to store it. Rulers of free territories are forced to ally together–or fall alone–in a bid to protect their territories from a growing conflict between the descendants of Kaos and Solace, one that threatens to boil over completely.
The Truthsayers and the Keepers—descendants of Kaos and Solace—receive messages from their imprisoned gods in the forms of truths and visions. Each group acts on the perceived will of their god in a bid to eradicate the other, paving the way for the gods to escape Meru and continue their fight against Fate.
General Rohak d’Alvey sold his soul and traded his family’s beliefs for a seat at the Warlord’s table, but his position is growing increasingly uncomfortable; especially as he uncovers powers and knowledge his closest friend has hidden for decades.
Lex d’Talionis, a Mage in the Warlord’s army, has command of both Pain and Pleasure—an anomaly in Elyria. Awakened as a teenager, Lex devoted his life to service in the Northern Territory’s army under General d’Alvey, but he holds information of his own—information that could cripple the Warlord’s plans.
In Hestin, a Warlord-allied territory, Miss Ellowyn d’Aelius prepares for her Awakening ceremony where she will discover not only her magical affiliation but also her designation. Her parents-the Lord and Lady of Hestin-and brother are all some variation of an Elemental, and she expects to emerge the same. But when an elusive Priest of Fate appears to conduct her ceremony and she begins to have strange dreams of a cracked landscape plagued by a magical storm, Ellowyn starts to wonder if there is more to her heritage than her family is telling her.
Further south, the war between the Last Keeper and the Warlord spills over into the Borderlands—a territory with no allegiance—and Faylinn, a scholar and healer with no magical affinity and no memories, is sucked into a conflict she tried to avoid. When her village is destroyed and her mentor disappears without a trace, Faylinn must decide whether to stay and help her people rebuild, or accompany General d’Alvey back to Vespera in a bid to unearth the secrets hiding in her memories.
Kaos and Solace grow restless and the Children of Fate must decide what they will do when the gods once again walk in Elyria.
