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1st March – Stone and Flesh (The Fruit of War #1) by Tamara S. Harker
Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
The War of the Six and the Plague of the Bitter Hand unleashed at its peak has left the kingdoms of Ícalar in tatters. Years after a tenuous peace is made, the last surviving member of the heroic Hidden Company, Iknaïs, succumbs to the plague. Wearied Shepherd of Leaving Fîeron Eburos is called to attend the body and release Iknaïs’ soul, yet insodoing, he discovers a message pointing to the very artifact that began the war. Most confusingly of all, this message states that Iknaïs was entrusted with the artifact by the enemy and that Fîeron needs to find it at any cost.
Fîeron’s reluctant duty leads him to Devatska, an elderly, brilliant engineer-strategist living in anonymity after the mysterious culling of her family. But in solving the riddle of Iknaïs’ last request, they are only met with more questions – about the war, their alleged enemy, and the very nature of their world.
5th March – Flour and Forge (Tales From the Pint & Portal) by Herman Steuernagel
Epic Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy
A weary warrior. A restless baker. A magical side quest neither of them asked for, but both might need.
Rudy had hoped that setting up shop in a new town would quiet his restless spirit, but something inside him still longs for more. He’s a quiet baker with a kind heart and an uncanny knack for pastries.
When a hidden portal tucked inside a local pub opens into the dwarven realm of Hybarn, Rudy is pulled from his daily routine and dropped into a fantastical world filled with dwarves, dragons, and dire wolves.
Before he can make sense of where he is or why, he’s swept up in a mission with a ragtag team of dwarves to head deep into the mountains. Their long-shot goal is to find a witch rumored to possess a lost magic. A forgotten power that might help the dwarves win their war and also send Rudy home.
Leading the expedition is Tarvo, a wounded warrior with more grit than patience, who would rather be back on the battlefield than babysitting a human baker in the wilderness. But what begins as an inconvenient detour slowly becomes something more.
Embark on a healing journey shaped by hard-won trust and the bonds we build when we least expect them.
6th March – A Shattered Peace (Chains of Solitude #1) by Gabriel Tesone
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Dark Fantasy
The kingdom is sleeping. The monsters are not.
An ancient enemy has returned, and Argren is bleeding. Goblins, ogres, and the undead march under the banner of a shadowy power, and the northern frontier is the first to burn.
Sir Ronigren, a cynical knight who’d rather be at the bottom of a tankard, is the only thing standing in their way. He’s no chosen one, but he’s all they’ve got.
Sabine, a girl of impossible height and a forgotten lineage, holds a power that could shatter mountains. She may be the kingdom’s last hope, or the catalyst for its final doom.
Thrown together by fate, they must lead a band of outcasts on a desperate quest to awaken a forgotten magic before the world is plunged into eternal silence. But in a war fought with steel and sorcery, the deepest wounds are caused by betrayal, and the enemy is already inside the gates.
9th March – Ember and Steel (Breitho Chronicles #1) by Donna Morgan
Epic Fantasy, Dark Fantasy
The gods are gone. Magic is lost. Vengeance is nigh.
There is death in the north; entire settlements slaughtered in the night by unknown hands. But dead things do not rest. Mages and scholars from across Breitho search for answers, to no avail.
The church clings to a whispered prophecy to bring back the gods and end the horrors in the dark.
But none of them understands what is truly at stake.
In her tiny village, Sarah Brandt has her own problems. She has witnessed her friend’s murder and is now running for her life.
Her frantic escape takes her to a circle of Druid stones, where something ancient and powerful is waiting in the darkness. When she encounters the burning presence within the stones, Sarah’s world changes forever.
Now it isn’t just justice she seeks, but salvation.
Not for herself, but for all humankind.
16th March – GuttCutter: Rise of the Wizard King by J.P. Fortin
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Dark Fantasy
Two hunters. One wizard. Only one gets the kill.
Seiry Bloodletter has spent her life earning a place in the Brotherhood of the Northern Lands, the most feared fighting force in the north. When her father dies, she claims the right to lead Clan Bloodletter. But the Brotherhood does not grant power for sentiment. To take the High Seat she must bring back the head of Mindeel, court wizard to King Goudall and the most dangerous man alive. Fail, and she loses everything. Succeed, and she might lose herself.
At her side is Glashirrim, a cursed demon blade that grows stronger with every kill. The sword makes her deadly, but it also whispers constantly, hungry for more. Riding south with a small band of warriors she only half trusts, Seiry crosses a brutal world of clan politics, ancient forests, fairy magic, and noble houses playing lethal games with other people’s lives. Every alliance has a cost. Every mile toward Mindeel demands blood. And the sword never stops whispering.
Then there is GuttCutter. He is not human. He is a saber-toothed titan the size of a small horse, fur scarred by a sky dragon’s claws, fangs long as short swords, golden eyes that hold nothing soft. In the old tongue his name means chief of chiefs, and once he led the Clan of Four Winds across the Sea of Grass. Until Mindeel destroyed them. The wizard stole their souls one by one, feeding on their essence to build his power. Only GuttCutter survived, protected by the blood of the sky dragon he killed. Since that day he has done only one thing. Hunt.
Two hunters are closing on the same prey. Seiry needs Mindeel’s head to claim her throne. GuttCutter needs the killing blow to free his people. They may have to work together to reach him, but only one of them can finish it. And neither intends to step aside.
This is not a gentle story. The world is not fair. And the hunt never stops.
27th March – Song of Monsters #1 by Noah Naiman
Epic Fantasy
Kane once died in a noose. Now he has a god in his head, and a city to save.
Hundreds of miles from the gallows, Kane has built a new life baking sweets in the hillside city of Torry. But when a brawl with a drunken constable uncovers a conspiracy of poisoned tea and black powder, Kane is caught between a plot threatening his newfound home, and the god in his head intent on saving the world—even if it costs Torry itself.
Outmatched, Kane stakes Torry’s survival
A thief with a stolen firearm and a vendetta against its maker.
A suicidal, immortal musician who can’t abandon a good story.
A monstrous wizard hellbent on doing right.
A diminutive chemist chasing a kidnapping no one believes happened.
But Kane knows the line between hero and monster is a noose, and it’s tightening again.
30th March – My Brother’s Keeper (The Cycle of Ash #1) by Ben Schenkman
Urban Fantasy
Magic is real, demons walk the earth, and Max’s brother is dead.
Max Asher, Jewish mystic and private-eye, never thought he’d be coming back to his home town to bury his twin brother, Solomon. He definitely never thought the funeral would turn into a case, but when Sol’s widow Gabby asks him to investigate the cause of death, “Uncle Max” is on the job.
When Max kicks the demon’s nest, he uncovers a conspiracy that forces him to reevaluate everything he thought he knew about his brother. Unfamiliar local politics blur the line between the supernatural and the mundane, and soon, fighting for justice becomes dangerously literal. If Max can uncover the murderer, he might just save his brother’s soul—but if he can’t, he’ll fall victim to the same deadly fate.
Putting the past to rest is going to take more than a shovel full of dirt.
31st March – Champion of the Fallen (Rivenworld #2) by ML Spencer
Epic Fantasy
Aram and Markus’s story continues as they fight enemies both Above and Below…
When war comes to Skyhome itself, Aram has no choice but to flee. An ancient evil, more powerful than anything he has ever faced, has marked him as its target, threatening everyone and everything he holds dear. Separated from Markus and Calise, he journeys to the one place where the knowledge he desperately needs still the Void between worlds, where the memories of fallen civilizations await.
In this new heart-stirring epic, journey with Aram and his dragon Agaroth on a quest to learn the secrets of the ancients.
And with Calise, who has been swept away to a dangerous land where she must explore her own wild magic and confront the shadows within herself.
And with Markus, as he searches to find a purpose without the Champion he has sworn to protect.
The dangers ahead are too vast for any one Champion to face. Only together can they hope to defend and heal their Riven World.
1st April – The Swamp (Tales of Temerity #2) by Palmer Pickering
LitRPG
A Seer, a Potion-Maker, a Fighter, and a Bard walk into a tavern…
Join our merry band of adventurers as they brave Level Two of the Dragon’s Crawl.
“Fear was a potent enemy, one she was unable to slay with the edge of a blade.”
5th April – The Titan Revenant (Ranger of the Titan Wilds #5) by J.D.L. Rosell
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Captured. Shackled. But never broken…
She lost. Following her disastrous raid of the Holy Catedrál, Leiyn wakes to a bleak reality. Her power curbed. Her friends separated. Her titan slain.
But so long as she breathes, she will fight.
With the odds stacked against her, Leiyn must find a way to escape her prison or meet a fate worse than death.
Should she claw her way free, her enemies shall rue the day.
The fate of Unera hangs in the balance. The war for humanity rushes to its conclusion.
Only Leiyn Firebrand can liberate her people. If she can save herself…
7th April – Silks and Stones (Cinna and Hokuren #2) by Quinn Lawrence
Cozy Fantasy
Cinna and Hokuren return! Their heartwarming, found-family relationship meets a twisty, character-driven mystery full of magical intrigue.
Hokuren’s steady life in Velles, tracking lost pets through the bustling city with her street-smart assistant Cinna, is upended when a magically sealed letter arrives to inform her of her father’s death. Hokuren is summoned back to the muddy provincial town she fled a decade ago and forced to confront the family business, tangled in smuggling, she tried to escape.
With Cinna at her side, Hokuren steps into a town falling further into gloom. Goblin raids grow bolder while the local militia, led by a witch thought to be dead, is clinging by a thread. Every clue Hokuren finds around her father’s death points to a deeper conspiracy, and when she discovers his grave empty and herself framed for arson, she realizes someone is determined to keep the truth buried.
As secrets unravel and loyalties are tested, Hokuren must decide how far she’ll go to claim her inheritance-not of property, but of family histories and dangerous magic long kept hidden. In a world where every ally could be a traitor and every answer leads to more questions, can Hokuren and Cinna survive long enough to uncover what really happened in Fondence to both her father and her mother?
16th April – Father of the Sexiest Lobster by Chad Retterath
Urban Fantasy, LitRPG
A Brutal LitRPG Adventure
Father is an ordinary lobster that only cares about raising his Son right. The ocean is a dangerous place, but they survive and thrive together as a family.
His Son, winner of the Third Annual Sexiest Lobster Competition, is the target of an abduction that leaves Father alone and hopeless. He has no money for the ransom, and no skills that he could use to save his Son.
When Father decides to risk his life fighting the Hardbody Crustaceans, he finds himself trapped in a system that sends him on a time-looping rampage across the ocean.
18th April – Electric City Switches (Inner Circle) by M.D. Presley
Urban Fantasy
“Sheena’s running home, and January’s after her.”
Not a day after that cryptic message upended his life, and despite not having successfully cast his first spell, Corbin James must disable a deadly enchantment, armed with only a Sharpie. Sheena’s impossibly sophisticated design has already befuddled the two greatest enchanters, yet his mentor Isaac insists he can crack it over the phone with Corbin doing the dirty work.
But as Corbin’s hand trembles, knowing one wrong mark could obliterate him, he’s not so sure. Fortunately for Corbin, Isaac taught Sheena everything she knows.
Unfortunately for him, Isaac’s also her ex.
With time ticking down, Corbin must defuse their destructive relationship, dodge the bevy of bounty hunters on her tail, all while uncovering what Sheena stole and why she ran home to the Electric City.
21st April – War & Lies (Tales of Kiraly #1) by T.C. Havlok
Dark Fantasy
Is Atalan truly such a savage place?
With a broken heart, Kiraly is swept from Earth and thrust into Atalan, a world where vampires, demons, and wolf shifters exist. Until she can find a warlock to send her home, she must remain with the Alliance as they prepare for war against demons.
When a stranger targets Kiraly, she begins training with the wolves for protection. But after being struck down in combat, she discovers her wounds heal with impossible speed. She hides the truth, unwilling to accept that her body is changing.
A growing attraction toward the prince and a hidden desire for a demon, has Kiraly torn between returning home or embracing a new life in Atalan. But her hopes are shattered when war erupts.
Thrown into battle, Kiraly must decide between saving the friends she’s come to love, or killing the one person that is supposed to get her home.
But war isn’t the only obstacle blocking her path back to Earth. A far more powerful foe lurks in the shadows, a cunning creature who knows the truth. The truth of why she was brought to Atalan. And he will stop at nothing to awaken her powers.