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2nd November – The Celestial Tears of Dying Light NOVELLA (The Song of the Sleepers) by Joshua Walker
Epic Fantasy
THERE EXISTS A PLANE BETWEEN THIS WORLD AND ANOTHER.
While the Four-Front War deescalates across Q’ara, an Aobian Sleeper is sent to the deep north of the continent to investigate what the histories claimed to once exist: another population of tree-dwellers. Meanwhile, a zealous priest seeks the most powerful magical artefact to ever be wielded: a creature known as Veil-Piercer.
There’s something in the water.
The land bleeds from its lungs.
The secrets will break us all.
3rd November – While We Bleed by Eric Lewis
Epic Fantasy
Ardana Sul was a true bastard. For a price he’d get you anything, anyone, anywhere and not ask questions. So when Baroness Foncesca hired him to obtain the last known vial of plague dust, it was business as usual. He should’ve known she wouldn’t leave any witnesses. Flintlocks flashed, windows shattered, and his head slammed into rock. He escaped with his life, but not his memory.
Dredged from the river by a kind fisherman, Sul recovers without knowing his past or name. Slowly he achieves what his ill-gotten earnings could never have a measure of peace. When the Baroness’ henchmen come to finish the job, his hands remember how to use a sword even if he doesn’t, and his violent past floods back.
Determined to right at least one of his sins, Sul vows to stop the Baroness before she can unleash the weapon he brought her on a city he’s grown to love. Sul’s talents are put to the test in his fight back to Foncesca, but his greatest enemy may be how much of his old self he’ll have to resurrect.
4th November – Godfallen by Tim Meyer
Epic Fantasy
THE GODS HAVE FALLEN, AND SO WILL THE STARS.
Centuries ago, the old gods who walked Endlia vanished from the lands. The prophecy of the Boy with the Star-Shaped Eyes foretold their return, and now, thirteen years following the boy’s birth, the Five Realms are plunged into chaos, with old wars reigniting, and new wars sparking to life.
Ket Norlath has strived to hide from his past. But his new life is destroyed when soldiers ransack his farm and take his family. An ambitious king gives him a serve his cause and seek out the boy from the prophecy – kill him or capture him – or watch his family say their final prayers. Ket chooses to walk a familiar path, paved in violence and bloodshed. With the help of a homicidal court jester and a teenage witchling, Ket travels north. To end the prophecy. Restore balance to the Five Realms. Before the power that grows there ends them all.
7th November – The Father of Shadow and Death by T.J. McKay
Horror
Beneath the splendor of empires, there ever beats a poisoned heart.
In the city of Naemralda, a glorious capital of untold wealth and glamor, the people of Ceremai live in exile — content but loathed, and ever dreaming of the homeland they left behind. Only a scorned arbiter and failed priest, Braddock Tuzzein, knows the truth.
That the lands they seek, the lands their ancestors escaped at great cost, are home to a fallen god.
Hakaz, the Dark One, whose waking spirits nearly shattered Braddock’s mind with a single touch.
And now, the wolves of the fallen god are coming for them all.
A tale of grisly murders, monsters, and madness, The Father of Shadow and Death follows one man’s doomed quest to save his people — from the wrath of a vengeful god, and the traitors who hound his every step.
But woe to those who would break a man’s soul.
For the shame of the father begets wrath of the son.
10th November – Auguries of the Past (Tales of Aerym #2) by Noah Isaacs
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Another dream came and went, and they survived it. Barely.
Now, venturing south of the mountains that surrounded him his entire life, Aerym seeks out the aid of an old friend of a friend for what might be his greatest and final gamble. He’s going to rid himself of this prophetic curse. Or he’s going to die trying.
Hunted by archfiends serving the dark entity within him every step of the way, Aerym must travel through the land of dreams and relive every vision he’s ever had. Each torment is a trial. A test against himself and the fate that binds him. Yet the land of dreams hardly plays fair and he is forced to suffer his worst nightmares time and time again, rewatching those he failed to save die until he can make things right.
Not all gambles pay off, and success doesn’t always mean victory.
Only one thing is certain; life is sacrifice.
11th November – Dragon Bone Elixir (Dragon Reich #3) by Jordan Loyal Short
Epic Fantasy, Steampunk, Gaslamp
Delve into Wormwood’s wonderfully warped mind and discover a secret the Thule Society will kill for.
Dragon Bone Elixir puts the high in high stakes adventure as the alchemist Jabar Wormwood unravels a psychic puzzle with clues scattered across the Continent. To cure the magical tumors transforming his dearest friends, Wormwood embarks on a madcap journey to decipher the fragmented truth of a year-long blackout.
Cackles and chaos follow in his wake as Wormwood sets out to find a magical formula with the power to sway the course of the next Great War. Zeppelin rides, unhinged assassins, and psychedelic shenanigans await!
But when the dragon supremacist nation of Reinveldt invades its helpless neighbor, Wormwood is forced to flee, one step ahead of the bloodshed. With the brilliant and cruel Colonel Gelmen hot on his trail, Wormwood races an elite unit of dragons on a quest to unearth the terrible secrets the alchemist has hidden—even from himself!
11th November – Ritual of Ruin (King’s Dark Tidings #7) by Kel Kade
Epic Fantasy
Rezkin lives, a secret known only to a chosen few. Now, Azeria is one of them. Joining forces, they avoid discovery while seeking the power to stand against Caydean’s demons. A tale of ancient technology draws them to the land of a forgotten people. Can the secret treasure of the infamous Demon War help the rebels turn the tide?
Wesson is determined to find a way to free Caydean’s mages of their oaths. He steps onto a dark path in his bid to free the enslaved, but will the results justify the means? His soul is at stake as he walks the line between savior and executioner.
More people fill the streets of Kaibain than anyone thought possible, but why? Caydean has drawn the entire kingdom to his doorstep, where the demonic king prepares a weapon of untold power. His plan will end with his ascension… and humanity’s destruction. From the shadows Rezkin has hunted the king’s allies, he has plotted to unify the shattered alliance, and now is the hour of his return. The master assassin, the true king, Emperor of the Souelian, stands as the people’s last hope.
11th November – Veil of Stone (Chronicles of Argosia #1) by Talia Becket & A.P. Beswick
Epic Fantasy
The gods have fallen. Monsters roam free. And survival is no longer guaranteed.
Xevras has lost everything. Alone and desperate, he crosses paths with the Slayer Guild on their latest hunt. Sworn to protect the people from fae and other horrors that stalk the land, they offer him a place among them and a chance to start again. But the Guild has secrets, and their next mission will test him before his training is complete.
His first hunt carries whispers of a creature born from the spite of a vengeful goddess, cursed to roam the wilds and leaving its victims frozen in stone. The transformation is slow, creeping through flesh and bone until nothing human remains, and no cure has ever been found.
Gods now walk these lands in mortal bodies, still wielding fragments of their power. And where they tread, far greater monsters are sure to follow.
12th November – Rage of the Raven Queen (The Lays of Athewain #2) by Andrew LiVecchi
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
“I WILL BIDE MY TIME. I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN. AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.”
Against all odds, Athewain has managed to defeat the demigod Saorlach, saving the city of Bridunum through the Maker’s blessing.
But his triumph is short-lived.
Gaillag the thunder goddess has sworn vengeance, forging a dark alliance with the Bodtha, goddess of war. Their host of thousands sweeps across Logren, leaving fire and desolation in its wake.
With Nennian and Briana at his side, Athewain flees into the perilous forests of Logren, seeking refuge atop a mountain once sacred to the Maker. As his enemies close in, Athewain wrestles with the Maker’s silence, struggling to wield a power that seems to have forsaken him.
Upon the mountain’s summit, scarred by fire and haunted by betrayal, Athewain must withstand the onslaught of gods no mortal can defy.
Or die in the attempt.
12th November – Tides of Torment (Sea of Souls Saga #3) by N.C. Scrimgeour
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
You told me you would haunt me, caraid. You were right.
The capital has fallen. Ghostly wraiths and bloodthirsty selkies roam the coast as the haar spreads its sickness across Silveckan. Every day, another port is consumed by the mist, and without her pelt, Isla Blackwood can do nothing to stop it.
Her only hope is to track down Eimhir, but her old friend has her own demons to battle, and she’s made it clear she doesn’t want to be found.
Instead, Isla must turn to the Sea Kith for an alliance. Their common enemy, the Grand Admiral, draws ever closer, and he won’t rest until the sea and everything in it is in his grasp once more.
Reunited with Darce and the soul bond they share, Isla prepares to sail into one last storm. If she survives it, she might be able to end decades of bloodshed between human and selkie. But if she fails, Silveckan will be lost to the mists forever…
18th November – The Man Who Hunts Death by M. Doyle
Grimdark, Sword & Sorcery
Everyone has to die eventually. Even Death.
Gunvald’s ability to see human souls made him the perfect candidate to become Death’s right-hand man. His job? To kill the people Death is tired of waiting for. But after Gunvald delivers two damaged souls to fulfill his contract, Death takes the souls of Gunvald’s wife and son in their place.
Now Gunvald wants revenge. He’s determined to kill Death herself, even if he has to take all of Anezen down with her.
18th November – The Promise of Scars (The Red Kingdom #5) by Ryan Lanz
Epic Fantasy
Winning the day isn’t everything Rhael thought it would be.
He and his group of ability-wielding rebels have moved into Abalreen, the largest city on their side of the Red Kingdom. It should be a time for celebration, but it feels far from it. Rhael well remembers the advice he got before all this it’s easier to conquer a city than to rule it.
The division between those with magical abilities and those without are as deep as ever, threatening to upend the tenuous new leadership. To make matters worse, a shadowy influence has spread across the city, vying for power in a way they’ve never seen before.
Rhael and his allies will have to band together in order to survive and keep hold of what they’ve paid for in blood, and that’s only if some of them can find their way out of the darkness.
18th November – Kingdom of Lies (The Sunborn #2) by Isaac Hill
Epic Fantasy
Harin Sunborn, the Ink King of Landor must wrestle with his father to protect the Kingdom and the crown.
Dragh, sworn sword of the nation and General of the Dragon Legion, will protect his bloodline at any cost.
Years of war have ended in the Eastern Kingdoms, with the signing of The Compact, overseen by The Council, an uneasy peace holds.
Death visits the Sunborn’s as Landor’s enemies strike at it’s very heart.
As Harin and Dragh struggle against each other, will revenge or peace keep their nation alive?
Far to the West, The Horde is coming.
18th November – Ashbound Oaths (The Prophecies of Zarune #2) by Russell Carroll
Epic Fantasy
Bards sing of glory and gold—but never the price paid in blood.
The Scepter of Cymathu lies shattered. Its destruction reverberated across the world, reshaping both the victors and the vanquished. As ancient wyrms rise, the countdown to annihilation begins. But salvation lies with a disparate band of misfits.
Grimlock, a Totem Warrior driven by rage, risks being consumed by the very beast that secured his triumph. Vigilanton, an exiled knight bound by a blood-debt, gambles everything to escape a crime lord’s grasp. Mystic Alyndra heeds the call of the Daylyns—conduits of the Goddess of Magic—and slips into an unnatural sleep. Her only hope lies with Everleigh, once devout, now reeling from revelations that shatter everything she believed.
They thought their war was over, their victory earned, but the true battle lies within. If they cannot conquer their inner demons, the growing wyrms will reduce the world to ash and ruin.
25th November – The Sane Vessel (Spite of the First #1) by Creed Parker
Epic Fantasy
In a nation ruled by mercenaries, power comes at the price of your sanity or humanity, or both.
Kalnen is a nation forged with blood and controlled with unstable elemental magic in the form of Vessels; a twisted use of innocent bodies.
Ezlos is a shell, incinerating prisoners under a mountain to turn them into Vessels for the mercenary houses. But he was once a great man…
Orun and Zarna are the only Vessels not shackled to a wall. Capable of immense destruction at the cost of their sanity. They have gained their freedom, but now must choose their path in a nation that is not their own and would rather use them as living bombs.
The long-lasting peace between the mercenary houses is rotting, their oaths strained, they will soon use Vessels to scorch their lands and lay waste to one another. Ezlos, Orun, and Zarna will travel to the northern Greatlands, each with a part to play in the coming civil war.
Will they fight to stop it or ensure fire, lightning, and blood are spilled?