fantasy fiction

Before Keri was called to rule over Nimmira, she was focused on keeping the family bakery running after her mother's death. Now she's facing vicious outsiders who want to take over her land. The kingdom, once protected by a mist that hid it and its inhabitants, is now vulnerable to attack as the mist fails to cover them. And Keri herself is not safe as her three half brothers plot to take her throne.

Aladdin, a boy from the streets, finds a magic lamp and unleashes the powerful Zahra into a world where magic is forbidden and she is illegal. She uses ancient magic to disguise herself until she completes Aladdin's three wishes. Then the King of the Jinn offers Zahra her freedom but it means betraying Aladdin, whom she has come to love. Now she must choose between her freedom and her heart.

Vika Andreyeva and Nikolai Karimov are the only two enchanters in Russia, and the tsar needs their powers on his side. To determine which of the two will become the Imperial Enchanter, the tsar initiates the Crown Games. The winner will become the most respected adviser to the empire and the other will be sentenced to death.

A young scavenger named Rachel explores a post-apocalyptic world in a constant search for supplies. One day, she finds a sentient green mass she calls Borne that she decides to keep and raise as her own. As Borne grows, Rachel comes to realize the significance of the strange creature and its potential impact on the world. But other forces see it too, and Rachel must face surprising enemies to keep Borne safe.

The evil King Lo-Melkhiin has killed 300 women before coming to the unnamed narrator's village. Knowing the king will want the loveliest girl for his next wife to kill, the narrator goes to Lo-Melkhiin's court in her sister's place, fully believing she will die within a day. However, the narrator is a great storyteller, perhaps even a magical one, and Lo-Melkhiin keeps her alive so long as she keeps him interested in her stories. Soon the narrator realizes that Lo-Melkhiin is not himself, and may need rescuing from a demon.

Now that the strange war is over, sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister struggle to maintain their family farm, waiting to see who will return from the distant battlefield, soon hiring a veteran to help them but, as ugly truths about their family emerge, Hallie is taking dangerous risks and keeping desperate secrets while monsters and armies converge on the small farm.

After Joy leaves home to join the legendary Hunters, she discovers that all is not as it seems in her world and her life is in danger from not only the monsters that hunt her world, but also her "allies.".

The story follows Zebulon Finch, a teenager murdered in 1896 Chicago who inexplicably returns from the dead and searches for redemption through the ages.

"Believing the Marad terrorist group is still out there in spite of peace efforts throughout the Zodiac Galaxy, Rho joins a new political party before discovering horrifying links between the party and her late mother"--OCLC.

When a violent blast strikes the moons of Cancer, sending its ocean planet off-kilter and killing thousands of citizens, Rhoma Grace, a sixteen-year-old student from House Cancer, must convince twelve worlds to unite as one Zodiac against Ophiuchus, the exiled thirteenth Guardian of Zodiac legend, who has returned to exact his revenge across the Galaxy.