A darkness rooted itself in the world long ago. Like a festering seed, it sprouted and grew, spreading over the land and across all in its path. Cities were consumed and became Islands among the deadly mists of the Shade. Then, as fast as it had begun, the Shade went still. Life became peaceful again. Years, then decades, then over a century of calm passed. But the Shade was only sleeping. It sleeps no more. Follow our intrepid adventurers as they each fight their own battles on the road to the true war. Life vs the Undeath. First Place winner of the Blue Rose Awards for Unknown Author

A young sorceress, sworn to protect life at all costs, must choose whether to sacrifice her humanity or let an invading dragon army destroy her homeland. ***** Sorceress Liselle Alta has decided to put her troubled past behind her, and her first year at university has offered her the perfect chance to start with a clean slate. But after a terrorist attack on Induction Day, Liselle's dreams of having a normal life soon fall apart, and she must make a choice: Should she uphold her sacred Healer oath to protect life at all costs? Or should she fight in the upcoming war to help the Fireborn protect her homeland? With the invading dragon army on the march, Liselle has to decide before it's too late. [Fiction Awards Winner] #1 in love | 5 August 2022 #1 in action-adventure | 11 August 2022

As a child, Talon Carth knew he was destined for the Headsman's block. With his mother being the latest of his family to have been executed for supposedly breaking the King's ban against magic, Talon is certain it's only a matter of time before the Viscount's men come for him. Determined not to suffer the same fate, Talon hatches a devious plot of revenge against the Viscount. How will the axe fall for Talon?

You can't read, can't write, but you heal fast, even for a witch. You get sick if you stay indoors after dark. You hate White Witches but love Annalise, who is one. You've been kept in a cage since you were fourteen. All you've got to do is escape and find Mercury, the Black Witch who eats boys. And do that before your seventeenth birthday. Easy.

After bursting onto the fantasy scene with his acclaimed debut novel, Elantris, and following up with his blockbuster Mistborn trilogy, Brandon Sanderson proves again that he is today’s leading master of what Tolkien called “secondary creation,” the invention of whole worlds, complete with magics and myths all their own. Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn’t like his job, and the immortal who’s still trying to undo the mistakes he made hundreds of years ago. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people. By using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.

The life of the undead is naturally a secretive and tedious existence. Especially if your father was the leader of a death cult, now living in hiding and feeding off your blood. Things couldn't get much worse for 17 year old Lorcrar Eaux de Sang. He is alone, conflicted, at the mercy of an insatiable monster that lives in his very home. And his own thirst will not lie dormant forever. When Lorcrar tries to defy the abilities he inherited at birth the darkness of his lineage throws him on a descent into madness. So begins a desperate attempt to escape from himself, to suppress an evil within...