Young Readers Fantasy

After bouncing around in foster homes for most of her childhood, 17-year-old Tessa Jacobs doesn’t believe she deserves love. But everything changes when she has a chance encounter with Skylar, a senior from a neighboring town who’s a true romantic. Their budding relationship quickly leads to the kind of passion you only see in the movies. As her heart begins to open, Tessa starts to believe she might be deserving of love after all. When tragedy strikes, Tessa wakes up alone in a hospital room with no memory of how she got there.

Brystal Evergreen and her friends have saved the world from the evil Snow Queen and secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community. However, when a mysterious new witch named Mistress Mara arrives at the Academy, the celebrations are cut short. As Mistress Mara begins recruiting faeries into her rival school of Witchcraft, it becomes clear she has dark intentions. And soon Brystal's friend Lucy becomes embroiled in an ominous plot against mankind.

Within the dazzling halls of London’s Crystal Palace, the event of the season has arrived: The Great Exhibition. An opportunity for the greatest minds of the century to come together under one roof in an unprecedented display of art and invention. And for two unlikely partners in crime, it’s about to become the score of a lifetime. Charming con man Kane Durante works alone—or on occasion with his best friend, Fletcher. But when his boss gives him the impossible task of stealing a priceless artifact from the Great Exhibition, he knows it’s a job he can’t pull off alone.

Someone’s unleashed deadly magical creatures on Shadow Hollow, and this time, Hazel might not be able to stop the death toll. The late mayor’s super-vampire project should have died along with him, but now, new vampire-like creatures are cropping up… and killing the people of Hazel’s small mountain town. With Corwin missing more often than not, Hazel’s left with only a hot, werewolf and her dead sister’s ghost to help her. So she turns to the definitely-not-human librarian, who expects her to return the favor by paying an unnamed price he’s coming to collect in thirteen days...

The mysterious librarian has come to take his payment of Hazel Goode, and it just might come at the cost of her life. Librarian Earl Harris won’t let Hazel off the hook unless she retrieves a mystical book from the Faery realm…and he can’t, or won’t, tell her how to get there or where to find it. And that’s only the beginning of Hazel’s troubles. Hazel has seven days to find Faery, overcome the bloodthirsty fae creatures that live there, locate the book, escape back to the human realm, and somehow bring the book back to Harris, whose dark plans for the tome she doesn’t know. ...

Hunted, shot, and without her memory, 18-year-old Ann Baker wakes in shallow water on a deserted Pacific Northwest island. She is soon approached by two young men claiming to be her friends. Something isn't right, but when gunshots sound, Ann is left with little choice but to allow Devon and Archer to help her escape. Soon she finds herself in their North Bend mountain compound, where the higher evolved humans claim to be mind-readers.

Dreams and wishes have a power of their own… After her beloved husband Hugo passed away, Ellie is left with only some photographs to remember him by, so she gets a cat for company. One night, when Ellie is thinking of Hugo, the cat’s shadow touches a patch of light, magic seems to happen, and everything comes alive. They go on wonderful adventures dancing through the starry night sky. A story to stir the imagination and emotions of young readers and young-at-heart adults. Be ready to escape from reality and explore the magical twilight zone between reality and dreams. Also by J H ...

A temple awakened. The forbidden mountain stirs. The dead are missing. Snatched from her home by a Primordial Seeker, seventeen-year-old Avery is imprisoned by the people she intended to serve. In a desperate bid for freedom, she escapes, only to find herself racing against time to save those who seek to use her. Driven by jealousy, the lust for power and the stain of ancient crimes, conflicting factions struggle to gain control of the magic of a Spirit Shield. Avery must dodge all who cross her path, for each group vies to control her actions. Aided by the mythical creatures of her native ...

"He had been created to replace a lost son. His face was made of porcelain and burnt clay formed his spine. The lips were painted on and showed a never-changing smile, while twisted copper wire held his body together. When the artificial boy looked down he could see through the gaps between the coils. There, deep down inside him, was a living thing - a fleeting flutter, visible for only one moment at a time. His creator called him Felix." In three interconnected short stories, Felix searches for the truth about how he came to be alive. He meets a strange butterfly catcher, a terrifying ...

Saint George and the Dragon dramatically retells the epic episode from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene in which George, the Red Cross Knight, slays the dreadful dragon that has been terrorizing the countryside for years and brings joy to the land.

Even and Odd are sisters who share magic. Lately, though, it seems like that’s the only thing they have in common. Odd doesn’t like magic, and Even practices it every chance she gets, dreaming of the day she’ll be ready to be a hero. When the hidden border between the mundane world the sisters live in and the magical land they were born in shuts abruptly, the girls are trapped, unable to return home. With the help of a unicorn named Jeremy, they discover a wizard is diverting magic from the border to bolster her own power.

The Chronicles of Imagination Book #1 - Finn's Adventures in Time A time-traveling adventure where young Finn visits different eras and civilizations, gaining knowledge of each period in history and overcoming challenges along the way. In a quiet corner of Finn's new house, a hidden door beckoned, urging him to explore the secrets beyond. Venturing into the depths of the basement, a kingdom of shadows and forgotten treasures, Finn's gaze fell upon an old, weathered book. But this was no ordinary book. With each turn of the heavy pages of the "The Chronicles of Imagination" an ethereal glow ...

Tensions are rising between the Quatrans and the Specters, and the Quatra Fleet is gearing up for an epic fight. With a galaxy on the brink of war and loyalties divided, the friendship of four cadets will be tested. Orelia has been arrested for espionage, and her future is looking bleak...until the Quatrans make her a surprising offer that could save her life - and the lives of everyone in the galaxy. Reeling from his breakup, Arran finds comfort in a sympathetic boy from Loos, someone who understands how hard it can be to fit in.

In the small town of Griever's Mill, 11-year-old Ben Cameron is expecting to finish off his summer of relaxing and bird-watching without a hitch. But everything goes wrong when dark clouds roll in. Old Man Crandall is the first to change - human one minute and a glass statue the next. Soon it's happening across the world. Dark clouds fill the sky, and at random, people are turned into frozen versions of themselves. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no one knows how to stop it.

Some vampires sparkle. Some brood. Bartholomew Black just wants to nap. He’s the oldest vampire in the world—grumpy, ancient, and occasionally forgetful. For centuries, he’s avoided the spotlight (and garlic) by hiding out in a castle with his overly chatty bat companion, Kevin. But when a mysterious visitor shatters his eternal snooze, Bartholomew is thrust back into a world of deadly secrets, creepy mirrors, undead politics, and one very sarcastic were-hamster. And that’s before the mimic shows up. Bite Me is a dark, dramatic, and wickedly funny adventure into the shadows of ...

The worst blight in five hundred years has been defeated But that was only the beginning... Now, after banishing a necromantic scourge, young master Roscoe Coats and his gang of magites and hunters must face a new threat. The Ordal - the lifestream of the world's mana - is changing. Perverted and twisted, a new energy pervades. As magites everywhere find their powers waning, the Light increases. They are drawn - man and creature alike - to a distant fire in the sky. Building ever quickly, mutating every day, digesting the clouds themselves. No living being can resist. Except they must. ...

Monsters are real, and they run in the family. Andi Pickman never asked to be a monster hunter. She’d much rather pass her algebra test than stalk cemeteries at night with her know-it-all brother, Jack. But when you’re a descendant of Richard Upton Pickman—the infamous artist whose “fictional” horror stories were based on real monsters—you don’t get to choose. When a long-sealed ghoul gate reopens in Boston, Andi and Jack are thrown into a dangerous mystery that could shatter their family’s legacy. Their father vanishes without a trace, and the ghouls are no longer content ...

So far in the new life of Lance and Luna Lingmell, they’ve been adopted into a mysterious town called Mistylock, fought vampires, battled evil birds, been turned to stone, discovered lost family, and discovered that magic is real. But terror descends over the town and the Lingmell siblings as they are thrust into adventure once again. A fight against a complete unknown; monsters from another planet. Not only have the aliens come to steal resources from Earth; but they intend to steal the souls of Mistylock first. And it’s up to Lance and Luna to get them back.

In every school there are bullies. In every town there are local legends and their scary stories. In the small town of Cokerville, 11 year old Tyler and his friends have to deal with both, but they come to realize that the local legend of a haunted Indian burial ground is much more than just imagination.

Wheezy Tweet is handicapped girl who lives in a care home. Part of her handicap is that she sees things others don't, like space invasions and misplaced alien monsters. She must find a way to save herself, her world, and her friends. In the Land of La, she must travel to a bizarre and scary dimension to save her autistic housemate.