22 Aug 2025
Portals & Paradoxes: Must-Read Fantasy and Sci-Fi Books
Step through doors you never knew existed. Some of these books take you to parallel universes, others to magical realms or futures where reality itself bends under the weight of invention. Packed with mystery, danger, and the exhilaration of discovery, these are the kinds of stories that leave you wondering what’s waiting just beyond the edge of the known.
A Tiny Tremor (Tales Of Reverba: The Story of Earth Book 1)
by Jordan Spicer
Release Date: August 12, 2025
Survive. Find Ana. Nothing else matters. The Train that froze Tonga ripped the last evacuation plane from the sky, hurling Kuipi Reverba to the ground. She’s alone and injured, but alive. As long as she can move, and as long as she has earth magic, neither civil war nor a god will stop her. She will split the very earth if that’s what it takes. Join the search.
The Traveling Cane & The Art of Gratitude
by Lala Corriere
Release Date: July 22, 2025
In my final chapters, I help four souls face their physical pain, fears, and truths: Piper’s inner anger, Alex’s dangerous past threatening his family, a grateful man’s final mission, and Oscar’s fight for peace in a hostile new town—I offer healing and hope. As I say goodbye, keep me close. I’ll live on in your heart. I’ll be right there!
Neural Bounty (Wild Frontier Chronicles Book 2)
by Daniel P. Douglas
Release Date: August 11, 2025
Bounty hunter Kassidy Reyez tracks stolen neural tech across the wild frontier. Each step stirs buried memories of white rooms and screaming subjects. Now trapped between a Stygian Duster who knows her identity and the monsters who made her forget, Kassidy must decide: stay hidden in the shadows or confront why her mother’s last words were, “Run!”
The Nightmare Queen (The King and The Assassin Book 3)
by Anastasis Blythe
Release Date: August 18, 2025
I will become an assassin, queen, and monster to reclaim what is mine. In the wake of the Neverseen King’s capture and my escape from the Wolf’s clutches, I venture into the depths of the Fae realm, armed with little but my own gritty determination to take back my husband and throne. The clock is ticking, the destruction of Lulythinar drawing ever nearer, threatening to take what little I have left in this world. Enemies surround me on every side, but I will not let them win. Even if it costs me my very life.
Touch of Oblivion (Woven in Time Book 1)
by R.L. Caulder
Release Date: July 31, 2025
I wasn’t created to love, only to destroy…but fate doesn’t ask permission. I wake to a world in chaos, the taste of stardust on my tongue, and fragments of galaxies burning behind my eyes. No name. No past. No idea how I came to be here. In the ruins of a shattered battlefield, four kings of this new world find me abandoned and alone. Each of them is desperate to decipher who I am and why I’ve been thrust into their war. They claim they have the power to protect me and help me discover who I am.
Crown of the Dunes (The Ballan Desert Book 2)
by S.C. Grayson
Release Date: August 19, 2025
War brought them together. Forging peace could tear them apart. Back in Kelvadan after narrowly escaping death, former exile Keera is now hailed as a hero for protecting the Great City against the lord of the clans. Forced to lie low as her injuries heal, she discovers the city’s position is more precarious than ever. Now, she faces an impossible choice: betray the city that offered her a home, or be the Champion Kelvadan needs. Worst of all, the enemy forces are led by the man to whom she has given her heart.
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