Risingshadow: July 2020 Edition

Risingshadow has an opportunity to feature a guest post by Gail Z. Martin. This guest post is part of the author's Hawthorn Moon blog tour. In this guest post, the author tells about Reckoning, which is the third book in the Darkhurst fantasy series. Guest post: The Final Reckoning by Gail Z. Martin [read more]

Matthew G. Rees' Dreamcoat was published as an audio story at YouTube in May 2020. About the audio version of Dreamcoat: Simon Howells reads 'Dreamcoat', a short story by Matthew G. Rees, author of 'Keyhole', 'The Word' and 'The Tip'. This story concerns traveller lore, friendship and loss. Simon Howells is a Welsh actor with interests in fiction and script writing. Click here to listen to the story. About Matthew G. Rees: Matthew G. Rees is a critically acclaimed British ... [read more]

Alexander Zelenyj's Animals of the Exodus was published by Eibonvale Press in August 2019. [author_4256] [book_59622_quote_right] REVIEW: ANIMALS OF THE EXODUS BY ALEXANDER ZELENYJ [read more]

Risingshadow has an opportunity to feature a guest post by Matthew Kressel, who is one of the contributors to the Psi-Wars: Classified Cases of Psychic Phenomena anthology. About Matthew Kressel: Matthew Kressel is a three-time Nebula Award finalist, a World Fantasy Award finalist, and a Eugie Award Finalist. He has written dozens of short stories, a few novels, and is the co-host of the Fantastic Fiction at KGB reading series in Manhattan. He is also the creator of the Moksha ... [read more]

Jeremy Schliewe's The Lighthouse was published by Eibonvale Press in October 2019. [author_11147] [book_60035_quote_right] REVIEW: THE LIGHTHOUSE BY JEREMY SCHLIEWE [read more]

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of USA Today's Best Books of 2020 “A haunted house story—with a twist….[Sager] does not hold back”(Rolling Stone) in this chilling thriller from the author of Final Girls and Survive the Night. Every house has a story to tell and a secret to share. Twenty-five years ago, Maggie Holt and her parents moved into Baneberry Hall, a rambling Victorian estate in the Vermont woods. Three weeks later they fled in the dead of night, an ordeal her ... [read more]

MysteryPsychological ThrillerGhostsGothic Horror

Shaw had a breakdown a while ago, but he's getting himself back together now. He has a small room in a dilapidated shared house in South London, a mother at the end of dementia, and a new job selling strange bottles of murky water from a houseboat on the Thames for a mysterious man with unusual interests. A man who runs a website called THE WATER HOUSE, and who seems to think that something strange is happening to the water of London, and to the human race. Victoria and Shaw were in a ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(The Hollows #14)

A thrilling return to the #1 New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series, continuing Rachel Morgan's story. RACHEL MORGAN IS BACK - AND THE HOLLOWS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. What happens after you've saved the world? Well, if you're Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the very same acts you and your friends took to forge new powers may have released something bound by the old. With a rash of zombies, ... [read more]

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(An Epic Series of Failures #3)

Magic and mayhem collide in the final book in the monstrously funny middle-grade trilogy An Epic Series of Failures. The Dawn of Magic has arrived, and thirteen-year-old Greg Belmont and his friends have only a few weeks left to figure out how to keep the modern world from falling into utter chaos. Greg's former best friend (and current archenemy), Edwin, and his Elven army believe the only way to save the life on earth is to steal the world's magic supply and keep it only for the Elves. But ... [read more]

FantasyYoung Adult

(The Fae Chronicles #7)

The final battle for Faery is here! War has come to Faery, and there’s no escaping the final battle. We thought we were ready for anything. We were wrong. I couldn’t change who I was, so Destiny stepped in, forcing me to become what Faery needed to face down our enemies. Can I forgive what happened and move past the lies and betrayals? Or will I destroy a world to bring the man I love to his knees, requiring us to become the monsters the world wants us to be? [read more]

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(The Daevabad Trilogy #3)

“No series since George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has quite captured both palace intrigue and the way that tribal infighting and war hurt the vulnerable the most.” — Paste Magazine The final chapter in the bestselling, critically acclaimed Daevabad Trilogy, in which a con-woman and an idealistic djinn prince join forces to save a magical kingdom from a devastating civil war. Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu ... [read more]

FantasyHistorical Fantasy

Katherine Addison, author of The Goblin Emperor, returns with a fantasy novel of alternate 1880s London, where killers stalk the night and the ultimate power is naming. This is not the story you think it is. These are not the characters you think they are. This is not the book you are expecting. In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and vampires and werewolves walk the streets with human beings under a well-regulated truce. A fantastic utopia, except for a few ... [read more]

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(A Song of Wraiths and Ruin #1)

For seventeen-year-old refugee Malik Hilali, the weeklong festival of Solstasia is a chance to escape his poverty-stricken life for a new one in the prosperous desert city of Ziran. But just as he reaches the city’s gates, a vengeful spirit kidnaps his younger sister and offers him a deal: her freedom in exchange for the death of Crown Princess Karina Almorahad before Solstasia ends. With nothing but his own wits and dark magic he barely understands, Malik disguises himself as a nobleman and ... [read more]

FantasyYoung AdultEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(Lizzie Grace #6)

Evil comes in all forms... and sometimes it wears a human mask. When the body of a newlywed is discovered on the reservation, Lizzie Grace throws herself into the investigation, needing a distraction from what she fears is coming not only for her but also Belle — her best friend and witch familiar. But as the body count grows and a desperate race begins to track down a supernatural entity capable of powerful magic, it becomes evident another deadly game has begun — one they may not ... [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes a reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel, a story about an isolated mansion in 1950s Mexico — and the brave socialite drawn to its treacherous secrets. He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not ... [read more]

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(Dresden Files #16)

HARRY DRESDEN IS BACK AND READY FOR ACTION, in the new entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dresden Files. When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil. But can he succeed, when dark political manipulations threaten the very existence of Chicago - and all he holds dear? [read more]

FantasyUrban Fantasy

(Bird Box #2)

In the thrilling sequel to Bird Box, the inspiration for the record-breaking Netflix film that starred Sandra Bullock and “absolutely riveted” Stephen King, New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman brings unseen horrors to life. “This sequel is as tense and harrowing as the original, with a new depth that raises the stakes.” — Riley Sager, author of Lock Every Door Twelve years after Malorie and her children rowed up the river to safety, a blindfold is still the only ... [read more]

Science FictionHorror

(Torpedo Ink #4)

Take the ride of your life with the Torpedo Ink motorcycle club in this thrilling romance novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan. Torpedo Ink is Aleksei “Absinthe” Solokov’s whole life. They’re his brothers, his family — his everything. But that doesn't stop him from wanting something that only belongs to him. That’s why the tough biker has spent the last six weeks at the library, reading every book he can get his hands on and watching the prim and ... [read more]

FantasyRomanceParanormal Romance

(Dorina Basarab #5)

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir — the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human — or so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and distrusted by both. Recently, a war in the supernatural community allowed her to get a foothold into her vampire father’s world, one of danger, intrigue, glitz and glamour, where she found not only a home, but a lover, too. For the first time in ... [read more]

FantasyUrban FantasyVampires

(The Sun Eater #3)

The third novel of the galaxy-spanning Sun Eater series merges the best of space opera and epic fantasy, as Hadrian Marlowe continues down a path that can only end in fire. Hadrian has been serving the Empire in military engagements against the Cielcin, the vicious alien civilization bent on humanity's destruction. After Hadrian and his Red Company achieve a great victory, a cult-like fervor builds around him. However, pressures within the Imperial government scared of his rise to prominence ... [read more]

Science FictionSpace Opera

(Raven's Blade #2)

A matchless warrior is pitted against a near-God in the second epic installment of the Raven’s Blade series. It has long been our lot in life, brother, to do what others can’t. Vaelin Al Sorna was known across the realm as the greatest of warriors, but he thought battles were behind him. He was wrong. Prophecy and rumor led him across the sea to find a woman he once loved, and drew him into a war waged by the Darkblade, a man who believes himself a god — and one who has gathered a ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Firemane Saga #2)

Dark and powerful forces threaten the world of Garn once more in this second novel in legendary New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic fantasy series, the Firemane Saga. Hatushaly and his young wife Hava have arrived in the prosperous trading town of Beran's Hill to restore and reopen the fire-damaged Inn of the Three Stars. They are also preparing for the popular midsummer festival, where their friends Declan and Gwen will be wed. But Hatu and Hava are not the ordinary ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

(The Song of the Shattered Sands #5)

The fifth book in The Song of the Shattered Sands series - an epic fantasy with a desert setting, filled with rich worldbuilding and pulse-pounding action. The reign of the kings of Sharakhai has been broken. The blood mage, Queen Meryam, now rules the city along with the descendants of the fabled twelve kings. In the desert, Çeda has succeeded in breaking the asirim's curse. Those twisted creatures are now free, but their freedom comes at great cost. Nalamae lies dead, slain in battle with ... [read more]

FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy

Blade Runner meets The Handmaid's Tale in this shocking story of how far a mother will go to protect her son from a hostile world transformed by the absence of men. Years after a virus decimates the world's male population, America has refashioned itself. With different customs and laws, and different methods of shame and punishment, America is unrecognizable from the one you know today. Now, hiding a living and healthy male is one of the gravest offenses, rivaled only by the murder of a man. ... [read more]

Science Fiction

(Noobtown #4)

Badgelor has been patient, or at least as patient as a homicidal badger can be. With the celebration of Grebthar Day, it's finally time to go get Charles! Nothing is going to stop Jim and his companions, not even the signs of the Dark Overlord's return. This adventure could be Windfall's greatest yet, or it could be its absolute downfall. [read more]

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