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The Clone Empire by Steven L. Kent

Publisher: Ace

Release Date: October 26, 2010

ISBN: 978-0441019588

Size: 368 pages, 4×6″, softcover

Genre: Science Fiction

Series: The Clone Republic (bk 1), Rogue Clone (bk 2), The Clone Alliance (bk 3), The Clone Elite (bk 4), The Clone Betrayal (bk 5)

After a blistering defeat by alien forces, clone soldier Lt. Wayson Harris and his brethren have been exiled to the far reaches of the galaxy where the Unified Authority intends to use them as targets for live-fire training exercises. But the clones they created and trained to fight have founded their own empire. Now, Harris will unleash his rage against the might of the U.A. Fleet, leading an army with everything to fight for, and one thing to die for—revenge.

The Dragon’s Apprentice by James A. Owen

Title: The Dragon’s Apprentice (Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, v5)

Author: James A. Owen

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Release Date: October 19, 2010

ISBN: 978-1416958970

Size: 384 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Here There Be Dragons (v. 1), The Search for the Red Dragon (v. 2), The Indigo King (v. 3), The Shadow Dragons (v4)

Seven years after the events of The Shadow Dragons, John, Jack and Charles are finally able to return to their beloved Archipelago of Dreams. But even as their return is celebrated by old friends, new concerns shadow the reunion: the threat of Ecthroi, primordial Shadow. And perhaps even worse, the apparent splintering of Time itself.

Now, the Caretakers must fight against their most fearsome enemy ever and attempt to restore Time. They must journey through a forgotten Door from the destroyed Keep of Time in order to seek out the Dragon’s Apprentice. If they fail, it will mean the end of both of the worlds. But success will carry its own price–a price that may be too high even for the Caretakers to bear.

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick

Title: Crescendo

Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Release Date: October 19, 2010

ISBN: 978-1416989431

Size: 432 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: Hush, Hush

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Nora should have know her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away and Nora can’t figure out if it’s for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.

The farther Nora delves into the mystery of her father’s death, the more she comes to question if her Nephilim blood line has something to do with it as well as why she seems to be in danger more than the average girl. Since Patch isn’t answering her questions and seems to be standing in her way, she has to start finding the answers on her own. Relying too heavily on the fact that she has a guardian angel puts Nora at risk again and again. But can she really count on Patch or is he hiding secrets darker than she can even imagine?

Secondhand Charm by Julie Berry

Title: Secondhand Charm

Author: Julie Berry

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

Release Date: October 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599905112

Size: 320 pages, 5×8, hardcover

Genre: Young Adult Fantasy

In a secluded village, magic sparkles on the edges of the forest. There, a young girl named Evie possesses unusually strong powers as a healer. A gypsy’s charms—no more than trinkets when worn by others—are remarkably potent when Evie ties them around her neck. Her talents, and charms, have not escaped the notice of the shy stonemason’s apprentice. But Evie wants more than a quiet village and the boy next-door. When the young king’s carriage arrives one day, and his footman has fallen ill, Evie might just get her chance after all . . .

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner

Title: The Scorch Trials

Author: James Dashner

Publisher: Delacorte

Release Date: October 12, 2010

ISBN: 978-0385738750

Size: 368 pages, Hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series: The Maze Runner

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Solving the Maze was supposed to be the end. No more puzzles. No more variables. And no more running. Thomas was sure that escape meant he and the Gladers would get their lives back. But no one really knew what sort of life they were going back to. In the Maze, life was easy. They had food, and shelter, and safety . . . until Teresa triggered the end. In the world outside the Maze, however, the end was triggered long ago.

Burned by sun flares and baked by a new, brutal climate, the earth is a wasteland. Government has disintegrated—and with it, order—and now Cranks, people covered in festering wounds and driven to murderous insanity by the infectious disease known as the Flare, roam the crumbling cities hunting for their next victim . . . and meal.

The Gladers are far from finished with running. Instead of freedom, they find themselves faced with another trial. They must cross the Scorch, the most burned-out section of the world, and arrive at a safe haven in two weeks. And WICKED has made sure to adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.

Thomas can only wonder—does he hold the secret of freedom somewhere in his mind? Or will he forever be at the mercy of WICKED?

Everlasting Desire by Amanda Ashley

Title: Everlasting Desire

Author: Amanda Ashley

Publisher: Zebra

Release Date: October 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-1420104448

Size: 320 pages, 4×6, softcover

Genre: Paranormal Romance

(Caution: May contain objectionable content)

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The clientele at Shore’s clothing store includes some of L.A.’s sexiest bachelors. But none of them affects Megan DeLacey as deeply as the dark-eyed stranger who strides into her boutique one evening – and keeps returning, night after night. Megan is drawn to Rhys Costain even as she fears him. Because his reason for being there is clear -he wants Megan, with an intensity that’s both tempting and terrifying…

For almost five centuries, Rhys has lived alone, using women as it pleased him and never wanting more. As Master of the West Coast vampires, it’s his duty to eliminate the ancient vampire who’s draining humans on his turf, putting all of their kind at risk. But Megan’s lush beauty and vibrant warmth is blinding him to a danger that will soon engulf them both – and tear him from the only woman who can satisfy his darkest hunger.

Mr. Monster by Dan Wells (U.S.)

Title: Mr. Monster (US release)

Author: Dan Wells

Publisher: TOR

Release Date: September 28, 2010

ISBN: 978-0765322487

Size: 288 pages, 5.5×8″, hardcover

Genre: Speculative/Horror

Series: I Am Not a Serial Killer (v1)

John Wayne Cleaver has always known he has a dark side but he’s fought hard to oppress it and live a normal life – separating John from Mr Monster to survive. But after confronting and destroying the vicious killer that was terrorizing his town, his inner monster is getting stronger and harder to contain.

And now more bodies are being discovered…

With the police failing to catch Clayton County’s second serial killer John is going to have to use his secret knowledge of the first demon-killer to trap the second…but will he be able to avoid suspicion falling on him, and, in the face of extreme horrors, will he be able to restrain Mr Monster?

Monster Hunter Vendetta by Larry Correia

Title: Monster Hunter Vendetta

Author: Larry Correia

Publisher: Baen

Release Date: September 28, 2010

ISBN: 978-1439133910

Size: 656 pages, 4×7″, softcover

Genre: Military Science Fiction

Series: Monster Hunter International

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Accountant turned professional monster hunter, Owen Zastava Pitt, managed to stop the nefarious Old One’s invasion plans last year, but as a result made an enemy out of one of the most powerful beings in the universe. Now an evil death cult known as the Church of the Temporary Mortal Condition wants to capture Owen in order to gain the favor of the great Old Ones.

The Condition is led by a fanatical necromancer known as the Shadow Man. The government wants to capture the Shadow Man and has assigned the enigmatic Agent Franks to be Owen’s full time bodyguard, which is a polite way of saying that Owen is monster bait.

With supernatural assassins targeting his family, a spy in their midst, and horrific beasties lurking around every corner, Owen and the staff of Monster Hunter International don’t need to go hunting, because this time the monsters are hunting them. Fortunately, this bait is armed and very dangerous . . .

Into the Dark: Escape of the Nomad by Bill Housley

Title: Into the Dark: Escape of the Nomad

Author: Bill Housley

Publisher: Cowboy Logic Press

Release Date: September, 2010

ISBN: 978-0981685311

Size: 350 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Former astronaut Stan McPherson, frustrated by the sudden and inexplicable liquidation of NASA just as humankind stood on the threshold of interstellar Space, uses his own funding to begin building the starship prototype that the public didn’t want.

But when he discovers that his work has placed him across purposes with, and in the crosshairs of, an alien superpower bent on enslaving a helpless, grounded Earth, his ship building project suddenly becomes a hide-and-seek, cloak-and-dagger race against time.

Adam-Ondi-Ahman by Wendie L. Edwards

Title: Adam-Ondi-Ahman (Millennial Glory, vol X)

Author: Wendie L. Edwards

Publisher: Seventh Seal Publishing

Release Date: September 23, 2010

ISBN: 978-0982733301

Size: 428 pages, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Series: Hidden Light (bk 1), Wars of Light (bk 2), Apocalypse, the Unveiling (bk 3), The Ascension (bk 4), Hanging By a Thread (bk 5), Justice of Affliction (bk 6), United We Stand (bk 7), He Is Coming (bk 8), Babylon (bk 9)

Words of light are twisted into darkness. Death to all who will not submit to the all knowing eye! Death to bring in the era of peace! Beings of light communicate with Bones, but they are not angels. Devils wish to steal her soul. …On the other side of the world, armies of angels guard Zion! The power of God rocks the earth and changes the course of rivers for the Saint’s defense! The temple rises at the hands of Ephraim and Manasseh. Soon all will have the seal of God in their foreheads! The day of Adam-ondi-ahman has come!

Earth Sink by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Title: Earth Sink

Author: Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Publisher: Ilyan Kei Lavanway

Release Date: September?, 2010

ISBN: 978-0976800439

Size: 496 pages, softcover

Genre: Speculative

A war erupts on a heaven-like planet and spills over to Earth, embroiling a cast of characters in the desperate birth of a new age for mankind. Early on in Lavanway’s complex, problematic work, a main character has a dream. When he wakes, he finds the dividing line between dreaming and waking disturbingly blurred… Readers who grapple with Lavanway’s dense, incantatory prose…will feel the same way: the threads of his narrative are often completely lost in the profuse detail of his imagined alternate reality-but the ultimate sensation also has some of the good qualities of being trapped inside a dream. On one surface level, this is a very old story of rebellion in Heaven. In the perfect alien world of Antecedeon, all is peace and harmony among its older and wiser inhabitants, when gradually younger spirits, dubbing themselves the New Order, grow impatient… As the New Order spreads its resistance across space and dimensions to Earth, a story evolves that is both evocatively detailed and maddeningly vague. Lavanway has the courage to envision what seems at first to be an entire cosmology, and that’s no small undertaking. He has a vigorous talent for description, which is often pitted against sentences such as, “One of the main reasons behind the World Order’s campaign to bring immortality and immersive interconnectivity to the global population was to preserve the World Order’s bank of human assets and ensure control over the human resource pool upon which the World Order elites floated.” The work shares the apocalyptic, phantasmal sensibility of the biblical book of Revelation, and includes a section at the end citing specific religious passages that inspired much of the story. A taxing text, but readers prepared to do the work will find some grand and gripping concepts here. – Kirkus Discoveries, A KIRKUS service for self-published and independent authors

5 Blanks by M. Erickson

Title: 5 Blanks

Author: M. Erickson

Publisher: lulu.com

Release Date: September 17, 2010

ISBN: 978-0557639922

Size: 338 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Speculative

Nick has been killed for the fourth time. His soul was transferred into the wrong Blank. Not just any Blank, but Creed: a Combat- Ready- E-series- Elimination- Drone. And he has to share it.

It’s supposed to be impossible. That isn’t what bothers him. It’s the irony that he’s to blame for making the E-series a reality. He always said it would be the death of him. He may be right.

He’s homeless and being hunted by the people who killed him four times. They want to make him dead—dead before he can expose the truth. That’s if the original Creed doesn’t return from war and kill him first.

Nick has a lethal to-do list: He needs to gain Creed’s co-operation so he can save the friends who risk their lives to hide them, find out how and why they are sharing the same Blank before the original Creed shows up, and uncover the truth about Leigh, a beautiful scary woman that claims she’s Creed’s fiancée and Nick’s friend, but whom neither man remembers.

Welcome to day one of Blank Five.

Sorcerors & Seers by Chris Heimerdinger

Title: Sorcerers & Seers
(Tennis Shoes Series, #11)

Author: Chris Heimerdinger

Publisher: Covenant

Release Date: September 7, 2010

ISBN: 978-1608610879

Size: ___ pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Series:
• Tennis Shoes Among the Nephites

• Gadiantons and the Silver Sword

• Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent, part one

• Tennis Shoes and the Feathered Serpent, part two

• The Sacred Quest

• The Lost Scrolls

• The Golden Crown

• Warriors of Cumorah

• Tower of Thunder

• Kingdoms and Conquerors

Your favorite “Tennis Shoes” heroes return in a whirlwind of nail-biting action and suspense across the vivid spectrums of space and time!

Join Jim Hawkins as he walks side-by-side with the mortal Messiah on His eternal pilgrimage to save the souls of humankind. Journey with Joshua Plimpton – a chief captain of the Nephites – as he pursues the vilest villians to rescue the golden plates of the Book of Mormon. Experience the exhilarating and heart-wrenching exploits of Apollus, Steffanie, Gidgiddonihah, and the rest of the “Tennis Shoes” clan who seek to outwit the most mysterious and dangerous adversaries of their lives.

All of the teeth-gnashing forces of the Lamanites and Gadiantons converge upon the Hill Cumorah as the prophets Mormon and Moroni desperately strive to comprehend His full earthly mission as Gethsemane and Golgotha loom ever nearer.

It’s an adventure of breathtaking magnitude as the most common an fallible of human characters must embrace the unconquerable light of heaven and defeat the raging forces of evil to save their loved ones, themselves, and the fragile fabric of the universe!

When Angels Wept by Eric G. Swedin

Title: When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Author: Eric G. Swedin

Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.

Release Date: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 978-1597975179

Size: 316 pages, 6×9, softcover

Genre: Historical/Speculative

In 1961 at the Bay of Pigs, CIA-trained and -organized Cuban exiles aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro were soundly defeated. Most were taken prisoner by Cuban armed forces. Fearing another U.S. invasion of its new ally, the Soviet Union sneaked into Cuba strategic missiles tipped with nuclear warheads and Soviet troops armed with tactical nuclear weapons. However, a U-2 spy plane flight would soon find the Soviet missile sites, thus sparking the famous missile crisis. For thirteen terrifying days, the world watched nervously as the two superpowers moved toward escalation, holding the world’s fate in their hands. Finally, Nikita Khrushchev blinked. He agreed to withdraw the weapons from Cuba in return for John F. Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island.

But what if it had not turned out this way? What if the U-2 flight had been delayed? If the confrontation had set off a nuclear war, what would have happened to the United States and Soviet Union in 1962? What kind of account would a historian have written in a world scarred by nuclear war?

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Title: Paranormalcy

Author: Kiersten White

Publisher: Harper Teen

Release Date: August 30, 2010

ISBN: 978-0061985843

Size: 352 pages, 6×8, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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Evie’s always thought of herself as a normal teenager, even though she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex-boyfriend is a faerie, she’s falling for a shape-shifter, and she’s the only person who can see through paranormals’ glamours.

But Evie’s about to realize that she may very well be at the center of a dark faerie prophecy promising destruction to all paranormal creatures.

So much for normal.

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Title: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, v1)

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Publisher: TOR

Release Date: August 31, 2010

ISBN: 978-0765326355

Size: 1008 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

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Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built only where the topography offers shelter.

It has been centuries since the fall of the ten consecrated orders known as the Knights Radiant, but their Shardblades and Shardplate remain: mystical swords and suits of armor that transform ordinary men into near-invincible warriors. Men trade kingdoms for Shardblades. Wars were fought for them, and won by them.

One such war rages on a ruined landscape called the Shattered Plains. There, Kaladin, who traded his medical apprenticeship for a spear to protect his little brother, has been reduced to slavery. In a war that makes no sense, where ten armies fight separately against a single foe, he struggles to save his men and to fathom the leaders who consider them expendable.

Brightlord Dalinar Kholin commands one of those other armies. Like his brother, the late king, he is fascinated by an ancient text called The Way of Kings. Troubled by over-powering visions of ancient times and the Knights Radiant, he has begun to doubt his own sanity.

Across the ocean, an untried young woman named Shallan seeks to train under an eminent scholar and notorious heretic, Dalinar’s niece, Jasnah. Though she genuinely loves learning, Shallan’s motives are less than pure. As she plans a daring theft, her research for Jasnah hints at secrets of the Knights Radiant and the true cause of the war.

Earthdust by Gary Blackburn

Title: Earthdust

Author: Gary Blackburn

Publisher: Black Rose Writing

Release Date: August 26, 2010

ISBN: 978-1935605614

Size: 212 pages, 6×9, paperback

Genre: Science Fiction

Escaping death from a roadside exploding car, Aaron James retrieves, from a dying college professor, a mystery disc containing secret information about the future of Planet Earth. A quick goodbye to his fiancée, Laura, Aaron races his Z400 to Utah, while evading arrest by Dickson, the Civilian Protector District Captain. Aaron and best friend, Lee, break the password code on the disc and learn of Earth’s impending disaster, too late to stop a gigantic meteor from striking the Sahara Desert causing massive worldwide destruction while sending a giant mushroom dust cloud into the sky, encircling the earth.

With the planet’s temperatures dropping, Aaron discovers this event, along with an abduction/hybrid process, is a conspiracy to subjugate the earth into a one-world government. A murderous firefight at his mountain cabin and an interplanetary trip with the beautiful hybrid Celeste, to The Pleiades begging for assistance, Aaron and Celeste have one last chance, in a battle against Shapeshifter forces, at their secret mountain location, to alter the dark destiny of the Earth.

Intrinsical by Lani Woodland

Title: Intrinsical

Author: Lani Woodland

Publisher: Pendrell Publishing

Release Date: August 20, 2010

ISBN: 978-0982729700

Size: 298 pages, 6×9, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

Book website with pdf excerpt & trailer.

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other females in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn’t want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life.

However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist’s attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn’t going to go quietly.

Song of the Dragon by Tracy Hickman

Title: Song of the Dragon (Volume One of the Annals of Drakis)

Author: Tracy Hickman

Publisher: DAW

Release Date: July 6, 2010

ISBN: 978-0756406073

Size: 368 pages, 6×9, Hardcover

Genre: Fantasy

Drakis returns from the War of the Nineth Throne — the last of the great dwarven wars — with a prize for his elven master: a strange dwarven bard and a stone which the dwarf claims to be the greatest treasure of all the kingdoms. He hopes that this prize will win him his hearts desire: pairing with his beloved Mala, a human female slave in their master’s household.

But the dwarf tells Drakis that his life is a lie: that the elven devotions held each night hide from his mind every bad thing that happened to him during the day … and keeping him a contented slave forever. When Drakis is nearly beaten to death by his master and then suffers even worse abuse by his daughter — all predicted with horrifying accuracy by the dwarf — Drakis begins to question the very devotions that are at the heart of elven life. But it is only when the dwarf destroys the well of house magic that the spell collapses…

…And suddenly every slave in the household — from lowest cook to the trained warriors of the household cohort — suddenly REMEMBERS.

Thus begins the odyssey of Drakis, an escaped slave, who discovers that his name is at the heart of a prophesy that threatens the existence of the oppressive Rhonas Empire itself. Yet as destiny seems to close in on Drakis from every turn, he himself tries desperately to avoid fate.

Foresight by Sherry D. Ficklin

Title: Foresight (The Gods of Fate, Book 1)

Author: Sherry D. Ficklin

Publisher: Dragonfly Publishing

Release Date: July 10, 2010

ISBN: 978-0984098071

Size: 176 pages, 5.5×8.5, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

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All Grace Archer wants is to graduate from high school and get on with her life. But the Gods of Fate have other ideas. Attacked at graduation by a mysterious woman with gruesome henchmen, Grace is lucky to escape with her life. Rescued by a Fae warrior named Chris and her Aunt Phoenix, Grace learns that her mother was the Greek Goddess Pandora. Now Grace must protect her mother’s urn from the crazed demi-goddess Lilith, who is determined to unleash its horrors on an unsuspecting Earth. As if her blood legacy is not bizarre enough, Grace begins to develop frightening powers that threaten to destroy her from the inside out. Can Grace find the strength to defeat Lilith? Can she learn to control her powers before she loses her mind?

Becoming Kate by Dixie Owens

Title: Becoming Kate

Author: Dixie Owens

Publisher: Cedar Fort

Release Date: July 8, 2010

ISBN: 978-1599554020

Size: 256 pages, 6×9, Paperback

Genre: Speculative

Elizabeth Lindsay, wife and mother of two, is in an auto accident. She awakens in a hospital with strangers calling her Kate. She learns that she perished in the accident and is the donor for the first successful brain transplant. Her mind and memories now reside in the body of eleven-year old Kate. She’s not supposed to have a personal memory, but …

Elizabeth is faced with an overwhelming situation. How does she resolve her death and rebirth? How does she stop being Liz and start becoming Kate? It’s a story about love and letting go, of redemption and second chances.

The Forbidden Sea by Sheila Nielson

Title: The Forbidden Sea

Author Sheila A. Nielson

Publisher: Scholastic Press

Release Date: July 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-0545097345

Size: 304 pages, hardcover

Genre: YA Fantasy

A mermaid haunts Adrianne’s dreams . . . is she coming to warn her, save her, or drag her down into the depths of the briny sea forever?

When Adrianne comes face-to-face with the mermaid of Windwaithe Island, of whom she has heard terrible stories all her life, she is convinced the mermaid means to keep her younger sister. Adrianne, fierce-willed and courageous, is determined to protect her sister from the mermaid, and her family from starvation. However, the mermaid continues to haunt Adrianne in her dreams and with her song.

Cinders by Michele Davidson Argyle

Title: Cinders

Author: Michele Davidson Argyle

Publisher: CreateSpace

Release Date: June 23, 2010

ISBN: 978-1453629956

Size: 184 pages, 5×8, paperback

Genre: Fantasy

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Cinderella’s happily-ever-after isn’t turning out the way she expected. With her fairy godmother imprisoned in the castle and a mysterious stranger haunting her dreams, Cinderella is on her own to discover true love untainted by magic.

We all know that money can’t buy love, but in Cinders we learn magic isn’t a sure bet either. Cinderella – now officially a princess – finds royal life is not what she once dreamed. Pretty clothes, fancy meals, and fabulous balls can’t make up for a life restricted, and she is denied the simple pleasures she used to take for granted. When a figure from her past stirs up a long-suppressed passion, Cinderella begins to wonder if there really is love under the spell that earned her husband’s heart. But undoing magic can be harder than casting the initial spell, and the results are less predictable.

Children of Ta’shaen by Greg Park

Title: Children of Ta’shaen (The Earthsoul Prophecies #3)

Author: Greg Park

Publisher: Bladestar Publishing

Release Date: May 1, 2010

ISBN: 978-0978793166

Size: 608 pages, 6×9, hardback

Genre: Fantasy

Series: Veil of Darkness (1), Cleansing Hunt (2)

Having used the Blood Orb of Elsa to bring the Night of Fire to Melek, Jase Fairimor finds himself standing on the slopes of Mount Tabor as the Mith’elre Chon. With tens of thousands of Once-Men between him and the Great Wall of Aridan and his abilities severely crippled by the curse of Shadan, he must make his way out of the wasteland on foot.

A thousand miles to the south in the jungles of Arkania, Gideon opens the chorazin Veilgate, and he and Elliott journey to Riak in search of Aethon Fairimor. Once there, they find themselves in the midst of a civil war sparked by Shavis Dakshar’s attack on the capital city of Sagaris.

Those left behind by Gideon’s departure are attacked by Arkanian villages, and Seth and the Dainin are faced with the task of rescuing Brysia and Talia from the Power-wielders intent on sacrificing Brysia to a demon of Con’Jithar.

Meanwhile in Trian, Zeniff’s plot to overthrow the government comes to fruition. With the aid of Agla’Con recruited from the Meleki army, he launches an all-out attack, capturing Fairimor Palace and forcing Elison Brey into hiding. As Zeniff’s hold on the city solidifies, Elison and a handful of Dymas prepare to counterattack.