Spring 2010

Secrets of Blood and Sand by Leona Wisoker

Cafad Scratha, a powerful desert lord with a persecution complex, believes everyone is lying to him. When his obsession collides with the king's efforts to rebuild the shattered realm, the orphaned street-thief Idisio and the king's emissary Alyea become pawns in their multilayered game. The secret world into which Idisio and Alyea are drawn will not only change their lives: it will change them.

 

 

Fall 2010

The Shadow of the Sun by Barbara Friend Ish
Book One of The Birai Cycle

Ellion would be a man of honor; but his taste for black magic has already destroyed his life. When the heir to the vacant Danaan throne is marked for death by a renegade wizard, protecting her may become Ellion's last chance for redemption--or his final descent into evil.

Cael's Shadow by Larissa N. Niec
Book Two of The Sky Seekers

Jhared Denaban rejected the treasonous demands of his fellow Shorn, but he can't escape the conspiracies crippling Avelos. As he searches for the secret of the killing winds, a terrible power haunts him. Perhaps the evil in his soul makes him prey to the darkness--or maybe all of Avelos is falling under the curse of Cael's Shadow.

 

Spring 2011

The Soldier's Banquet by W.B. Shanley

Magic swells in Kel'dess; through its burgeoning power a corrupt emperor and his shadow sorcerers are gaining a stranglehold on the land. The wizards of the Watchtower of Kaldarell stand against the flood of shadow, but the hardest battles fall to disgraced soldier Martin Kelly as he follows a mysterious magician across a war-torn land.