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1st October – Tournament Topdecker (Card Mage #2) by Benedict Patrick
Progression/Cultivation
Master your power. Defy the odds. Survive the game.
A year has passed since Hick embraced his destiny as a legendary Card Mage, but now his power threatens to destroy everything he’s fought for. Bound to the slums of Domstadt, he enters a ruthless tournament that could give him and his friends a chance to escape—but an uncontrollable force stirs within him, threatening to expose his secret.
With his father now an enemy and the religious fanatics who rule the city watching his every move, Hick must win or face unimaginable consequences. The cards are stacked against him, and the price of failure is more than losing—it’s death by fire.
2nd October – A Distortion of Fate (Tapestry #1) by M.J. Lindsey
Sci-Fantasy
Words are cheap. Blood is treasure. Redemption is everything.
Calverous Curtaim learned a brutal lesson beneath the blade of his childhood hero: ambitious men will do anything—sacrifice anyone—to rise. Fourteen years later, Calver has embraced martyrdom as a means of redemption to those he was forced to leave behind. But first he’ll have to break a monopoly on magical technology, evade a capture worse than death, and dethrone a dictator—all without succumbing to the insatiable bloodlust of his mind-djinn.
Amidst the chaos of failed plans and the search for answers, a forbidden act of compassion entwines Calver’s path with Raimee: a refugee with unthinkable powers, no control over them, and a total thing for him. As he tries to claw back control over his failing redemption, Calver plunges into a conspiracy far deeper than he imagined, while rekindling a hope for revolution… without war. At a crossroads of duty and destiny, he faces down the harrowing decision he never thought he’d make: choosing to stay alive.
4th October – Rubbles of Magrath (Inner Universe #5) by Natalie Kelda
Sci Fantasy
Three months have passed since the Great Quake shook Magrath. Three months since Balfour lost Skye.
The city lies in ruin and survival is only possible by scavenging. Every day they root through buildings filled with those killed in the earthquake that was meant to mark the end of the tarilla war. The war that still rages on.
Balfour’s biggest fear is to find Skye. Rotten and crushed under the rubble. But he knows where she In the starless vaults at the centre of town.
Struggling to accept his loss, Balfour strays to the courtyard where he once spent a night beside Skye. But there he discovers an old enemy and that hope yet remains.
Can he risk the people who have become his family for someone he has already lost and mourned?
7th October – Magic Kingdom at War #6 by Tao Wong
LitRPG
Crush your enemies and see them fall at their feet
Faced with cavalry and horse archers alike, Matt Fang finds his armies out of position and reeling. He’s going to have to pull back, concentrate his forces and pull off some miracle if he doesn’t want to be a victim of his latest opponent.
Good thing he’s got new allies and even more units to play with. Now, all he needs is the time to get them in place.
7th October – The Wishing Stone (Chronicles of Gam Gam #2) by Adam Holcombe
Epic Fantasy, Cozy Fantasy
A mythical relic believed to have the ability to grant any wish.
A map, leading the way through ancient and sealed catacombs.
Gam Gam’s return to Capital City is not what she expected when she stumbles upon her first clue to the Wishing Stone’s whereabouts. Joined by Mina and her new friend Emil, along with the undead retinue of Nugget, Sloughy, and Gerald, they set out to uncover secrets that could unravel more than just their lives.
8th October – Head of the Class (System Apocalypse: Liberty #1) by Tao Wong & Jason J. Willis
LitRPG
Standardized testing is so much worse in the apocalypse.
Caleb Hanson assumed the most exciting part of his field trip scouting in Northern Minnesota would be a rare bird sighting. Instead, he was abducted by hive-minded hexapods and forced to be their children’s teacher. Not the worst way to ride out the end of the world.
Two years later, the apocalypse has finally come for Caleb. His savior-captors are murdered, leaving him as the last line of defense for the alien kids he’s grown to know and love. Now, he’ll have to bend his values or watch his students die. All while dealing with untrustworthy allies, ravenous monsters, honorable bounty hunters, and worst of all – xenophobic militants.
Between idealism and practicality lies hope for the future. If he can find the strength to pass this final test.
8th October – The Vessel’s Blood (Belarythm’s Branches #1) by Joseph Gorne
Epic Fantasy, Romance
Vulfrey’s Life is Not His Own
The Vessel, the great hope of the Vahndriin people. His is the body through which their Lord, Vahndestrus, might return to the world and bring with him promised salvation. And so too the role with which Vulfrey has been tasked since birth, the sole purpose of his existence. He’s long accepted it. He was ready.
However, on the eve of his twentieth birthday—the day that should have been his last—tragedy befalls the temple he’d spent his entire life caged within. Now, for the first time, he is thrust out into the world. Alone. Broken. And fleeing for his life.
It’s then that he finds an unlikely ally in Kaill, the son of the man who’d betrayed and nearly killed him. Together they set off, Vulfrey searching for a means to fulfill his duty and mend the wound torn in his people’s faith, Kaill seeking penance for his father’s deeds, and both falling prey to feelings doomed by the journey’s end.
8th October – Cazorra’s Curse (Vevin Song) by Jonathan Neves Mayers
Sci-Fantasy
Curse. Collapse. Prelude.
Across the four realms of Arzadel, the Vevin live in peace after the decimation of a group of assassins who had endeavoured to end the lives of those who were not pure.
But the Line of Clawed Wings was never fully destroyed.
Cazorra, a Vevin struck by a tragic event, strives to put a final stop to the Line. Livai, whose parents belonged to the group, realises that her purpose aligns with Cazorra’s. Together, they discover that there are battles to be fought, relationships to be formed and secrets to be manipulated in their world and beyond.
12th October – Something Wicked (Something Wicked #1) by Belinda Campbell
Urban Fantasy, YA, Cozy Fantasy
Hadley Manor was quiet, but it was very much awake.
Darryl Hadley has always been kept in the dark about her family history, so when she moves to her estranged and recently deceased grandma’s countryside manor, she takes it as an opportunity to find out more about where she came from. But Darryl soon discovers her family has a reputation, and that everyone thinks her grandma murdered her own twin sister almost fifty years ago.
After befriending her new neighbour, Tod Griffin, the pair team up to uncover the truth about what actually happened to her grandma’s sister. Things take a wicked turn when on the night of a storm, Darryl wakes up the dormant magic inside her — magic she didn’t know she possessed — and resurrects her grandma in the process.
Darryl is forced to come face-to-face with her past — quite literally. Not only has her magic brought back the dead, but it has also awoken a dark force that is hungry for revenge on the Hadley family. Darryl must learn to use her magic to protect herself and the ones she cares about before they are caught in a battle between the past and present.
12th October – The Inside Story of the British Bureau for the Arcane (The Dark Elf Dynasty File) by Phil Parker
Urban Fantasy
The British Bureau for the Arcane has kept people safe for centuries from the arcane species that seek to harm human beings. Their range extends to Commonwealth nations that were part of the British Empire. A once-proud part of the British Secret Service, their success in controlling the arcane races has been their downfall. These beings now live on the edge of survival in remote parts of Britain. Or, at least they did.
For Arlo Austin, a loyal but troubled agent for the Bureau, something is wrong. When he’s sent to protect the citizens of the Shetland Isles from rampaging Norwegian trolls, it soon becomes apparent it was an attempt on his life. When another agent dies in mysterious circumstances, and Arlo is warned of an impending war with arcane species, his instincts are proved right.
But who is behind this rebellion? Could it be linked to Arlo’s own bloodline as a Dark Elf? His traumatic childhood holds secrets, ones that are going to test his loyalty to the Bureau. In their cells another Dark Elf is held prisoner, one who is so despised by its staff, their hatred has extended to Arlo. This species is violent and vengeful, can they recruit one of their own to bring about the destruction of the Bureau? And in so doing, enable the arcane races to wage war against the human race.
15th October – Where Golden Feather’s Fall (The Zemkoska Chronicles) by Helen Rygh-Pedersen
Romance
The enemy are at the gates and the heir must be protected at all costs. The only problem is…she has vanished.
Princess Algaia Domonov’s world is turned upside down when she discovers she may not be the daughter of the dryads she always believed herself to be. As she ponders her possible new identity, enemy forces from the North reach the border, and conscription is enacted, calling on one able-bodied person from each family to fight…except for her own. Not seeing her status as a reason for exemption, Algaia flees the safety of the palace to join her subjects at war.
However, life in a military camp isn’t like the one she is used to and it is only her stubborn determination to protect her people and be worthy of the crown she will one day bear, that keeps her from shedding her hidden identity.
Attracting the cruel and uninvited attention of the camp Commander, forces her to form new alliances in order to survive. When the Captain of her scouting team takes on her punishment, feelings begin to brew between the more experienced soldier and the young princess. But no matter how right it feels, Algaia knows it is forbidden for a royal to fall in love with a human.
When training ends abruptly and the real war begins, could her desire to pave her own path mean the downfall of her country and the death of the man she loves? Or, will the hard lessons she has learnt beyond the palace walls, help her to save them all?
15th October – Bloodrush RE-RELEASE (The Scarlet Star #1) by Ben Galley
Steampunk, Historical Fantasy, Weird West
In the wild frontier town of Fell Falls, there dwells only dust, death, and secrets.
When Prime Lord Hark is murdered, his orphaned son Merion finds his opulent world stripped away. His father’s final wishes force Merion west across the Iron Ocean to live with an aunt he never knew existed, to the Endless Lands and the very brink of the known world. To a place they call Fell Falls, Wyoming.
As Merion struggles with his new life with Aunt Lilain, the town’s undertaker, he vows to find a way home to London and catch his father’s killer. Merion has one ally to help him stay alive and unravel the mystery: the faerie warrior Rhin. A hunted outcast of the Fae realm, Rhin’s dark past can finally be forgotten in the Endless Lands. Or so he thinks.
Revenge and redemption are never easy. There are dark forces at work in Fell Falls, and not merely the railwraiths or the encroaching wilderness. The arrival of fellow Empire heir Calidae Serped threatens to lead him astray, and Lilain is hiding a secret that lurks in the Hark bloodline.
A secret that will open up a world of magic buried by empire and industry.
15th October – The Visionary (The Duke Aero trilogy #1) by Matt Sparrow
Sci-Fantasy
In totalitarian, socialist society the idealist stands against brutal politics and secret deals.
One against all. The fight you cannot win.
Because there is no place for an “individual”.
Renas is forced to follow his family’s path of the duke. Not like it is a big deal. Every member of the party is a duke. This title long lost its original meaning.
Nobody cares, as nobody learns.
Progress is forbidden. People in power openly break the law and face no consequences, government meetings being used to judge political opponents and the courtroom being used to forge new law.
They are afraid of losing the power, so they suppress the intellectual elite. The knowledge makes magic more powerful, that’s why.
15th October – Corruption’s Claw (Death’s Disciple #3) by Emma L. Adams
Epic Fantasy
In Laria, the truth cuts as sharp as a blade.
Former captain Yala Palathar and her allies prevented the god of death from claiming another city, but at a cost. Now, war threatens between Laria and their rival nation of Rafragoria after half a decade of peace, and tensions in the capital are at an all-time high. While the unprepared monarch tries to keep everything under control, it seems inevitable that Yala and her surviving squad-mates will be called to battle once again.
To complicate matters, bodies are washing up on Laria’s shores, corrupted by Mekan’s insidious magic. Yala is certain that someone is trying to push their nation into a fight that will achieve nothing but a fresh wave of souls to feed the god of death, but the Disciples of the Flame are determined to burn away the evidence – literally.
As Dalathar comes ever closer to boiling over in chaos, Yala must choose whether to reveal the secrets that will either save everyone from an avoidable war… or shatter the fragile peace holding Laria together.
16th October – Claws of the Collector (Shade the Collector #1) by Douglas Lumsden
Urban Fantasy
CLAWS, BLADES, GUNS, AND FIRE!
Benedict Shade, a were-cat and collector of exotic and potentially lethal magical artifacts, arrives in Yerba City with his good buddy, Dwayne, to “collect” (some would say “steal”) an unusual dagger that is much more than it seems. Little does Shade realize that the dagger was involved in an assassination attempt with dire consequences. To keep the dagger, Shade will have to navigate his way through secret hit squads, a homicidal troll, a trickster god, a fire demon, a sorcerous goat, the most powerful witch in western Tolanica, and law enforcement agencies from two different realms. Not to mention a dragon or two. But success for Shade and Dwayne could lead to a devastating interrealm war!
16th October – The Waking of Storm and Flame (The Fates of Aten #1) by N.A. Betts
Epic Fantasy
DESTINED BY BLOOD, BOUND BY DUTY, AND RACING AGAINST TIME. THE FORGOTTEN MUST UNITE TO DEFY AN EMPIRE, AND PREPARE FOR A JUDGMENT THAT COULD END THEM ALL.
Alira Verbrandt, the Princess of Namelle, savored the scholastic tranquility of her life until the Illyrian Empire descended from the north. On the eve of battle, Alira is drawn into the center of a war that has raged for a thousand years.
Unveiled as a Fate, the descendant of a legendary bloodline, destiny is thrust upon her. Alira must navigate her mortal obligation of defending her people from an empire who means to destroy them, while finding others like her to awaken a rebellious god that may be her last hope..
At the heart of her worry, an ancient record foretells the return of their creator. He who shall pass a final judgment over both humanity and the gods, one they may not survive.
16th October – The Rarkyn’s Fall (The Rarkyn trilogy #2) by Nikky Lee
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
They survived mancers. They survived monsters. They survived the Storm.
With the mountains behind them and Illredus on the horizon, they thought the hardest part of the journey over.
They were wrong.
Outlawed and on the run, Lyss struggles to control her new and volatile magic. A magic that will destroy her.
Her only hope: Find the last remaining witch to tame it.
Her only clue: Buried in Illredus. City of mancers. Capital of the Empire.
Together, she and Skaar descend into Illredus’ underbelly and discover a warren of illegal magics and the monstrous legacy Lyss’ father left behind.
As truth, loyalties, and magic clash, Lyss must decide how far she’ll go to exact justice in her father’s name…
And how far she’ll fall to rule the power inside her once and for all.
17th October – The Forging of Volund (The Ragnarok Prophecy #3) by Matt Larkin
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark, Historical Fantasy
In a dark forge, a weapon is wrought.
Odin lies in the grip of the Niflungar. Their dire goddess Hel will see him broken or destroyed, for she knows the power that lies quiescent within him and will not suffer him to walk free.
Yet the very torments the Niflungar wrack upon Odin may become the means of his ascension. In his desperation, he turns to darker Realms still.
Foes surround Odin and his people on all sides. Yet Odin, their king, holds fearsome abilities of his own. And soon, the living and the dead will bend the knee before a new-risen god.
19th October – The Envoys of War (The Envoys of Chaos #1) by Dave Lawson
Epic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Don’t kill the messengers.
As a bodyguard for the King’s Envoys, Gen is content with her life of traveling, drinking wine, and hitting things with her sword. It’s the perfect job. Until the King sends her and her friend Cordyn into war-torn enemy territory on a mission to deliver vital military intelligence to an allied nation.
The problem? The mission is a sham.
Gen is tasked with determining if Cordyn is a spy who is selling information to the enemy. Cordyn is the worst kind of libertine: brash, arrogant, and on the run from half the husbands in the kingdom, but Gen can’t imagine him betraying her or their nation.
With obtuse bandits, vengeful mages, and a resolute lutist, they embark on a daring rescue mission, complicated by Cordyn’s increasingly complex schemes. As ominous enemy plots surface, Gen and Cordyn must decide what matters most. Their nation or their friends.
22nd October – Drown Deep (The Blood Scouts #2) by Phil Williams
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
Where armies won’t go, the Blood Scouts must…
Wild Wish has reluctantly left the front line behind. No more fighting. No more friends. But she’s about to get an invitation to a fight no one else dares touch.
There’s trouble in the Saints Mire, a strictly neutral land with deep religious history. Here, the secrets of the Prophets are preserved by the foreboding Ten Priories – isolated for centuries, steeped in myth, and now under attack.
A rogue Drail army of veterans, criminals and goblins has invaded, and a reckless company of Comity partisans are itching to stop them. The top brass want nothing to do with it, so it’s up to Wild Wish and her new band of ragged misfits to keep things from escalating.
She must brave the heart of a nightmare land harbouring great, hidden power – and even greater hidden threats. Secrets millennia in the making may be exposed – with the potential to change the very shape of the war.
But if Wish can find an opportunity to rebuild The Blood Scouts, maybe it’ll be worth it?
25th October – Shadows of a Lost Hollow (Elmerian Chronicles) by Corey Ratliff
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
By the Old Gods above and below, see us through this storm.
Standing on the precipice of an untamed land, Tharst Oralok dreams of helping forge a new kingdom for his tribe. For his beloved. And for his son. But as the horizon darkens with the approach of orcs, the fragile foundations of their new home are imperiled.
Faced with the threat of annihilation, Tharst must dig deep within himself, reigniting the warrior’s flame within that has long defined his people, and lead them back into the heart of battle. Their future, their legacy, and everything they have strived to build, hangs in the balance.
29th October – The Curse of Soulwalker by Sharon Elwood
Epic Fantasy
Dunegray, commander of the undead Cursed legion, has led it in terrorizing and spilling blood throughout the kingdom of Nahmval. When Zerael, a powerful young sorcerer, lifts the curse, Dunegray and her army must learn to live among the very people they oppressed.
But the Curse never forgets its servants.
While she struggles with her newfound mortality and haunting visions, Silnus, a dark figure from the past, returns. Dunegray must prevent him from harnessing the Curse, or else she will be Cursed again and forced to destroy the people she’s learning to love, obliterating the last remnants of her humanity in the process.
To save her people and this new world she misunderstands, Dunegray and Zerael are commanded to search for new allies in the coming war. This journey throughout Nahmval will reveal hidden motives and a secret that could unravel both Zerael’s country and Dunegray’s identity.
29th October – The Wilderlands by R.E. Bellesmith
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
This story begins as all things do: In fire.
Soot and sorrow plague the air when a hoard of Wilderfolk fall upon a caravan. Running at the head of that hoard is Knalc, a man hardened by battle and the horrors of the Wilderlands. The screams that rise from the caravan come from Valforians, who hide behind the walls of their five cities, who carry things rare and precious—things of want and need for the Wilderfolk, who live in the every growing green of the world. In their attack, Knalc and his clan find a Valforian man, all in red and blade bloodied, who can hold his own against Wilderfolk.
This man in red protects a boy who cannot speak and a girl—Dhorena—with more spite than sense. Once Knalc manages to best the man in red, the fate of Red and his wards lies with Knalc.
Through the twisting of fate and the sinister bend of circumstance, Knalc decides to form a ramshackle alliance with the Valforians to bring them back to their city. What lies between are monsters, gods, and the very Wilderlands. The wild places of the world are ever growing and creeping closer.
31st October – The Dregs (Vermin of the Old Empire) by Thomas J Devens
Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
The lords have fallen.
But ever shall there be those that vie for power.
Those that seek opportunity in death.
Prince Ivar’s body burned, one more corpse upon the pyre.
One more casualty of the Battle of Torglen.
His brother Vlayan makes claim for the throne and control of Volgsland.
Willuck awakes amid the chaos, broken and bloodied.
Hope has died. Willuck is dying.
Another of the lost. A vagrant in a war-torn land.
One more wandering husk in need of a friend. And a purpose.
A young sorcerer seeks to prove himself.
A jaded guard loses purpose.
A motley band marches for vengeance.
As the kingdoms burn, the survivors of war claw their way from the mud.
Seeking purpose. Seeking direction.
Seeking their place, no longer beneath the heel of their rulers.
