Self Published Fantasy Releases – December 2021
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As always, this is not a comprehensive list, but only includes all the books I have heard about so far.
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1st December – Jubilant (Shallic Sea Chronicles #1) by Galadriel Coffeen & Anneliese KnopEpic Fantasy
Kelta’s life on a small clan warship has given her peace and anonymity, and a way to fight through her grief. But when her ship is called upon to search for a missing ambassador, Kelta can no longer remain safely in the shadows. Will she sacrifice her future for her family, or will she let the mission fail and keep her secrets?
After being barred from studying magic, Wren Elspur’s only way to make a name for himself is to work up through the ranks of the Ellondese Navy. Passing his lieutenant’s exam should have put him on the fast track for promotion, but a tyrannical captain, an arranged marriage, and an alliance with the southern savages interfere with his plans and pit his conscience against his career.
When Wren and Kelta’s ships both find evidence of slavers working in international waters, they have no choice but to put aside their cultural differences and work together to rescue hundreds of innocents bound for the Alokite slave-markets. But there’s more going on behind the slave trade. As an ancient evil stirs in the west, Kelta and Wren find themselves fighting side by side in the opening moves of a war they don’t yet understand.
Amazon1st December – The Second Storm (A Thousand Li #6) by Tao WongEpic Fantasy, Progression/Cultivation
When War Wages, Even Innocents Perish
Two years have passed and the war between the kingdoms of Shen and Wei rages on. The dark sect moves in the shadows, striking against the noble Verdant Green Waters Sect, damaging, killing and kidnapping their members.
Among the victims – Fairy Yang, Wu Ying’s martial sister. On a desperate quest to retrieve her, Wu Ying finds himself caught up in inter-sect politics and headed straight for a trap.
Tragedy awaits, but some paths, a man must walk. No matter the cost.
GoodreadsAmazon2nd December – Anachrony (Timelessness #3.5) by Susana ImaginarioSci-Fantasy[image error]Arianh had one wish.
Yewlow made it real.
And Time turned it into a regret.
Anachrony takes you on a journey to the bleak future of Aegea and the darkest places of the mind.
Can fate be avoided, or is the future just someone else’s past?
GoodreadsAmazon2nd December – Servant of the Lesser Good by Shaun Paul StevensEpic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
High Mistress Talia is a hell-raising socialite with a murky past. But she has a bright future. Beautiful, rich, and a virtuoso harpist, she’s betrothed to the Count of Brecht. In short, she has it all. Or so it would seem.
Marla Holst is the new lady’s maid, but never has the ‘help’ been so unhelpful. Marla, real name Mist, has only one mission: to stop the high mistress’s marriage. By any means necessary.
But complications abound. Talia’s disturbed daughter, a girl who can see into the future, is cursed with the stigma of a devil-worshipping father. The count’s father, the Duke of Rizak, is a recluse, too afraid of assassins to show his face. And all the nobility want to do is duel.
Meanwhile, the highlight of the season—a recital of the famous ‘Cursed Symphony,’ draws ever closer.
GoodreadsAmazon2nd December – Nectar for the God (Mennik Thorn #2) by Patrick SamphireEpic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy
In the city of Agatos, nothing stays buried forever.
Only an idiot would ignore his debt to a high mage, and Mennik Thorn is not an idiot, no matter what anyone might say. He’s just been … distracted. But now he’s left it too late, and if he doesn’t obey the high mage’s commands within the day, his best friends’ lives will be forfeit. So it’s hardly the time to take on an impossible case: proving a woman who murdered a stranger in full view is innocent.
Unfortunately, Mennik can’t resist doing the right thing – and now he’s caught in a deadly rivalry between warring high mages, his witnesses are dying, and something ancient has turned its eyes upon him.
The fate of the city is once again in the hands of a second-rate mage. Mennik Thorn should have stayed in hiding.
GoodreadsAmazon3rd December – Rise of Chess (Fair Quest #2) by Kit FalboSci-Fantasy, LitRPG
Overwhelmed by a shift to a “normal” life Nate is under pressure to make friends. Re-joining the Immersive Fantasy game Fair Quest seems like his best option. But the game has changed, and many players are taking what is going on more personally. Will the return of the Kingmaker winner send shock waves through the game even as he’s trying to avoid attention? Find out in The Rise of Chess.
GoodreadsAmazon4th December – Darkhaven (The Lightless Prophecy #1) by Kel E. FoxEpic Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, YA
What would you sacrifice for magic?
Gabby is in her final year of high school and facing the Question: what does she want to do with her life? A shame ‘wizarding’ isn’t on the list of university courses.
Just as Gabby despairs that she’ll never find the answer, lightning strikes. She uncovers a conspiracy, meets a mysterious boy, and finds out that maybe, magic might just be real. But it comes at a cost, and now Gabby’s faced with a decision that makes choosing a university as easy as choosing a favourite kind of cake… How is anyone meant to do that?
GoodreadsAmazon7th December – The Hunt for Lost Souls (Guardian of the Core #3) by Michael E. ThiesEpic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, Sci-Fantasy
The Curse of Pirini Lilapa has once again sown discord throughout the system.
In its wake, the Twelve gods are sealed and scattered throughout the system, leaving nations on the brink of war and rulers left to fend for themselves. Looking beyond their disputes, Guardian Eska is forced to unleash the Hown as he searches for the largest threat to the system, Hydro Paen—and the strange necklace he bears.
The system’s most-wanted man, Hydro makes a deal that allows him to evade the Hown pursuing him. But what has he sacrificed in return and how long can he outrun the system’s most highly trained trackers and fighters?
By a stroke of luck, Zain Berrese escapes Zigarda’s Web along with his father and what remains of his troops. Driven by the need to halt a war and save those he loves, Zain must outmaneuver attempts to recapture him, all while he questions his choices, his future, and his purpose.
Finally understanding his birthright, Eirek Mourse is determined more than ever to earn Guardian Eska’s trust. But how can he focus on his training when the system lingers on the precipice of total collapse—and he might be the only one who can save it?
Goodreads10th December – Trouble in the Green Lands (Seeder Wars #2) by J. HouserUrban Fantasy, YA, Romance
THE GAME IS CHANGING.
It’s been three years since Saff made the life-changing decision to embrace her Seeder nature and move to the Green Lands. She loves her job, her husband, her Seeder family, and everything about this enchanting new realm. Life couldn’t be more perfect. Except for the disturbing new war tactics displayed by their enemies, the Ivies.
Rachel’s senior year in high school is anything but typical. Discovering her true identity as a Seeder means learning new abilities, hiding from Ivy assassins, and preparing to leave the human world behind. But something’s not right with her powers, causing crippling self-doubt and leading her to make unlikely allies. Rachel’s ready to join the rebellion, helping to put an end to centuries of unrest amongst the green folk.
But people and promises are rarely as they seem in a war filled with secrets and misdirects.
Far from being on the same page, Rachel and her new mentor, Saff, realize they can only take the needed leap of faith by trusting each other. The ultimate goal for them both is to stay alive, find out who they can trust, and just maybe, if they can manage that, they can stop a never-ending war.
GoodreadsAmazon12th December – Ardulum (The Battle for Pruitcu Ardulum #5) by J.S. FieldsSci-Fantasy, Romance
Consumed by guilt, Guard Four trawls space, hopping from spaceport to spaceport, hoping to find and bring Atalant home with exonerating evidence that Ardulum, the traveling planet her people worship, is no mystic deity.
At the edges of the known galaxy, Guard Four finds the shattered remains of a murdered world – a world of her genetic cousins who could have provided the evidence she desperately seeks. Ardulum, in seems, is no fairy tale but rather a bogeyman, set on destroying anyone who gets between it and its biological imperative to reproduce. And in its seat of governance rules Atalant – god to a planet she swore did not, could not, exist.
Guard Four must unravel Ardulan fact from myth to save her friend and the billions of other beings threatened by the Void – a tear in space created from Ardulum’s most recent birthing event. But how does one bring a god of a killer planet home? And how is Guard Four supposed to stop the Void without giving it the only thing it wants – the destruction of Ardulum?
GoodreadsAmazon14th December – Tethered Spirits (Curse of Shavhalla #1) by T.A. Hernandez
A man with an unknown past
For years, Amar has traveled the Kavoran empire, seeking a way to recover his lost memories and end the curse that plagues him. With support from loyal friends, Amar may finally be on the verge of finding answers, but to do so, he’ll need to enlist the help of an unexpected guide.
A girl afraid of her own powers
Kesari is a Tarja, granted magical abilities through her Bond with a spirit named Lucian. Haunted by past mistakes that have left her desperate to sever her Bond, Kesari has her own reasons for agreeing to help Amar. But in doing so, she may finally have to face the fears she’s carried ever since leaving home.
A woman on a vital mission
Meanwhile, a young refugee named Aleida is in hot pursuit, hoping the secret behind Amar’s curse can save her brother from a fatal illness. With so much at stake and little left to lose, Aleida will stop at nothing to get what she wants.
And when their paths collide, all three are set on a journey to unravel a mystery far deeper than they ever suspected.
GoodreadsAmazon20th December – War of the Sphere (The Sphere Saga #3) by Jay S. WillisEpic Fantasy
The lines have been drawn. The battle for the realm has begun. Can this young woman become the leader who can stop the spread of evil?
Dashira Eisenheart never planned to head a rebellion. But when three millennia of magic suppression end to unleash devastating forces upon the world, she launches into a fight for her people. And every day the war over the Sphere-Blessed continues to rage, the closer her homeland edges toward utter annihilation.
Struggling to control her own abilities and teaming up with the all-powerful Three, Dashira hunts for magical artifacts to swing the conflict in their favor. But a dangerous trek reveals shocking secrets about the nature of reality that could tear apart the very fabric of time.
Can this rebel warrior save the future before the present is ground to dust?
GoodreadsAmazon21st December – The World Breaker Requiem (Adjacent Monsters #2) by Luke TarzianGrimdark, Horror
Prince of Woe…
Avaria Norrith is the adopted heir to the Ariathan throne. But that means little to a man who, for the better part of fifteen years, has sought and failed to earn his mother’s love. Fueled by pride and envy, Avaria seeks the means to prove himself and cast away his mental chains. When he’s tasked with the recreation of The Raven’s Rage he sees his chance, for with the infamous blade he can rewrite history and start anew.
Daughter of the Mountain…
Erath has not felt sunlight for a century. Not since Ariath condemned her people to a life of darkness with their misuse of The Raven’s Rage. But when an old friend comes seeking the remnants of the ancient sword, Erath cannot contain her curiosity and resolves to lend her aid. Is it true—can history be revised? Can her people be reclaimed?
Toll the Hounds…
They are hungry—and they are here.
GoodreadsAmazon29th December – The Awakening (Pennine Prophecies #1) by J.A. Roles
An ordinary girl is thrust into the extraordinary when she meets a mysterious stranger and finds her life is not as it seems. With love, friends, and family at stake will she find the strength to survive long enough to find true happiness?
Sapphire:
England is my home, and home to the Pennines – hills rooted deep in myth and legend. And that’s all I ever believed it was… until I met him.
Now I know vampires, werewolves, witches, and warlocks walk amongst humans.
The Pennine Prophecies dictate the fate of the supernatural world. A world that is under threat by an ancient evil who will stop at nothing to satisfy his bloodlust.
If it comes to laying down my life for the people I love, I know what my choice will be. They’re the reason I wake up each day. The reason I continue to fight, the reason I refuse to give up. The reason I have to tell you my story.
GoodreadsAmazon20th December – Villains (The Reeve #2) by Ian LewisSci-Fantasy
Beldenridge—a city of aging grandeur adrift in complacency—is reeling in the wake of violence perpetrated by the Wojiin, a legendary foe once thought to be extinct. Now mutated horrors lurk by shadow of night, and opportunistic villains rise to fill the gap left by the perceived abandonment of Beldenridge by Logan Hale, the city’s highest peace officer. Though Logan knows the Wojiin will return, he’s beleaguered by the ignominy of failure and a loss of purpose. To recover, he must not only confront himself but the malevolence that runs like an insidious undercurrent beneath everything he fears.
GoodreadsAmazon26th December – The Guild’s Demands (Adventures on Brad #7) by Tao WongEpic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery, YA, LitRPG
Everyone Needs a Healer, Whether He Wants Them or Not
Daniel Chai has fallen into a routine of adventuring and dungeon delving with his friends. They aren’t making quick progress, but it’s steady improvements and honest work.
Unfortunately, Daniel’s ability as a healer, and one who is truly Gifted, has come home to roost with a vengeance. As his secret is exposed, Daniel’s greatest fears come to play and adventuring guilds of all stripes attempt to recruit him and his friends, whether he wants it or not. Forced to navigate guild politics and noble interest, Daniel’s simple life has once more grown complicated.
GoodreadsAmazon31st December – Of Darkness and Light (The Bound and the Broken #2) by Ryan CahillEpic Fantasy, Sword & Sorcery
Heroes will rise. Nations will fall.
Behind the towering walls of Belduar, Calen Bryer and his companions stand in defense of the city and its new king. In over a thousand years, Belduar has never fallen. It has stood as a bastion of hope. But the Lorian empire are at its walls once more, and the Dragonguard are coming.
In the North, with Faenir by her side, Calen’s sister Ella arrives at the port of Antiquar. She holds no fear of the unknown. She will see this through, no matter what – or who – gets in her way.
Meanwhile, at the embassy of the Circle of Magii in Al’Nasla, Rist Havel hones his newfound powers in preparation for the trials. Unbeknownst to Rist, he is being watched, measured, and judged. He was not taken into the Circle by chance. There is greatness in him. But great men can do terrible things.
As Lorian forces land on southern shores and Aeson Virandr’s letters of rebellion find their way to the right hands, only the Knights of Achyron see the true danger. The danger that stirs in the darkness. The coming shadow will not stop. It will consume all in its path. It wants for nothing but blood and fire.
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