Sometimes the most remarkable journeys begin when unlikely characters find a reason to work together. These Fantasy and Science Fiction books explore partnerships that emerge from unusual circumstances, shared goals, and unexpected encounters. As characters learn to navigate their differences, their alliances can lead to surprising opportunities and discoveries.
That Annihilated Place (Far Away Places)
by C. Xavier
Release Date: September 24, 2026
That Annihilated Place is a Far Away Places novel: a standalone historical fantasy built on the real sonnet contest between Percy Shelley and Horace Smith, and on the one line of Smith’s poem history mostly forgot: “What powerful but unrecorded race once dwelt in that annihilated place?” This book imagines the race.
Spiral Energy Rising (Spirals of Aztalun Book 2)
by Sara Langhe
Release Date: October 1, 2026
Spiral energy is rising. The doorway to Aztalun is opening again. Calista is being hunted by the gods of the High Council. To protect her, Alayna, Sasha, and the other Hexad members must reunite, cross back into Aztalun, and learn to trust new allies, strengthen their magical gifts, and prepare for a battle far greater than their first quest.
Death (Riders of Reckoning Book 1)
by Antonio Laera
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Legends are the shadows of a forgotten truth. After an impossible encounter shakes Uni’s sense of reality, curiosity pulls her toward answers buried for thousands of years. The deeper she searches, the harder it becomes to tell whether she is uncovering the past or being pulled into it.
Downpour: It’s Raining, It’s Pouring (Rhymeworks)
by D. B. Goodin
Release Date: October 13, 2026
June Halloran hasn’t slept in eleven days. When a job board offers $1,500 a session to test an experimental sleep protocol, she flags it as too generous—and applies anyway. She wakes in a warm house where it’s always raining, holding one resource nothing can restore and one objective: get up in the morning. Upstairs, something is snoring.
Veil of Truth (Starship Lucille Book 1)
by J.M. Beraldo
Release Date: October 7, 2026
Sixty years after the aliens stopped hiding, humanity is the galaxy’s noisiest new neighbor. Gerard Baudin hauls alien passengers through lawless space and talks his way out of everything. Then a psychic bounty hunter starts turning up wherever his ship docks. He wants no cargo and no money. Only the captain.
Fowarding Address (Starship Express Book 2)
by John Walker
Release Date: October 6, 2026
Reed finally knows the stories were true. Sixty-three undelivered packages. A coded manual he still can’t fully read. A co-pilot who used to be a king. And a ship that has to stay off every registry, because someone out there is hunting it. Reed doesn’t know which package they want. So he keeps doing the job, one delivery at a time.