Owl's Nest Teen/YA
The Carver and the Queen
When their bid for freedom falls to pieces, Petr seeks help from the mythical Malachite Queen, only to find himself trapped in an underworld where godlike skill comes at the cost of his humanity. It’s up to Lena to contrive a daring rescue before Petr is lost forever in a kingdom of stone.
Author: Emma C. Fox
Part of: Book 1 of Serpents and Stone
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Themes: Coming of Age, Identity, Forgiveness and Redemption
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Magic & Folklore, Death & Violence
Daughter of Rage and Ruin
Once Upon a Time…
When Jack lost her sister to the giant Galifron, she thought she would never see her again. Dead is dead, and being the sister left behind means carrying a lifetime of guilt, grief—and rage. So when a witch offers her a chance to raise her sister from the dead, Jack agrees to strike a bargain and sets off on an impossible quest.
Prince Quil of Mynos only wants to have fun and be free of his obligations, especially while traveling in the western kingdom of Daphnis. When he falls head over heels for the mysterious girl he meets on a rooftop, however, following his heart means following her on a quest to raise her sister from the dead. How else is he going to get her to fall for him, too?
But the quest goes horribly wrong, and Jack and Quil find themselves faced with consequences neither of them anticipated—and doomed to seek answers at the top of a towering, magical beanstalk. Some things, once broken, can’t easily be put back together, and fixing what they never meant to break will ask of each of them more than they ever imagined.
What lies at the top of the beanstalk just might teach them, in the end, what true love really is.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection*
Other Books in This Series: Son of the Deep, Son of Bitter Glass, Son of Gold and Sorrow
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Survival, Coming of Age, Self-Sacrifice
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Death and Injury, Monsters and Magic
Heart of Stone
Return to Imperial Russia in Book 2 of Serpents and Stone...
Ever since her father’s mysterious death six years ago on Serpent Hill, Lilia Stepanovna has struggled to help her family make ends meet. So when an old woman claiming to be her great aunt arrives and offers to show her the way to hidden treasure, Lilia leaps at the opportunity. Curious magic soon entwines her, though, and Lilia finds herself trapped by a sorcerer’s devious plot to seize the Russian empire. She longs to share the truth with her friend Dmitri Petrovich—the son of the famous stonecarvers who last defeated evil under Serpent Hill—but her enchantment prevents her from saving herself, or even speaking of the powers that bind her.
Dmitri always expected to follow in his parents’ footsteps as a stonecarver, until a terrible accident crushed both his hands and his dreams. At least his family and Lilia—the friend he’s coming to see is so much more—still have faith in his abilities. But something isn’t right with Lilia, and there are disturbing clues that the sinister Malachite Queen who once imprisoned his father may yet be alive and working with Polov, the Serpent King.
When Lilia is swept off to Petersburg under suspicious circumstances, Dmitri embarks on a perilous journey to save the girl he loves and to stop the dark powers that are working through her to take over all of Russia.
Author: Emma C. Fox
Part of: Book 2 of Serpents and Stone
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Themes: Coming of Age, Identity, Forgiveness and Redemption
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Magic & Folklore, Death & Violence
Muses from the Moon
Author: W. Scott
Other Books in This Series: songs of the sun
Genre: Poetry, Religion
Themes: Faith, Renewal, Darkness and Light
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Christian Spirituality, Mental Health Awareness, Struggle
The Queen of Ebenezer
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Genre: Light Fantasy, Magical Realism
Themes: Perseverance through Trials, Life and Death, Memory
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Friendship, Tragedy, Magic
The Queen of Ebenezer is also available as an audiobook!
Narrated by: Olivia Pugh
Produced by: Ally Castaldo
Available on: Libro.fm, Audible, Spotify, Chirp Books, Google Play, Apple Books, and Hoopla
Songs of the Sun
Author: W. Scott
Other Books in This Series: muses from the moon
Genre: Poetry, Religion
Themes: Father/Son Relationships, Renewal, Darkness and Light
Suggested Reading Level: 13-18
What's in this Book? Christian Spirituality, Mental Health Awareness, Relationship Struggle
Son of Bitter Glass
The glasshouse was built for Prince Isbrand’s protection. It is good and will keep out the curse. But the glasshouse cannot keep out the Witch.
Eira does not remember her own mother’s death, but she remembers the day Prince Isbrand’s mother died—for Eira loves her best friend as much as any person can love another. On the day Isbrand’s mother was murdered by the Snow Queen, her best friend was cursed—along with all the kingdom of Ravenia—to a slow and icy doom. But Isbrand’s curse is special, and to save him from the fate his mother suffered, his father, the king, imprisons him in a glasshouse and searches far and wide for ways to save his son.
Isbrand has always loved Eira, but now that he lives under the Snow Queen’s curse, he finds himself fated to marry another. Eira is stuck living at his side in the glasshouse where her fate is tied to his own, trying to protect him from the Witch, who calls to Isbrand, tempting him, even within the safety of the glasshouse. And as the curse’s deadline draws near, no plan of the king’s—or Isbrand’s love for Eira—can keep the Snow Queen from stealing him away.
Left desperate and hopeless, Eira must set off on an impossible journey into the frozen north to save Isbrand. In a world of old magic, fae tricksters, and creatures out of time, it just might be enduring friendship and true love that save a kingdom destined for destruction.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of the Deep, Son of Gold and Sorrow
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Friendship, Life and Death, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Death, Magic
Son of Gold and Sorrow
A love that is forbidden, a curse that cannot be broken, and four impossible tasks.
James has always been selfish, arrogant, and unserious. Even when he’s tried to do better, he’s feared the folly and mixed motivations that lurk within his heart. So when the princess Aurelia—whom he tormented as a youth—enlists his help traveling a hard road to her homeland, he agrees more out of compulsion than compassion. Little does James know his reluctant decision to give aid to the princess will change his life forever.
When Princess Aurelia stumbles upon Lord James in the enchanted Black Forest of Ravenia, she sees in him the desperate chance she needs to escape a cruel father and a cursed engagement to a wicked man. Placing her hope in James, though, comes with its own entanglements—not the least of which is her traitorous heart. As their road turns dark and dangerous, she must not only hope in him, but also trust him with her deepest secrets.
As James and Aurelia struggle for survival, they grow closer with each challenge and find their assumptions about each other giving way to affection, a terrifying and futile affection. Because there is a curse laid on Aurelia, a curse that could mean James’s death for loving her. Unless he can do the impossible and free her from what cannot be broken.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of the Deep, Son of Bitter Glass
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Life and Death, Coming of Age, Self-Sacrifice
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Romance, Death and Injury, Magic
Son of the Deep
Orpheo never meant to disobey his father or betray his kind, but when he finds a young human woman weeping over the death of her own father, his compassionate heart moves him to comfort her.
All Rose ever wanted was to make her father proud, but after the mysterious Boy in the Sea eases her through her grief, Rose throws aside her reservations and vows she will find the boy and marry him.
As Rose despairs of ever finding him, Orpheo sells his voice to the Sea Witch and gives up his family in a desperate bid to fulfill their love and heal a hundred-year rift between their worlds. But restoration cannot be bought through black magic, and when Orpheo becomes human, Rose does not recognize him.
At the end of all hope, only great sacrifice can bring Rose and Orpheo a happily ever after.
Author: K. B. Hoyle
Part of: The Fairytale Collection (non-ordered series)*
Other Books in This Series: Son of Bitter Glass, Son of Gold and Sorrow
Genre: Fantasy, Fairytale, Romance
Themes: Love, Reconciliation, Destiny
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Magic, Adventure, Romance
The Queen of Ebenezer is also available as an audiobook!
Narrated by: Liz Garn
Produced by: Ally Castaldo
Available on: Audible, Spotify, Chirp Books, Google Play, Apple Books, Libby, AudiobooksNow, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble
Thread of Dreams
Nova’s job is to harvest dream threads from unaware humans to sustain her sunless planet against a malicious parasite. But on one particular night, she enters the dream of a boy who knows her—who has been dreaming of her for a long time. And in that moment, everything changes.
Arlo’s dream-girl always told him about a wonderous world beyond his imaginings, but he never thought that world could be a real escape from the traumatic realities he daily faces. Until the night that Nova becomes more than just a dream. Now Arlo must decide if escaping his trauma is worth the cost of following his dream-girl into a new reality.
As Nova and Arlo draw ever closer together, so too does the darkness in both their worlds grow stronger. In the end, it just might turn out that the only way to defeat the nightmares plaguing both their lives is for them to face the possibility of eternal separation.
Author: Emily Barnett
Genre: Science-Fantasy, Romance
Themes: Life and Death, Coming of Age, Destiny
Suggested Reading Level: 12-18
What's in this Book? Terminal illness, Otherworldliness, Romance
A Trick of Spades
When their aunt, Finna, misses their father’s funeral, fourteen-year-old twins Colm and Clíana know she has to be in trouble. Finna finally appears with an explanation: she’s developed an illata, a unique magical power, and she’s used it to become one of the city’s best bounty hunters. At least, until a few weeks ago, when a powerful criminal underlord finally got the better of her. Now, he’s marked her as one of his own. Finna promises the twins that she can handle it, but they know she’s lying.
Certain he can save her from the underlord, Colm follows Finna back to the city, while Clíana chases after them as soon as she realizes her brother’s gone. However, Colm’s attempted rescue goes awry once he steals a mysterious pair of dice, and he must escape from the underlord’s thugs himself. Clíana, meanwhile, sets out to recruit the help of a wizard fluent in the magical language of Alchema. Her search introduces her to an elite, exclusive world, a world she finds both intriguing and impossibly beyond her reach.
As both twins move toward finding Finna, and each other, they soon realize they’ve stepped into a world, and a mystery, bigger than they ever imagined—a world of dueling magical fates.
Author: Tasha Kazanjian
Genre: Fantasy
Themes: Love of Family, Belonging, Coming of Age
Suggested Reading Level: 10-18
What's in this Book? Adventure, Magic, Crime & Criminal Hijinks
