2025 Phoenix Award
When a summer intern with a traumatic past accidentally strands her team in a magical world, she must face arrogant mages, hide from dragons, and, above all, she must guard her heart against the perfect guy who is promised to someone else.
Haunted by dreams of a long-dead queen begging for forgiveness, a fearless village girl journeys into a forgotten kingdom — where echoes of a prince’s forbidden love may hold the key to her fate.
Ash, a phoenix living on Earth millions of years ago, migrates to a grisly competition between the ninety-six species of bird, unravelling the truth of our mythology and discovering a new breed of creatures beneath the ground. Can the phoenix prevail in a war against the first race of men?
What if you had to betray your god to save the one you love? In this tale of passion, lust, betrayal, and death, enemies ally as they share a common goal: to restore the draconic race.
Linuka Hinloé should be dead. Now, the seventeen-year-old will stop at nothing to bring justice to whoever attacked her planet and slaughtered her loved ones.
A young woman whose personal and professional life is in tatters, is taken on a journey of self-discovery by a mysterious Advent calendar. Despite of the challenges the calendar presents her with every day, she is led to find authenticity, connection and love in the process.
Some stories end in fire. Others begin with it. Scarlet has tasted love, loss, and the agony of being reborn. To end centuries of bloodshed, she must return to where it all began—and decide who lives, who dies, and whether to burn the world that built her… or become its god.
Abigail, a soldier who failed to save her kingdom, stands alone in a world of men, mages, and foul breeds to defy armies and protect the lands from an ancient warlock.
In post-pandemic America where survival demands sacrifice, a battle-hardened Marine, his fractured brother, and a resilient veterinarian form an alliance. As they navigate a brutal new world, love and loyalty are tested, forcing them to decide what humanity is worth when survival means everything.
Reborn and haunted by lives she can’t remember, Scarlet discovers she’s the source of eternal youth—a living myth cursed to be worshiped, weaponized, and destroyed. Some want her blood. Others want her soul. No one wants her free.
When life hits hard, hit back harder. Thrive in Chaos is a raw, no-nonsense guide to building unstoppable mental toughness, shaped by years in the darkest corners of human experience – the kind that would haunt most people’s nightmares. Bend. Don’t break. Become unshakeable.
Alya is a bright nine-year-old girl, living in London. One morning her father gives her an unusual stone cylinder, left by her late mother. She tries to unfold the mystery of the stone cylinder with her best friend Ben. They meet robots, ugly beasts and Enki, the Ancient Sumerian God of Earth.
Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition, Elena Russo's looking for answers. A discovery about her late father leads Elena to India where she tracks down the place he had his future read to him from an ancient Nadi Leaf. But what good comes from knowing your future? Can Elena find her way to healing?
When vengeance becomes your only purpose, how far will you go? Set in a rich universe of immortals, synthetic intelligences, and cosmic forces that bend the rules of reality, First Elite is a sweeping, emotional, and action-packed journey about love, power, and what it means to be truly alive.
Trapped beside a god in borrowed skin, Scarlet must survive long enough to reclaim her truth. As ancient powers rise from the sea and her memories begin to unravel, she must face the monster who once loved her—and decide if she’d rather burn than belong.
A childhood accident gave Faer a perfect memory—and a glimpse of something not human. Now trapped in the 1960s with a ghost at his side and an alien predator in his past, Faer must solve a mystery buried in time before history resets with him erased.
Former NASA employee, turned Astronomy teacher Cory Fox , returns to his former employers with the idea of embarking on the world's first one way manned mission into space, on his own.
In 1976, Four punk friends love the Sex-Pistols, shopping trolleys and getting wasted. When boredom is a crime and sedation is a solution how can it end well? Cue the music and roll back through a chaotic journey of friendship, love and mis-adventure over four decades.
Based on Omotola's story (Parkinson’s Africa founder and mother of two) following her diagnosis with young-onset Parkinson's disease, this powerful graphic novel brings a fresh perspective to the link between PD and Lewy body dementia, while highlighting everyday ways we can improve our brain heath...
On a witch-hunting planet, a desperate healer whose magic is fading must ally with her nemesis to avert war before the price of success becomes unbearable.
Goddess of creation Mona is ready to wipe out humanity—until her twin sister dares her to live as one of them first. One town, one overly cheerful nature nerd, and one very inconvenient mortal heart later… the apocalypse may need a rain check.
From the dawn of man, war between Demons & Angels has ravaged the land. Two thousand years of peace has lulled the people into a false sense of security. Malach is on a journey to find his place in the world & pick a side in the war that is quickly approaching, meeting unlikely allies along the way.
A woman defies tradition, war, and betrayal in her relentless quest to protect her family — but survival demands heartbreaking choices.
A Yandar ambassador on a human spaceship in uncharted space encounters her ancient enemy, the one with the celestial cannons—but this time, she, too, has the use of big guns.
