2026 Story World Award
Oracle Emissary follows F’lorna as she navigates a deeply immersive world of rival kingdoms, sacred traditions, ancient symbols, sea-faring civilizations and political unrest. As new people groups emerge and tensions rise, F’lorna must unite divided cultures before war consumes them all.
After surviving a classified operation that was erased from history, former commander Su-Hwa lives in isolation with fragmented memories she cannot trust. Working in civilian protection for high-profile figures, she begins to notice attacks that mirror tactics from her lost past. As suppressed...
His death was only the beginning. Awakening in a crypt as the immortal Daeron, he must investigate his own assassination to save his brother and uncover a plot that threatens the world. To succeed, however, he must first unlock the deadly secret that cost him his life.
The Weather Watcher is an adult science fantasy where a gruff gun-for-hire who can’t pull the trigger must outwit a jealous sheriff brother, navigate madness-inducing mists, and outplay the keeper of an ancient, buried city to not only protect his way of life and power to manipulate weather, but to...
Deep beneath a vanished civilization, Origin—an ancient multi‑layered intelligence—splinters into rogue minds. When Elira awakens as the system’s lost key, she must stabilize its collapse before rising hidden worlds fracture reality itself.
When a world-famous football star is thrown 72 years into a dystopian future where AI replicas of sports legends control the masses, he must master a rare mental ability to challenge a system built in his own image—and reclaim humanity
As their world tears apart under celestial storms and imperial war, three young women—a dutiful caregiver, a captured noblewoman, and a lone avenger—descendants of the Pleiades star cluster, are sought by secret factions racing to protect those prophesied to either save or doom their dying realm.
The Nativity Story is probably the best known Christmas story. Its played by children in most Junior Schools and many Christian Churches. The Magi (Wise Men or Three Kings) make a cameo appearance and do not get another mention in the Bible. The making of the Magi tells the story in a different way...
In a brutal, stunning Ice Age world, a sharp-witted young girl with fierce loyalty for her gifted, but shunned, little sister is faced with the "starving time"; forced to marry, then depart from her family to save them. Mistreated, betrayed, and abandoned by her husband, she is transmuted and...
In war-ruled Vael, sixteen-year-old Jorium has trained his whole life to kill, but when he alone can wield the forbidden Death Arts, the power sickens him. As his people face ruin, he must balance life and death while falling for a Life Artist boy he is certain hates him.
At dawn, over a fresh cup of black coffee, a journalist in Paradox, New York, meditatively enters a postcard in answer to an urgent plea, and embarks upon a perilous rescue in the Adirondack Wild Forests that are alive with fantastic beasts, imaginary creatures and cryptids, where consciousness...
