Sci-Fi & Fantasy Reads for Fans of Time Travel and What-Ifs

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19 Sep 2025

These stories bend timelines, rewrite histories, and play with cause and effect. They’re mind-bending and heart-racing at once. Perfect for readers who love exploring how small choices ripple into worlds.

The Dream Rider Saga: The Complete Trilogy

by Douglas Smith

Release Date: September 15, 2025

Aurora Award. Indie Author Award. The entire multi–award-winning trilogy in one volume! The Hollow Boys (Book 1), The Crystal Key (Book 2), and The Lost Expedition (Book 3). Plus never-before-seen bonus material: deleted scenes, alternate plotlines, character notes, setting background… and more!

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The Spiral Wakes (A Wounded Land Book 1)

by James Daniels

Release Date: August 23, 2025

A summit meant for peace ends in betrayal and blood. The Valley in the Clouds burns, and young Elrich must rise from his father’s murder to lead what remains of a fractured people. Haunted by prophecy, shadowed by rivals, and guided by only a handful of survivors, he must forge unity before the valley is lost forever.

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Desperate Shadows (The Order of the Emerald Mantis Book 1)

by Helen G. Huntley

Release Date: August 1, 2025

A town gripped by fear. A warlock hiding in plain sight. A son returns to reclaim the light. Darkness has come to Silverbrook… and now it’s about to be challenged. The battle for Silverbrook begins. A tale of sorcery, vengeance, and rising hope—Desperate Shadows launches the dark and spellbinding series, The Order of the Emerald Mantis.

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Ruarc

by Jennifer Julie Miller & Jewel Shipley

Release Date: September 5, 2025

My amber eyes and royal blood have set me apart my entire life, no matter how much I wished differently. I have only ever wanted to fit in and be treated the same as everyone else, but no matter how hard I try, I am always rejected. I am the Princess of Nothing, sitting upon an invisible throne with no subjects to worship me. But my title did not stop the Velgriddix.

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Beacon Fall (The Starborne Saga Book 2)

by Terry Schott

Release Date: September 14, 2025

The signal has been sent, and a reply received. With the chilling message “We are coming,” humanity faces a future shaped by ancient alien mystery and hidden history buried deep beneath the Earth. The beacons have awakened. The world will never be the same. Josephine Crawford thought she understood her role when she activated the ancient signal, but its true purpose is far more complex and far more dangerous than anyone imagined.

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The Unexpected Arrival

by Anita Osasona

Release Date: August 19, 2025

Nira Ferguson has spent her life hiding in plain sight—until a signal awakens something buried deep within her. Across cities and ruined colonies, a quiet resistance stirs, and old powers return cloaked in light and shadow. As the world reels from political collapse and the emergence of strange new technologies, Nira discovers she is at the center of an ancient design—and hunted by forces that would rewrite the future by erasing the past.

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