Here are the new releases from Crossroad Press for November and December 2024. Unless noted otherwise, you can purchase any of them at Amazon, B&N, Apple, Google Play, Smashwords, or Kobo.
(Release date – 11/19/2024)
High fantasy born of myth and folklore, of the dark and the trees and the winter’s cold, the flint blade’s edge and the secrets that are spoken only in dreams…
Assassin, executioner, shapeshifter, and dutiful son of the undying Queen of the land called only the Forest, Mairran is haunted by the voice of an Immortal long lost, who runs with him as a wolf in his dreams. More used to being the instrument of death than an arbiter of justice, he is dispatched by his mother to find the killer of an earl whose life was offered in an unsanctioned sacrifice to the Forest.
In an earlier age, the outlaw Lannesk swears an oath to follow the Grey Hunter and the Wild King, ancient guardians of the Forest, in a war against the invading dragon-kin and their sorcerer-priests, who seek to wake the great dragon long ago bound in sleep beneath the Lake. Past and present tangle around troubled assassin and mute outlaw, as a conspiracy of fell magic threatens the land and its people.
(Release date – 11/26/2024)
Artifact Forge doesn’t make monsters. She’s a bioengineer. She creates exotic magical livestock, upgrades cats into witches’ familiars, and can turn you into a goblin if you accept the risks.
She’s also thirteen, and has arrived in Goblita to learn her uncle is dead, she’s inherited his business, and has a demonic cousin her age. Don’t worry, Artifact can handle it. She’s a prodigy! Give her a bioengineering challenge and she’ll make you something better than you wanted.
…which is the problem as her messenger dragon turns into a ravening chimera, her new cousin gets her involved in a burglary, and the kids at school drag her into their dungeon crawling hobby.
With all that plus running a business and household like an adult, will Artifact have time to actually attend classes? Ask her again after she saves the city from the disasters she caused.
(Release date – 12/2/2024)
Featuring a new introduction by Bram Stoker award-winning author Christopher Golden and cover art by Dan Brereton.
Can you hear it? The whispered laughter carried by the wind?
Can you see Them? The faint shadowy forms that move through the woods near Lake Overtree. The ones whose very presence is silencing the wild life?
Can you feel the changes in the air? The changes taking place in one young man whose entire world is shifting, changing to accommodate his desires. The girl of his dreams is his for the taking, the kids who bullied him are going away one by one, and even his worst enemies are seeing him in a different light. His body, once soft and flabby, has grown strong and lean, something he never expected would happen. His stepfather, Joe, has finally stopped looking at him like garbage and started treating him like a real son. Every hope, every wish that Mark Howell has known in his lonely life is coming true.
Can you hear it? The mournful wails of families torn apart by the loss of their loved ones? The faint screams of the damned, of those foolish enough to cross his path?
Listen carefully.
It’s happening.
Mark’s world is changing, regardless of the cost.
It’s happening.
(Release date – 12/5/2024)
“A frightening story told with skill and cunning… strong stuff.” – Peter Straub
Deep in the bowels of the dark, desolate warehouse, the terror lay waiting. It had waited for a hundred years. It could wait a few more days. And when the boy came—so young, so blissfully ignorant of the twisted secrets he disturbed—it would embrace him with sickening perfume and breathe unspeakable horrors into his ear!
SEEDS OF DEATH!
Lewis knew that something in that place wanted him—wanted to crawl into his mind. It knew his innermost fears and could twist his soul with its demented whispering. But most terrifying of all was that even as he ran screaming from its grasp, he knew he would have to go back…