This morning, I have a Christian young adult fantasy novel in our our book release blitz spotlight! Check out Forever and learn about author Gina Detwiler.

YA Christian Fantasy

Date Published: April 1, 2025

The End Times have arrived…

Grace Fortune leads the rebellion against the United Earth, devastated by the belief that her husband, Jared Lorn, has joined the dark side as the son of the ruthless Supreme Lord Grigori Zazel.

But Jared, now known as the gladiator and demigod Baldyr, is locked in a desperate battle with his fallen angel father. His father's plan? To annihilate not just Israel but the entire world.

As the apocalypse looms, will Grace and Jared find a way to reunite before the world is destroyed? Can they survive the coming devastation? And what happens when a new, even more terrifying enemy emerges—one who will exploit their love and humanity to bring about their downfall?

All these questions and more will be answered in the thrilling conclusion of The Forlorn series.

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Gina Detwiler is the author of the award-winning YA Supernatural series Forlorn and is co-author with Priscilla Shirer of the bestselling middle-grade fantasy series, The Prince Warriors. Her non-fiction books include The Ultimate Bible Character Guide and The Ultimate Bible Character Devotional.

She currently lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, her dog, several imaginary friends, and all of the characters from her books, even the dead ones. She is also the author of three beautiful daughters, for whom she shares credit with her husband, Steve.

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Today, I have a young adult fantasy novel in our book spotlight! Check out The Savior of Norfolk and learn about author Nathan J. Edmundson!

Christian Young Adult Fantasy

Date Published: November 2023

A vanishing boy, human-animal hybrids, and the grisly murder of one’s peers are a lot to handle. Existing in two worlds, being hunted by your town’s killer, and nearly dying every day doesn’t make it any easier. For 15-year-old Stephen Benson, all of this has become normal, managing one life as a town outcast and another as a fantasy land hero. Hopeless and depressed, will he overcome his inner demons and the outer evil hounding his spirit? Will he listen to the child-penguin fairy? Will he save the girl he loves and prevent the slaughter of more teens?

The Savior of Norfolk is set in the not-too-distant future when America has been divided by political and ideological hate. It is a fresh take on understanding the purpose of existence and suffering and wrestles with a spiritual understanding of reality.

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Nathan Edmundson has lived in many states throughout his lifetime but is currently residing in Tyler, Texas and hopes to stay put. When not writing, he works as a psychologist and enjoys nutrition and fitness, traveling, spending time with friends and family, serving with his church, and eating at restaurants he hasn’t yet visited.

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This morning, I have a Christian fantasy novel in our book book release spotlight!  Check out The Invisible Sword of Flames and  learn about author Patricia Okongwu!

Dragon of Darkness

Christian Fantasy

Date Published: January 29, 2023

An action-packed adventure, Dragon of Darkness, is a fantasy tale of bravery, full of divine power, mystery, and twists! The power of the forever one clashes with the dragon of darkness.

The Followers of the Forever One are destined to defeat the giant dragon of darkness. The group of five brothers and their sister must overcome their fear to conquer the monster while preserving the waning faith of the people following the Forever One. Until Mathias is placed in the line of danger, and he’s forced to defend himself against the threat of peril. Will the Followers prevail and return peace to the land of Perea, or will they fall to defeat?

In The Invisible Sword of Flames Series one, readers will join the believers on their quest to strengthen the people’s faith and become empowered through the word of the Forever One. An action-packed adventure in Dragon of Darkness, the first installment in a thrilling fantasy series full of divine power, mystery, and twists! Book One of five in The Invisible Sword of Flames Series.

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Patricia Okongwu is an author, a teacher, and a school administrator. She has spent the past two decades working with students in and around the classroom.

She studied English Language in the University and completed a creative writing course at the Institute of Children’s Literature. She enjoys creating characters in her classroom with her students through storytelling.

Her book series, A Weekend at Grandma’s is inspired by the bond she sees between her students and their grandparents and how the children’s faces light up with pure joy and excitement when they talk about time spent with their grandparents.

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Today, I have a young adult fantasy novel in our book release spotlight!  Check out Forbidden, book four from the Forlorn series by Gina Detwiler, learn about the author & series & read an excerpt!

Forlorn Series, Book Four

YA Supernatural, YA Fantasy, YA Christian Fantasy

Release Date: March 29, 2022

After thousands of years imprisoned in the Abyss, the fallen angels known as the Watchers are on the loose. Jared Lorn and Grace Fortune have also escaped from prison, but all they want to do is get home to their family. Dark forces conspire against them, and soon they find themselves on a perilous journey to the Other Side, the spiritual realm.

They must battle the Watcher Samyaza and his cohorts to escape, not knowing that the leader of the Watchers, Azazel, has taken control of the real world and subjugated all nations to his will. Soon they must join the few that are left standing against this worldwide evil, those that have not given in, known as the Forbidden.

Other Books in the Forlorn Series

Forlorn

Forlorn Series, Book One

Bad luck seems to follow Grace Fortune wherever she goes. She was orphaned at a young age, and her musical talent got her accepted to a prestigious school for the arts, where she was caught in the middle of horrific school shooting that nearly takes her life.

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Forsaken

Forlorn Series, Book Two

He was forsaken but not forgotten.

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Forgiven

Forlorn Series, Book Three

Jared Lorn's secret is about to be unleashed.

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Chapter One

FALLOUT

GRACE

Well, it’s been a day.

I woke up this morning a prisoner in a castle tower.

In Switzerland.

Seriously.

I managed to escape through a stone shaft that might have been a medieval toilet. I searched the whole castle until I found him, my husband Jared, chained up in an actual dungeon—seriously—dying from gunshot wounds that weren’t healing.

Darwin Speer did that. Inventor. Genius. Billionaire. Megalomaniac.

I thought Jared was going to die in my arms. But then I sang, and he started to heal.

God did that.

And then Rael, who’s a Nephilim and looks like a giant man-lizard, got loose and broke a hole in the castle wall, and we escaped, crossed a lake, in which I almost drowned, and ran up a mountain before the whole world blew up.

Well, that’s the gist of it. Am I going too fast?

At the moment, I am lying on the rocky patch of ground under a tree, trying to breathe through the gurgling in my lungs as the earth trembles violently under me. It’s louder than a crashing plane, louder than anything I can even imagine. Metaphors fail me. I’m pretty sure the world is about to end any second now.

Something blocks the sun shining in my eyes. Rael. All nine feet of reptilian humanoid. Despite the scaly, greenish skin and a skull sloped like the hood of a Volkswagen, he’s got a very beautiful, very human face which always freaks me out a little. His muscular shoulders and sides are covered in ugly stumps where Darwin Speer’s scientists did their grisly work, amputating the graceful tentacles that once adorned his body like angel wings. One of his hands is missing—he chewed it off to get free of his chains.

Rael saved my life, but right now I’m pretty sure he wants to end it. He leans over me, his mouth falling open to reveal sharp white teeth, electric blue eyes boring into mine, his breath heavy on my neck. I try to scramble away from him, but a stabbing pain catches me in my ribs. I cry out as he reaches toward me with his one good hand, and I notice the perfection of his long, elegant fingers—six of them—thin and pointed like talons. A low growl escapes his throat—he is more purely animal after the torture he has endured.

“Stop!”

The finger is almost upon my cheek when it freezes in midair. Jared pushes the giant arm away, wet hair pale as snow falling into crystal blue eyes. In some bizarre way, they look alike, these two. The black hoodie of Jared’s captivity hangs off him in ragged strips, revealing the puckered skin of healing wounds on his stomach and shoulder.

“Back off.”

Rael, to my surprise, obeys. Jared kneels beside me. “You okay?”

“My ribs. I can hardly breathe. What’s happening? Was that an earthquake?”

“The collider blew.”

The collider. The machine in Geneva—Darwin Speer’s Big Bang machine.

“What does that mean, blew?”

“I saw the explosion.”

“You mean a…nuclear explosion?”

“Yes.”

“So why aren’t we dead?”

“I think most of the blast went underground. Besides, it’s pretty far away. But that doesn’t mean we’re out of danger. Can you walk?”

I try to move, but the pain takes my breath away. “Can you…do anything?”

He takes a slow breath and lays his hands gently against my ribcage. Lightning flickers under his skin. His hands grow very warm—I gasp at the burning sensation. He pulls away. I breathe deep.

“Better?”

I take another full breath for good measure. I nod. “Thanks.”

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Gina Detwiler was going to be a teacher but then switched to writing so she didn't have to get up so early in the morning. She is the author of the YA Supernatural series FORLORN as well as co-author with Priscilla Shirer of the bestselling middle-grade fantasy series THE PRINCE WARRIORS. She also wrote the ULTIMATE BIBLE CHARACTER GUIDE for Lifeway. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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