Reality Optional: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Escapes for Restless Minds

11 Oct 2025

Reality Optional: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Escapes for Restless Minds

Need to get out of your head? These stories offer the perfect escape—strange worlds, impossible choices, and characters who redefine bravery. The only thing more addictive than the plot is the universe itself.

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Eight Doors from Dawn to Midnight

by Rachel Neumeier

Release Date: September 4, 2025

Vích shares her body with an immortal tiger. Lahn possesses nine souls, one from the mortal realm. They’ve kept a step ahead of those who seek to use them—until now. Now their enemies have found them. Even Vích’s terrifying strength and Lahn’s ability to step into every mortal realm may not suffice to save themselves, or each other, or the world…

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The Dandelion Tree: Part Two (The Dandelion Chronicles Book 3)

by A.S.R. Gelpi

Release Date: October 7, 2025

Haunted by an ancient curse, Kharis teeters on the brink of madness. To break her curse and rescue her sister, she must navigate the treacherous realms of the ancient immortals to reach the Akumi king, outwit the cunning Aghet Mendi, and confront the truth that Itzu—her fiercest protector—has long concealed from her. If she fails, it will not only be her end but also the end of the world.

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Happily Ever Antlers

by J.B. Fitzgerald

Release Date: August 31, 2025

Rescued to the North Pole seconds before her untimely demise, jingle writer Felicity Nichols steps into a perilous adventure and a journey of self-discovery in the company of a mysterious reindeer calf, the Clauses, Amelia Earhart, and a host of other quirky characters. “A vividly imagined world teeming with magic, merriment, and mayhem.” – BookLife

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Out of Time (The Time Police)

by Jodi Taylor

Release Date: October 9, 2025

The Time Police don’t think twice about jumping to the past. But, this time, the past has come to them… What connects a dead dinosaur in Wales with Romulus, the founder of Rome, a plot to murder the Princes in the Tower, and a shocking cover-up at TPHQ? It sounds like a joke. It isn’t.

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The System Arrives: Consequences

by Terry Carter

Release Date: October 1, 2025

Robert Williams saved Ironheart Keep with a spell that shook the world. Now, the consequences of that power are coming for him. The Narifirn Empire wants revenge, and they’re sending assassins not for the Queen, but for the Oakhaven enchanter who annihilated their army.

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The Nanite Legacy (Book 2)

by D. Levesque

Release Date: September 17, 2025

Albert Kuno was never meant to be a hero. In Book One, he was just another Tier 3 space station dropout with a black-market excursion pass and a head full of forgotten dreams. But everything changed when he uncovered a hidden alien artifact—one that bonded to him and altered his life forever.

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