UNCANNY

All the Heroes Are Dead

A Powerless Man Inside the Last Superhero Rebellion

by B.T. Hurst

One week. That is all it took for America to kill its heroes. The vials are banned, the Council is gone, and anyone who shows powers gets a visit from the Restoration Task Force. If the Task Force does not get there first, the neighbors do. Theodore can’t sleep. The retired couple next door just saved his life and outed themselves doing it. The girl he has loved since middle school just tried to stone an old man to death in his front yard. And somewhere underground, the last of the heroes are planning to take it all back. They have seven days, they want him in, and he does not know why. He is a SmartMart cashier with a decent aim and no powers at all. He is going anyway.

Black Halo Wizard

A System Apocalypse LitRPG

by Robert Rowan

On an ordinary Tuesday in Indianapolis, delivery driver Cole Rourke beat a demon to death with a rusty crowbar to save a daycare full of children. The System offered him a Mythic title no one was meant to have. Now he carries a strange new class, a halo that burns into being every time he kills, and a photo of the son he lost custody of two years ago. The city is in ruins, gangs are feeding children to demons, and Cole has his crowbar. He is not going to fail at this.

Trash Class

The Quiet Menace, Book 1

by T.L. Marrow

Theo Lang is a quiet data-entry clerk who Awakens into the worst combat class in the System, the mocked [Cataloguer], and gets laughed off the platform by the guild elite. What none of them know is that his useless class is the only one that can read the System’s hidden source text, the developer notes tucked in the margin of every skill and every monster. He finds a guildhall for the overlooked, builds a crew worth fighting for, and reads his way toward a tournament final against the gold-rank star who has spent the whole book setting up his own fall. A character-first LitRPG progression series about competence, chosen family, and refusing to apologize your way out of the room.

Wings of Ash and Ember

The Severance, Book One

by Elowen Dale

Talin Ashreave rides the last dragon of a forbidden line and wears the bond-collar of the sister she buried. When an enemy fae captain bleeds into her dying dragon to save him, a telepathic bond opens between Talin and the one man she has sworn to kill, the captain who took her sister’s life. As the link deepens past hatred into something she cannot name, she learns the bond is a political weapon, that her queen’s court wants it severed at any cost, and that the truth it carries threatens a thousand-year seal the throne was built to protect. A literary dragon-rider romantasy of grief, loyalty, and a love that should not be possible.

Waste Not

Dungeon Cleaning Co., Book 1

by Kenting

Everyone else dives dungeons for loot and glory. Someone has to clean up what they leave behind. Armed with a knack for taming the monsters the heroes overlook, one overworked operator turns the least glamorous job in the realm into the smartest business nobody saw coming. A LitRPG monster-tamer about doing the dirty work, keeping what others throw away, and building something real from the bottom up.

Capital Class

The Spread, Book 1

by W.D. Marek

When the System invades Earth, every adult gets forty-seven minutes to choose a class. Ezra Marek, a quiet Minneapolis contracts analyst, ignores the combat tiles and picks the hidden Capital class that lets him stake territory and skim the System’s transaction spread. While everyone else fights for survival, Ezra builds an organization, watches his equity compound, and learns the System is not magic at all. It is an institution, and it has noticed him. A first-person economic-thriller LitRPG for readers who always suspected the game was rigged and like watching a quiet man prove it.

The Last Signal

The Last Loop, Book Three

by J.R. Hale

The ring architecture stabilized Earth six months ago, and on a cooperative compound in Montana a retired park ranger has finally learned to rest. Then the signal he carries changes, and a three-billion-year-old civilization begins a quiet diagnostic to decide whether humanity’s integrated ecology is worth keeping. What follows is a planetary consent vote, a first-contact revelation about who the builders really were, and the slow passing of an impossible burden from one set of hands to another. A first-contact saga that closes The Last Loop trilogy with hope and scale.

Dad vs the Apocalypse: Level Up!

A Family-Friendly Armageddon

by Carl Kinnaman

When the apocalypse arrives, most people panic. This dad reads the patch notes. With monsters at the door and a family to keep alive, an ordinary father turns leveling up into a full-time job, trading wisecracks and careful planning for survival. A clean, family-friendly LitRPG about holding the line, looking out for the people you love, and proving that the most dangerous class in any apocalypse is a parent with a plan.

Pantheon Breaker

Book One of the trilogy

by D.C. Mercer

Jesse Holt has been stranded for eighteen years in a parallel sea-world run by a progression System, and after eight years lost to a regional war he wants only one thing: to sail home to the wife and son he left on a cliff above the sea. The journey runs through an archipelago of god-cursed island-dungeons, a crew of six who refuse to leave anyone behind, and a grieving sea-god who has marked him for death. At home, his wife runs a stealth war against the lords occupying their house, leveling a secret class no one knows she has. A literary-voiced progression fantasy about power, found family, and the long way back to the people who stayed.

The Stepper

Hollowmark, Book One

Theo Lake, thirteen and orphaned, falls through a door in his school basement and lands at Hollowmark Academy, the hidden school where Kindled children learn to control their gifts. He finds a place at last, a found family, and a trio worth belonging to. He also finds the truth about his parents: their car crash was a Kindled murder, and the man who taught his father the worst thing he ever did is still out there, still smiling. For readers who grew up on Percy Jackson and Harry Potter.