The Indie Author Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror New Release List: June 2026
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Ex Partum by Emma Burnett: Available June 2, 2026
Subgenre(s): Near-future Dystopia
New mother Panya lives in the perfectly controlled environment of Blocks 6-8, where all amenities are on site and goods are delivered by drone. Little Liber is perfect, their residence is fully enclosed, her world is regulated, sterilised, and safe.
Not that she’d tell anyone, but most of the time, Panya feels stretched to her limits. Isolated, failing to meet expectations, struggling to do the best she can. This is what she has to do to remain in this optimised community. It’s the way she’s told to take care of her child.
But Liber is struggling. She’s refusing to switch to eating nutribulbs, like everyone in their community. And people are starting to ask questions. Her partner. The doctors. The authorities. Besieged by norms and expectations, what choice does Panya have? The consequences could break her world.
Troubled Bodies by Jake Vanguard: Available June 2, 2026
Subgenre(s): Horrormance
We can be monsters together.
Curiosity has led Payne down a path of experimentation filled with corpses, connections to the underground–and a dead partner. When he finds Blaze, broken and lifeless, on a crime cleanup scene, Payne’s knowledge of anatomy and his created serums assist in bringing Blaze back to life…
The only hitch in this plan? They come back different.
Together, Payne and Blaze must navigate their new life, filled with a ravaging hunger for fresh meat and opioids, while keeping their urges secret from a powerful don.
And things get even more complicated when they find themselves entangled with a third unexpected person who has more to give than financial freedom.
Care to take a bite?
ShadowVein by Cal Logan: Available June 3, 2026
A Schism of Souls, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
From the ashes of the old, the Shin-Kami will rise.
The cult behind the demons’ resurgence is defeated, their leader slain and their remaining numbers scattered. But every victory comes at a cost. And that victory will amount to nothing unless Shura can destroy the demons at the source of their power. All that stands in her way are two kings foolish enough to have made an enemy of her. Their betrayal will not go unpunished.
Before she can embark on the road to vengeance, she must bring an entire kingdom to heel, but Ōkoku’s noble clans will not be coerced so easily.
Jin wanders Kinza’s streets, bitter and broken, awaiting the darkness that will consume the world. He knows the prophecy. There is no hope. And even if there was, these people don’t deserve salvation. They deserve to burn. Or so he tells himself in an effort to escape the truth—that he may still have something left to fight for.
While Shura sets her schemes in motion and Jin wallows in sorrow, a shadow stirs within the city’s slums. Whispers of a score to be settled drift upon the winter wind. It’s possible the Shin-Kami are truly defeated, these whispers merely a dying echo. It’s also possible that, in a reckless gambit for retribution, the surviving cultists have summoned an evil so terrible, so ravenous, that even the demon lords of the deepest hells dare not set it free.
The Grace of War by CrimCat: Available June 3, 2026
Blind Chaos, Book 3
Subgenre(s): LitRPG, LGBTQ+ Fantasy
War, meet Ranthia.
She didn’t join the conflict for promises of glory—she joined for revenge. The shimagu took someone from her, so she’ll make sure they never take anyone ever again. Truly, her expectations were both simple and straight forward.
Two things that war can never be.
Her life in the dead zone made her confident in her own abilities, but does she have the tools to survive in the world beyond? Well, even if she doesn’t, Ranthia was never one to surrender to mere inevitability. She’ll just endure and press forward, no matter what comes.
Because no matter how bad the situation is, there’s always more chaos to be had.
Goddess of the Dark by Emmylou Kotzé: Available June 5, 2026
Forest of the Morning, Book 3
Subgenre(s): Epic Fantasy
The blood sorcerer Arran Sylvaissen has finally captured Velda, the girl with the innate ability to undo his foul magic. But as his plans race towards conclusion, he must first find the key to her power if he is to draw his dark goddess through the veil.
With a blow struck against the armies of darkness, Hugh Anspeare rides down from the mountains to bring the war to Arran. Desperate to save Velda, the Mage-Gifted duo Albryan and Fish join with his besieging army. After months apart, Fish is reunited with his partner Nico and forced to confront his feelings towards this young man who has been his best friend in all the world. Does Nico reciprocate those feelings—and is he ready to face what they might mean for him?
As summer draws to its zenith, tendrils of darkness reach into the mortal realm. Dannine Sylvaissen toes a fine line as her father’s complex plans appear ever more to be built upon a foundation of quicksand. Caught between the girl she despises and the revenant of her little brother Deryck, she must hold her feelings at bay to remain Arran’s beloved daughter.
In the last instalment of the epic trilogy, kingdoms will fall, confessions be heard, and the mundane and magical worlds draw closer together, blurring the boundaries between hate and love, mage and nonmage, life and death…
No Dream Like Forever by Nora Shear: Available June 12, 2026
The Descendants, Book 1
Subgenre(s): Paranormal Romance
When Viyana Sephri pulls off a complicated party for her company, she didn’t expect to get a promotion that has her running part of a partnership. She also didn’t expect the other company to pair her with Cory Griffin, with his distracting leading-man looks. It doesn’t help that he’s surprisingly kind, and is surprisingly interested in her.
Which is a problem, since Viyana has sworn off romance.
Cory didn’t think he could fall in love again. It’s been over a century since he felt something like this. But his clan has done terrible things, to humans and to him, and he needs to protect Viyana from them… if the dynamics between him and his colleagues didn’t make that almost impossible.
Between Cory’s interest and navigating the tense – and strange – dynamics of the two companies, Viyana finds herself uncovering more and more disturbing aspects of her colleagues. Including Cory.
Professorium by K.A. Wood: Available June 12, 2026
Renaissance Paradox, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Historical Mystery, Alternate History
In the undocumented bowels of America’s greatest icons, a 400-year-old secret is waking up.
The search for the Professor’s hidden artifacts leads our group of friends deeper into an underworld created both to protect… and to destroy its founder. In a move to pressure the Order of the Polymath Primes, Senator Adams has unleashed a cultural civil war with a single, devastating senate hearing… with an ideological plague, threatening to tear apart Western civilization.
As the friends try to locate and understand the Professor’s hidden textbooks, they learn phenomenon that challenges everything they thought they knew about history, science, and music.
Did this mysterious figure once guide the hands of Michelangelo and Da Vinci? Was Arthurian Legend created to cover up atrocities by the Church during the medieval inquisitions? Was Merlin a real man? Can the truth save a world devouring itself with engineered animosity? Will it be the truth… or the comfort of ignorant bliss? A revealed secret has changed everything.
Game of Life by Rob MacWolf: Available June 15, 2026
Subgenre(s): Magical Realism
I have something very important to give you. It contains a power beyond measure: I myself never found its limits. It opens the doors into more worlds than I managed to count, and limitless possibilities in all of them. Thousands have died to it, I am one of them.
It is this story.
You’ll find it’s fascinating, heartbreaking, even arousing – I certainly find it so. You’ll also find it unlike any other story you’ve ever heard. I can’t say the same, there, and you’ll see what I mean by that soon enough.
Some few things can be known with certainty: That my name is Game Kenna. That I am a Cheetah. That I am a liar. There there is everything else in the universe, and then there is me. And that I will love John until the day I die, which I do know for certain, because I was there when it happened.
You may find this hard to understand already. That’s fine. I find it no easier. And I’m sorry, I have no explanations to give. No metaphysics. No revelations. No whys.
All I can give you is the story of my life.
Rising Gale by Z.B. Steele: Available June 16, 2026
Song of the Damned, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Epic Fantasy, Grimdark
My execution draws near…
The noose beckons. My days dwindle. And still, my story is unfinished.
Tears are left to be shed. Blood has yet to be spilled. Lend me your ear once more to hear of sins and failures. Of swords and shadows. Of violet lightning and black blood.
For it was I who began the war of the gods.
Gravebane by L. Cyrus Whelchel: Available June 19, 2026
A prequel to The Faumen War Chronicles
The quaint village of Havenfall is the home and training ground of Livoria’s vaunted Hunter Corps, nature wardens of formidable skill. Today marks the annual Trial of Ascension, a ceremony in which aspiring young adults embark on their first solo hunts to earn their crests as full-fledged Hunters.
Kai Travaldi, a young man of the reviled Norzen tribe-faumen noted for their cat-like ears and tails-is one of five potential Hunters participating in the ceremony and eager to prove himself just as capable as his peers. However, danger lurks hidden among the trees. A danger much greater than any ridicule the young man has endured from a village hesitant to accept him as he is.
When the hunters become the hunted, will Kai have the fortitude to overcome years of derision and save those who have historically turned their backs to him? Or will he fall victim to a beast so deadly that even the Hunter Corps’ mightiest fear its name?
Balances by Bethany Laur: Available June 23, 2026
When renegade Demonslayer Akieryon crashes to earth in front of a human, he doesn’t know what to expect. Getting taken home into the heart of not-a-sorcerer Tempest’s life only boggles his preconceptions more. For the first time in his long life, Akieryon has the freedom to do whatever he wants. He throws himself into political intrigue and petty concerns with equal abandon.
Family is what you make of it, and Akieryon wants as much as he can get. He just won’t worry too much about that thing his new friend(?) Tempest obviously isn’t telling him.
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Our Ways Unmasked by C.B. Lansdell: Available June 25, 2026
The Apidecca Duology, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Dystopian, Gothic Horror
Return to Knyadrea, a world of sea-born people shaped by tumultuous forces. Picking up nearly a year after the events of Far Removed, we follow our protagonists, the resourceful Oklas and guarded Prismer, as they face a unique set of challenges in their socially stratified society.
Knyadrea’s sovereigns grow ever more paranoid. Armed enforcers patrol Apidecca’s streets, and tensions escalate. With nothing to lose, Oklas Sayve turns to resyn for solutions. Could the mystical substance that unravelled his life also prove to be his salvation? There is no room for doubt. Too many are relying on his expertise. The knyads he once considered charities are now close friends and allies … and one of them might even be something more.
New threats stand between Prismer and the dreams she’s only beginning to open herself up to. Venturing out from under the shadow of the Pentarchy, can she recover her faith in the knyad god, in herself, and in the people who see past her mask? In Our Ways Unmasked, the second book in the Apidecca Duology, Oklas and Prismer are not the only ones with an eye on the city’s future. Rebels, traitors, and scumbled outcasts have a myriad of reasons to seek change. Together, can they overcome an oppressive regime that has stood for hundreds of years?
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