The Indie Author Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror New Release List: March 2025
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I’m trying a new format this month. Rather than break up the post by primary genre, I’m listing all books by release date… And added some small graphics to the subgenre line for a visual indicator of the primary genre. Thanks for checking out the new release list!
Shadows & Sorcery by Seán Hill: New Stories Available Starting March 2, 2025
Flash Fiction, Serial Novel
Subgenre(s): Dark Fantasy, Weird Fantasy, Gothic Fantasy
Shadows & Sorcery is chronicles, glimpses, and portraits revealing far off worlds of dark, weird, and gothic fantasy, and the magicians, warriors, and strangers who live in them. Dive into rich prose and vivid imagery with new editions every week, and a huge archive of over 650 stories.
The Somnia by Alethea Lyons: Available March 4, 2025
The Seer of York, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Dark Fantasy, Urban Fantasy, Supernatural
Something dark and twisted is stalking Harper in her sleep. Her nightmares are her only clue as to the whereabouts of the home and family she lost over a decade ago, but venturing into the dreamscape means drawing the attention of the hunter. It puts not only Harper at risk, but her sister and everyone else who knows the secret of her witchcraft.
While the predator pursues Harper in her dreams, something is kidnapping people in the wakening. When an eyeless corpse is found in the cathedral’s supposedly impenetrable secret archives, Harper’s magic is once again the key to finding the supernatural killer. But searching for them leads her back into the dreamscape and into the waiting embrace of her deadly past.
Welcome to Cemetery by C.J. Daley: Available March 4, 2025
The Cemetery Collection, Book 1
Subgenre(s): Crime Thriller, Supernatural
A strange town with a strange name, Cemetery, NY is filled with crime and secrets.
When a car accident one fateful night leads to a search for two missing bodies, detectives Abby Williams – an almost-thirty year old with something to prove – and Ed Reyes – a jaded, senior officer with a career as long as his partner is old – set out to solve the latest mystery.
Before long, a string of missing persons becomes a collection of bloodless bodies that has even the police pathologist stumped.
As the bloodshed continues, it becomes clear that the gruesome killings plaguing the town of Cemetery may not be the handiwork of some shadowy figure but of something even more sinister.
As detectives Williams and Reyes start to question the world around them, can they learn to put their differences aside? Or will the investigation of a lifetime be the end of their lives?
Mists of Memory by N.C. Scrimgeour: Available March 5, 2025
Sea of Souls Saga, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Dark Fantasy, Folklore
She had no need for the tides to be kind, not if she became the storm…
The Selkie Isles were meant to be a safe haven for Isla Blackwood, a place she could finally call home. Instead, she finds herself hunted across the sea for a pelt the Grand Admiral will do anything to recover.
But the Admiralty isn’t the only threat on the horizon. A terrible mist sickness plagues the isles, carried by the vengeful spirits of fallen selkies. To stop it, Isla will need to learn the lost secrets of her mother’s rare magic—if she can earn the trust of those who call her an outsider.
Back in the capital, Darce Galbraith prepares to set sail with the enemy fleet. Surrounded by danger, he will do all he can to sabotage their search—even if it means risking the wrath of the Grand Admiral himself.
A storm is ready to break on human and selkie alike, and only the tides know what’s waiting on the other side…
Tales of Yamato by Odessa Silver: Available March 5, 2025
A Short Story Collection
Subgenre(s): Historical Fantasy
Inari’s eyes darkened. “You’d refuse a god twice?”
I could feel my hands trembling, my heart hammering in the forge of my chest. “Yes.”
Yamato. A land of lavish forests, full of life… and loss. The beautiful string of islands, surrounded by expansive seas, hide a harsh reality: Wrathful gods, dangerous yokai, and humans who could end your life with a slice of the sword. Follow the lives of those surviving in any way they can, while cherishing love found along the way.
When the great sea god Susanoo is controlled more and more by the destructive part of his soul, he must do all he can to keep himself from harming humanity.
A tanuki father goes on a quest to prepare his young pup to blend in to the dangerous human world and causes mischief and mayhem.
Lightning brings both luck and tragedy to a young boy who desperately picks peaches to save his sick mother.
Fourteen tales will take you on a journey with humans, gods, and yokai, showing how each one isn’t so different from the other. And that, even in death, there will always be those who will honour your life.
Lady Drakeslayer by Bill Adams: Available March 7, 2025
The Divine Godsqueen Coda, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Dark Fantasy, Science Fantasy
Never forget the truth of who you are.
An orphan, having uncovered the truth of her past, shuns the destiny of the blood coursing her veins. Despite slaying a goddess, the path to Eminence slowly shackles her as the other seals beckon.
A drake, burdened by the loss of his ward, can think of none more unworthy to bear the holy horns of a wardkeeper. Hounded by failure, he clings to the hope of repaying the gods’ faith.
A princeps, saddled by grief, drowns his sorrow at the bottom of a mug. Hounded by the specter of his dead beloved, he shrinks from his duty, only to be drawn into the fight for his homeland.
A captain, fearless, dashing, and egoless, remains as confident and committed to enhancing her renown. But her legend may end abruptly when she takes on her most damnable contract to date.
Old nemeses return. Age-old plans rekindle. A daemon horde marches on the Golden Throne of Kalderim, while a blooddrake hunts another seal in the City of Sin. Split and broken by their failings, each must rise, but one thing remains: blood rules all.
The Dreaming Dead by Jay Wayward: Available March 7, 2025
Subgenre(s): Sword and Sorcery, LGBTQ+
Keno Sif is a marauder who has made her name killing, drinking, and breaking hearts across the vast continent of Atlas. Together with her mentor Buri the Giant, and the master thief Ivon, their combined bounties have an army of mercenaries dogging their every waking moment.
After a reckless escape lands them among the ruins of a lost kingdom, Sif begins to suffer from nightmares calling her to the sunken city of Agartha, said to be the resting place of both horrific tragedy and priceless treasure. Maybe enough treasure to escape arrest for good.
Decades later, Sif has retreated into the snowy mountains of her homeland, wanting only to be left in peace. But when she is forced to defend a cursed girl named Najah from a common enemy, Sif realizes that the only way to protect her solitary life is by accompanying the girl back into a world she’d hoped to forget. The closer they get to unraveling Najah’s curse, the more Sif’s memories of Agartha call to her.
It seems all roads lead back to that city at the end of the world, and the horrors Sif left there decades ago.
The Dreaming Dead is a queer dark fantasy about finding your place with the family you choose, and finding your purpose even after the world has cast you aside.
That Time I Was Kidnapped by the Fae King by Azshure Raine: Available March 11, 2025
Subgenre(s): Romance, Beauty and the Beast Retelling
Bryn Carlisle exists within a fantasy of her own making. She consumes Fae romances faster than the coffee she makes and loves it.
Her actual love life is pretty much dead.
When her best friend Cassandra decides she needs to get out of the house and maybe talk to some non-fictional men, she ends up at the Ren Faire for a cosplay contest starring the Fae King of her favorite book. There she meets one in particular who promptly kidnaps her.
When Ezra Rose, the man who kidnaps her, turns out to be an actual Fae King, Bryn has to survive in his world, while also trying to not fall in love with him. Even though she absolutely wants to.
Ceres Crisis by C. L. Broogle: Available March 13, 2025
A First Steps Novella
Subgenre(s): Hard Sci-fi
The fate of the solar system will be decided at Ceres.
As humanity expands into the stars, a war ignites between Mars and the Inner Core System forces, shaping the future of interplanetary rule for generations. History is etched not solely by those who claim victory, but equally by the unseen forces that pull the strings from the shadows.
Antonio Pérez, the wealthiest man on Mars, leads an empire built through business, not war. But when his closest friend, Warren Yukiyama—a rising star in Martian politics—pulls him into a secretive plot to seize Ceres, Antonio finds himself at the heart of a conflict that could determine the destiny of Mars itself.
What begins as a strategic strike soon unravels into a high-stakes game of deception, power, and betrayal. As hidden agendas come to light, Antonio realizes that his role is more than crucial—it’s the key to everything. The war for Ceres isn’t just about territory. It’s about control, survival, and a future that may not belong to the people who think they’ve won.
The first step into the future begins with war.
The Secrets We Save by Kel E. Fox: Available March 14, 2025
The Whisperers, Book 1
Subgenre(s): Gaslamp Fantasy, Romance
Expelled from university after an accident stripped her of magic, Ursa Torpalfab returns home gutted. The spectacular career she’d envisioned flying among the stars is over – unless her father, a powerful magician, can help her get her magic back. But when she goes to meet him, he’s missing, and her family can’t – or won’t – tell her where he is.
Disavowed spy Del Fevre is hiding from his former agency, painting illusions to pay the bills. But the charmed art that keeps food on his table is illegal, so when his latest piece is stolen, he scrambles to find it before the illicit painting can be traced back to him, revealing him and his illusion magic to the agents hunting him.
Despite finding each other unbearably rude, Ursa and Del agree to work together when they learn that the missing man and stolen art might be connected. As they get closer to each other and the truth, their inquiries become more dangerous. If they don’t find answers soon, Ursa won’t just have lost her magic for good, but her father too. And with the secrets he knows, Del will not be left alive.
The Source of Strife by Alex Arch: Available March 15, 2025
Subgenre(s): Epic Fantasy
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. Only stolen.
Mages feed on catalysts like Dinnie to enhance their spells, and since she’s the most formidable weapon alive, they will stop at nothing to control her. Even her parents, leaders of warring realms, wage a battle for her custody, imprisoning her to prevent the other from gaining the upper hand.
No more.
For the first time in her fourteen years, Dinnie isn’t alone. With the help of Ghost, a glum deserter shackled to his past, she intends to flee this madness. But as they witness the horrors unleashed to retrieve her, one thing becomes clear: Her parents will never abandon their claim.
Death and destruction follow in Dinnie’s wake, and she must decide if her freedom is worth the cost.
To Those Willing to Drown by Mark Matthews: Available March 19, 2025
Subgenre(s): Occult Horror
When Jewel Jordan dies from cancer, her father’s wish is to scatter the ashes inside their beloved Torch Lake. But after the grieving mother hears her daughter’s voice coming from inside the urn...How can she let the ashes go?
Especially after a mysterious pastor begs her to keep them and promises to reunite her with her daughter’s spirit. Who should she listen to?
Even creatures from the lake whisper to her at night, pleading for the remains of her daughter. Who can she trust?
Nobody knows the truth and the bargain she made that led to her daughter’s death. Now she has to fight to save her child’s soul, and Torch Lake holds the answers. But the lake is cold, the truth is deep, and you have to earn the right to hear such secrets, for…the lake speaks most honestly to those willing to drown.
Proximity Factor by S.S. Jung: Available March 20, 2025
Subgenre(s): Time Travel Sci-Fi, Paranormal Fantasy
Meet Cynthia Austen, a brilliant 32-year-old PhD neurologist whose career has taken her to the forefront of high-security scientific experimentation within the U.S. Pentagon.
Recently promoted to scientific project manager to report and evaluate DARPA’s most classified projects, she finds herself thrust into the intrigue and cutting-edge world of Arctic scientific research.
Assigned to evaluate a mysterious project gone wrong in the remote community of Gakona, Alaska, Cynthia soon discovers a global experiment with dystopian consequences. Fighting against rogue scientists, human experimentation, mind control, and hallucinations. Her investigations uncover a plan to bring our government, institutions, and environment—to an end as we know it—only to open it up to other worlds.
Cynthia must quickly evolve her strategy and tactics, and transform herself from a diligent professional—into a force to be reckoned with.
The Whisper that Replaced God Part II: Silent Almighty by Timothy Wolff: Available March 21, 2025
The Whisper that Replaced God, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Dark Fantasy
Ruling as king does not suit a man like Mute. The boredom. The monotony. The permanent stagnation…
Until he arrived. The one with the Gift of Silence. The one wielding a dagger. The one who would mold Balewind into a temple to the Silent Almighty. Lord Deaf intends to be the scream that replaced a whisper, offering one final message to the realm before it never hears again:
Bestow upon me your pain, your illness, your sorrow. Silence will absolve them all.
Dance of Demons by Alyssa Lauseng: Available March 26, 2025
Poison and Opium, Act 1
Subgenre(s): Paranormal, Supernatural
Slave. Soldier. Spy.
Daisuke’s heart has always wandered far from home, hoping for a life beyond what he’d have as a Northern Nomad raised in slavery. One evening, when he learns the Giahatio’s imperial military has arrived in search of recruits, he seizes his chance to flee Okara’s plantations and start anew. However, becoming a footsoldier isn’t the easy escape he expected, and he soon finds himself struggling for a place within the infantry and Giahatian society.
Obito knows he should be grateful for the opportunity to serve as one of the Empire’s elite intelligence operatives, the onmitsu—it’s one of few he’ll ever have in life, and the highest possible honor for a nobleman’s youngest son. But with demons of anger and shame haunting him as he tries to pick up the pieces in the aftermath of a scandal, any pride to take in rank or family name is entirely hollow.
When an act of mercy is born from a senseless murder, the already unlikely friendship between Daisuke and Obito takes an unexpected turn. Not only are they now partnered together as onmitsu, but dark politics are on the rise, leading them toward an ancient, furious magic.
A Matter of Sabotage by Leon Stevens: Available March 31, 2025
The Orion Arm Alliance, Book 2
Subgenre(s): Mystery
A two-part novella that takes you to the beginning of humanities journey into space and the eventually creation of the Orion Arm Alliance.
A year before the events onboard the SSSS Euphrates, Cadet Tammon Lancaster meets his new friends, Tess, Lincoln, and Rozax at the Orion Arm Alliance Academy. When they stumble upon a document which has Tess questioning what really happened to her mother, they have to work together to put the pieces together and expose the cover up without risking their graduation and careers.
The Wrecking Squad by Nick Snape: Available March 31, 2025
The Wrecking Squad, Book 1
One crew, one loyalty and a single shot at redemption.
Captain Rebekah Khan and her ragtag crew of the repair ship Sunstar finally have a chance to pay off their crushing debts when an automining vessel goes rogue. After preventing the high value cargo from disappearing into the outer system, they uncover sabotage only a crew with their military experience would recognise.
Instead of returning as heroes, they are blackmailed into taking on a new crew member and to hunt for a mysterious, uncertified spacecraft. Deep into the black, they desperately try to hide their murky past, while their loyalties are tested to their limits when they finally come across the marooned ship and its deadly cargo.
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