Books like Darkwell by Douglas Niles

Four‑year‑old physics professor Jason Dessen is abducted and drugged, waking in a dystopian world where his family and reality are altered, forcing him to confront a formidable foe and the darkest parts of himself.

William Styron’s memoir recounts his 1985 struggle with severe depression, hospitalization, and recovery, offering an honest portrait of living with mental illness.

An action-packed middle‑grade adventure where a pair of twins travel to Africa in search of buried treasure, while dealing with a missing person mystery.

Khelben “The Blackstaff” Arunsun, the centuries‑old archmage of Waterdeep, discovers that his bond with a youthful apprentice unlocks shared powers and secrets beyond either’s expectation, thrusting them into an unforeseen destiny.

Former Republic founder Darrow goes rogue, leading a desperate war on Mercury while he faces his own legacy. New heroes, shifting alliances, and looming dangers threaten a fragile peace, ushering in a new Dark Age.

R. Scott Bakker’s debut, *The Darkness That Comes Before*, launches the Prince of Nothing series with a vast, textured world, a post‑apocalyptic past, and a grand holy war centered on the enigmatic Anasurimbor Kellhus.

In a city divided by light and darkness, a Darkborn physician saves a pregnant fugitive, unravels political intrigue, and confronts forces he cannot control.

In 1927 New York City, a group of young diviners must evade sinister forces and travel across America to a mysterious girl in Nebraska, aiming to stop the ominous King of Crows and his army of the dead.

A young paladin inherits the quest to recover Tyr’s holy hammer, lost to the evil god Bane, and must journey across the Moonsea to restore it to good, facing danger, deception, and loyal allies along the way.

Cormyr's heroes face off against darkness in the Knights of Myth Drannor's quest.

When sinister sorcerers seize control of the Moonshae Isles, the heir Tristan and his druid ally Robyn must rally the folk to repel a corrupt king and a demonic army threatening their land.

In the untamed swamplands of eastern Alabama, the Fossor sisters—Tina, Gretta, and Artie—use ancient rituals to protect their tribe from a primordial horror that has taken Tina’s daughter and binds their powers.

Ages ago, when the First Gods ruled heaven and earth, they created two lesser deities to reign along with them. But these gods, Tharn and Balatur, were flawed. Their madness threatened creation itself -- and thus they were condemned to an eternal sleep. Only an ancient book of spells holds the key to their release.Now an evil necromancer has obtained the book and hastens to Tharn's hidden resting place with a plan as deadly as the god himself. Ancient prophecy points to the exiled prince Calandryll as the only one who can defeat the wizard -- aided by a beautiful warrior woman, a hard-bitten mercenary, and Calandryll's own uncertain powers.But first Calandryll and his companions must travel a kingdom racked by civil war, cross the rolling prairie of the fierce horse clans, and finally venture into the forbidden wastes and uncharted territories beyond. Enemies and foul treachery await, while the mighty Tharn, as if somehow aware of his imminent release, begins to stir...begins to dream...and all creation begins to quake.Dark Magic is the masterful second chapter of The Godwars, a stirring chronicle of high adventure by one of the most exciting new writers of fantasy.From the Trade Paperback edition.

A sailor's tale of the inner sea and the Blue Lady, an otherworldly fey who seeks to return to her watery realm.