Books like Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey

In The Name of the Wind, a young orphan named Kvothe tells the tale of his rise from street player to legendary wizard, recounting adventures, love, and loss in a richly imagined world.

The Way of Kings opens Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive, a sweeping high‑fantasy saga set on the storm‑torn world of Roshar where mystical Shardblade warriors, broken kingdoms, and mysterious ancient orders collide.

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Gavin Guile, the powerful Prism who governs as high priest and emperor, must complete five impossible goals in five years while concealing a son’s existence that threatens the fragile peace of his world.

When an emperor is assassinated, his children must survive, seek vengeance, and follow divergent paths: one to monastic solitude, another to elite warfare, and a third to political leadership.

Convenient Bride for the King is a romance novel by Kelly Hunter that explores themes of love, duty, and destiny within a fictional setting.

A young mage, Kellen Tawadon, discovers forbidden Wild Magic and confronts the rigid rules of his city, challenging the borders of power and freedom in a bustling realm of elves and arcane intrigue.

Artur is trapped by a rival psychic syndicate and must harness his extraordinary powers to escape and discover true love in a thrilling blend of paranormal romance and suspense.

Old Ms. McMartin is definitely dead. Now her crumbling Victorian mansion lies vacant. When eleven-year-old Olive and her dippy mathematician parents move in, she knows there's something odd about the place--not least the walls covered in strange antique paintings. But when Olive finds a pair of old spectacles in a dusty drawer, she discovers the most peculiar thing yet: She can travel inside these paintings to a world that's strangely quiet . . . and eerily like her own. Yet Elsewhere harbors dark secrets--and Morton, an undersized boy with an outsize temper. As she and Morton form an uneasy alliance, Olive finds herself ensnared in a plan darker and more dangerous than she could have imagined, confronting a power that wants to be rid of her by any means necessary. It's up to Olive to save the house from the dark shadows, before the lights go out for good.