Rising Wonder: Portals & Gateways to Other Realms (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781947673380)

RISING WONDER: Portals & Gateways to Other Realms brings together sixteen stories from independently published authors: veteran USA Today Bestsellers to debut storytellers. Within this volume you will find unique stories that cross fantastical worlds: guardians of powers bridging realms face off against a festering darkness while fae royalty fall into an unassuming high school girl's backyard. A field trip goes wrong and class of fifth graders find themselves on an alien world.

Amid the stars, an ace pilot must close a portal from a world-ravaging draconic species while a newly-hired grim reaper must be cross realities to harvest a wayward soul. A young couple destined to cross realities together vanquish evil in a LitRPG style adventure while a quartet of adventures open a portal to a realm where their deepest desires are granted.

Witches aid a wayward soul to protect a child of immense power while a report delves into an asylum to find herself whisked off to the realm of ancient gods. A jester transports his audiences to distant worlds as a lone warrior ventures into a realm of a mad wizard. Portals are crafted by an immortal to escape his and his society's prison while the tethering stone of the Au'mish'k is birthed to end a war between the factions of dragonkind.

RISING WONDER aims to showcase diverse and unique

voices in the fantasy and science fiction genres.

This anthology includes: Guardian of the Chainlight, Star Prince and Harmonica Girl, Bus Stop in Another Dimension, Seedlings of Suoma, The Night Queen's Curse, A Sentinel True, The Sacrament of Eldritch Twilight, Of Wind and Smoke, The Portal in Apartment 3B, Asylum, Falcon's Gambit, Blood to Save, The Court Jester, Trap Door, The Legend of Mekkan Mage-Bane, and The Forgotten Relic.

Featured authors include:

Dan Zangari & Robert Zangari

Austin Colton

Joanna Reeder

Elena Sobol

David A. Trotter

M.H. Woodscourt

Joel michael harris

Alyssa P. Kelso

Adam Gaffen

tori diederich Lundell

Hyrum W. Hawks

Cassie Gibson

Jaxon Charlton

W.D. Kilpack III

C.S. Kreutzer