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Featured Fantasy: A Holiday Haunting at the Biltmore (The Mystery House Series Book 8) by Eva Pohler

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Ellen should have known that a gathering in America’s last castle would entail a few uninvited guests.

During a Christmas eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories, to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Voted “Best Mystery Book of the Year” for 2022 at Utopia Con!

If you can’t get enough of Karen White, Heather Graham, Bobbie Holmes, or Jana Deleon, then this “perfect mix of fun and scary” paranormal mystery is for you!

The books in this series can be read in any order.

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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Featured Fantasy: Rayas Colony Legacy (Rayas Time Travel Sci-fi LitRPG Book 1) by Ginger Booth

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Gabe relives history in an RPG, a mage in ancient pueblo and California apocalypse, training to lead a viable space colony.

Young Gabe Oliveri leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The colony is privately funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One.

Rayas bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their plastic minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy.

But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to?

The history role-playing game captures his heart. Air is breathable under a clear blue sky, as he relives the Ancient Pueblo culture of New Mexico.

In this game, archaic beliefs fuel magic. Dreamer Gabe proves a natural mathemagician.

But what is the game’s agenda?

Next campaign, Gabe leads a team to experience El Grande itself, the California catastrophe that birthed his people. Can he reach safety in Mexico, or will the game AI drive him crazy.


Readers may recognize Gabe and his quirky education from Booth’s Thrive Luna Regroup space scifi, and California’s demise from her Feral America dystopian series. This time travel LitRPG adventure features weak to strong progression, with gritty bootstrapped space colony and overpowered artificial intelligence.

Featured Fantasy: Seasons of Magic by Sarah Biglow

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Featured Fantasy: Seasons of Magic by Sarah Biglow

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Ezri would give up her magic to solve her mother’s murder.

When a series of brutal murders lands in her lap, newly-minted Detective Ezri Trenton sets out to prove to herself and her mundane partner she can handle the investigation. The deeper she digs; the more evidence mounts that dark magic is behind the killings. Ezri knows traditional police work won’t be enough to stop the spree, but she can’t risk revealing the magical world.

As the clock ticks ever closer to the Vernal Equinox and the prophecy that’s plagued her since childhood, Ezri must greet her destiny head on. Will she solve the murders and uncover the truth about her mother’s death, or will she lose the life she’s built for herself in the process?

SPRING’S CALLING is the mesmerizing first novel in the Seasons of Magic Urban Fantasy series..

Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief (Five Kingdoms Book 1) by Cidney Swanson

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Featured Fantasy: Tsarina Scholar Woodsman Thief by Cidney

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In this enchanting fairytale, which Kirkus Reviews calls “intriguing … and lyrical,” a pair of estranged siblings, a tsarina, and a woodsman must band together to outwit a crooked duke who wants them all—and isn’t particular as to “dead” or “alive.”

Here be dragons and sirens, magical gifts and dread debts, deeds noble and foolhardy. With a touch of Narnia and a dash of Baba Yaga, it’s a tale that reads like balm for the weary in soul.

“A charming tale brimming with magic, beauty, action, and memorable characters.” – Kirkus Reviews

Featured Science Fiction: Space Colony One Books 1 – 3 by J. J. Green

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Featured Science Fiction: Space Colony One Books 1 - 3 by J. J. Green

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Terror stalks a new world colony.

After nearly two hundred years’ space travel, humanity’s first deep space colony expedition has arrived at its new home.

Ethan, the descendant of six generations who lived and died aboard ship, treads on soil and feels the wind and rain for the first time.

But the new planet is not the paradise the scientists predicted. Alien predators lurk beyond the camp’s perimeter, and stowaway saboteurs are determined no one will survive.

Tensions in the new colony rise, and Ethan must fight to preserve the last hope of humankind.

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Featured Fantasy: The Last Dragonlord by Janne Bertin

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Featured Fantasy: The Last Dragonlord by Janne Bertin

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This “winning fantasy epic” introduces a race of dragon shifters with “political intrigue, romance, bloody menace, and sweeping adventure” (Booklist).

Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity’s Five Kingdoms.

When the Queen of Cassori dies mysteriously, Linden and the other Dragonlords are called upon to prevent civil war as two human claimants vie for the regency. As the battle for Cassori rule escalates, Linden becomes the target of the Fellowship, a secret society of true-humans who could actually destroy his immortal life.

Then he meets a beautiful young ship captain named Maurynna who may be the only one who can help Linden bring Cassori back from the brink of chaos. The Last Dragonlord is the debut novel in Joanne Bertin’s acclaimed Dragonlord series.