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Featured Fantasy: Arcane Casebook Box Set 1 – 5 by Dan Willis

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Featured Fantasy: Arcane Casebook Box Set 1 - 5 by Dan Willis

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When a magical plague is released in a Depression-era New York soup kitchen, private detective Alex Lockerby finds himself in a desperate hunt to catch a madman before he can strike again.

His investigations lead Alex to a famous thief, a daring heist, and the search for a mythic book of ancient magic, but none of that brings him any closer to finding the man responsible for the massacre. With the police and New York’s Council of Sorcerers desperate to find the culprit, Alex becomes a suspect himself, thanks to his ties to the priest who ran the soup kitchen.

Now Alex has his book of spells, a pack of matches and four days to find out where the plague came from, or that authorities will hang the crime squarely on him.

Thus begins the Arcane Casebook. Read the first five book in this gripping series all in one place, just don’t start reading right before bedtime.

Featured Fantasy: Elizabeth of Rosepath (The Book of Roses Volume One) by Kelly River

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Featured Fantasy: Elizabeth of Rosepath (The Book of Roses Volume One) by Kelly River

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Hearts are wayward things, and a feudal kingdom has little mercy for those who rise above their station.

When the shadow of war leaves Elizabeth isolated and destitute, only the clothes on her back and her sharp mind stand between the servant girl and despair. Hunted by a vengeful knight, Elizabeth’s future looks bleak until a chance meeting with a rebellious young nobleman changes the course of her life forever.

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Featured Science Fiction: The Auriga Project (Translocator Trilogy Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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Featured Science Fiction: The Auriga Project (Translocator Trilogy Book 1) by M.G. Herron

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A Translocator experiment gone wrong

Ripped from Earth and transported to a strange new world, Eliana’s taken captive by the leaders of a native tribe.

What do they want with her? They don’t seem friendly. So when she becomes the target of an ancient sacrificial ritual, Eliana fears she’ll be next.

Can she avoid becoming an offering to their alien god?

And how in the worlds will she ever get back home?

You’ll love the fast-paced action in this sci-fi thriller that mixes what you love about portal fiction with an alien first contact adventure. It’s a harrowing tale of survival against all odds, and the gateway to an ancient alien mystery.

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Featured Sci-fi: Battlefield Diplomacy by L.L. Richman

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Featured Sci-fi: Battlefield Diplomacy by L.L. Richman

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A lone soldier must save humanity from the remnants of a vicious alien enemy bent on revenge.

A fragile alliance. A stolen weapon. A war for Humanity’s future.


Special Forces operator Matt Whitaker survived the Oniki War — but only just. Now the war is over, and a tenuous peace has been struck.

When weapons plans are stolen from an Oniki shipyard and all evidence points to human involvement, tensions flare, threatening that hard-won peace. Whitaker is the only person with the knowledge and experience to uncover the truth.

Still recovering from his injuries, he is forced to face his demons, and charge back into the fray.

His orders are clear: uncover the truth and exonerate humanity. But the mission unearths more than just stolen plans, and what Whitaker discovers is worse than anyone could have imagined.

Now, the fate of both civilizations rests on his shoulders… and time is running out. Can one soldier save humanity from a second, and final, war?

Featured Fantasy: Heartstone (Heartstone Series Book 1) by Elle Katharine White

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Featured Fantasy: Heartstone (Heartstone Series Book 1) by Elle Katharine White

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Jane Austen meets dragons in this epic historical fantasy debut as a willful young woman and an arrogant warrior battle for each other’s heart.

They say a Rider in possession of a good blade must be in want of a monster to slay—and Merybourne Manor has plenty of monsters . . .

Passionate, headstrong Aliza Bentaine knows this all too well; she’s already lost one sister to the invading gryphons. So when the people of Merybourne Manor scrape together the funds to hire a band of Riders to hunt down the horde, Aliza is relieved her sister will soon be avenged.

Her relief is short-lived. With the arrival of the haughty and handsome dragonrider, Alastair Daired, Aliza expects a battle; what she doesn’t expect is a romantic clash of wills, pitting words and wit against the pride of an ancient house. Nor does she anticipate the mystery that haunts them from Merybourne Manor, with its roots running as deep as the foundations of the kingdom itself, where something old and dreadful slumbers . . . something far more sinister than gryphons.

It’s a war Aliza is ill-prepared to wage, on a battlefield she’s never known before: one spanning kingdoms, class lines, and the curious nature of her own heart . . .

In Heartstone, Elle Katharine White infuses elements of Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice with her own playful brand of magic. Filled with wyverns, dragons, and the warriors who fight alongside them against the monsters that threaten the kingdom—gryphons, direwolves, banshees, and lamias—this is an epic fantasy that conjures a familiar yet wondrously unique world.

Featured Fantasy: Jane Austen’s Dragons by Maria Grace

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Featured Fantasy: Jane Austen's Dragons by Maria Grace

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” A top fun comfort read.”~ Gail Carriger

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a dragon.

Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley has the good fortune to be in possession of the first English firedrake egg laid in a century. Or, at least, he was until some miscreant stole it. Mr. Darcy tracks the thief to Hertfordshire. Catching the thief, however, proves to be an entirely different kettle of brimstone, especially when he encounters fellow Dragon Keeper, Miss Elizabeth Bennet of Longbourn.

Elizabeth Bennet’s deep connection to dragons and remarkable grasp of their lore make her the ideal companion for finding the egg. It’s too bad that from their introduction she finds Darcy arrogant, conceited, and selfishly disdainful of the feelings of others.

Time is running out for Darcy to win Elizabeth’s trust and recover the precious egg before it hatches, and the fragile peace between humans and dragons is lost forever.


Meryton meets Pern in a fantastical regency romp bound to delight readers of Jane Austen and Anne McCaffrey alike.