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Featured Fantasy: The Fire Prophecy (Hidden Legends: Academy of Magical Creatures Book 1) by Megan Linski

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Featured Fantasy: The Fire Prophecy (Hidden Legends: Academy of Magical Creatures Book 1) by Megan Linski

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USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHORS Megan Linski and Alicia Rades create a fantasy paranormal world where magic wages war and romance is deadly.

Winner of Best Fantasy Book of the Year by Once Upon a Book. Bronze Medal Winner in the Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards Contest!

Fire and Water don’t mix.Sophia

I’m Sophia Henley, your typical college freshman. I never expected a lion to be stalking me, nor for fire to come shooting out of my hands to protect my sister. Next thing I know, a drop-dead gorgeous guy shows up on my doorstep to sweep me away to a magical school, where I’ll learn to control my element and bond with a powerful creature called a Familiar.

I don’t believe I’m the savior of an ancient tribe, or the missing piece of a prophecy that’s more myth than reality. Worst of all, I’m forced to enter the Elemental Cup, where I’ll either earn my place in this society… or die trying.

Liam

The night I met Sophia, I didn’t think we’d form an undeniable connection. But I’m from the Water tribe, and she’s fire. I’m forced to push her away even as I’m falling for her.

I lost everything, yet Sophia makes me whole again. Our world is fixed on keeping us apart, but we’re in this tournament together. We have to keep each other alive at any cost— or I’ll give my life for hers. It’s pretty clear.

If I continue to play with fire, I’m going to get burned.

Featured Fantasy: Time Watcher (Mine Through Time Book 1) by Kate Serzenta

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Featured Fantasy: Time Watcher (Mine Through Time Book 1)

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New York City, 1862. Fabienne Beaumont lies bleeding in a filthy alleyway. Desperate to escape the bloody War of Rebellion, she and her siblings had been trying to hustle passage back home to their native France. Instead, she fell victim to a card shark’s bullets. As everything fades to black, Fabienne thumbs the hands of her old pocket watch – unaware that she’s about to awaken from one nightmare straight into another.

Hartford, Connecticut, 1864. Two years earlier, Union war hero Brayden Marshall married the beautiful Fabienne – but she’s been like a stranger to him ever since. Everything changes, however, when he’s summoned back to Hartford on a mission for The Watchers – a secret society that can harness the power of time travel. It’s like meeting Fabienne for the first time all over again. She’s passionate, curious – and desperate to right the wrongs of her past. Could the mysterious pocket watch she clings to explain the sudden change in Fabienne’s behavior? And if so, can Brayden risk his future on a woman so obsessed with her past?

Savannah, Georgia, 2008. Spirited high-schooler Emily Willburne is reluctantly researching her family history for a Civil War assignment when she stumbles across the diary of her great, great grandmother, Fabienne. The diary claims to contain the secret of traveling through time – a secret Emily believes could save her dying mom, and rebuild her fractured relationship with her estranged father. But as Emily literally steps into her own history, a new possibility emerges – that the only way to reunite her family in the present is to tear Fabienne and Brayden’s marriage apart in the past.

Does Emily have the power to fix what once went wrong? Or will she tear apart her future, instead?Time Watcher is an intricately woven, clockwork-tight tale of time travel and romance – perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife and Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series.

Featured Fantasy: Blue Moon Boston Books 1-8 by Justin Herzog and Steve Higgs

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Featured Fantasy: Blue Moon Boston Books 1-8 by Justin Herzog and Steve Higgs

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Boston has a murder problem. Also a witch problem. And possibly a fairy war.

Welcome to the worst assignment of Detective Chloe Mayfield’s life.

After one spectacular career implosion, Chloe gets dumped into Boston PD’s supernatural division—aka the place they send cops they’d rather forget. Her new job? Investigate crimes that officially don’t exist… and try not to die doing it.

Unfortunately, Boston’s paranormal underworld didn’t get the memo about taking it easy.

One day it’s witches with attitude problems.

The next, leprechauns robbing the Federal Reserve.

Then headless corpses, cursed swords, angry fae nations, and at least one situation that can only be described as “what do you mean Excalibur is in Boston?”

Armed with stubborn determination, questionable backup (including a wise-cracking dwarf and a possibly delusional Joan of Arc descendant), and a rapidly deteriorating career, Chloe dives headfirst into cases that make absolutely no sense—and somehow make her life even worse.

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Featured Fantasy: The Governess’s Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses (The Parasol Academy Book 2) by Amy Rose Bennett

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Featured Fantasy: The Governess's Guide to Spells and Managing Misfit Marquesses (The Parasol Academy Book 2) by Amy Rose Bennett

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**Mary Poppins meets My Fair Lady in a feel-good blend of cozy fantasy magic, historical romance, humor, and Victorian era charm, as a recent graduate of the Parasol Academy for Exceptional Nannies and Governesses finds herself at sea on a ship commanded by a captivating Irishman.**

Hermina Davenport can hardly believe the audacious exploit she is about to attempt. To protect an orphaned young viscount, the prim and proper governess feels she has no choice but to break the rules of the Parasol Academy Handbook! When the lad’s guardian, a ruthlessly ambitious explorer, ensorcelled by the evil Fae Queen, spirits him away on a dangerous North Pole expedition, Mina employs an invisibility spell to snatch him from the ship. But a magical misfire whisks Mina and her charge onto a different vessel, that of a ruggedly handsome Irishman—a strapping prizefighter from Dublin’s backstreets—and Mina finds she’s at sea in more ways than one . . .

Phineas O’Connell, Lord Kinsale, can no more explain the arrival of this English Rose than he can adapt to his newly-inherited title—though his disgruntled pet pug clearly has “thoughts” about the fair stowaway. But their enchanted encounter sparks an irresistible offer: Phinn enlists the polished Miss Davenport to transform this misfit marquess into a mannered gentleman ready for his seat in Parliament. No magic required, just enticingly intimate lessons in etiquette and elocution to smooth all his rough edges including a stammer. . .

But when enemies—both earthly and supernatural, past and present—threaten, a confrontation begins, where Mina’s nondescript umbrella is just one of her powerful weapons . . .

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Wheeler Park Series by Christine Pope

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Wheeler Park Series by Christine Pope

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Love can strike like lightning — but so can trouble.

Lightning doesn’t just strike twice for Adara Grant. It strikes all the time. She suffers a setback; the heavens open up. She gets bullied; a tornado flattens a barn. Addie’s mother has always found an excuse to move before whispers and stares morph into pitchforks, but Addie suspects there’s a connection.

She just doesn’t know how. Or why.

Jake Wilcox is a witch hunter — for a good cause. His pet project is a powerful data-mining program that detects lone witches when their gifts manifest, thus bringing these “orphaned” witches under the Wilcox clan’s protection.

When Jake follows a lead to tiny, remote Kanab, Utah, he discovers a young witch as wild and beautiful as a desert storm. But he’s not the only witch hunter in town, and in an instant, Jake and Addie are on the run from someone hungry to use her gift for evil.

Addie finds a new home and protection with the Wilcox clan, but as danger closes in like an icy storm front, she faces a heartbreaking choice to protect her newfound family — and the man she’s coming to love.

Featured Fantasy: The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files Books 1 – 5 by Craig Halloran

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Featured Fantasy: The Supernatural Bounty Hunter Files Books 1 - 3 by Craig Halloran

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In the shadows of Washington, DC, monsters aren’t just real—they’re on a government watchlist.

John Smoke is an ex-con with a violent past and a reputation that bites harder than any werewolf. Freed under suspicious circumstances, he’s tasked with an impossible job: track down supernatural criminals who defy belief—and law. Assigned to babysit him is FBI Agent Sidney Shaw, a by-the-book sharpshooter with a mind for justice and a chip on her shoulder.

Together, they chase down shifters, unravel ancient conspiracies, and uncover a shadow network of power that infects everything from the back alleys to the Capitol steps. But nothing could prepare them for what’s buried beneath the city—or what’s hunting them in return.