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Featured Fantasy: Forever Charmed (The Halloween LaVeau Series) by Rose Pressey Betancourt

October 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Forever Charmed by Rose Pressey Betancourt

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Halloween LaVeau is descended from a long line of witches. Yes, her name is Halloween. The cosmic universe is definitely playing some kind of sick joke on her. She’s the ultimate witch cliché, complete with a black cat and spooky house. Thank heavens she’s missing the warts and flying broom.

When Halloween inherits her great-aunt’s manor, she decides to put the house to good use as a bed-and-breakfast. Her first guest is the sinfully good-looking Nicolas Marcos, but he’s not here for the continental breakfast. Halloween discovers a ratty old book in the attic. It’s written in an unfamiliar language.

Halloween soon learns this is not an ordinary spellbook. The tome brings her a new talent, but her new skills come with a catch. When a rival witch comes after the book, Halloween doesn’t know who to trust—the sexy vampire who says he wants to save the day, or the warlock who says he can destroy the book once and for all.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Forever Charmed, Rose Pressey Betancourt, The Halloween LaVeau Series

Featured Fantasy: Death Before Dragons Books 1 – 3 by Lindsay Buroker

October 24, 2026 by Carolynn

Death Before Dragons Books 1 - 3 by Lindsay Buroker

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I’m Val Thorvald, and I kill bad guys for a living.

My half-elven blood, magical sword, and telepathic tiger give me an edge, at least against most villains. But when dragons show up in Seattle, the city is in serious trouble—and so am I. Dragons are bigger, stronger, and more powerful than anything I’ve battled, and they don’t appreciate it when you sass them.

Just ask Lord Zavryd’nokquetal. That’s a name, not a cat hacking up a hairball, and if you mispronounce it, he’ll either insult you, incinerate you, or throw your Jeep up in a tree. Trust me, I know.

Unfortunately, he’s taken an interest in me. Not in the “half-elves are sexy and appealing and I need a new girlfriend” kind of way. Nope, he wants to use me. He’s on a mission, and he’s decided I’ll make the perfect bait to lure his enemies to him.

That’s about as good for your longevity as it sounds, and I’d love to decline the gig, but dragons can magically coerce people into doing their bidding. If I can’t figure out how to get him to leave me alone, I’ll either end up his servant for the rest of my life… or dead. And who’s going to protect Seattle then?

This bundle includes the first three novels in the Death Before Dragons urban fantasy series:

Sinister Magic
Battle Bond
Tangled Truths


Death Before Dragons features adventure, snark, and even a little romance. The series is now complete and perfect for those who enjoy binge reading!

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Death Before Dragons, Lindsay Buroker

Featured Fantasy: Dead to Rites (Last Call Book 1) by Christine Pope

October 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Dead to Rites (Last Call Book 1) by Christine Pope

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She inherited a haunted house, a Whiskey Row wine bar, and the ability to see ghosts. Then someone got murdered in her men’s room.

Designer Lorelei Cosgrove was perfectly content drifting in Scottsdale — mourning her parents, running a small Etsy shop, and not particularly interested in being responsible for anything more demanding than her own takeout order. Then her great-aunt Hazel passed away and left her a Victorian house in Prescott, a wine/beer/mead bar called Copper State Cellars, and one stubborn stipulation: live there and run the bar, or lose it all.

A near-fatal reaction to a bee sting on Lorelei’s first afternoon in town wakes up a latent Cosgrove family gift — one Hazel apparently forgot to mention. The Victorian’s most prominent resident is Hazel herself, still wearing her twin sets, still bossy as ever, and apparently not too worried about being dead. Then there’s the 1920s Prohibition-era federal agent who haunts Copper State Cellars and calls Lorelei “doll” and the murdered priest who turns up dead in the men’s room — and immediately starts haunting it himself, unable to remember anything about who killed him…or why.

With a local police detective eyeing her as a suspect, a defrocked priest turned bookstore owner she can’t quite figure out, and a local parish where every suspect has a secret worth hiding, Lorelei has to learn the rules of her new gift on the fly. Because ghosts can witness. They can warn. They can mislead.

But what they can’t do is solve the case for her.

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Christine Pope, Dead to Rites, Last Call

Featured Fantasy: Assassin’s Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy Book 1) by Robin Hobb

October 21, 2026 by Carolynn

Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb

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A gorgeously illustrated anniversary edition of the book that launched the epic Farseer Trilogy, praised by George R. R. Martin as “fantasy as it ought to be written” and Lin-Manuel Miranda as “an incredible series,” featuring a new foreword by Robin Hobb and ten illustrations.

Twenty-five years ago, Robin Hobb’s first novel featuring FitzChivalry Farseer and his mysterious, often maddening friend the Fool struck like a bolt of brilliant lightning. Thus began a beloved saga spanning multiple series, full of adventure, magic, and sinister plots. To celebrate a quarter-century of wonder, this special edition presents a modern classic as it’s never been seen before, with ten beautiful illustrations by Magali Villeneuve.

Young Fitz is the bastard son of the noble Prince Chivalry, raised in the shadow of the royal court by his father’s gruff stableman. He is treated as an outcast by all the royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has him secretly tutored in the arts of the assassin. For in Fitz’s blood runs the magic Skill—and the darker knowledge of a child raised with the stable hounds and rejected by his family.

As barbarous raiders ravage the coasts, Fitz is growing to manhood. Soon he will face his first dangerous, soul-shattering mission. And though some regard him as a threat to the throne, he may just be the key to the survival of the kingdom.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Assassin’s Apprentice, Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb

Featured Fantasy: Madame Chalamet Ghost Mysteries by Byrd Nash

October 20, 2026 by Carolynn

Featured Fantasy: Madame Chalamet Ghost Mysteries by Byrd Nash

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Elinor Chalamet’s talent to speak with the dead may have landed her in the soup.

Witty and clever, Elinor uses her mediumship skills to hunt for her father’s killer. So when a body in the canal brings her to the morgue, she’s happy to help until Tristan Fontaine, the Duke de Archambeau, takes over the case and places her under house arrest.

Between possessions and poltergeists, she’ll solve the case even if it means putting the duke in his place. Actually, that part of the investigation may be a pleasure!

Welcome to Alenbonné, a coastal city with picturesque promenades along the canals and where the ghosts never sleep. A country where spirits and murder are just a breath away.

The first of a six-part Gaslamp fantasy ghost mystery series featuring a strong-minded female Sherlock Holmes-like character in a slow burn romance

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: Byrd Nash, Madame Chalamet Ghost Mysteries

Featured Fantasy: Disappearing Nightly (An Esther Diamond Novel) by Laura Resnick

October 20, 2026 by Carolynn

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The first novel in this hilarious urban fantasy series introduces Esther Diamond, a struggling New York actress who can’t stop attracting supernatural mayhem.

“A paranormal screwball comedy adventure. Light, happy, fantastically funny!” —Jennifer Crusie, New York Times bestselling author of Bet Me

Bizarre magical disappearances are disrupting shows around the city, and Esther receives a mysterious warning not to go on at her off-Broadway show. Since she’d rather stay on stage than resort to waiting tables, Esther turns to her new BFF, Dr. Maximillian Zadok, a 350-year-old mage whose day job is protecting New York from Evil.

The show must go on, and the astronomical rent must be paid, so Esther and Max team up with a conjuring cowboy, a banker with stage aspirations, and a flock of fearless drag queens to get to the bottom of this mystery.

Also on the case is Detective Connor Lopez, a sexy cop who has a thing for Esther, but he may be drawing the conclusion that she and Max are the real problem rather than the vanishing performers.

Boldly facing down an enraged producer, a hungry tiger, and other deadly obstacles, Esther, Max, and their friends pursue Evil to its lair in order to find the missing performers and restore harmony to the city that never sleeps.

“Celebrate! Disappearing Nightly is the start of a new urban fantasy series that is smart, cool and wicked funny.”  —Mary Jo Putney, New York Times bestselling author

Filed Under: Box Set Featured Fantasy, The Box Set List Features Tagged With: An Esther Diamond Novel, Disappearing Nightly, Laura Resnick

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