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Featured Fantasy: Witch Way After Forty (Silver Sisters Book 1) by Jennifer L. Hart

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Featured Fantasy: Witch Way After Forty (Silver Sisters Book 1) by Jennifer L. Hart

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A quintessential soccer mom. A motorcycle-riding wild-child. With two sisters like that, she could have done without provoking the dark fae…

Alys Stevens is running out of familiar road. Approaching midlife, the same age as her mother’s death, and muddling through a messy divorce, the forty-something home renovator has lost the control she so deeply craves. So when her siblings show up demanding a girl’s night full of fun, the three brew up an ancient family cocktail… and accidentally free powerful magic.

Baffled as they all develop uncanny powers, Alys watches on in part-horror, part-glee as a satisfying sinkhole swallows her vexing ex-husband’s car. And poking around in her family’s mysterious tree for answers arouses the unwanted attention of sexy but dangerous werewolves.

Can the new witch refurbish her run-down destiny, or will fate tear her to shreds?

Witch Way After Forty is the charming first book in the Silver Sisters midlife paranormal women’s fiction series. If you like enchanting characters, reverse age-gap romance, and magical surprises, then you’ll love Jennifer L. Hart’s heartwarming adventure.

Featured Fantasy: Spellsinger (The Spellsinger Adventures Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster

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Featured Fantasy: Spellsinger (The Spellsinger Adventures Book 1) by Alan Dean Foster

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A musician is transported to a land of magic in this fantasy series opener by a #1 New York Times –bestselling author.

Jonathan Thomas Meriweather is a typical college student, interested in girls, music, and an occasional taste of reefer. But when a journey through an interdimensional portal lands him in a world of talking animals and ominous sorcery, he finds he is on a very different trip indeed. Here, when he plays a strange instrument called a duar, peculiar things happen: powerful magic that may be the only way to stop a dark force that threatens his new world—and his old one. Reluctantly, he finds himself teaming up with a semi-senile turtle wizard; a thieving, backstabbing otter; and a bewildered Marxist dragon to rally an army for the war about to come.

Spellsinger, the first in Alan Dean Foster’s eight-book Spellsinger series, introduces a world of magic and mayhem, where animals are people and plunging ahead no matter what the consequences may be the only way to survive.

Featured Fantasy: Children of Sun and Moon (Children of the Worldsea Book 1) by Juhi Larkin & Matt Larkin

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Featured Fantasy: Children of Sun and Moon (Children of the Worldsea Book 1) by Juhi Larkin & Matt Larkin

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To save her family, she must spy on the enemy. To save her heart, she must trust one.

Chandi has lost everything to the war against the Solar Empire—her mother, her fiancé, and the future she thought was hers. So when her cousin is married to the Solar god-king to secure an uneasy peace, Chandi follows her into the enemy’s domed undersea city with two missions: protect her cousin and uncover the enemy’s secrets before the truce inevitably shatters.

The last person Chandi expects to rely on is Naresh, the Solar warrior assigned as her escort. As an Arun Guard, he’s the very monster her people have been taught to fear. But the fiercely loyal, infuriatingly perceptive soldier is determined to preserve the fragile peace, forcing Chandi to question everything she believes about the enemy—and risking the anger that’s kept her alive.

Then Chandi and Naresh uncover evidence of a malevolent supernatural force working in the shadows, manipulating both kingdoms toward war. As conspirators move to crack the domes and drown the Solar city, Chandi’s mission becomes more dangerous than espionage alone. To stop a catastrophe, Chandi must decide whether to save the kingdom she came to protect … or the man she was sent to betray.

Blending the elemental action of Avatar: The Last Airbender with Southeast Asian mythology and horror, this dark romantasy weaves political intrigue, slow-burn romance, and epic magic beneath the waves.

Featured Fantasy: Moonshadow Bay by Yasmine Galenorn

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Featured Fantasy: Moonshadow Bay by Yasmine Galenorn

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Moonshadow Bay…where magic lurks in the moonlight, and danger hides in the shadows.

One month before January Jaxson turns 41, her husband ditches her for a trophy wife. Adding insult to injury, he steals the business she helped build, and kicks her out during the holidays. So when her best friend Ari suggests she move back to Moonshadow Bay—a quirky, magical town near Bellingham WA—January decides to take the plunge.

Born into a family of witches, January accepts a job at Conjure Ink, a paranormal investigations website. The job’s right up her alley but she doubts that everything reported to Conjure Ink really exists. That is, until she’s sent out on her first case.

An abandoned asylum once housed a murderer, who killed an entire family one Yuletide Eve. It’s rumored that every December he returns to haunt the woodland around the asylum, seeking to add new members to his supernatural family. January’s sure it’s an urban legend, but when new victims show up with no logical explanation for their deaths, Conjure Ink sends her in to investigate. Suddenly January finds herself in over her head, staring directly into the shadowed world of the Veil.

Now, January must not only navigate the new life she’s trying to build, but the paranormal beasties she’s sent out to explore, as well as a hot new neighbor, who seems to be hiding a shadowed past of his own.

Series Reading Order:

Starlight Web
Midnight Web
Conjure Web
Harvest Web
Shadow Web

I Bring the Fire Omnibus Paperback Release by C. Gockel

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The special Kickstarter edition of I Bring the Fire Omnibus (the same one that hit the USA Today Bestseller list) with Illustrations of your favorite characters by me.

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The special Kickstarter edition of I Bring the Fire Omnibus (the same one that hit the USA Today Bestseller list) with illustrations of your favorite characters by me. Now available as a paperback.

For those of you unfamiliar with the plot … 

Sometimes the hero is the wrong guy at the right time. Sometimes the hero is drunk.

When Amy prays for a savior, Loki Norse God of Mischief and Chaos isn’t who she has in mind. Loki can’t resist Amy’s summons, but he can insist she help him outwit Odin, ruler of the Nine Realms. Can Amy trust a so-called God of Mischief? With a powerful evil calling him from beneath the Chicago’s streets, can Loki even trust himself?

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Featured Fantasy: Never Met An Orc Who Wasn’t Moody a Cozy Fantasy by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Featured Fantasy: Never Met An Orc Who Wasn't Moody a Cozy Fantasy by Sherry D. Ramsey

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Larch Bloodmoon and Greylocke Krolkag are just a couple of orc-kin Finders, digging through mouldy basements and dusty attics to unearth artifacts for SCAT, the Society for the Contemplation of Arcane Tangibles. It’s a living, and not a very exciting one. Artifacts holding the vestiges of arcane power are mere historical oddities and the ancient Source of magical power is a long-dead mystery. When magic Withered a century ago, folks adapted, and nobody other than Scholars like their boss really thinks much about magic any more.

Or do they?

When a new elf-kin Finder joins their team, Larch and Greylocke’s routine is overturned as they’re drawn into keeping her secrets. And with the discovery of an inexplicable artifact and rumours of a shadowy cabal bent on resurrecting magic, a dangerous new path beckons … one the Finders can’t ignore.