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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Ripple Trilogy by Cidney Swanson

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Featured Sci-fantasy: The Ripple Trilogy by Cidney Swanson

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From Kirkus Award-Winning Author Cidney Swanson

Samantha hides a secret genetic ability to vanish from sight. When she learns about a megalomaniac who wants to use genes like hers to create an invisible army, she’s determined to stop him before he topples governments and destroys everyone she loves. In the struggle to protect her family, a newfound crush, and humanity itself, her own life seems a small price to pay. But how do you fight an enemy you can’t see?

RIPPLER is the first book in a teen and young adult paranormal fantasy series set in a contemporary world where invisibility has long been a well kept secret. This coming of age series combines the heart pounding action of a thriller with a touch of clean romance and a science fiction twist.

Featured Fantasy: The Unwilling (The Barrier Lands) by Kelly Braffet

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Featured Fantasy: The Unwilling (The Barrier Lands) by Kelly Braffet

$2.99 as of December 12, 2025
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“Drips with atmosphere and intrigue . . .” this fantasy coming of age novel “is a study in suffering and cruelty but also in determination.” (Publishers Weekly)
 
Judah is an orphaned girl with a secret gift, born at the gates of Highfall castle. Raised alongside Gavin, heir to Lord Elban’s empire, the two share an extrasensory bond—one that is key to Judah’s survival and her possible undoing.
 
Elban—as mighty as he is cruel—plans to use Judah as a pawn to amass greater control. He will stop at nothing to get what he wants.
 
But beyond the castle walls, a magus, a healer with his own powerful force, has arrived from the provinces. He, too, has designs on the realm, and at the heart of his plans lies Judah . . . The girl who started life with no name and no history will soon discover her own strength. Intriguingly, she does not have to be given power: she can just take it.
 
“Fantasy at its most sublime!” —Erin Morgenstern, New York Times–bestselling author of The Night Circus
 
“Brilliantly executed.” —Vanity Fair
 
“Suspenseful, magical, wonderfully written . . . An essential addition to all epic-fantasy collections.” —Booklist (starred review) 
 
“A juggernaut of an epic fantasy novel with ingenious, thrilling twists and turns. Put this on the shelf beside Naomi Novik and George R. R. Martin.” —Kelly Link, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of Get in Trouble
 
“A viscerally powerful book.” —Kat Howard, author of Roses and Rot
 
“Gorgeously told . . . At once a sweeping epic and an intimate portrait of being trapped in an oppressive regime.” —Gwenda Bond, New York Times–bestselling author of Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds

Featured Fantasy: Spellbound Boxset Books 1 – 10 by Annabel Chase

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Featured Fantasy: Spellbound Boxset Books 1 - 10 by Annabel Chase

99¢ as of December 10, 2025
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Welcome to Spellbound, where paranormal is the new normal.

This charming, feel-good series has it all–
A magical town with an enchanting secret.
A feisty heroine with a heart of gold.
A fallen angel with a redemption arc.
A snarky owl.
And, of course, cozy mysteries galore.

Grab your latte with a shot of sparkle, settle into a comfy chair, and escape to Spellbound cozy fantasy series.

This 10-book collection includes the following titles:
Curse the Day
Doom and Broom
Spell’s Bells
Lucky Charm
Better Than Hex
Cast Away
A Touch of Magic
A Drop in the Potion
Hemlocked and Loaded
All Spell Breaks Loose

Featured Fantasy: To Kill a Fae by Jamie A. Waters

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Featured Fantasy: To Kill a Fae by Jamie A. Waters

FREE as of December 10, 2025
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The darkness holds more than just secrets…

Marked for death, Sabine escaped from her home more than ten years ago. 

But the Wild Hunt will never give up.

It should have been easy to stay hidden. All Sabine had to do was keep her head down, avoid telling anyone about her past, and above all else — not let her glamour drop.

Even the best-laid plans eventually fall apart.

When a charismatic stranger arrives in the city, Sabine finds herself unwittingly drawn to the power she can sense hidden within him. Keeping her distance is nearly impossible, especially after a life debt is called due and she’s tasked into helping steal a rare artifact.

Sabine is the only one who can break the magical barriers protecting the item, but that means revealing the truth about her identity and exposing her darkest secrets. 

Unfortunately, the Fae aren’t the only ones hunting her.

And the most dangerous monsters aren’t always confined to the dark.

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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

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Featured Fantasy: Redwall by Brian Jacques

$2.99 as of December 10, 2025 (RECOMMENDED!)
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One of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time

The book that inspired a legend—the first novel in the beloved, bestselling Redwall saga.

Welcome to Mossflower Wood, where the gentle mice have gathered to celebrate a year of peace and abundance. All is well…until a sinister shadow falls across the ancient stone abbey of Redwall. It is rumored that Cluny is coming—Cluny, the terrible one-eyed rat and his savage horde—Cluny, who has vowed to conquer Redwall Abbey! The only hope for the besieged mice lies in the lost sword of the legendary Martin the Warrior. And so begins the epic quest of a bumbling young apprentice—a courageous mouse who would rise up, fight back…and become a legend himself.

Perfect for fans of T. A. Barron’s Merlin saga, John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series, and J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series.

“The medieval world of Redwall Abbey—where gallant mouse warriors triumph over evil invaders—has truly become the stuff of legend.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

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Featured Fantasy: Legacy of Dragons the Complete Series by Sean Fletcher

99¢ as of December 6, 2025
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She’s hunted for what she is. He hunts those who would hurt them.

When Astrid is attacked by a creep calling himself a Slayer, it seems like a cruel prank the universe is pulling on her already crappy life.

Then Kaden, the most infuriating, stunning boy she’s ever met, arrives and tells her she’s a dragon-kin like him—part dragon, part human.

Then Astrid actually shifts into a dragon.

Wonderful.

It’s not wonderful to Kaden, who should be busy hunting down the Slayers, a group as vicious as his methods and as dark as his past. He doesn’t have time to chaperone a girl with newly awakened dragon powers, one who’s too stubborn to stay safe.

Yet as the Slayer threat grows, Astrid and Kaden will have to work together to control a magic unlike any their world has ever seen, and stop a rising darkness from destroying everything they know.

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