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Featured Fantasy: The Witching Place A Fatal Folio (A Curious Bookstore Cozy Mystery-Book 1) by Sophie Love

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When Alexis Blair, 29, is fired from her book publishing job and breaks up with her boyfriend on the same day, she wonders if life is urging her to make a fresh start. She decides it’s time to pursue her lifelong dream of opening a bookstore of her own—even if that means leaving Boston and accepting a job in a curious bookstore in a small seaside town an hour away.

But the odd shop, Alexis soon learns, is from more than just a rare, occult bookstore. Something strange is going on in the shop’s secret back room, with its eccentric owner, and in the small town itself.

And when a dead body appears, Alexis, with her beloved newfound cat, may find herself right in the middle of it all.

A page-turning cozy, rife with the supernatural, mystery, secrets and love—and centered around a small town as odd and endearing as its shop—A CURIOUS BOOKSTORE will make you fall in love and keep you laughing out loud as you turn pages late into the night.

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Featured Fantasy: City in the Dragon’s Eye (Dragon Reich Book 1) by Jordan Loyal Short

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Featured Fantasy: City in the Dragon's Eye (Dragon Reich Book 1) by Jordan Loyal Short

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Have you or a loved one suffered from magical tumors turning you into a dragon? You may be entitled to a white-knuckled adventure, a hilarious treasure hunt, and a high-stakes race to stop the rise of the Dragon Reich!

To rescue his fellow soldiers from a deadly ambush, Viktor draws too deeply on the power of the Dragon Well, and now an agonizing tumor has begun to change him…one scale at a time.

With the Fatherland defeated, and the Great War at an end, Viktor sets off with a flask in his back pocket and a slice of his mother’s strudel wrapped in a handkerchief. His irreverent quest for a cure will lead him to a remote sanitarium, where Viktor will uncover a mad doctor’s strange experiments, and a mysterious letter.

As a sinister band of dragon supremacists closes in, Viktor races the mustache-twiddling secret society to the fabled Tyrant’s Tomb, beneath the streets of Dannbridge. Deadly traps and cryptic puzzles await, protecting a relic of unspeakable occult power. With every heartbeat the tumor’s corruption spreads. Can a saucy nobleman and a disgraced scholar help Viktor find his cure? Or is it too late to save the city from a mad doctor’s dark designs?

The adventure of Indiana Jones meets the laughter of Dungeon Crawler Carl in a wild romp full of loveable misfits, naughty jokes, and the looming rise of the Dragon Reich!

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 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.