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Featured Fantasy: Blood Magic Books 1–6 by JT Lawrence

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Blood Magic Books 1–6 by JT Lawrence

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It’s a case she can’t refuse.

Spell-slinger. Vampire-slayer. Magical albino ferret-rescuer.

Meet Jacqueline Denna Knight, the best wizard detective in the city.

With 180+ MILLION page reads across the series and thousands of five-star reviews, you know you’ve chosen the right portal to take you on a totally addictive urban fantasy action & adventure.

Jax turns vampires to ash and pain into magic. She also has a knack for finding things. So when a distraught—and obscenely wealthy—elf calls Jax at midnight to hire her for an intriguing job, she grabs the opportunity with both hands…

But what Jax doesn’t know is that this case is going to unravel her life. She’ll get tangled up with a host of intriguing characters, most of whom are not who they appear to be.

As Jax speeds down a path toward the most powerful vampire clan in the country, she’ll have to put everything on the line.

Will she be able to use her unique brand of magic to save the Realm?

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Featured Fantasy: A Time of Gladiators and Fate (Last Road to Rome Book 1) by Susan Illene

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A Time of Gladiators and Fate by Susan Illene

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Time travel to ancient Rome. Become a gladiator. Try not to die.

And DO NOT be tempted by any morally questionable hot men.

Grace King grew up on a farm in Kansas, so nothing prepared her for landing in the Roman Colosseum while it’s still intact. A heart-pounding chase in her rental car follows with spear-throwing legionnaires, armed gladiators, and a couple of wild animals. Grace is eventually forced to surrender in a floral sundress meant for vacation, not blood sport.

The emperor offers her two choices: execution or gladiator school. While she isn’t afraid of hard work, the ludus where she’ll train with other men and women is brutal. Most doubt her right to be there, adding pressure to an already difficult situation. Every aspect of her new life, down to the clothes she wears and how she’s treated, is vastly different and horrifying.

Her fate will rest in the hands of two dangerous, conflicting men.

In the training arena, the first is a formidable lead instructor with icy good looks. He will push her body to its absolute limits and test her willpower to survive while trading heated banter with her. The second is a wealthy, enigmatic sponsor who shields her against Rome’s darkest exploits for a price, but his own time-travel secrets weave a dangerous web. The handsome man knows far more about how she ended up in ancient Rome than he’s willing to tell her.

A Time of Gladiators and Fate follows the gripping journey of a modern woman who must become a force that ancient Rome will fear and admire if she ever hopes to earn her freedom and find a way home. Perfect for fans of Outlander and Spartacus, with a genre blend of romantasy and time-travel historical fiction.

Featured Fantasy: Maggie MacKay Magical Tracker by Kate Danley

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She just wanted to pay her rent, but the vampires came after her family. This magical tracker is about to tear the world a new portal.

When monsters show up in Los Angeles, Maggie MacKay is is the one you call to haul them back to the dimension where they belong.

But when a mysterious elf saves her from a vampire attack, a whole new world is about to be opened to her. The scope of her tracking business is about to expand interdimensionally…

Come along with Maggie, her elfin sidekick Killian, and her crazy family in this USA Today bestseller for a snarky urban fantasy adventure.

WARNING: This book contains cussing, brawling, and unladylike behavior. Proceed with caution.

Featured Fantasy: Cobweb Bride (Cobweb Bride Trilogy Book 1) by Vera Nazarian

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Cobweb Bride by Vera Nazarian

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Many are called… She alone can save the world and become Death’s bride.

COBWEB BRIDE (Cobweb Bride Trilogy, Book One) is a history-flavored fantasy novel with romantic elements of the Persephone myth, about Death’s ultimatum to the world.

What if you killed someone and then fell in love with them?

In an alternate Renaissance world, somewhere in an imaginary “pocket” of Europe called the Kingdom of Lethe, Death comes, in the form of a grim Spaniard, to claim his Bride. Until she is found, in a single time-stopping moment all dying stops. There is no relief for the mortally wounded and the terminally ill….

Covered in white cobwebs of a thousand snow spiders she lies in the darkness… Her skin is cold as snow… Her eyes frozen… Her gaze, fiercely alive…

While kings and emperors send expeditions to search for a suitable Bride for Death, armies of the undead wage an endless war… A black knight roams the forest at the command of his undead father… Spies and political treacheries abound at the imperial Silver Court…. Murdered lovers find themselves locked in the realm of the living…

Look closer–through the cobweb filaments of her hair and along each strand shine stars…

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Books 1-5 by Silver Nord and Ruby Loren

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The Witches of Wormwood Mysteries Books 1–5 by Silver Nord and Ruby Loren

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A thrilling and funny supernatural mystery series, packed with magic, cats, and murder! Perfect for fans of Stephanie Plum, Agatha Raisin, Sabrina, and Supernatural.

Not many people move to Wormwood.

The witches aren’t welcoming.

The fortunetellers are frauds.

And the recent murder is only going to make things worse.

Hazel Salem just wanted a story for her magazine. Instead, she finds herself at the centre of an investigation that’s about to turn into a witch hunt.

If someone doesn’t solve this murder – and fast – it will be out of the cauldron and into the fire for Wormwood’s witches.

If you love talking cats, smart mysteries, and snarky humour, you’ll love this series. Pick up these page-turning witch mysteries today!

Featured Fantasy: The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan (A Gentle Apocalypse Book 1) by M. H. Foster

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The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan by M. H. Foster

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The Demon Overlord retires to farm turnips in peace, only to find small village life more chaotic than he ever could have anticipated.

“A wonderful romp with a Dark Lord who gets a taste for Pratchett-esque small town living, assisted (kind of) by a floofy hellhound and a devious goat. Lots of fun!” —Django Wexler, author of How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying

Galornus Prime was the Demon Overlord. He had defeated the Hero and done everything worth doing—some of it more than once.

His retirement plan was simple: get a goat, farm quietly in the small town of Lower Middleton, and avoid accidentally conquering anything. The plan didn’t include soul-crushing town halls, after-school combat lessons with children, and an undergarment-based war with the rose-growing widow next door.

When corrupt officials and greedy merchants threaten his infuriatingly loveable neighbors, Galornus faces a new kind of challenge: saving the village without revealing he is the monster parents invoke to make children eat their vegetables.

The Demon Overlord’s Retirement Plan is a cozy fantasy with teeth, where the hardest battle isn’t defeating heroes—it’s staying retired and learning how to live after 444 lifetimes of villainy.