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

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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

Featured Fantasy: Sword Catcher (Chronicles of Castellane Book 1) by Cassandra Clare

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Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Two outcasts find themselves caught in a web of dangerous magic and dark secrets that could change the world forever in the start of a riveting epic fantasy series from the author of The Shadowhunter Chronicles.

“Everything I look for in fantasy.”—George R. R. Martin

A POPSUGAR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill.

Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher—the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but his destiny is to die for Conor. No other future is possible.

Lin Caster is a physician from a small community whose members still possess magical abilities. But despite her skills, she cannot heal her best friend without access to forbidden knowledge.

After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the ruler of Castellane’s criminal underworld. But as long-kept secrets begin to unravel and forbidden attractions arise, they must ask themselves: Is knowledge worth the price of betrayal? And will their discoveries plunge their nation into war—and the world into chaos?

Featured Fantasy: Magic Today (Mathilda Holiday Urban Fantasy Book 1) by Anna McCluskey

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Magic Today by Anna McCluskey

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Magic is real — and it’s a bitch.

Mattie’s life is already unraveling when she learns that her twin sister, Tillie, has vanished. She drops everything and rushes across the country to join her friend Trevor in the search.

What they uncover is bigger than a disappearance.

A hidden room filled with crystal balls and grimoires. Strangers manipulating time. Spells cast in broad daylight. A powerful network of mages operating in the shadows.

Tillie isn’t just missing.

She’s being hunted.

Can Mattie and Trevor outmaneuver a secret society before they become targets in a deadly magical conspiracy?

Magic Today is the first book in the Mathilda Holiday series — a fast-paced contemporary urban fantasy with LGBTQ+ characters, neurodivergent representation, found family, supernatural suspense, and sharp humor woven through escalating danger.

Perfect for readers who love queer urban fantasy, paranormal thrillers, secret societies, strong female leads, and character-driven contemporary fantasy.

If you enjoy fantasy by Nicholas Woode-Smith, Emma Shelford, Kim Richardson, or Lisa Edmonds, you’ll love this free series starter.

Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland the Edinburgh Files Books 1 – 4 by Steven P Aitchison

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Featured Fantasy: The Witches of Scotland the Edinburgh Files Books 1 - 4 by Steven P Aitchison

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🔥 Four Witches. One City. Zero Room for Error.
The Edinburgh Files: The Complete Collection (Books 1–4)

Welcome to Edinburgh—where ancient magick meets modern conspiracy, and the fate of the world hangs by a silken thread of spellcraft.

When witches Jessica Campbell and David Hunter are pulled into a chilling investigation involving an all-knowing AI, they uncover far more than a rogue algorithm. What begins with code soon spirals into time travel, political mind control, and the awakening of magick long buried beneath Scotland’s capital.

From 17th-century witch trials to a modern enchantress rewriting reality with her voice, Jessica and David face enemies who blur the lines between prophecy and power, faith and fear. Alongside unlikely allies—like Isla Douglas, a historian whose blood unlocks ancient secrets—they must race to stop a plan centuries in the making, orchestrated by a man willing to destroy the world to save it.

Four explosive books. One relentless arc.
Packed with twists, haunted cathedrals, ancestral witches, time rifts, secret societies, and a pulse-pounding battle for humanity’s soul.

Perfect for fans of dark urban fantasy, political thrillers with a supernatural twist, and anyone who believes magick never truly dies.

Featured Fantasy: White Silence (Elizabeth Cage Book 1) by Jodi Taylor

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Featured Fantasy: White Silence (Elizabeth Cage Book 1) by Jodi Taylor

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The first instalment in the gripping supernatural thriller series from international bestselling author, Jodi Taylor.

‘I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what I am.’

Elizabeth Cage is a child when she discovers that there are things in this world that only she can see. But she doesn’t want to see them and she definitely doesn’t want them to see her.

What is a curse to Elizabeth is a gift to others – a very valuable gift they want to control.

When her husband dies, Elizabeth’s world descends into a nightmare. But as she tries to piece her life back together, she discovers that not everything is as it seems.

Alone in a strange and frightening world, she’s a vulnerable target to forces beyond her control.

And she knows that she can’t trust anyone…

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Featured Fantasy: The Monster MASH (The Monster MASH Trilogy Book 1) by Angie Fox

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The Monster MASH by Angie Fox

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Ancient gods. Modern war. And a star-crossed couple who could use some divine intervention.

Drafted into a war between immortals, Dr. Petra Robichaud finds herself practicing battlefield medicine alongside a sphinx, a werewolf who skips meat, and a vampire with serious attitude. Keeping her patients alive is difficult enough. Keeping her own secret could be a matter of life and death.

Petra can see ghosts—and the gods forbid it. So when a devastatingly attractive commander begins to die on her operating table, saving him means doing something she should never attempt: putting his departing spirit back into his body.

Now Galen knows what she can do. Worse, he believes she is the key to a prophecy that could finally end the war. Petra would rather avoid both divine attention and a dangerously tempting demigod, but the predictions are beginning to unfold.

A paranormal romantic comedy with battlefield chaos, supernatural coworkers, and a doctor whose most reckless rescue may change everything.