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Featured Fantasy: A Storm of Paper Starlings (Not the Same River Book 1) by Inka York

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Featured Fantasy: A Storm of Paper Starlings (Not the Same River Book 1) by Inka York

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What if the ordinary family you crave finds you? Only they’re not ordinary, neither are you, and neither are the vampire neighbours raising your twin sister.

An accident is all it takes to turn my mundane life in a London children’s home upside down.

Power and magic lurk at the priory, my new home in the Oxfordshire countryside, and I learn fast that nothing is ordinary around here. Not my newfound family—the Penhaligons. Not my long-lost twin sister. And not the hostile new neighbours—a coven of vampires, vaewolves and demons.

As I grapple with family secrets, four powerful new brothers, and latent abilities of my own, my sister and the man who raised her find themselves in mortal danger—a danger that draws me and my family into a battle to save them.

Finally embracing the meaning of family, two questions burn at the back of my mind.

If vampires and demons exist, what are the Penhaligons?

And what am I?

Featured Fantasy: Tomb of the Queen (Jayne Thorne CIA Librarian 1) by Joss Walker

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Featured Fantasy: Tomb of the Queen (Jayne Thorne CIA Librarian 1) by Joss Walker

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A librarian. A spell book. And a magical terror organization set on controlling the world.

Librarian Jayne Thorne enjoys her quiet life of tea and books. That is, until she finds a spell book in the Vanderbilt University archives that accidentally gives her access to a magical dimension.

Now she’s hunted by a magic-wielding terrorist group, and the only way for her to survive is to team up with a secret branch of the CIA. Her first mission: Go undercover at Trinity College Library in Dublin and determine if the Book of Leinster is actually a magical necromantic grimoire.

With the help of a handsome Irish kickboxer, Jayne uncovers the truth of her unexpected spell book: The Irish manuscript is one of five grimoires that can raise five dead, master magicians, and secure their totems of power. With these totems comes the power to control the world.

But the spell book isn’t the only thing with secrets in Jayne’s new life. Danger lurks in every corner and Jayne must rise to meet her fated role…or perish alongside the rest of the world.

A Discovery of Witches meets Mercy Thompson, with a splash of Indiana Jones and Gilmore Girls, in this award-winning contemporary fantasy adventure.

Featured Fantasy: Cities of Smoke & Starlight (Gate Chronicles Book 1) by Alli Earnest

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Featured Fantasy: Cities of Smoke & Starlight (Gate Chronicles Book 1) by Alli Earnest

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A science fantasy series perfect for those who loved the world of Divine Rivals, wanted to soar with Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, and wished Rogue One had a romantic hate-to-love subplot.

Two tortured souls. One world on the brink of war.

Kase Shackley is an embittered hover pilot still reeling from the night his sister died in his arms. He’s a screw up in every sense, so when a pilot nearly dies on his watch, he faces serious charges. Seeking to clear his name, he flies a ragtag crew to a lost and dangerous land from which they might never return. If only he didn’t have to work with the infuriating bookshop girl who insulted him with Shakespeare…

Hallie Walker, top scholar at the University, is jaded by the glittering society she’d always dreamed of joining. Raised in the mountains, she fled to the city to forget her painful past. When she loses her bookshop job and the promise of school tuition, she agrees to a top-secret government mission if only for the promised substantial sum upon her return. Now if she could just ignore the ungrateful, arrogant prat of a pilot…

In a world of hoverships and crumbling First Earth artifacts, it’s up to Hallie and Kase to accomplish the impossible: secure an alliance with an elusive, mystical race to help defend against a kingdom with dangerous technology and ancient magic. If they fail, the war will be lost before it even begins.

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Featured Fantasy: The Emperor’s Edge Collection Books 1, 2, & 3 by Lindsay Buroker

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Featured Fantasy: The Emperor's Edge Collection Books 1, 2, & 3 by Lindsay Buroker

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An enforcer wanted dead for crimes she didn’t commit…
An assassin wanted dead for crimes he did commit…

Normally, they would be enemies, but they both seek the same thing: exoneration.

Unfortunately, a nefarious underground organization is attempting to kill the one man who could grant it to them, the emperor. If they want to win their freedom, they’ll have to battle powerful wizards, out-scheme master schemers, and defeat bloodthirsty monsters, all while dodging friendly fire and evading the law.

Exoneration isn’t easy.

This boxed set includes the first three novels in this high fantasy adventure series:

  • The Emperor’s Edge
  • Dark Currents
  • Deadly Games

Featured Fantasy: The Girl Who Broke the Dark (Royal Mages Book 1) by Evelyn Puerto

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Featured Fantasy: The Girl Who Broke the Dark (The Royal Mages Series Book 1) by Evelyn Puerto

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***Winner of a Literary Titan Book Award***
***Second Place, Book Fest Awards***
***An IndieBRAG Medallion Honoree***
***Finalist, Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards***

On her eighteenth birthday, Princess Eliana is ordered to enter the underworld—and wake a prince cursed to sleep for a hundred years.

She was raised to rule with diplomacy and magic, not to survive a realm overrun by monsters. But the curse binding the prince comes with a deadly condition: only the heir of Ymittos can break it.

If Eliana refuses, the consequences won’t stop at one life.

Because far below the surface, something far worse is stirring.

A sorcerer banished a thousand years ago has spent centuries preparing his return—gathering power, building armies, and laying a trap that begins with the curse Eliana has been sent to break.

Now, she must descend into darkness, outwit an enemy who has planned for centuries… and survive long enough to stop an invasion before it begins.

Because breaking the curse isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning.

A reimagined Sleeping Beauty with a deadly twist, The Girl Who Broke the Dark is the first volume of the Royal Mages series.

Featured Fantasy: Must Love Ghosts, Coffee & Ghosts Season 1 by Charity Tahmaseb—Recommended!

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Featured Fantasy: Must Love Ghosts, Coffee & Ghosts Season 1 by Charity Tahmaseb

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Editor’s Note: I loved this entire series!

Come for the coffee, stay for the supernatural adventure. There’s more than one way to catch a ghost, and it’s never been this fun!

Katy and her grandmother have always used coffee to catch ghosts. It pays the bills and keeps them in high-end beans. But after her grandmother dies and a rival ghost hunter moves to town, Katy fears things will never be the same.

She’s right.

From a beguiling and charismatic ghost whisperer to her new partner’s ghost swallowing brother and even a (short) stint behind bars, Katy navigates her new reality, uncertain her skills are equal to the tasks at hand. But are these things mere distractions–or do they hide something darker, far more sinister, something that has a long-held vendetta against Katy?

To survive, Katy must uncover an ancient secret. She must brew her very best Kona blend. She will need to rely on unexpected and unpredictable allies.

To survive, she will need to trust what’s in her heart.

Coffee & Ghosts is a cozy paranormal mystery/romance serial told over five episodes. This series bundle contains all five episodes.

Episode 1: Ghost in the Coffee Machine
Episode 2: Giving Up the Ghosts
Episode 3: The Ghost Whisperer
Episode 4: Gone Ghost
Episode 5: Must Love Ghosts